# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 851
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17001 "2014-09-26T23:04:44Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Oops. Sorry. > > [Texas Lt. Gov: ‘Prayer Rugs’ Found On Texas Side Of Mexican Border - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-dewhurst-prayer-rugs-constitutional-right-mexican-border) How stupid! With Mexico’s huge Muslim population, we shouldn’t be interested in securing our border at all. It’s perfectly normal for Mexico’s Muslim population to sneak into the country. Jobs and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17002 "2014-09-26T23:08:26Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Meanwhile: > > [Sarah Palin Wants To Bring ‘Truth’ To '1400 Pennsylvania Avenue’](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sarah-palin-wants-bring-truth-1400-pennsylvania-avenue#sthash.fYruacDH.dpuf)Starting with the fact that it has only [one bedroom and one bathroom.](http://www.trulia.com/homes/District_Of_Columbia/Washington/sold/1000032356-1400-Pennsylvania-Ave-SE-1-Washington-DC-20003) We’ve been lied to, Sheeple! Jesus fucking christ. Another rambling, incoherent bunch of nonsense from someone who can’t even be bothered to put together a few sentences to earn whatever fee she’s collecting at this thing. The applause was less than enthusiastic, I notice, so perhaps her days of gracing us with her willful ignorance and genetic stupidity are finally coming to an end. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17003 "2014-09-26T23:12:08Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > How stupid! With Mexico’s huge Muslim population, we shouldn’t be interested in securing our border at all. It’s perfectly normal for Mexico’s Muslim population to sneak into the country. Jobs and all that. What the fuck? That is a hell of a non sequitur. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17004 "2014-09-26T23:13:55Z")
I love John McCain, and I loved the idea of picking another maverick to run with him in 2008, but holy crap, he could have realized she wasn’t up to snuff just by TALKING to her a little more. Katie Couric exposed her in the first two minutes. What exactly did McCain ask her at their interview? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17005 "2014-09-26T23:29:39Z")
She wore short skirts, high heels, had nice legs, … what was the question? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17006 "2014-09-26T23:33:03Z")
Well, at least now we know John McCain would still be around had he been elected. Heck, Bob Dole’s still around and quite sharp. Might be time to put the age question to rest if we’re talking about candidates in their mere 70s. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17007 "2014-09-27T00:29:45Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, at least now we know John McCain would still be around had he been elected. Heck, Bob Dole’s still around and quite sharp. Might be time to put the age question to rest if we’re talking about candidates in their mere 70s. Now if he could just get over losing. Well, there’s still two more years; hopefully, the bitter old fuck will either start drooling in his oatmeal or take a dirt nap in that time. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17008 "2014-09-27T00:47:19Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, at least now we know John McCain would still be around had he been elected. Heck, Bob Dole’s still around and quite sharp. Might be time to put the age question to rest if we’re talking about candidates in their mere 70s. Yeah, go back to nominating angry, old, white guys. We hate when you do that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17009 "2014-09-27T00:53:40Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, at least now we know John McCain would still be around had he been elected. Heck, Bob Dole’s still around and quite sharp. Might be time to put the age question to rest if we’re talking about candidates in their mere 70s. Who knows what the stress of being President would have done. At least he (and us) would have only had to put up with Palin for a few months. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17010 "2014-09-27T01:24:06Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, at least now we know John McCain would still be around had he been elected. Heck, Bob Dole’s still around and quite sharp. Might be time to put the age question to rest if we’re talking about candidates in their mere 70s. I think at this point I, along with the rest of the Millenials, have made peace with the fact that Boomers will never, \*ever \*die. Or shut the fuck up. It is our cross to bear. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17011 "2014-09-27T02:25:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Now if he could just get over losing. Well, there’s still two more years; hopefully, the bitter old fuck will either start drooling in his oatmeal or take a dirt nap in that time. It’s not losing, it’s the way he lost. Bush spread some pretty vicious rumors in 2000, but they had no lasting effect on McCain’s reputation. Obama actually did destroy McCain: he took McCain’s mantle of reformism, claimed it for himself, made McCain look like a Bush flunkie, and then didn’t even have the decency to govern as a reformer. If anyone has a right to be bitter, it’s John McCain. As a matter of fact, put that under stupid liberal ideas: the very guy they wanted so badly as their VP candidate just four years earlier was just a Bush clone. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17012 "2014-09-27T02:41:24Z")
At least the quality of your political analysis is consistent… ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17013 "2014-09-27T02:59:41Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I love John McCain, and I loved the idea of picking another maverick to run with him in 2008, but holy crap, he could have realized she wasn’t up to snuff just by TALKING to her a little more. Katie Couric exposed her in the first two minutes. What exactly did McCain ask her at their interview? He vetted her. Just like he did these guys: [McCain: I’ve Vetted Syrian Rebels, People Not Trusting Them Making ‘Excuses’](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mccain-ive-vetted-syrian-rebels-people-not-trusting-them-making-excuses/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17014 "2014-09-27T04:40:18Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, at least now we know John McCain would still be around had he been elected. No, much more likely, the stress of the office would have killed him by now. And then we’d have President Palin. Not even you would want **that,** I hope! ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17015 "2014-09-27T04:46:21Z")
Then we’ll have to be sure to spare old Hillary and Bill the stress. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17016 "2014-09-27T05:13:57Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I love John McCain, and I loved the idea of picking another maverick to run with him in 2008, but holy crap, he could have realized she wasn’t up to snuff just by TALKING to her a little more. Katie Couric exposed her in the first two minutes. What exactly did McCain ask her at their interview? Wasn’t Nicolle Wallace, one of the new hosts of “The View”, the person McCain asked to vet Palin? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17017 "2014-09-27T07:53:41Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > > [@adaher](#): > > > > Well, at least now we know John McCain would still be around had he been elected. Heck, Bob Dole’s still around and quite sharp. Might be time to put the age question to rest if we’re talking about candidates in their mere 70s. > > I think at this point I, along with the rest of the Millenials, have made peace with the fact that Boomers will never, \*ever \*die. Or shut the fuck up. It is our cross to bear. McCain and Dole? Parents of boomers. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17018 "2014-09-27T09:18:07Z")
Hopefully we’ll get a Gen-X president next. The Boomers have been less than impressive. Looks like they’ve been everything their parents feared they’d be. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17019 "2014-09-27T12:18:39Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > It’s not losing, it’s the way he lost. Bush spread some pretty vicious rumors in 2000, but they had no lasting effect on McCain’s reputation. Obama actually did destroy McCain: he took McCain’s mantle of reformism, claimed it for himself, made McCain look like a Bush flunkie… May,2006: McCain reverses his opposition from 2001 and 2003, votes to extend the Bush tax cuts. Feb., 2008: McCain reverses his oppostion to torture, votes against a bill to ban waterboarding Damn that Obama for hypnotizing McCain into flip-flopping on those issues! ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17020 "2014-09-27T13:22:03Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > It’s not losing, it’s the way he lost. He lost by tacking hard right and trying to minimize the depth and scariness of the recession. Obama pointed that out, darn him all to heck. McCain abandoned his Mantle of Reformism\* to try to win the nascent Tea Party/Wing-Nutter vote. Unfortunately in doing so, he pissed off a bunch of moderates and independents - people that otherwise might have considered him. The absolute idiocy of picking Palin just sealed the deal. \*+10 attack, but only when acting self-righteous and mavericky otherwise -5 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=850) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=852)