# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1009
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20162 "2015-03-20T00:42:30Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [He’s already got the uniform.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Arguing_with_Idiots.jpg) Looks good on him, too! 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 20, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20163 "2015-03-20T01:10:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > [He’s already got the uniform.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Arguing_with_Idiots.jpg) [I like this version better.](http://rs808.pbsrc.com/albums/zz9/Edgewiser/GLENNBECKCOVER1.jpg~320x480) ---
**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:** [March 20, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20164 "2015-03-20T01:52:23Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Six foot tall pile of longhorn manure passing as a human Louie Gohmert [really REALLY wants to bomb Iran.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/gop-rep-louie-gohmert-cant-wait-any-longer-its-time-to-bomb-iran/) _pssshhh_ Another armchair general. :dubious: Tell ya what, tough guy, you’ve got the constitutional authority/duty. Why don’t you introduce a resolution declaring war on Iran onto the floor of the House? Maybe you can _FORCE_ the president to bomb Iran. Ya chickenshit chickenhawk. _bawwwk, bawwwk, buk-BAWWWK_! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20165 "2015-03-20T03:54:43Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > It’s disturbing how many people there are who are like this lady. She’s frantic and terrified over a bunch of crazy untrue bullshit. I didn’t see the video yet (at work) but I am reminded of the crazy lady who called Obama an Arab and John McCain corrected her politely. It was one of the few moments when McCain didn’t seem like a caricature during and even since the election so if he could manage it since he has been overcome by Derptitude, I have little patience for anyone else who can’t. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20166 "2015-03-20T04:42:50Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > I didn’t see the video yet (at work) but I am reminded of the crazy lady who called Obama an Arab and John McCain corrected her politely. It was one of the few moments when McCain didn’t seem like a caricature during and even since the election so if he could manage it since he has been overcome by Derptitude, I have little patience for anyone else who can’t. I have the impression that McCain lost a lot of votes right then, Santorum may be as loony tunes as the lady there but if he is also smarter than what he appears to be he could be weary of what happened to McCain. In a close election (You can count on the media to make it so) guys like Santorum do not want to alienate the most reliable voters for his side. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20167 "2015-03-20T11:45:10Z")
[Young Louie Gohmert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVESMxs4rbA). Actually, this might apply to most Republicans in Congress these days. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20168 "2015-03-20T11:48:23Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I have the impression that McCain lost a lot of votes right then, Santorum may be as loony tunes as the lady there but if he is also smarter than what he appears to be he could be weary of what happened to McCain. In a close election (You can count on the media to make it so) guys like Santorum do not want to alienate the most reliable voters for his side. Don’t you dare call Rick Santorum smart! Them’s fightin’ words! [Rick Santorum: “The Smart People Will Never Be On Our Side”](http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rick-santorum-the-smart-people-will-never-be-on-our-side/) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20169 "2015-03-20T11:52:52Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I have the impression that McCain lost a lot of votes right then, Santorum may be as loony tunes as the lady there but if he is also smarter than what he appears to be he could be weary of what happened to McCain. In a close election (You can count on the media to make it so) guys like Santorum do not want to alienate the most reliable voters for his side. True. While he is an evil scumbag, I don’t think my former Senator is an idiot. He even seemed to chuckle momentarily when the crazy lady mentioned nuking Charleston. