# 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:** 860
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17181 "2014-10-01T20:08:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Texas state senator compares being Christian in America to being Jewish in the Holocaust.](http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140930-texas-senator-makes-holocaust-comparison-in-speech.ece) Or something like that . . . Charles “okhair” Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17182 "2014-10-01T20:23:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I call voter fraud on the Arkansas AG candidate. I mean, they don’t want black people voting, why should they be allowed to vote in violation of the state laws. This. When you serve a party that works every angle to keep “the wrong sort” of voters away from the polls, you don’t get cut any slack. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17183 "2014-10-01T21:27:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Former Secret Service agent: [Allen West should be placed in charge of the Secret Service.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/26/the-secret-service-isnt-up-to-the-job-its-time-to-give-them-help-from-the-military/) This is the same Allen West who was booted from the Army, right? It is weird that the author just talks about the secret Service protecting the White House, I get that it is a nice building and all that , but he doesn’t seam to talk much about protecting the President, which I thought was one of the secret services main jobs. Perhaps the author is just suggesting that West should be in charge of protecting Americas federal buildings, and expand it to protecting all federal property, perhaps with armed responses to anyone trespassing on federal property. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17184 "2014-10-01T21:38:21Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Texas state senator compares being Christian in America to being Jewish in the Holocaust.](http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140930-texas-senator-makes-holocaust-comparison-in-speech.ece) Or something like that . . . I think he’s talking about the War on Christmas where the NAACP lined up 10,000 Santa Clauses against the wall and shot them dead, and took all the white children sitting on Santas’ laps off to be “vaccinated.” Even I thought Obama had gone too far on that one. > [@](#): > > Charles Perry (R - Lubbock, West Texas) Oh. Forget it, Jake. It’s just Dingbattown. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17185 "2014-10-01T21:40:31Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > It is weird that the author just talks about the secret Service protecting the White House, I get that it is a nice building and all that , but he doesn’t seam to talk much about protecting the President, which I thought was one of the secret services main jobs. Perhaps the author is just suggesting that West should be in charge of protecting Americas federal buildings, and expand it to protecting all federal property, perhaps with armed responses to anyone trespassing on federal property. He seems to be dividing the Secret Service’s mission into two parts: (1) protecting the White House from intrusion, and (2) protecting the president when he’s traveling, as they’re two different skill sets and strategies – but this is all implicit, as he doesn’t talk about (2) at all. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17186 "2014-10-02T13:11:59Z")
A blast from the past: [Henry Kissinger’s secret plan](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/americas/kissinger-drew-up-plans-to-attack-cuba-records-show.html?_r=1) [to attack Cuba](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/02/henry_kissingers_dark_secret_why_the_warmongers_even_worse_than_we_thought/), in reaction to the Cuban intervention in the Angolan civil war. (Might’ve happened, too, if Carter hadn’t beat Ford in '76.) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17187 "2014-10-02T13:50:30Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > It is weird that the author just talks about the secret Service protecting the White House, I get that it is a nice building and all that , but he doesn’t seam to talk much about protecting the President, which I thought was one of the secret services main jobs. Perhaps the author is just suggesting that West should be in charge of protecting Americas federal buildings, and expand it to protecting all federal property, perhaps with armed responses to anyone trespassing on federal property. Well, the White House isn’t just the POTUS’ residence and a nice building. It’s also where many other extremely important people work every day, and it’s also full of highly sensitive documents and maps and laptops full of national secrets and the like. All you see in movies and on TV is the Oval Office and environs but the West Wing is actually pretty huge - larger in footprint than the original building that you see on postcards. The WH is basically a museum and office complex with a residence on the upper floors. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17188 "2014-10-02T14:11:43Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > It is weird that the author just talks about the secret Service protecting the White House, I get that it is a nice building and all that , but he doesn’t seam to talk much about protecting the President, which I thought was one of the secret services main jobs. Perhaps the author is just suggesting that West should be in charge of protecting Americas federal buildings, and expand it to protecting all federal property, perhaps with armed responses to anyone trespassing on federal property. I don’t think Republicans are at all comfortable with the idea of PROTECTING President Obama. Most of the time, it’s all they can do to not advocate killing him. So they talk about protecting the building he’s in, a much more comfortable topic for him. It’s sort of like having to admit that liberal Democrats and progressives are Americans, too … politically necessary in their public pronouncements, but not at all in line with their real thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17189 "2014-10-02T14:32:34Z")
