# Republicans boo gay serviceman at Florida debate **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 23, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391 "2011-09-23T21:34:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/21 "2011-09-24T16:52:37Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Excessively prolix pitting. “Republicans Boo American Soldier” would suffice nicely. True. 98% of us would mentally insert “Gay” anyway. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/22 "2011-09-24T16:55:41Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > True. 98% of us would mentally insert “Gay” anyway. The nominations for SDMB Straight Line/Snark Inspiration of the Year 2011 are now officially closed. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/23 "2011-09-24T17:08:34Z")
At least I was the straight man. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/24 "2011-09-24T17:09:21Z")
The repubs cheered allowing a young man who didn’t buy health insurance to die. They cheered Texas executing many more people than any other state. They booed a soldier on the front lines risking his life for them because he is gay. I think ARUVQAN did not do enough research, or he has revealed who he really is. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/25 "2011-09-24T17:18:17Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > No, I think he is. I’m not familiar enough with your posting style to understand where you were going with that comment. I wanted to make sure you weren’t being exceptionally droll or trying to make some deeper point. So I looked at your recent posts and found this: > [@Everyone hates it, it's notoriously bad, yet you love it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-hates-it-its-notoriously-bad-yet-you-love-it/594536/197): > > I think Rumsfeld was a great public servent. Suffice it to say, your opinion doesn’t seem worth considering seriously. But thank you for your attempt at contribution to the discourse. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/26 "2011-09-24T18:17:06Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Well lets see. Democrat or Republican. > > Both parties are full of professional politicians, both parties are full of liars. Both parties are full of cheats. I have to register to one of them. How best to decide which group of skanks to join? > > If you have to join a party to vote, you join a party so you can vote for whom you have researched and think will be the better choice. Just because you register for democrat or republican does not mean you have to vote for the party you registered for. > > At least I get out and fucking vote. You would rather I sit on my ass and bitch about politics without having exercised my franchise? > [@Lobohan](#): > > If you think Democrats are as crazy as Republicans you aren’t paying sufficient attention. > [@Gatopescado](#): > > No, I think he is. I know _somebody_ who isn’t… ---
**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:** [September 24, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/27 "2011-09-24T19:37:09Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I know _somebody_ who isn’t… > [@gonzomax](#): > > The repubs cheered allowing a young man who didn’t buy health insurance to die. > They cheered Texas executing many more people than any other state. > They booed a soldier on the front lines risking his life for them because he is gay. > I think ARUVQAN did not do enough research, or he has revealed who he really is. Aaaaannnnd somebody else, too. ETA: The hell with it. I see no need to be [coy.](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/44346.html) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/28 "2011-09-24T20:48:31Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Both parties are full of professional politicians, both parties are full of liars. Both parties are full of cheats. I have to register to one of them. How best to decide which group of skanks to join? You pick the skanks whose politics is closest to yours? This isn’t hard. ---
**Author:** ![Chipacabra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Chipacabra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chipacabra)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/29 "2011-09-24T22:32:06Z")
Barring that, pick the skanks whose primary you want to participate in. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/30 "2011-09-24T22:53:23Z")
I love that Santorum says he [didn’t hear the booing](http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/rick_santorum_boo_gay_soldier.html). It’s very considerate for him to pause for something he didn’t hear. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/31 "2011-09-24T23:24:52Z")
Wouldn’t it be less of an issue if we didn’t have specific legislation (or policy) that makes it an issue? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/32 "2011-09-25T00:45:59Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > What Rick is too stupid to realize, is that guys in the military aren’t fucking robots. Of course they don’t. We don’t allow any of those filthy, disgusting robosexuals in our army! ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/33 "2011-09-25T02:09:59Z")
I used to register republican because my congressional district had been republican since it’s creation, so the primary was the only way to influance the outcome. I changed my affiliation so that I could help nominate Obama over Clinton , and lo! Martin Heinrich (D) is also my Congressman. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/34 "2011-09-25T02:22:46Z")
For such a sombre field of moralists, they sure know how to boo gay. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/35 "2011-09-25T02:35:50Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Of course they don’t. We don’t allow any of those filthy, disgusting robosexuals in our army! Harder, Will Robinson, harder! ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/36 "2011-09-25T02:40:46Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > If you find yourself soiled with tar, it is because you choose to associate with a contemptible group of people. I suggest you register with a higher class of voter, such as the Coprophage Party, or maybe the Skankatarians. I am _totally_ voting straight Skankatarian ticket next election. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/37 "2011-09-25T02:46:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Harder, Will Robinson, harder! That’s some funny shit right there! 😃 ---
**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:** [September 25, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/38 "2011-09-25T02:56:34Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Wouldn’t it be less of an issue if we didn’t have specific legislation (or policy) that makes it an issue? It’s so easy for me to get my antecedents twisted these days, such that a single-line post like that one is _just_ the other side of comprehensibility for me. Could I trouble you to clarify your meaning, please? ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/39 "2011-09-25T13:18:44Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Well lets see. Democrat or Republican. > > Both parties are full of professional politicians, both parties are full of liars. Both parties are full of cheats. I have to register to one of them. Says who? If you hold both major parties in such contempt, then don’t register with them. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391/40 "2011-09-25T13:44:21Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I love that Santorum says he [didn’t hear the booing.](http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/rick_santorum_boo_gay_soldier.html) To be fair, it’s possible that his ears were clogged with the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that are always the byproduct of Rick Santorum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-boo-gay-serviceman-at-florida-debate/597391.md?page=3)