# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 475
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9487 "2023-05-17T13:22:07Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Plausible deniability so he can have it suggested he has taken up evangelical Christianity But wouldn’t it sell better as a conversion story if they kept the Hindu part? “I used to be heathen who worshiped cows! But then I Saw The Light™! And you can too, for the low, low price of your dignity!” ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9488 "2023-05-17T13:51:37Z")
He’s not, though, right? He hasn’t converted. He just doesn’t want the Hinduism part widely publicized. If that means some people just naturally assume he’s “one of us”, he doesn’t mind at all and won’t go out of his way to correct them. It’s incredibly slimy but it’s yet another confirmation these grifters totally understand the despicable nature of their support base and are willing to take full advantage of folks they clearly look down upon. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9489 "2023-05-17T16:22:27Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > He’s not, though, right? He hasn’t converted. He just doesn’t want the Hinduism part widely publicized. If that means some people just naturally assume he’s “one of us”, he doesn’t mind at all and won’t go out of his way to correct them. Well, that just opens up more questions, like why hasn’t he (at least pretended to) convert? It’s pretty clear he doesn’t actually take much pride in his current faith, and ostentatiously converting can only help him with his target voters. And it’s not even like it has to be sincere. Go though the motions, fake a few rousing prayers, and they’ll lap it up. Hell, get in with those Prosperity Gospel assholes, and he could probably end up on stage, on the receiving end of the grift, instead of the paying end. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9490 "2023-05-17T19:47:06Z")
Maybe because Hindus also vote, and apostates are hated much more than converts are loved. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9491 "2023-05-17T21:41:06Z")
Do you think today’s far right actually recognize (accept it happened) a conversion? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9492 "2023-05-17T21:43:44Z")
It seems to have worked for Nikki Haley. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9493 "2023-05-17T21:46:32Z")
He has just about the same chance as Haley. Slim, fat, and no. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9494 "2023-05-17T21:52:15Z")
And she was Sikh not Hindu Not that anybody who cares about one could/would differentiate between those religions And she married a Methodist. And converted to his religion. Converting to one’s husbands religion is much more acceptable (and kind of expected in that part of the country if you aren’t Christian to start with). Acceptable enough to make governor. As opposed to Ramaswamy who married a fellow Hindu and has his sights set much higher. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9495 "2023-05-18T05:21:54Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > And she married a Methodist. And converted to his religion. One might note that to some Christians that’s less Christian than if she was a Sikh or a Hindu! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9496 "2023-05-18T07:15:16Z")
Honestly, I think that what matters to certain Christians (and the far rightists) is how white they consider the person doing the conversion to be. For example, Obama was never Muslim, but he’s Black (although one parent is white), so those certain Cs firmly hold to the idea that he’s not Christian even though he was baptized. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9497 "2023-05-18T12:52:16Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > > > And she married a Methodist. And converted to his religion. > > One might note that to some Christians that’s less Christian than if she was a Sikh or a Hindu! Nah - the Methodists are okay. It’s the Papists who are suspect. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9498 "2023-05-19T12:30:45Z")
Who says the Republicans don’t believe in freedom? > **[Opinion | The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/republican-legislatures-abortion-trangender-education.html?unlocked_article_code=zTSEoQzejRi3pAso1o8PgBL0kyZPgUU0ovZyprWZwiXreBjHsRnM9DJjOaEvhAmelaeKVxpzZpZ9YF2UT7jpcPNVo_y9gTBwIvro3d1m6BQOKLGpVlevM0_baCMZKDVJE7JIEMmIyXEucYd0PuLSJnBw8Vdpa53CCunm6_H2xMWDNGs0fhjGBA0KZYwTuVnvB0ebWkZQ6tDLTfkRSiEQfCsjvJaM88znhZ_ZNh70W4qEMnKD3KiPs2FmnkymIXE4J1_xNx5Ro84Lx-E9b89z_MuwJ-OFnzvLJ0LAqtMPqQaAXapD9RA4ST35mtbvrC3TlnxfDJy0Ufhcds5z_kt69_Xl2bJf-sE8BiS60zO51fmzwLzsTafsWRvTlFshFpY&smid=url-share)** > > This is not what Franklin Roosevelt had in mind. > … > Famously, [Franklin Roosevelt’s four] freedoms were the “freedom of speech and expression,” the “freedom of every person to worship God in his own way,” the “freedom from want” and the “freedom from fear. > … > > There are, I think, four freedoms we can glean from the Republican program. > > There is the freedom to control — to restrict the bodily autonomy of women and repress the existence of anyone who does not conform to traditional gender roles. > > There is the freedom to exploit — to allow the owners of business and capital to weaken labor and take advantage of workers as they see fit. > > There is the freedom to censor — to suppress ideas that challenge and threaten the ideologies of the ruling class. > > And there is the freedom to menace — to carry weapons wherever you please, to brandish them in public, to turn the right of self-defense into a right to threaten other people. > … ---
**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:** [May 19, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9499 "2023-05-19T12:58:49Z")
I wonder how Norman Rockwell would immortalize those in oils. ---
**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 19, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9500 "2023-05-19T13:38:54Z")
By setting them on fire? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9501 "2023-05-19T13:44:06Z")
One clarification/addendum to the fourth: _if one is a member of the elite_; carrying — or being suspected of carrying — a weapon by a non-elite is a capital offense. (I know that elite membership is implicit for all four, but in this case it seems it should be explicit.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9502 "2023-05-19T19:03:27Z")
And now this: > **[The right’s move against no-fault divorce is an attack on women | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/opinions/crowder-right-wing-rhetoric-about-divorce-ignores-history-shanley/index.html)** > > After remarks by right-wing commentator Steven Crowder about his divorce went viral, and after recent proposals by conservative-dominated state legislatures to overturn no-fault divorce, Caroline Shanley argues that the moral panic being stoked about... ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9503 "2023-05-19T20:04:39Z")
Republican city councilman. ✅ Lawyer having sex with clients. ✅ Passed out in his car. ✅ Crack pipe in his hand-- priceless. > **[Accused Crack-Smoking Councilman’s Woes Deepen](https://www.thedailybeast.com/accused-crack-smoking-councilman-matthew-reillys-woes-deepen)** > > Matthew Reilly is under increasing pressure to resign after admitting he has relapsed after 13 years of sobriety. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9504 "2023-05-19T21:30:02Z")
Nominate that guy for President! ---
**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:** [May 19, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9505 "2023-05-19T22:00:55Z")
I am offended. The GQP would never sink that low. How dare you!!! I suppose the next bit of slander from you would have them nominating fake doctors, quack doctors, alcoholic drug abusing doctors, CTE addled ex-football players, plumbers, GED failures, marginally intelligent ex-football coaches for Representatives and Senators. Of all the load of bull from you!!! Uh Emily, they did all that and more. “Never mind.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/9506 "2023-05-19T22:22:35Z")
The Republican Congressional candidate in a special election in Rhode Island appears to not actually be a person who exists. > **[NBC 10 I-Team can't find any trace of Republican candidate who filed in 1st...](https://turnto10.com/politics/1st-district-special-election/republican-party-candidate-mystery-no-trace-federal-election-commission-congress-washington)** > > Who is Barrett Lynton? The NBC 10 I-Team can find no trace of a person who filed as a canddiate for Congress in Rhode Island. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=474) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018.md?page=476)