Since we don’t have a dedicated thread for Evil Republican Idea of the Day, [this](http://www.eclectablog.com/2014/10/michigan-gop-goes-to-the-gutter-sends-mailer-asks-people-to-call-dem-candidates-mother-who-is-in-hospice-care.html) will have to go here: > [@](#): > > The Michigan Republican Party has mailed out a hit piece on John Fisher the Democratic candidate for Michigan’s 61st House district. The mailer asks the recipient to call a phone number to complain about Fisher’s support of the Affordable Care Act. The number they give rings at the bedside of Fisher’s mother, 91-year-old Isabel Marie Kramb, who is in hospice care with congestive heart failure. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17190 "2014-10-02T14:45:11Z")
Ben Carson, again: [New AP U.S. History course would make students “ready to go sign up for ISIS”.](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/01/ben_carson_fears_that_new_ap_u_s_history_curriculum_will_lead_students_to_join_isis/) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17191 "2014-10-02T14:49:08Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I don’t think Republicans are at all comfortable with the idea of PROTECTING President Obama. Most of the time, it’s all they can do to not advocate killing him. [Speaking of which;](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/10/01/3574413/politico-column-if-obama-gets-assassinated-its-his-own-fault/) > [@](#): > > In the column, Kessler details these issues and concludes that, if the President is assassinated it will be his own fault. > > “Agents tell me it’s a miracle an assassination has not already occurred,” he writes. “Sadly, given Obama’s colossal lack of management judgment, that calamity may be the only catalyst that will reform the Secret Service.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17192 "2014-10-02T14:59:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > A blast from the past: [Henry Kissinger’s secret plan](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/americas/kissinger-drew-up-plans-to-attack-cuba-records-show.html?_r=1) [to attack Cuba](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/02/henry_kissingers_dark_secret_why_the_warmongers_even_worse_than_we_thought/), in reaction to the Cuban intervention in the Angolan civil war. (Might’ve happened, too, if Carter hadn’t beat Ford in '76.) If we wanted to start a thread called Stupid Bipartisan Idea of the Century, this would go first: why the hell don’t we have normal relations with Cuba? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17193 "2014-10-02T15:18:20Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I don’t think Republicans are at all comfortable with the idea of PROTECTING President Obama. Most of the time, it’s all they can do to not advocate killing him. So they talk about protecting the building he’s in, a much more comfortable topic for him. It’s sort of like having to admit that liberal Democrats and progressives are Americans, too … politically necessary in their public pronouncements, but not at all in line with their real thoughts. I was watching some of the hearings last night and was wondering why Darrell Issa and the other Republicans were worried about protecting Obama. It was confusing and I couldn’t wrap my head around their sudden concern. But you are right. They were talking about protecting the White House, where they hope a Republican president will live in two years. It makes sense now. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17194 "2014-10-02T15:38:57Z")
Yeah It seams the author cannot bring themselves to mention Obama or suggest his security should be improved. He also said that using the US military would be 'simple and cost effective". Not words I’d often associate with the military, sure , world class in the “making things go boom and or dead” rankings, but cost effective ? Still it is a tacit admission that federal government can do things well, not an ideal example , but there is hope for them yet. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17195 "2014-10-02T16:04:07Z")
Those comments are but the first hints of the coming tidal wave of patriotic Republican support for the Commander in Chief in times of crisis. Here it comes! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17196 "2014-10-02T16:42:39Z")
AKA [Operation Get Behind the Darkie.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrh5YOQHvFw) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17197 "2014-10-02T17:33:37Z")
Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) [shows his eye-of-the-tiger drive](http://washingtonexaminer.com/ground-game-looms-large-in-kansas-race/article/2554236): > [@](#): > > When Roberts’ new team took over his foundering campaign three weeks ago, they discovered an operation that hadn’t ordered any yard signs and a headquarters that didn’t have a computer printer or its own Internet service. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17198 "2014-10-02T17:39:47Z")
Kansas is so fucking red, they didn’t think they had to bother. They may still win, because Kansas is that fucking red! You can always hope for a miracle, so long as you don’t expect it. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17199 "2014-10-02T17:41:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Kansas is so fucking red, they didn’t think they had to bother. Yeah. It’s surprising that more Republicans who live in Virginia don’t run for office there. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17200 "2014-10-02T17:44:23Z")
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