# 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:** 883
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17641 "2014-10-23T23:25:38Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > ETA: I just read the link, and I can’t believe even Coulter would be that insane. Is that a spoof site? Dammit, it is. Crap. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17642 "2014-10-23T23:25:47Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > At least it’s nice to see that she’s not an anti-vaxer. > > ETA: I just read the link, and I can’t believe even Coulter would be that insane. Is that a spoof site? Yes, it is. The story is clearly satire. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17643 "2014-10-23T23:26:08Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > At least it’s nice to see that she’s not an anti-vaxer. > > ETA: I just read the link, and I can’t believe even Coulter would be that insane. Is that a spoof site? Yes, the daily currant is a satire site. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17644 "2014-10-23T23:27:11Z")
Damn, I just ninja’d like 6 times! ---
**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 23, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17645 "2014-10-23T23:27:23Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Yes, it is. The story is clearly satire. I would argue that the insanity crescendo the GOP is undergoing makes that “clearly” less accurate than it should be. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17646 "2014-10-23T23:52:31Z")
Well, now, it is a known fact the very young children have _serious_ immune systems, that’s why they are always putting stuff into their mouths, they are building immunities for later. After a while, it shuts down some, but really young kids are antibody monsters! You can extract blood plasma from people who have survived the most terrible viral infections and the antibodies are still in there, and can “jump start” the reaction in people who haven’t had time to make up their own antibody reaction. Plasma from survivors can be used to cure Ebola. Oodles of brown youngsters teeming over our southern border? I have a modest proposal… ---
**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 24, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17647 "2014-10-24T00:01:22Z")
I located O’Keefe’s muckmaking video on that place that has all the videos. 90 seconds, more or less, is what I could handle. I note that in the conversations where he gets people to ok fraud, you never see [his\* face, so dubbing his words (wherein all the fraud is contained) seems like it would be trivially easy. At one point, he claims, “_Many say voter fraud is impossible, that it can’t happen_.” Never heard of these people who say that. Anyone hear that kind of thing? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17648 "2014-10-24T00:27:20Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > I don’t know, the Spartans spent a lot of time doing their hair and they seems to do ok in war… This IS **SPARTA**! _boom chica waa-waa_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17649 "2014-10-24T14:27:10Z")
> [@Spavined\_Gelding](#): > > The Senatorial election in Iowa deteriorated into a name calling match between the backers and anonymous money guys about the time LTC Ernst quit talking about castrating pigs, since then it has been a constant barrage of half truth and innuendo and the race is very tight. Now, our girl from Red Oak has decided that she isn’t going to talk to the news paper editorial boards – not the Des Moines Register, the newspaper all Polk County depends on, not the Cedar Rapids Gazette, the newspaper all of East Iowa reads for the obituaries, not the Dubuque Telegraph, not anybody. She and her handlers seem to have decided that the GOP candidate’s best chance is to keep her mouth shut. Maybe so in view of some pretty reactionary stuff that came out of her mouth during the primary and early on about the Department of Education, the Department of Natural Resources ( she’s again 'em both), Proposition 21 (which will destroy farming), a Personhood Amendment to the Iowa Constitution (just a statement of personal belief), her willingness to arrest federal employees implementing the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) and a whole bunch of other stuff. [And she just keeps on giving.](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/24/gun_nuts_scary_senate_plan_joni_ernst_ready_to_literally_shoot_it_out_with_the_feds/) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17650 "2014-10-24T15:24:44Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I located O’Keefe’s muckmaking video on that place that has all the videos. 90 seconds, more or less, is what I could handle. I note that in the conversations where he gets people to ok fraud, you never see [his\* face, so dubbing his words (wherein all the fraud is contained) seems like it would be trivially easy. > > At one point, he claims, “_Many say voter fraud is impossible, that it can’t happen_.” Never heard of these people who say that. Anyone hear that kind of thing? A bit hyperbolic; what one normally hears (and its true) in response to right-wing demands for voter ID laws, is that it’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Voter fraud isn’t impossible, but it’s practically non-existent. ---
**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 24, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17651 "2014-10-24T15:27:53Z")
[Here’s a nice bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7JxQfOIMho&list=UU1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ) that shows Republican racism like it really is. A Republican official in Arizona described a Hispanic guy who delivered a group of early voting ballots as a “thug” who had the official “fearing for his life.” This is contrasted with security cam footage that showed exactly what the Hispanic “thug” did. This is racism: seeing evil where there is none. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17652 "2014-10-24T15:40:52Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > A Republican official in Arizona described a Hispanic guy who delivered a group of early voting ballots as a “thug” who had the official “fearing for his life.” Well, he is what these people most fear - a brown person holding a ballot. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17653 "2014-10-24T19:15:10Z")
Nick Muzin, Ted Cruz’s deputy chief of staff. “[Before Obamacare, there had never been a confirmed case of Ebola in the US](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ted-cruz-chief-staff-blamed-obamacare-ebola-article-1.1985522)”. He claims it was sarcasm, and has taken the tweet down after he got called on it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17654 "2014-10-24T20:18:30Z")
And how many undocumented cases of Ebola went unrecorded? Without laws to protect America from Ebola fraud, those cases are not prosecuted, hence undocumented, so we really have no idea. In a super-dooper close election, those could make the difference! And aren’t America’s gated communities the ideal setting for Ebola to spread amongst a targeted population? Connect the dot, people! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17655 "2014-10-24T20:54:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Connect the dot, people! Have you seen the whiteness emitted from the back end of [jet airliners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGF_0AcHaGs) today? **Ebola Spores!** ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17656 "2014-10-24T21:29:25Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Yes, it is a spoof. Daily Currant is a cut-rate Onion, not half as good. Do cut-rate Onions make the baby Jesus cry? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17657 "2014-10-24T21:50:25Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Nah. It all ties into their current messaging agenda – liberal voters of no doubt dusky complexions are going to be printing off ballots by the wheelbarrowfull in Colorado and dumping them willy-nilly into ballot boxes. Because this is how we justify all that legislation to limit who can vote and when and with what paperwork. So, what you’re saying is that I’m not cynical enough. Egad. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17658 "2014-10-24T22:58:22Z")
\*\* [Senator Sunspots](http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/gop-senator-isis-using-ebola-is-a-clear-and-present-danger#2jbpcvn) (Ron Johnson of Wisconsin) has some bioterrorism concerns\*\* Look, I don’t really want to think about this or talk about this, but what exactly prevents ISIS from infecting a couple of its terrorists, putting them in a mini-sub, navigating them through the St. Lawrence Seaway and down the Fox River and landing them at the foot of Driftwood Lane in Oshkosh less than one mile from Pacur HQ!? I’ll tell you what – NOTHING! EBOLA!! BENGHAZI!!! IRS!!! The article explains how the FBI and DHS see no credible threat in this direction. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17659 "2014-10-24T23:13:44Z")
And I can see Oshkosh as ground zero of a terrorist attack. If he’s the kind of people who live there. [Wisconsin alderman would rather discuss his constituent’s Muslim heritage and her connection to terrorists rather than the question she emailed him about](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/22/politician-refuses-to-answer-muslim-residents-question-until-she-proves-shes-not-a-terrorist/). ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17660 "2014-10-24T23:23:07Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Have you seen the whiteness emitted from the back end of [jet airliners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGF_0AcHaGs) today? > **Ebola Spores!** Ebola is mushrooms? I knew it was evil, but that’s weapons grade. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=882) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=884)