# 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:** 1048
**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:** [April 11, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20942 "2015-04-11T14:55:22Z")
Tennessee gun follies. In anticipation of the upcoming NRA convention, the TN legislature has passed or considered a number of gun laws. For example; they tried to pass a law banning toy or replica firearms anywhere in the vicinity of a school, while continuing to allow real loaded weapons, and they passed a law allowing registered gun owners to carry loaded weapons in parks regardless of local municipalities’ laws or signage. The NRA itself will require vendors at their gun show to remove the firing pins so that any weapons are inoperable. They also are banning guns at events such as an appearance by Jeff Foxworthy. However, at an event where most of the GOP presidential hopefuls will be speaking, the carrying of loaded weapons will be allowed. Rachel Maddow reported on this. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppbYMIZox10) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20943 "2015-04-11T15:16:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, you shouldn’t have tried to build a ship in a swamp! > > Which is, come to think of it, an apt metaphor for the Southern Strategy. Lincoln would weep. He’d also re-register into the Democratic Party. Lincoln was a very poor hater. He wouldn’t fit in with the GOP today. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20944 "2015-04-11T17:49:05Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, you shouldn’t have tried to build a ship in a swamp! Not the correct attitude. [QUOTE=Herbert’s Father] When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show’em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20945 "2015-04-11T17:55:02Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Lincoln was a very poor hater. He wouldn’t fit in with the GOP today. Hey, the GOP hates the poor, too. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20946 "2015-04-11T17:57:30Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > The NRA itself will require vendors at their gun show to remove the firing pins so that any weapons are inoperable. They also are banning guns at events such as an appearance by Jeff Foxworthy. Is this FDR’s National Recovery Administration? > [@](#): > > However, at an event where most of the GOP presidential hopefuls will be speaking, the carrying of loaded weapons will be allowed. Hmmm … uh, no, martyrs are a _bad_ thing. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20947 "2015-04-11T19:01:36Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > However, at an event where most of the GOP presidential hopefuls will be speaking, the carrying of loaded weapons will be allowed. Oh, don’t worry about them! I’m sure all the GOP candidates will be packing, too, and everybody knows that a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun. When the shooting starts, it’ll be real clear who’s who. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20948 "2015-04-11T19:13:41Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > They also are banning guns at events such as an appearance by Jeff Foxworthy. A comic specializing in redneck jokes addressing an NRA event? Someone should have thought twice about that . . . ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20949 "2015-04-11T19:29:00Z")
To expand upon what I said upthread about Lincoln being a Democrat today. If you think the Civil War is over, think again. HAROLD MEYERSON APRIL 10, 2015 [The American Prospect -Today’s GOP: The Party of Jefferson Davis – Not Lincoln](https://prospect.org/article/todays-gop-party-jefferson-davis-not-lincoln) **snip** > [@](#): > > The emancipation of the slaves that accompanied the North’s victory ushered in, as Abraham Lincoln had hoped, a new birth of freedom, but the old order also managed to adapt itself to the new circumstances. The subjugation of and violence against African Americans continued apace, particularly after U.S. Army troops withdrew from the South at the end of Reconstruction. Black voting was suppressed. The Southern labor system retained, in altered form, its most distinctive characteristic: unfree labor. As Douglas A. Blackmon has demonstrated in his Pulitzer Prize-winning study Slavery by Another Name, numerous corporations—many of them headquartered in the North—relied heavily on the labor of thousands of black prisoners, many serving long sentences for minor crimes or no crimes at all. **snip** > [@](#): > > Even today, one of America’s most fundamental problems is that the alliance between the current form of Southern labor and the current form of New York finance is with us still. The five states that have no minimum wage laws of their own are in the South: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Southern-based corporations such as Walmart are among the leading opponents of workers’ right to organize, and as Walmart has expanded into the North and West, so have the “right-to-work” statutes of Southern states been enacted by Republican governments in the Midwest. > > The Southernization of the Republican Party and the increasing domination of Wall Street’s brand of shareholder capitalism over the nation’s economic life have combined to erode both the income and the power of U.S. workers. Unions are anathema to Wall Street and the GOP. Federal regulations empowering consumers and employees are opposed by both. The GOP is not the party of Lincoln. The Democrats of today might be willing to give up Andrew Jackson in trade for Abraham Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20950 "2015-04-11T19:37:35Z")
