# 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:** 993
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19842 "2015-03-11T16:47:54Z")
Sloppy. Tsk, tsk. However, this _did_ happen, yes? > **[GOP Staffer Apologizes For Lecturing Obama Daughters To 'Show A Little Class'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-lauten-obama-daughters-class_n_6241202)** > > GOP Staffer Apologizes For Lecturing Obama Daughters To 'Show A Little Class' ---
**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:** [March 11, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19843 "2015-03-11T16:50:49Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Sloppy. Tsk, tsk. However, this _did_ happen, yes? > > [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/29/elizabeth-lauten-obama-daughters-class\_n\_6241202.html](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/29/elizabeth-lauten-obama-daughters-class_n_6241202.html) Yes. That’s the problem with trying to satirize the GOP. They keep lapping the snarkers… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19844 "2015-03-11T16:51:19Z")
Be that as it may, this “.co” thingy is something I am unfamiliar with. Explain? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19845 "2015-03-11T17:07:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Be that as it may, this “.co” thingy is something I am unfamiliar with. Explain? International country code assigned to Colombia, as a top-level suffix. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19846 "2015-03-11T17:08:13Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Be that as it may, this “.co” thingy is something I am unfamiliar with. Explain? [Here you go.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co) All you do is take the URL of the original site as the name of _your_ site, register it in Colombia, and you’ve got yourself a spoof site. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19847 "2015-03-11T19:04:38Z")
[Ben Carson wants the people to rise up to prevent Obama from declaring himself President for a third term.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-people-will-stop-obamas-third-term) ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19848 "2015-03-11T20:17:03Z")
Actually, World Net Daily were the stupid ones. They asked Carson a dumb question and he came back with a very reasonable answer: > [@](#): > > We the people would oppose it through our Constitution, the 22nd Amendment of which forbids more than two terms. Even some of the timid people in the other two branches of government would be willing to stand behind the fortified walls of our Constitution.” - See more at: [Ben Carson: The People Will Stop Obama's Third Term! | People For](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-people-will-stop-obamas-third-term#sthash.qAYJfgpO.dpuf) Hopefully, liberals don’t attack those opposed to third terms as “Twenty-Seconders”. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19849 "2015-03-11T20:17:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ben Carson wants the people to rise up to prevent Obama from declaring himself President for a third term.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-people-will-stop-obamas-third-term) You know, given what an idiotic question he was asked, that’s not a bad answer. If the president refused to step aside after two terms, we’d oppose it through our constitution. Well, yes. I blame WorldNetDaily for asking the question. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19850 "2015-03-11T20:19:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ben Carson wants the people to rise up to prevent Obama from declaring himself President for a third term.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-people-will-stop-obamas-third-term) > [@](#): > > WorldNetDaily has become infatuated with a bizarre conspiracy theory that President Obama will remain in office after his second term expires, and today the far-right outlet, best known for promoting birther claims, decided to ask likely GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson the question on everyone’s minds: “Who would stop Obama from remaining in office past his second term?” - See more at: [Ben Carson: The People Will Stop Obama's Third Term! | People For](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ben-carson-people-will-stop-obamas-third-term#sthash.i1f5iOaH.dpuf) Fuck you, WND, for posing such a ridiculous question; and fuck YOU too, Dr. Carson, for dignifying it with a response. I think just for this fuckwitted asshattery, the Democratic Party should recruit Michelle to run in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19851 "2015-03-11T20:20:59Z")
Given Carson’s recent troubles, I’m actually glad he got the chance to quote the correct amendment. I’d have felt better if it was an answer to a spoken question so he wouldn’t have had a chance to look it up first. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19852 "2015-03-11T20:21:16Z")
I just agreed with **adaher**. Don’t worry, I’m going back through my post to figure out what I got wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19853 "2015-03-11T20:25:06Z")
