# 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:** 87
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1721 "2010-06-15T16:31:04Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Alabama GOP candidate Rick Barber foments treason, advocating “taking up arms against the United States” in his campaign video. > > [Cite](http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/14/4507871-gop-candidate-declares-war-against-us). > > Think he’ll be arrested? Or elected? Shouldn’t Washington have a British accent? 😃 ---
**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:** [June 15, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1722 "2010-06-15T16:36:43Z")
Oh for the good old days again. Too bad that in the present librul dominated USA you can’t impregnate Rick Barber and keep him in the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1723 "2010-06-15T21:08:51Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Alabama GOP candidate Rick Barber foments treason, advocating “taking up arms against the United States” in his campaign video. > > > [@](#): > > > > One of the men dressed like a U.S. founding father – George Washington? – replies, “Gather your armies.”\ > > [Cite](http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/14/4507871-gop-candidate-declares-war-against-us). He should be saying: > [@](#): > > What, exactly, is this “health insurance” of which you speak?" ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1724 "2010-06-15T21:44:25Z")
> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > GOP Congressional nominee from New Mexico [suggests putting landmines on the US/Mexico border](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/15/politics/main6583678.shtml), although after being pressed to clarify, says “I am not suggesting we do that.” It’s simply that: > > No, it’s decidedly **not** “interesting”…rather, it’s decidedly **stupid**. Tom Mullins makes the ghost of Princess Diana cry. ☹ Remember, to some people what was going on with the whole Berlin Wall thing was a GOOD thing. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1725 "2010-06-16T21:24:48Z")
[Dick Armey: Avoid ‘tea party’ label, MSNBC](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38625.html#ixzz0r2wN6TXF) > [@](#): > > Republican candidates popular with tea party activists should refrain from self-identifying as tea party candidates — and also should stay off MSNBC, Dick Armey said Wednesday. > > The former House majority leader, who has emerged as a leading figure within the tea party movement as head of the nonprofit group FreedomWorks told reporters at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, that candidates who call themselves tea party leaders are opening themselves up for more negative scrutiny from hostile media outlets, and he singled out MSNBC as a leading antagonist of the tea party movement and its favored candidates. The political faction that dare not speak its name? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1726 "2010-06-16T21:46:53Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Alabama GOP candidate Rick Barber foments treason, advocating “taking up arms against the United States” in his campaign video. > [Cite](http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/14/4507871-gop-candidate-declares-war-against-us). “Gather your [narmies](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narm).” Indeed! ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1727 "2010-06-17T00:00:25Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [Dick Armey: Avoid ‘tea party’ label, MSNBC](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38625.html#ixzz0r2wN6TXF) > > The political faction that dare not speak its name? 😉 They’re now the politicians formerly known as the Tea Party. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1728 "2010-06-17T01:31:52Z")
I vote they rename themselves Dance Parties. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1729 "2010-06-17T01:46:08Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [Dick Armey: Avoid ‘tea party’ label, MSNBC](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38625.html#ixzz0r2wN6TXF) > > The political faction that dare not speak its name? 😉 They just are really, really into teabagging and everything it stands for! They’re a veritable Dick Armey! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1730 "2010-06-17T01:52:56Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [Dick Armey: Avoid ‘tea party’ label, MSNBC](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38625.html#ixzz0r2wN6TXF) … There was something visually _wrong_ with that video that I couldn’t put my finger on … until I Google Imagesed “[Dick Armey](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=dick+armey&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=)”. No Dick, what you did to your head isn’t noticeable at all, looks totally natural.Apparently hair dye/Grecian Formula/shoe polish does cause brain damage.CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1731 "2010-06-17T03:09:47Z")
Would this be the correct place to discuss Ms Palin’s suggestions on cleaning up the oil spill? Her brilliant idea: call in the Dutch. “They are known for — for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.” Of note, the Dutch have already contributed two skimmers to the clean-up operation. What they haven’t contributed is a guy with a really big finger to plug the hole. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1732 "2010-06-17T03:15:43Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Would this be the correct place to discuss Ms Palin’s suggestions on cleaning up the oil spill? Her brilliant idea: call in the Dutch. “They are known for — for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.” Of note, the Dutch have already contributed two skimmers to the clean-up operation. What they haven’t contributed is a guy with a really big finger to plug the hole. Great. Now there are conservative columnists all over the country masturbating to the image of Sarah Palin sticking her finger in a dike… ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1733 "2010-06-17T03:56:48Z")
Great-now I’m nauseated. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1734 "2010-06-17T03:58:04Z")
Thus far, **jayjay** , Dopers have exercised maturity and good taste in sternly refusing the obvious vulgar and degrading joke. Let’s not press our luck. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1735 "2010-06-17T03:59:32Z")
Only because the idea of Palin fingering Michelle Malkin is too oogy for words. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1736 "2010-06-17T21:32:21Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Would this be the correct place to discuss Ms Palin’s suggestions on cleaning up the oil spill? Her brilliant idea: call in the Dutch. “They are known for — for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.” Of note, the Dutch have already contributed two skimmers to the clean-up operation. What they haven’t contributed is a guy with a really big finger to plug the hole. Lefty site-- be warned: [When even O’Reilly facepalms, you know you’ve got problems.](http://www.newshounds.us/2010/06/16/oreilly_demolishes_palin_by_asking_for_her_solution_to_the_bp_oil_disaster.php) There is a link to her appearance on The Factor. Her word salad, run-on sentences really, really bothers me. Did she always have that lisp? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1737 "2010-06-17T22:24:43Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Lefty site-- be warned: [When even O’Reilly facepalms, you know you’ve got problems.](http://www.newshounds.us/2010/06/16/oreilly_demolishes_palin_by_asking_for_her_solution_to_the_bp_oil_disaster.php) There is a link to her appearance on The Factor. > > Her word salad, run-on sentences really, really bothers me. Did she always have that lisp? Damn it, its all those liberal media pundits like Oreilly that always ask those gotcha questions that get her in trouble. How do you know the Norwegian dike crafters who know all about cleaning up water don’t have the solution to the BP spill? HAVE YOU ASKED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM?! I thought not. I bet they don’t even answer the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1738 "2010-06-17T22:38:56Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Would this be the correct place to discuss Ms Palin’s suggestions on cleaning up the oil spill? Her brilliant idea: call in the Dutch. “They are known for — for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.” Of note, the Dutch have already contributed two skimmers to the clean-up operation. What they haven’t contributed is a guy with a really big finger to plug the hole. The funny thing is that I had no idea that’s what they were known for. Oh sure, I’ve seen pictures of the dikes, but I had no idea the Dutch had such prodigious water purification technology. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1739 "2010-06-17T23:39:23Z")
[Statement by House GOP Leaders Boehner, Cantor, & Pence on Rep. Barton](http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=191257) > [@](#): > > "The oil spill in the Gulf is this nation’s largest natural disaster and stopping the leak and cleaning up the region is our top priority. Congressman Barton’s statements this morning We’re nearly two months in, and these idiots still think this is a ‘natural’ disaster. Well, OK, they probably don’t. But they do seek to gain advantage by lying about the nature of the disaster. I suppose ‘the base’ will buy it, but they’ve got to be pretty stupid to think many of the rest of us will. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/1740 "2010-06-17T23:41:21Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > I suppose ‘the base’ will buy it, but **they’ve got to be pretty stupid** to think many of the rest of us will. You haven’t been paying attention, have you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=86) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=88)