# What will the Republicans do to top this? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654 "2006-10-31T23:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/1 "2006-10-31T23:10:14Z")
Four weeks ago, a House Republican resigned in disgrace after stalking teenage boys. Three weeks ago, a House Republican pleaded guilty in a corruption scandal. (Though he didn’t quit.) Two weeks ago, a House Republican got caught when his campaign attempted massive voter intimidation. At the time, I wondered how any other House Republican could possibly crash and burn in a more dramatic way. Now I know: by [threatening to assault a guy in a wheelchair](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_el_ho/wyoming_house_poll_2). But this raises the question, “What will the Republicans do to top this?” ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/2 "2006-10-31T23:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=ITR champion] But this raises the question, “What will the Republicans do to top this?” [/QUOTE] [BREAKING: Virginia GOP Senator George Allen staffers tackle/assault man asking Allen question at event](http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/breaking-virginia-gop-senator-george.html) ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/3 "2006-10-31T23:20:54Z")
There isn’t a rolleyes big enough to express how I feel about this. At best, we have a “he said, she said.” At worst, and I quote directly from the article: > [@](#): > > Rankin, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, said that after a debate, Cubin “walked over to me and said, ‘If you weren’t sitting in that chair, I’d slap you across the face.’” > > Cubin’s version is that she challenged Rankin’s debate assertions and said, “If you had said that to anyone else, they probably would have smacked you.” Without having overheard the alleged conversation, or even the debate itself, we’re left with a heaping pile of stinking mud, which you feel free to sling willy-nilly based upon your uncritical belief in one side of a story in a blurb of an article. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/4 "2006-10-31T23:24:18Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] [BREAKING: Virginia GOP Senator George Allen staffers tackle/assault man asking Allen question at event](http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/breaking-virginia-gop-senator-george.html) [/QUOTE] What are “inappropriate questions about the Senator’s wife?” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/5 "2006-10-31T23:29:43Z")
“Would you videotape your wife doing “doggy” with an infected Doberman if it would win you this election?” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/6 "2006-10-31T23:47:29Z")
[QUOTE=ExTank] What are “inappropriate questions about the Senator’s wife?” [/QUOTE] I also wonder and on the tape the man gets up in the Senator’s face and security would have done the same thing, even if he was just asking what time it was. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/7 "2006-10-31T23:50:55Z")
“If not, would you like to buy one?” ---
**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 31, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/8 "2006-10-31T23:55:08Z")
The question was “Why did you spit on your first wife?” from what the Demobloggers are saying. It was a reference to Allen’s sealed divorce records. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/9 "2006-11-01T00:01:23Z")
[QUOTE=ITR champion] But this raises the question, “What will the Republicans do to top this?” [/QUOTE] Be caught importing Iraqis to carve up and roast for dinner ? And top that by doing the same for American soldiers ? Nah, never happen; soldiers are too tough and stringy. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/10 "2006-11-01T06:12:12Z")
What about BABY American soldiers? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/11 "2006-11-01T07:05:43Z")
C’mon, Cheney shot a guy in the head and then had the guy publicly apologize for causing Cheney problems. That’s really set the bar pretty high for every other Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/12 "2006-11-01T11:59:15Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] C’mon, Cheney shot a guy in the head and then had the guy publicly apologize for causing Cheney problems. That’s really set the bar pretty high for every other Republican. [/QUOTE] Eh? Cheney made him apologize? ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/13 "2006-11-01T15:56:57Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Be caught importing Iraqis to carve up and roast for dinner? [/quote] I think the Republicans would refer to that as ‘shoring up the base’. > [@](#): > > And top that by doing the same for American soldiers ? That, I admit, might cost them a few supporters. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/14 "2006-11-01T17:15:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Eh? Cheney made him apologize? You mean in the sense of holding a gun to his head? Probably not, except in the literal sense. However, I’m pretty confident that Cheney must have pre-read and approved Harry Whittington’s statement before it was made. Considering how Cheney insisted on controlling every other detail of the incident, there’s no way he’d have wanted Whittington talking to reporters without knowing what he was going to say. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/15 "2006-11-03T00:05:40Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] The question was “Why did you spit on your first wife?” from what the Demobloggers are saying. It was a reference to Allen’s sealed divorce records. [/QUOTE] That’s how I heard it. The tape was on Kieth Olbermann’s Countdown. I think it was last night. By now, there are probably copies on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/16 "2006-11-03T00:57:32Z")
[QUOTE=ITR champion] But this raises the question, “What will the Republicans do to top this?” [/QUOTE] [Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Affair with Gay Hooker, Methamphetamine Abuse](http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/) ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/17 "2006-11-03T01:01:55Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] [Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Affair with Gay Hooker, Methamphetamine Abuse](http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/haggard-resigns/) [/QUOTE] According to [Salon.com](http://Salon.com), this guy has weekly conference calls with George W. Bush. They joke that the only thing they disagree on is which truck to drive. Gotta say, I didn’t expect this. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/18 "2006-11-03T01:22:13Z")
I still picture Whittington holding a quail by the foot over his head and yelling “I got one here Dick” ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/19 "2006-11-03T01:23:31Z")
Well, I don’t know where it ranks, but it does rankle. I just got a call from the local black democrats, and they made sure I knew they were black democrats, urging me to vote for Michael Steel, a man who espouses no democratic positions. So, now the Republicans are playing a reverse race card, finding some Uncle Toms to shill for a fake black guy, because he appears black. And them trying to guilt some other blacks into voting for the black guy that won’t represent them only because he is black. I feel ill. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654/20 "2006-11-03T01:40:36Z")
You guys have so much more fun during your elections than we do. I’m almost envious (note - **almost** envious). :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-republicans-do-to-top-this/378654.md?page=2)