# 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:** 873
**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:** [October 16, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17441 "2014-10-16T01:27:55Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Could be worse than philosophy. [Could be faith.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZegQYgygdw) Ha! I knew what that was before I even opened it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17442 "2014-10-16T02:13:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [The Smith Act](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act) is still on the books. Why isn’t it being invoked? Maybe I’ll start this as a thread in GD, but would the Smith Act stand up at all as constitutional? And would we really want it to? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17443 "2014-10-16T05:20:32Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Rick Scott gives the weirdest prima-donna performance since Bobby Fischer quit doing chess tournaments:](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-scott-crist-debate-gets-off-to-bizarre-start-20141015-post.html) Demonstrating, among other things, that his ignorance includes not knowing the difference between “electronic” and “electrical”. ---
**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 16, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17444 "2014-10-16T06:35:34Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Demonstrating, among other things, that his ignorance includes not knowing the difference between “electronic” and “electrical”. How do you know? I have seen fans that have remotes, you cannot do that without electronics. For all we know, Crist had them put Siri inside there with fancy voice-to-blades compensatory modulation so that he could hear her clearly but nobody else could. Those Democrats are wily, you know, even if they used to be Republicans. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2014, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17445 "2014-10-16T08:38:43Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Does this mean little people fighting full sized bears or tiny bears in boxing gear? Hmm. Either. No, both. If we’re doing decadence, we gotta do it _right_. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17446 "2014-10-16T11:15:11Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Does this mean little people fighting full sized bears or tiny bears in boxing gear? > [@Kobal2](#): > > Hmm. Either. No, both. If we’re doing decadence, we gotta do it _right_. Or, we could just throw Warwick Davis into the ring with Brendan Gleeson and call it a night. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17447 "2014-10-16T11:21:31Z")
This is actually more vile than stupid. > **[Latino | Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/category/latino)** > > Latino “How attractive is Marilinda Garcia?’’ Vaillancourt asked rhetorically. “You know how opposition ad makers usually go out of their way to find a photo of the opponent not looking his or her best. Well … Democrats and Annie Kuster supporters can’t seem to find a photo of Marilinda Garcia looking bad at all.” Kuster, on the other hand, he said, is the opposite. “Let’s be honest. Does anyone not believe that Congressman Annie Kuster is as ugly as sin?” Vaillancourt asked. “And I hope I haven’t offended sin.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17448 "2014-10-16T13:41:27Z")
Psst! Post #17372, second link. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17449 "2014-10-16T14:33:29Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Rick Scott gives the weirdest prima-donna performance since Bobby Fischer quit doing chess tournaments:](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-scott-crist-debate-gets-off-to-bizarre-start-20141015-post.html) This story is so great and it’s even getting better. The party line explaining Scott’s behaviour: [QUOTE=Rick Scott] I waited to see, until we figured figure out whether he was going to show up [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Marco Rubio] it wasn’t clear [Crist] was even going to show up. [/QUOTE] The excuse they’ve decided to go with is they weren’t sure the guy on stage in front of the cameras waiting for Scott was going to show up. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17450 "2014-10-16T14:49:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Psst! Post #17372, second link. :o Sorry. It is a large thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17451 "2014-10-16T14:54:03Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Shit, man, at least throw in midgets fighting bears and public orgies to make it worth my while ! > [@silenus](#): > > Will WWF and Cinemax do? 😛 I can’t decide whether WWF works better as World Wildlife Foundation or World Wrestling Federation in this context. Perhaps there is finally a way for them to get along. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17452 "2014-10-16T15:10:31Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I can’t decide whether WWF works better as World Wildlife Foundation or World Wrestling Federation in this context. > > Perhaps there is finally a way for them to get along. Let’s see, if we put the wrestlers in a big cage with the wildlife . . . ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17453 "2014-10-16T15:31:41Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > :o Sorry. It is a large thread. If you can’t be bother to spend a couple of your precious days skimming through 17 and a half thousand posts before responding, perhaps you should go elsewhere. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17454 "2014-10-16T15:39:51Z")
Yeah, you slacker! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17455 "2014-10-16T16:34:57Z")
[More from the Fox News Medical A-Team.](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/16/wingnuts_awful_new_ebola_plan_lets_adopt_a_catastrophically_bad_policy_because_america_needs_a_pick_me_up/) Three guesses what the “A” stands for. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17456 "2014-10-16T17:41:52Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [More from the Fox News Medical A-Team.](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/16/wingnuts_awful_new_ebola_plan_lets_adopt_a_catastrophically_bad_policy_because_america_needs_a_pick_me_up/) > > Three guesses what the “A” stands for. I take issue with the article writer describing Siegel as “a bad pundit”. Siegel is a good pundit if he says things that are attention-grabbing and memorable. A bad pundit would be bland, reasonable and forgettable. Siegel’s a terrible human being, but not a bad pundit. ---
**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 16, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17457 "2014-10-16T17:50:54Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I take issue with the article writer describing Siegel as “a bad pundit”. Siegel is a good pundit if he says things that are attention-grabbing and memorable. A bad pundit would be bland, reasonable and forgettable. > > Siegel’s a terrible human being, but not a bad pundit. A good pundit also needs to carry at least a veneer of credibility. A schizophrenic vagabond ranting about CIA orbital mind control lasers is attention-grabbing and memorable, but not much of a pundit. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17458 "2014-10-16T18:14:01Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > A good pundit also needs to carry at least a veneer of credibility. A schizophrenic vagabond ranting about CIA orbital mind control lasers is attention-grabbing and memorable, but not much of a pundit. That’s what the CIA _wants_ you to think … ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17459 "2014-10-16T18:30:32Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > CIA orbital mind control lasers the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17460 "2014-10-16T19:11:30Z")
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