# 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:** 944
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18862 "2015-01-30T03:45:35Z")
I have to add John McCain calling anti-Kissinger protesters “scum”. He’s one of my favorite politicians ever, but his moral dudgeon is often severely misplaced. John McCain knows what scum is. He was imprisoned and tortured by scum. He’s met with some of the scummiest world leaders in existence as a Senator. Code Pink protesters may be inappropriate, but they have a legitimate beef with Kissinger, this country’s greatest practitioner of cold realpolitik. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18863 "2015-01-30T03:58:46Z")
Anybody have an email address for **adaher**? I think his account has been hacked. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18864 "2015-01-30T04:05:55Z")
No, I just have Tourette’s. Sometimes I accidentally blurt out reasonable things. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18865 "2015-01-30T07:20:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Megyn Kelly schools Mike Huckabee.](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/29/megyn_kelly_schools_mike_huckabee_about_the_reality_of_womens_behavior_were_drinking_were_smoking_were_having_premarital_sex_with_birth_control/) What a wasted opportunity for Laconic wit. I would have gone “and lastly : Mike Huckabee : go fuck yourself. Here’s Tom with the weather !” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18866 "2015-01-30T07:33:39Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > No, I just have Tourette’s. Sometimes I accidentally blurt out reasonable things. Wait, have your last 1000 posts been one big whoosh? ---
**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:** [January 30, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18867 "2015-01-30T08:14:35Z")
Mike Huckabee’s defense on his comments about the trashy women at Fox News? “[No, I was talking about all of the women in New York, Washington and Hollywood](http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=25001).” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18868 "2015-01-30T15:51:59Z")
Well, that should help… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18869 "2015-01-30T16:02:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Steel Cage Death Match! The Killa from Wasilla and the Loofah Lummox! > > (Morning line is nine to one on The Malign Sarah). Will there be . . . Jell-O? ---
**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:** [January 30, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18870 "2015-01-30T16:10:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mike Huckabee’s defense on his comments about the trashy women at Fox News? “[No, I was talking about all of the women in New York, Washington and Hollywood](http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=25001).” Well, it’s a good thing Fox News is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, then, right? Oh, wait. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18871 "2015-01-30T16:38:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Will there be . . . Jell-O? Falafel… [5) R-Rated](http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/billoreilly/a/oreillyquotes.htm) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18872 "2015-01-31T02:37:26Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I have to add John McCain calling anti-Kissinger protesters “scum”. He’s one of my favorite politicians ever, but his moral dudgeon is often severely misplaced. John McCain knows what scum is. He was imprisoned and tortured by scum. He’s met with some of the scummiest world leaders in existence as a Senator. Code Pink protesters may be inappropriate, but they have a legitimate beef with Kissinger, this country’s greatest practitioner of cold realpolitik. Really. Plus he has sat with some lowlifes in that chamber. I could understand him looking upon the Code Pinkers as punk-ass hippie bitches descended from the same who were protesting the war 45 years ago, but come now, Mac, “lowlife scum”, on the hearing record, from the chairman? Bit of a loss of composure for a brief disruption of a public hearing abd dissing a public figure whose actions \*are \*fair game for protest… ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18873 "2015-01-31T02:50:15Z")
Anti-Kissinger protests triggered a 'Nam flashback maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18874 "2015-01-31T09:17:14Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > No, I just have Tourette’s. Sometimes I accidentally blurt out reasonable things. Okay, but don’t start making a habit of it. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18875 "2015-01-31T17:19:29Z")
Guv Christie [starts a new PAC](http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/01/26/almost-ready-christie-launches-2016-pac-leadership-matters-for-america/comment-page-1/). Hmm, what would the acronym be? **L** iberty **M** atters **F** or **A** merica dot **O** rg? Yeah, that works good. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18876 "2015-01-31T17:31:49Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > No, I just have Tourette’s. Sometimes I accidentally blurt out reasonable things. Wrong on that too, what you have is reverse Tourette. [QUOTE=Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist] \*\*Dr Katz: \*\* I once had a patient that had reverse Touratte. \*\*Dr. Katz son: \*\* Really? How that [condition] works? \*\*Dr Katz: \*\*Well, the patient goes in rants like" You dirty, stinky, bastard, son of a… _nice tie_!" [/QUOTE] :D:p ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18877 "2015-01-31T18:23:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Guv Christie [starts a new PAC](http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/01/26/almost-ready-christie-launches-2016-pac-leadership-matters-for-america/comment-page-1/). Hmm, what would the acronym be? **L** iberty **M** atters **F** or **A** merica dot **O** rg? > > Yeah, that works good. Is this for real? It’s almost too good to be true. LMFAO! ---
**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:** [January 31, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18878 "2015-01-31T18:36:25Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Really. Plus he has sat with some lowlifes in that chamber. I could understand him looking upon the Code Pinkers as punk-ass hippie bitches descended from the same who were protesting the war 45 years ago, but come now, Mac, “lowlife scum”, on the hearing record, from the chairman? Bit of a loss of composure for a brief disruption of a public hearing abd dissing a public figure whose actions \*are \*fair game for protest… Funny how politicians are always championing citizens’ Constitutional rights until they have to deal with someone exercising them. Then they’re “scum”. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18879 "2015-01-31T23:39:02Z")
Fox _Business_ Radio Host: [Psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder are created by the mental health industry in order to make money. And most people who claim to be mentally ill are federal employees to claim it in order to get disability.](http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/fox-host-tells-caller-her-bipolar-disorder) ---
**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:** [February 1, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18880 "2015-02-01T02:33:48Z")
[Emergency manager of Flint, Michigan, appointed by Governor Rick Snyder doesn’t care that the water is polluted with poisons. It’s too expensive to provide clean water.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/31/flint-michigan-dirty-brown-water-videos/) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18881 "2015-02-01T09:04:31Z")
Re: Gov. Christie’s new PAC: > [@Knorf](#): > > Is this for real? It’s almost too good to be true. LMFAO! YES it’s for real! [Twitter mocks Christie’s unintentionally profane PAC acronym: The Auditor](http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/twitter_mocks_chrisites_unintentionally_profane_pa.html) Christie’s PAC’s web site, Leadership Matters for America: [https://leadershipmattersforamerica.org/](https://leadershipmattersforamerica.org/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=943) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=945)