- It's OK, everyone – Congress's smart-cookie Republicans have the answer to America's net neutrality quandary https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/08/congressional_neutrality_hearings/ 13 comments politics
- Opinion: Why do smart Republicans say stupid things? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/28/ginni-thomas-republicans-psychology-conspiracy-theories/?wpisrc=nl_danamilbank 55 comments politics
- Smart Republicans are changing their minds about Trump's impeachment — and they're saying it in pub https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-impeachment-hearings-republican-inquiry-testimony-ukraine-call-gop-a9203706.html 40 comments politics
- Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, a Republican: 'I've never been a big fan of the wall. In my farm in Mississippi we have goats and we just about can't fence them in, or fence them out. I think people are just as smart as goats.' https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/state-of-the-union-to-offer-grand-showcase-for-trump-border-wall-pitch 185 comments politics
- Smart Republicans are already abandoning Trump. But they’re still culpable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/10/smart-republicans-are-already-abandoning-trump-theyre-still-culpable/?utm_term=.7103d92ade74 3 comments politics
- Smart Republicans are already abandoning Trump. But they’re still culpable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/10/smart-republicans-are-already-abandoning-trump-theyre-still-culpable/?utm_term=.e121dc84cd2c 98 comments politics
- The gas tax was once a smart Republican idea. Now the GOP cynically uses it to bludgeon Democrats http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-newman-recall-gas-tax-20180607-story.html 3 comments politics
- 'Republican & Smart, White, Traditional,' a mayoral candidate said on Facebook. It backfired. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/06/republican-smart-white-traditional-a-mayoral-candidate-said-on-facebook-it-backfired/?utm_term=.92aa54dfa0cd 93 comments politics
- ‘REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL,’ a mayoral candidate said on Facebook. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/06/republican-smart-white-traditional-a-mayoral-candidate-said-on-facebook-it-backfired/?utm_term=.bfe65559b73d 14 comments politics
- [California] House Republicans launch a petty attack on a smart rail project http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article140446843.html 3 comments politics
- Smart Republicans? https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/smart-republicans/?smid=re-share 12 comments politics
- Smart Republicans? "don’t presume that Ryan and company have any idea what they’re doing." https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/smart-republicans 38 comments politics
- Trump on Trump: ‘I Don’t Even Know if This Guy’s Smart’ - "For years Republicans have mercilessly mocked President Obama for his use of teleprompters, but now that Donald Trump needs one to stay on task, they say, it’s completely different." http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/12/trump-on-trump-i-don-t-even-know-if-this-guy-s-smart.html 18 comments politics
- House Republicans are fooling themselves if they think it's viable, smart or moral to deport more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said Wednesday evening. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/04/luis-gutierrez-immigration_n_6268794.html?utm_hp_ref=politics 12 comments politics
- The Republican Party's Talent Gap The GOP doesn't have enough smart people working on its campaigns, and those who do are playing out of position. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/the-republican-partys-talent-gap/283995/ 7 comments politics
- If congressional Republicans are smart, they’ll postpone the next debt limit till after the 2014 primaries. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/10/the_debt_ceiling_and_republican_primaries_why_the_gop_should_postpone_the.html 10 comments politics
- "You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all 8 comments politics
- Obama's Smart Syria Decision Has Fractured The Republican Party http://www.politicususa.com/2013/09/03/obamas-smart-syria-decision-fractured-republican-party.html 14 comments politics
- Bill Maher: "If Republicans were smart, they would steal marijuana from the Democrats as a freedom issue. Of course they're not smart, so they won't." http://www.sockshare.com/file/7568c75149b8a20e&smaller# 54 comments politics
- A new Republican initiative proposing a smart climate policy asks, "What if we were to reduce taxes on income and shift the tax onto pollution? Gotta tax something to fund the government, why not make it pollution instead of income? Something we want more of as opposed to something we want less of?" http://vimeo.com/44472885 15 comments politics
- I can not understand the addiction with women's anatomy in the republican party. At a time when this country needs smart people to come together and move this country forward and fix the economy. All these bills on abortion aren't going to hire one single American. http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/political-cartoons/republican-jobs-plan.htm 3 comments politics
- You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. (It's more complicated that that) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all 436 comments politics
- "You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all 119 comments politics