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20170 "2015-03-20T14:28:36Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Rick Santorum does everything he can to agree with a lady who is absolutely batshit crazy. > > [http://gawker.com/watch-santorum-field-an-insane-question-about-obamas-pl-1692253833](http://gawker.com/watch-santorum-field-an-insane-question-about-obamas-pl-1692253833) > > Among other things, she mentions Obama’s plot to nuke Charleston, which I somehow missed. > > ETA: To be fair, I guess I would be afraid to say anything to upset (more than she already is) this woman, too. At least McCain, back in 2008, had the decency to be somewhat taken aback when he realized his audience had drunk the Fox News Kool-Aid and actually tried to encourage sanity. [http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/10/mccain-booed-after-telling-crowd-to-be-respectful-to-obama/comment-page-1/](http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/10/mccain-booed-after-telling-crowd-to-be-respectful-to-obama/comment-page-1/) Those days are sadly gone. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20171 "2015-03-20T16:41:02Z")
“NH Republicans deliver a rough message to 4th graders” > **[NH Republicans deliver a rough message to 4th graders](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/nh-republicans-deliver-rough-message-4th-graders-msna554826)** > > Between New Hampshire's GOP-led state House and Ted Cruz, it's apparently a rough week for Granite State children hearing harsh rhetoric from Republican pols. > [@](#): > > The idea seemed pretty straightforward. The fourth-grade class, made up of 9-and-10-year-olds from the Southeast corner of the state, worked on a proposal to make the Red Tail Hawk the official State Raptor of New Hampshire. The kids and their teacher brought their proposal to the state capitol, and it was approved by the Environment and Agriculture Committee. > > But as the report from [NH1.com](http://NH1.com)’s Shari Small makes clear, on the floor of the state House, the children ran into unexpectedly fierce Republican opposition. The kids heard one GOP lawmaker argue, for example, in reference to the Red Tail Hawk, “It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.” > > Those comments, from state Rep. Warren Groen (R), were apparently the harshest of the debate, but he wasn’t alone. In fact, the Republican-led New Hampshire state House killed the proposal from the 4th graders on a 133-to-160 vote. > > What better way to inspire young people about the vitality of American civic affairs than to have far-right politicians mock and defeat an innocuous bill written by children? No, this is not The Onion. What can you say about this kind of behavior other than to ask who was being the most childish in this situation? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20172 "2015-03-20T16:46:31Z")
In Missouri, while actively opposing subsidized insurance for people, the Republican lead state senate and house has passed a bill that will subsidize insurance on cows. > **[Missouri tackles the Affordable Cow Act](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/missouri-tackles-the-affordable-cow-act-msna555376)** > > You've heard of "Obamacare." But how about "Obamacow"? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20173 "2015-03-20T17:16:39Z")
Okay, this isn’t about Republican politicians, but it’s about the base that elects them. “Vermont Proposes Official Latin Motto, Wingnuts Tell Vermont To Go Back To Mexico” > **[Vermont Proposes Official Latin Motto, Wingnuts Tell Vermont To Go Back To...](https://www.wonkette.com/p/vermont-proposes-official-latin-motto-wingnuts-tell-vermont-to-go-back-to-mexico)** > > Here's a sweet little story of Democracy in Action. > [@](#): > > Here’s a sweet little story of Democracy in Action. A bright eighth grader writes to her state legislator with an idea for a law: Vermont doesn’t have an official Latin motto, so why not adopt one? And for that matter, make it a reference to history? Neato! > > So state Sen. Joe Benning — a Republican who was actually trying to do a good thing, which he has probably learned to never try again — introduced a bill to adopt the motto “Stella quarta decima fulgeat.” — May the fourteenth star shine bright.” Because Vermont was the 14th state, see? Benning noted that when Vermont briefly minted its own currency, it was engraved with “Stella Quarta Deccima,” so the phrase had real historical cachet. > > And then Burlington TV station WCAX put the story on its Facebook page with the headline, “Should Vermont have an official Latin motto?” and all Stupid broke loose when morons thought that Vermont was knuckling under to a bunch of goddamned illegal immigrants. > > Charles Topher at “If you Only News” collected some of the worst of the over 600 comments from some of the geniuses worried about protecting ‘Merca from the invading Latin hordes: The comments are on screenshots from FB. Go to the article to see them. > **[Vermont Proposes Official Latin Motto, Wingnuts Tell Vermont To Go Back To...](https://www.wonkette.com/p/vermont-proposes-official-latin-motto-wingnuts-tell-vermont-to-go-back-to-mexico)** > > Here's a sweet little story of Democracy in Action. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20174 "2015-03-20T17:23:27Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > A group of New Hampshire 4th-graders got [a lesson in sausagery](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/new-hampshire-republicans-kill-4th-graders-state-mascot-bill-after-unhinged-planned-parenthood-rant/) when Republicans in the lege turned their bill to designate the official State Raptor into some incredibly divisive crazystupid. > > Rep. Warren Groen (R) chose to use the moment to attack women’s reproductive freedom, saying, _“It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.”_ > > Rep. John Burt opposed it because _there are already too many laws_. [Quote=The Hon. John Burt] “Bottom line, if we keep bringing more of these bills, and bills, and bills forward that really I think we shouldn’t have in front of us, we’ll be picking a state hot dog next,” Burt insisted. [/Quote] And then, before you know it, someone will be clamoring for a bill legalizing the right to _marry_ a hot dog! Slippery slopes, people! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20175 "2015-03-20T17:33:35Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > The comments are on screenshots from FB. Go to the article to see them. > [Vermont Proposes Official Latin Motto, Wingnuts Tell Vermont To Go Back To Mexico](http://wonkette.com/575109/vermont-proposes-official-latin-motto-wingnuts-tell-vermont-to-go-back-to-mexico) _Finally, there was the genius who wrote, apparently without a trace of irony, “Hell No! This is America, not Latin America. When in Rome do as the Romans do!”_ Actually, I suspect that one knew exactly what he was saying. In the rush to ferret out right-wing derpage, the Wonkette is probably missing that \*some \*of these have to be jokes. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20176 "2015-03-20T17:39:46Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > _Finally, there was the genius who wrote, apparently without a trace of irony, “Hell No! This is America, not Latin America. When in Rome do as the Romans do!”_ > > Actually, I suspect that one knew exactly what he was saying. In the rush to ferret out right-wing derpage, the Wonkette is probably missing that \*some \*of these have to be jokes. Towards the bottom of the article she does mention that eventually the page started receiving a lot of people mocking the original comments. Whether or not that particular comment was serious or a joke is hard to say. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20177 "2015-03-20T18:46:31Z")
[Ben Carson solves the Palestinian problem:](http://www.salon.com/2015/03/20/ben_carsons_fresh_foreign_policy_just_sort_of_slip_palestinians_down_to_egypt/) > [@](#): > > “We need to look at fresh ideas,” said Carson. “I don’t have any problem with the Palestinians having a state, but does it need to be within the confines of Israeli territory? Is that necessary, or can you sort of slip that area down into Egypt? Right below Israel, they have some amount of territory, and it can be adjacent. They can benefit from the many agricultural advances that were made by Israel, because if you fly over that area, you can easily see the demarcation between Egypt and Israel, in terms of one being desert and one being verdant. Technology could transform that area. So why does it need to be in an area where there’s going to be temptation for Hamas to continue firing missiles at relatively close range to Israel?” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20178 "2015-03-20T18:53:31Z")
[The drought in California is caused because God is mad at homosexuality and abortion.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-homosexuality-and-abortion-rights-caused-california-drought) ---
**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:** [March 20, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20179 "2015-03-20T18:59:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Ben Carson solves the Palestinian problem:](http://www.salon.com/2015/03/20/ben_carsons_fresh_foreign_policy_just_sort_of_slip_palestinians_down_to_egypt/) Thus adding yet another sphere of knowledge that Ben Carson has no blessed idea about… ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20180 "2015-03-20T19:24:19Z")
It would appear that Ben Carson is really, really good at pediatric neurosurgery because he himself has the brain of a toddler. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20181 "2015-03-20T19:35:58Z")
[Tom Cotton is concerned that the Obama Administration is interfering with the ability of foreign governments to conduct their foreign policy.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/sen-tom-cotton-slams-obama-administration-for-undermining-other-peoples-negotiations/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1008) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1010)