# 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:** 964
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19262 "2015-02-15T20:55:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > In the [linked article](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/rand_paul_caught_lying_about_his_college_record/) he says Biology and English. His understanding of economics appears to be purely Randian. Nitpick: Ayn Rand never pretended to be an economist, and Objectivism **has** no economics as such; its hostility to non-libertarian economic policies is purely moral, and has nothing to do with considerations of economic efficiency. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19263 "2015-02-16T01:00:46Z")
Apparently, [some governors](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/upshot/states-consider-increasing-taxes-on-poor-cutting-them-on-affluent.html?mabReward=R6&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&abt=0002&abg=0) haven’t learned a lesson from the debacle that is Kansas economic policy and are planning to copy it for their own states. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19264 "2015-02-16T01:53:39Z")
> [@DailyKos](#): > > As reported in this diary, San Diego Fox News 5 used a picture of President Obama with the caption reading NO CHARGES while head anchorwoman Kathleen Bade was discussing a rape suspect. > > Although it was up there the entire time during her lead-in, assignment editor Mike Wille said it was just a mistake. Since they knew it was a mistake, (and left it up there the whole time), why didn’t they at least offer a correction or apologize? > > Good question: > > ``` > Asked why there was no on-air acknowledgment or apology for the error, Wille said: “They really don’t do that when it’s a small thing like that.” > > ``` > > Nice. Putting up a photo of a different person while talking about a rape suspect is no big deal. [UPDATE: Fox Station That Used Pic of Obama as Rape Suspect IS REFUSING Acknowledge "Error"](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/15/1364551/-Fox-Station-That-Used-Pic-of-Obama-as-Rape-Suspect-IS-REFUSING-to-Apologize-or-Acknowledge-Error) ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19265 "2015-02-16T02:25:38Z")
Mississippi state representative Alday thinks that there’s no point in providing more funds to help second graders to learn how to read since it won’t help. After all, [“the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ‘welfare crazy checks.’ They don’t work.”](http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/02/14/miss-third-grade-gate-fear-failure/23443737/) ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19266 "2015-02-16T02:57:00Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Mississippi state representative Alday thinks that there’s no point in providing more funds to help second graders to learn how to read since it won’t help. After all, [“the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ‘welfare crazy checks.’ They don’t work.”](http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/02/14/miss-third-grade-gate-fear-failure/23443737/) Basically, if you’ve been elected to higher office in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, or Texas, odds are, you’re a complete and total fucktard. I’m in Florida, so I can’t exactly throw stones, but those four states are even dumber than mine. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19267 "2015-02-16T03:00:32Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Mississippi state representative Alday thinks that there’s no point in providing more funds to **help second graders to learn how to read** since it won’t help. He hates competition. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19268 "2015-02-16T03:55:42Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > [UPDATE: Fox Station That Used Pic of Obama as Rape Suspect IS REFUSING Acknowledge "Error"](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/15/1364551/-Fox-Station-That-Used-Pic-of-Obama-as-Rape-Suspect-IS-REFUSING-to-Apologize-or-Acknowledge-Error) Another money quote: Wille said no calls were received during the newscast about the Obama picture. No one was watching/old aging eyesight failed, or the typical audience assumed it was true?! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19269 "2015-02-16T03:57:54Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > Basically, if you’ve been elected to higher office in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, or Texas, odds are, you’re a complete and total fucktard. > > I’m in Florida, so I can’t exactly throw stones, but those four states are even dumber than mine. Plenty of folks in Kansas and Missouri would like a word with you for dissing them.🙂 ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19270 "2015-02-16T19:45:26Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Mississippi state representative Alday thinks that there’s no point in providing more funds to help second graders to learn how to read since it won’t help. After all, [“the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ‘welfare crazy checks.’ They don’t work.”](http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/02/14/miss-third-grade-gate-fear-failure/23443737/) Here’s the followup story about Alday owning up to his comments and taking responsibility for them like a man. Ha-Ha – had you going there for a moment. Of course, [what he really did](http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/02/16/gene-alday-says-not-racist/23496505/) was spin lame excuses and blame the messenger: > [@](#): > > State Rep. Gene Alday, R-Walls, who came under fire after his racist comments appeared in a Clarion-Ledger article Sunday about public education, said today his remarks were out of context and that he’s a nice guy. > > “I’m not a bad person, and that makes me look like an evil person,” Alday said Monday. “I didn’t do anything wrong. The guy made me look like a fool.”… > > But the former mayor, former police chief and current first-term legislator said he had no idea his remarks would appear in a story and, if he had, he wouldn’t have made them. > > “It was late at night and he called me,” Alday said of his earlier interview with Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell. “He asked me a question back to when I was in law enforcement … I have a way of talking and saying, ‘take this off the record.’” > > Instead, Alday said, Mitchell used his casual, off-the-cuff comments as an official statement without providing the full context of his feelings on the matter… Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that “It was late at night” = “I was drunk off my ass”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19271 "2015-02-16T19:49:22Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Here’s the followup story about Alday owning up to his comments and taking responsibility for them like a man. > > Ha-Ha – had you going there for a moment. Of course, [what he really did](http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/02/16/gene-alday-says-not-racist/23496505/) was spin lame excuses and blame the messenger: > > Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that “It was late at night” = “I was drunk off my ass”? 😃 _In Vinum Veritas._ ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19272 "2015-02-16T19:51:42Z")
I had no idea making racist comments to a reporter would result in a negative outcome for me, and if I had, I never would have made them. Well, duh, we know you’re stupid, only stupid people are racist. The point is that you’re racist, not that you’re stupid enough to get caught being racist. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19273 "2015-02-16T20:17:51Z")
One can only imagine what the police were like in a town with him as chief. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19274 "2015-02-16T21:40:07Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > _In Vinum Veritas._ [In vino veritas.](http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1142577) (This message has been brought to you by the pedants’, nitpickers’, quibblers’ and perfectionists’ brotherhood, and is sponsored, in part, by Gaudere’s Law.) ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19275 "2015-02-16T23:10:36Z")
You really shouldn’t expect correct declining from a person reclining with wine. ---
**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 16, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19276 "2015-02-16T23:12:12Z")
Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert: [US should nuke those regions of US allies where ISIS is located.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/arkansas-state-senator-suggests-us-nuke-allies-in-order-to-deal-with-isis-threat/) Ben Carson: [US soldiers should be told they don’t need to worry about being tried for committing war crimes.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/16/gop-presidential-hopeful-u-s-troops-should-be-exempt-from-being-charged-with-war-crimes-video/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19277 "2015-02-16T23:53:35Z")
Even if they didn’t have to worry,we still would. Let our enemies lie about us, so long as its not true. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19278 "2015-02-17T00:14:08Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > [In vino veritas.](http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1142577) > > (This message has been brought to you by the pedants’, nitpickers’, quibblers’ and perfectionists’ brotherhood, and is sponsored, in part, by Gaudere’s Law.) :dubious: _Fabricati Diem, Pvnc!_ ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19279 "2015-02-17T01:53:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert: [US should nuke those regions of US allies where ISIS is located.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/arkansas-state-senator-suggests-us-nuke-allies-in-order-to-deal-with-isis-threat/) I assume the “t” is silent. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19280 "2015-02-17T03:22:02Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > You really shouldn’t expect correct declining from a person reclining with wine. Those Romans, reclining and falling all the time! > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > :dubious: _Fabricati Diem, Pvnc!_ It took me a little time to figure out…but well worth it! I owe ya a drink (or a nice half-pound serving of brains, either way…) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19281 "2015-02-17T03:47:20Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Those Romans, reclining and falling all the time! [“You care if it falls?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7jHHC2bvg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=963) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=965)