Nah, this time it was just a simple poster error. Didn’t read the link closely enough. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19854 "2015-03-11T20:48:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Doesn’t count-It’s from a spoof site. In some ways, FoxNews, WorldNetDaily, Congressional Record, etc. resemble spoof sites. Is it possible that some of the Republican opinions on spoof sites are real? … that they’re trying ideas out and, if not debunked, will move them to more “prestigious” spoof sites like FoxNews? With the GOP now past even the point of self-parody and more like an ongoing get-drunk-and-barf farce, Americans cannot be expected to recognize spoofing in alleged GOP sentiment. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19855 "2015-03-11T21:43:34Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Well, yes. I blame WorldNetDaily for asking the question. It’s almost unfair to pit World Net Daily, but when reading that article I found a much better one: [What Do You Get When You Rearrange the Letters in “Predsdent Barack Obama?”](http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/an-arab-backed-imposter/) Warning-Link goes to WND. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19856 "2015-03-11T22:08:38Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > It’s almost unfair to pit World Net Daily, but when reading that article I found a much better one: [What Do You Get When You Rearrange the Letters in “Predsdent Barack Obama?”](http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/an-arab-backed-imposter/) > > Warning-Link goes to WND. From the link: “Just for the record, WND has been making the case that Obama is and always has been an ‘imposter.’ He’s simply not constitutionally eligible for the presidency.” They are not joking. They are still birthers. They still think that nobody with any official responsibility to ensure that our nuclear codes (not to mention the keys to the White House and AF1) are not given to “imposters” has looked into this. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19857 "2015-03-11T22:24:58Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > From the link: > “Just for the record, WND has been making the case that Obama is and always has been an ‘imposter.’ He’s simply not constitutionally eligible for the presidency.” > > They are not joking. They are still birthers. They still think that nobody with any official responsibility to ensure that our nuclear codes (not to mention the keys to the White House and AF1) are not given to “imposters” has looked into this. WND is the source of the greatest number of Birther Fails this side of Orly Taitz. My faves are the photoshop image of Obama’s grandparents they fell for (with [obvious signs it was fake if they’d just looked at it for more than two seconds](http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/04/07/jack-cashill-take-a-knee/178438)) and f[lying a message banner from a plane over an NFL game - in a roofed stadium.](http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2011/12/worldnetdaily-moves-goalposts/). And that is the short list. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19858 "2015-03-11T22:33:39Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > It’s almost unfair to pit World Net Daily, but when reading that article I found a much better one: [What Do You Get When You Rearrange the Letters in “Predsdent Barack Obama?”](http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/an-arab-backed-imposter/) > > Warning-Link goes to WND. He prefers the spelling “impostor”? Dork. Curiously, his surname, “Farah”, looks mighty suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19859 "2015-03-11T22:39:51Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > It’s almost unfair to pit World Net Daily, but when reading that article I found a much better one: [What Do You Get When You Rearrange the Letters in “Predsdent Barack Obama?”](http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/an-arab-backed-imposter/) > > Warning-Link goes to WND. > [@](#): > > \*\*If you had any doubts about a higher power, this should resolve them. His true identity was locked away in an anagram all this time. It’s like the Bible codes, only funnier. Funnier still is that such a rich jest occurred to the parents of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. when they named him. “Just in case he has a son named after him and the son becomes a president of an English-speaking country!” ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19860 "2015-03-11T23:01:21Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Actually, World Net Daily were the stupid ones. They asked Carson a dumb question and he came back with a very reasonable answer: > > Hopefully, liberals don’t attack those opposed to third terms as “Twenty-Seconders”. No, this was not a reasonable answer. A reasonable answer would have been “that’s a ridiculous question – there’s no evidence that Obama plans to serve a third term”. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19861 "2015-03-11T23:13:36Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > It’s almost unfair to pit World Net Daily, but when reading that article I found a much better one: [What Do You Get When You Rearrange the Letters in “Predsdent Barack Obama?”](http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/an-arab-backed-imposter/) > > Warning-Link goes to WND. HOLY SHIT! That was close! I’m indebted to WND for waiting so long in President Obama’s career before making this public! Things could have been SO different,… But they waited, they waited. WHEW! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=992) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=994)