# The Republican Party is the Party of Evil **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187 "2021-03-04T17:43:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1142 "2022-05-09T13:03:30Z")
Oh, is her dad someone famous? She’s never mentioned him. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1143 "2022-05-09T13:43:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > A slight hijack: would it be in bad taste to use his conviction in a campaign ad if things were different? Bad taste? _Bad taste?_ Where have you been the last few years? IMO, his conviction could be used in campaign ads by every Democrat running against a Republican in every district in the country. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1144 "2022-05-09T13:47:05Z")
Steve Schmidt spilled a harbors worth of tea last night on his Substack: > **[No Books. No Money. Just the Truth.](https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/no-books-no-money-just-the-truth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=new-from-twitter-with-post&s=r)** > > This is a story about lying. Public lying. It is a story about Senator John McCain’s lying, and the damage it has done to many people, including me. It is also a story about my lying because, ultimately, John McCain’s lie became mine. Over time, that... A choice quote among many… > [@](#): > > You see, when I was 36 years old, I did not understand the difference between integrity and loyalty. Before I met John McCain, I would have answered that they were indistinguishable from one another. John McCain taught me a hard lesson about the differences between the two. ☕ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1145 "2022-05-09T13:54:57Z")
Long story, short: Schmidt is making the claim that McCain’s campaign was the first infiltration, by Russia, in an American Presidential campaign. The result was the selection of Sarah Palin, the ur-MAGA, and while she couldn’t resurrect a campaign as moribund as McCain’s, she did prove that a rightist blowhard energized the Republican base. 8 years later, here comes Trump… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1146 "2022-05-09T13:57:03Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Bad taste? _Bad taste?_ Where have you been the last few years? > > IMO, his conviction could be used in campaign ads by every Democrat running against a Republican in every district in the country. A hijiack followup-I wonder if that could be used by his lawyer for a change of venue request? I don’t need an answer, it’s just an interesting question. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1147 "2022-05-09T15:05:04Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Steve Schmidt spilled a harbors worth of tea last night on his Substack: Interesting read, but (if I’m following things correctly) a lot of it seems to derive from a New York Times article which McCain denied, but which Schmidt now admits is true. Unfortunately, that article is behind a paywall, so I can’t read it. Without that, it’s a little tough to tell what Schmidt is going on about. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1148 "2022-05-09T15:12:25Z")
To your point it is definitely written for the person who has kept themselves up-to-date on the travails of Steve Schmidt. There are a lot of references and inferences to previous statements and writings, which does make some passages difficult to parse. His tweet thread when he first went ballistic is a little clearer. Note: Rick Davis, who ran McCain’s VP search, was Paul Manafort’s business partner. > ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1149 "2022-05-09T15:18:19Z")
Mr. Schmidt was also molested as a child, so calling him a “pedo” is doubly evil and sick. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1150 "2022-05-11T12:48:43Z")
Cut for lack of better information: i.e. I don’t know for sure that Republicans were involved. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1151 "2022-05-11T18:10:38Z")
Was it evil? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1152 "2022-05-11T21:23:46Z")
[https://nordot.app/896944070993756160?c=592622757532812385](https://nordot.app/896944070993756160?c=592622757532812385) Evil, but thwarted. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1153 "2022-05-12T15:48:32Z")
In other words the school board says Don’t say Don’t say Don’t say Don’t say gay. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1154 "2022-05-12T15:58:14Z")
Dammit. Now I have McCartney’s _Goodnight Tonight_ in my head, and that was not the vibe I was searching for… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1155 "2022-05-14T13:42:07Z")
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik appears to be advocating for starving babies in US custody. > ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1156 "2022-05-14T15:04:59Z")
Or giving babies bad formula. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1157 "2022-05-14T19:41:06Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik appears to be advocating for starving babies in US custody. Gotta clarify this (although it’s clair enough from the quoted snippet). Advocating in favor of letting babies starve, not in defense of babies who are starving. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1158 "2022-05-14T19:45:49Z")
Sounds to me more active participation than merely letting, as in allowing. If they are, by law, to be fed, and she is advocating that their nourishment be taken away, then she is in favor of placing starvation upon them. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1159 "2022-05-14T19:46:58Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Advocating in favor of letting babies starve, not in defense of babies who are starving. Excellent point. My wording was unclear. Stefanik would like the Biden administration to violate the law and deny sustenance to babies in US custody in order to put an imperceptible dent in the nationwide formula shortage. It’s a truly monstrous position and it gets worse the closer you look at it. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1160 "2022-05-14T19:53:56Z")
Well, she could approach the situation like a problem-solver and advocate for the solutions to the supply chain troubles causing the formula shortage, or she could approach the situation like a bloodthirsty sadist and advocate for the denial of food to the babies she doesn’t like. Her choice. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1161 "2022-05-14T20:20:19Z")
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