- That's My Opinion, Today: And So the Police State Starts - WI Republicans Show Their Fear of Smart People http://thatsmyopiniontoday.blogspot.com/2011/03/and-so-police-state-starts-wi.html 7 comments reddit.com
- Proof that Americans are only as smart as the most easily available information they receive. Now that they've actually learned what's in the health care bill, rather than just hearing Republican lies, a plurality are happy the bill is now a law. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-23-health-poll-favorable_n.htm 29 comments reddit.com
- Bipartisanship is for Dummies: Republicans in the Senate will not agree to anything reasonable. If President Obama is smart, he'll cut them out of the negotations entirely. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-nelson/bipartisanship-is-for-dum_b_164165.html 20 comments politics
- FINALLY: Young Republicans are starting to realize that maybe it's not a politically smart idea for religious conservatives to focus on wedge issues and ignore problems like HIV and poverty. http://donklephant.com/2008/12/25/the-right-take-on-religion-and-republicanism/ 3 comments politics
- Why smart Republicans are PISSED at their party http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/13/04622/888/617/628916 181 comments politics
- Orang-utans are clever enough to use water as a problem-solving too; They are also smart enough to believe in evolution unlike some Republican Presidential Candidates http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12182-spitting-orangutans-solve-nutty-problem.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Smart Ass Cripple: Vice President Ridiculed for Saying ‘I am Kamala Harris’ - Of course Republicans attacked her use of inclusive language. That’s what they’re all about. https://progressive.org/latest/smart-ass-cripple-vice-president-ridiculed-ervin-081722/ 68 comments politics
- Paul Ryan’s very smart decision to leave Republicans in the lurch: Paul Ryan made a smart decision when he declared he would not accept the Republican party nomination for president this summer, no matter how desperate the party may be to avoid choosing Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kelly-mcparland-paul-ryans-very-smart-decision-to-leave-republicans-in-the-lurch 15 comments politics
- Apparently desperate Republicans are pleading with Paul Ryan to become Speaker of the House, because he’s “super, super smart.” More than anyone else in his caucus, he has the reputation of being a brilliant policy wonk. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/flimflam-fever/?smid=re-share 29 comments politics
- Rand Paul is the most intriguing — and for Democrats, perhaps the most frightening — figure in today’s Republican Party. The Kentucky senator, who is more than flirting with a 2016 presidential run, is making a smart play for the millennial generation that was key to Obama’s twin victories. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-rand-pauls-youth-movement/2014/03/21/9e551e68-b11c-11e3-95e8-39bef8e9a48b_story.html 33 comments politics
- Why Democrats Must Get Smart On ‘Entitlements’: Liberals are right to reject Republican proposals that would slash social-welfare programs even as they refuse to consider closing tax loopholes for the wealthy. http://www.nationalmemo.com/why-democrats-must-get-smart-on-entitlements/ 15 comments politics
- Republican strategist John Feehery: "If the Republicans were smart, they would have done the same thing: given her (Fluke) a call and said we're sorry about this attack." http://www.chron.com/news/article/obama-recasts-birth-control-debate-on-own-terms-3379364.php#page-2 44 comments politics
- Smart Republicans are changing their minds about Trump's impeachment — and they're saying it in public | Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, has now suggested he'll oppose efforts to dismiss impeachment charges without a full trial. And he's not the only one https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-impeachment-hearings-republican-inquiry-testimony-ukraine-call-gop-a9203706.html 99 comments politics
- Obama was smart, but wrong, to let Republicans off the hook for Trump | The Dallas Morning News | "While distancing Trump from the GOP might be good politics for the Democrats, it's not realistic. It's absurd to let the Republican Party off the hook for their role in the rise of Trump." http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20160729-obama-was-smart-but-wrong-to-let-republicans-off-the-hook-for-trump.ece 11 comments politics
- Sorry, Republicans: Obamacare is getting more and more entrenched "This is the problem of King v. Burwell, which is why every smart Republican is now probably praying the Supreme Court comes to their rescue and shoots the lawsuit down" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/21/sorry-republicans-obamacare-is-getting-more-and-more-entrenched/?tid=rssfeed 55 comments politics
- Trump, under fire for Israel comments, proposes fresh crackdown on Muslim immigrants | The Republican polling leader responded to backlash for calling Hezbollah ‘very smart’ by reviving a proposal for screening immigrants by ideology https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/16/trump-muslim-immigrants-crackdown/ 21 comments politics
- The dumbing down of Carly Fiorina: Apparently smart, science-oriented candidates can't win Republican primaries, so they have to pretend to be dumb. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/06/04/global_warming_carly_fiorina 9 comments politics