Heck, I’d give up Andrew Jackson in trade for a handful of dirt. It need not be the best-quality dirt, either. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20951 "2015-04-11T19:49:31Z")
or stinky cheese ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20952 "2015-04-11T20:58:52Z")
[Pastor Claims Gay People Are Possessed By “Fart Demons” That Can Drive Pigs To Suicide](http://www.queerty.com/pastor-claims-gay-people-are-possessed-by-fart-demons-that-can-drive-pigs-to-suicide-20140723). OK, it doesn’t \*say \*he’s a Republican, but c’mon. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20953 "2015-04-11T22:04:38Z")
[Idaho state legislature kills a bill to track child support deadbeats because … Muslims.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/idaho-lawmakers-kill-bill-to-track-child-support-deadbeats-over-fears-of-sharia-law/) ---
**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:** [April 11, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20954 "2015-04-11T22:19:15Z")
I kind of have to attribute this to a Republican because there are no Democrats (well, maybe 3) in Orange County CA: [Judge reduces sentence for man who sodmized a 3-y/o girl because he was not as violent as he could have been](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/judge-reduces-sentence-child-rapist-says-he-didnt-intend-harm-3-year-old-he) ---
**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:** [April 11, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20955 "2015-04-11T22:30:09Z")
[Blacks are treated better by police than whites are.](http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/fox-guest-argues-african-americans-are) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20956 "2015-04-11T22:30:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I kind of have to attribute this to a Republican because there are no Democrats (well, maybe 3) in Orange County CA: [Judge reduces sentence for man who sodmized a 3-y/o girl because he was not as violent as he could have been](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/judge-reduces-sentence-child-rapist-says-he-didnt-intend-harm-3-year-old-he) A gentleman does not bugger a baby without lube. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20957 "2015-04-12T00:55:48Z")
[John McCain will seek a sixth Senate term in 2016.](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/mccain-run-reelection-2016-n336511) Only a stupid Republican idea in that a Republican is having it and it’s a stupid ideal; stubborn political careerism like this is, of course, a bipartisan phenomenon. But, dude, you’re 78 years old! You’d be 86 when your 6th term ended! We’ve had more than enough Strom Thurmonds! Retire gracefully! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20958 "2015-04-12T00:57:59Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I kind of have to attribute this to a Republican because there are no Democrats (well, maybe 3) in Orange County CA: [Judge reduces sentence for man who sodmized a 3-y/o girl because he was not as violent as he could have been](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/judge-reduces-sentence-child-rapist-says-he-didnt-intend-harm-3-year-old-he) Tricky. The Stupid Republican part might be the over-reaction to the judge’s leniency. Right Wing Hate Radio is absolutely up in arms over this, and demanding the judge’s recall. There might be no “good guy” here at all, and Republican stupidity might be on both sides. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20959 "2015-04-12T19:00:34Z")
From Bill Kristol, who has never been right about anything ever… > **[Bill Kristol: If They Get To Nominate Hillary Clinton, Why Don't We Get To...](https://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/bill-kristol-if-they-get-nominate-hillary)** > > Bloody Bill Kristol with the false equivalency of the day. (By way of our good friends at _Crooks and Liars_…) > [@](#): > > KRISTOL: If they get to nominate Hillary Clinton, why don’t we get to nominate Dick Cheney/ I mean, he has a much – he has a much better record… > > (CROSSTALK) > > KRISTOL: He has a much better record… Shit, I should have said something, I hope you weren’t standing up when your jaw hit the floor… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20960 "2015-04-12T19:15:04Z")
Who says they can’t nominate Dick Cheney? The would be almost as awesome for the Democrats as a Ted Cruz or Rand Paul candidacy. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20961 "2015-04-12T20:09:18Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Who says they can’t nominate Dick Cheney? Constitutional issues. Cheney has already served two terms as President. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1047) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1049)