# 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:** 1051
**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:** [April 14, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21002 "2015-04-14T19:49:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [World Net Daily and their coterie of birthers are out after Marco Rubio. Apparently giving Ted Cruz a pass.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/return-rubio-birthers) Fucking idiots. Much as I hate the term “anchor baby,” even if they ARE able to successfully hang that label on Senator Rubio, the fact remains that, whether they like it or not, “anchor babies” are natural-born citizens at birth, and thus eligible to stand for and serve n the office of the presidency. If they want to argue that being a _Republican_ makes him ineligible to serve, they’re on far firmer ground.\* \*I direct the interested reader to my decree that the Republican Party shall be prohibited from electing another president, EVER AGAIN. ---
**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 14, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21003 "2015-04-14T20:09:49Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > That sense of Nostalgia is strong. The sense of historical accuracy as seen through the eyes of a child? Not so much. Exactly, and you’ve identified the central component of your subject’s problem. For **Starving Artist** , history is not comprised of large, complicated, multi-faceted forces and events; it is, rather, reducible to his own experiences, and to his own interpretation of those experiences. Argue with him about racism, about crime, and social and cultural mores, about anything you like, and the foundation of his argument is always rooted in little more than personal experience, with no consideration of statistics, or historical research, or even of logical debate. It is a rigorously and explicitly subjective worldview, rooted in anti-intellectualism and willful ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21004 "2015-04-14T21:37:32Z")
Or he could just be a fool. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21005 "2015-04-14T23:03:24Z")
The NRA’s [Wayne Lapierre](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/nras-wayne-lapierre-takes-shot-at-obama-as-demographically-symbolic-president/): “Eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough.” I guess his dog whistle was broken (hat tip Jon Stewart). ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21006 "2015-04-15T06:13:38Z")
The fuck with whatever Wayne LaPierre has to say. I heard him on the radio a few years ago, in a mini-debate over gun policy. He absolutely could not or would not acknowledge any difference between smallish handguns and military assault rifles, so there should be no laws to restrict any of those. I concluded that the guy is surely a sociopath or a psychopath. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21007 "2015-04-15T06:30:39Z")
Do you also believe this of NARAL, who sees no distinction between a zygote and a viable baby? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21008 "2015-04-15T06:32:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [World Net Daily and their coterie of birthers are out after Marco Rubio. Apparently giving Ted Cruz a pass.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/return-rubio-birthers) I’m not sure they have a grasp on what a natural born citizen is. Rubio was born in Miami. Unless someone disputes this, I’m not sure what the issue 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:** [April 15, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21009 "2015-04-15T06:52:22Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I’m not sure they have a grasp on what a natural born citizen is. Rubio was born in Miami. Unless someone disputes this, I’m not sure what the issue is. Uh, Obama was born in Hawaii. People dispute it, because your party has a bunch of cocksucking racist pukes in it. And your vote puts their will into action. [Also, don’t call me a traitor you fucking simpleton piece of shit.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18289658&postcount=356) Ah, that felt nice. I like the pit. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21010 "2015-04-15T07:10:15Z")
Holy crap, I actually \*did \*summon him ? I’m so sorry, uncle [del]Ben[/del]' **luci**. I swear to only use my (apparently immense) reality-warping powers for good and responsibly from now on. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21011 "2015-04-15T07:18:31Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Holy crap, I actually \*did \*summon him ? > > I’m so sorry, uncle [del]Ben[/del]' **luci**. I swear to only use my (apparently immense) reality-warping powers for good and responsibly from now on. “Ze peculiar harmonic frequencies, in ze name… zey cause audio-molecular-vibratory distabilizations in ze very fabric of space. Zis can cause a portal to form between your location and hiz, a toilet-paper tube, if you will, zat allows him to tranzition instantly from hiz Turkish Bath House, to ze thread in question.” ---
**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:** [April 15, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21012 "2015-04-15T08:25:47Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Do you also believe this of NARAL, who sees no distinction between a zygote and a viable baby? So you have a cite that says this? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21013 "2015-04-15T08:39:35Z")
You do understand that a) NARAL was formed to make sure abortions to save the life of the mother would be legal, and those are commonly late-term, and yet b) _Roe v. Wade_ actually did distinguish between zygotes (no rights) and viable fetuses (pretty strong rights), and NARAL accepted that? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21014 "2015-04-15T11:21:30Z")
Hey, if you want evidence adaher is wrong, just ask him to cite his claims. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21015 "2015-04-15T11:28:24Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I’m not sure they have a grasp on what a natural born citizen is. Rubio was born in Miami. Unless someone disputes this, I’m not sure what the issue is. So where’s the birth certificate? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21016 "2015-04-15T12:35:37Z")
[North Dakota GOP kill railroad safety bill](http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/north-dakota-gop-kills-train-safety-program-accidents-are-gonna-happen) because, and I quote, ““Would this guarantee any more safety? We would hope it would, but it wouldn’t. Accidents are gonna happen.” They then cited there was no need for 2 more inspectors and a manager because there are already 10 Federal inspectors plus the safety personnel at the railway company-- they count too! It should be noted that the governor and the public service commissioner, both republicans, supported the bill. But reasons. Stupid, stupid reasons. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21017 "2015-04-15T13:57:59Z")
Texas marketing CEO, a woman, says a woman should not President [because of hormones.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/texas-marketing-ceo-women-cant-be-president-because-of-hormones-and-biblical-sound-reasoning/) > [@](#): > > “With the hormones we have there is no way we should be able to start a war,” she wrote. “Yes I run my own business and I love it and I am great at it BUT that is not the same as being the President, that should be left to a man, a good, strong, honorable man.” > > Rios later told KTXA that besides the alleged hormonal issue, the U.S. could not afford to have a leader who would be “looked at differently” than a male president. > > “There’s an old biblical sound reasoning why a woman shouldn’t be President,” she added, though she did not mention any specific passages to support her argument. Pretty sure Hillary’s post-menopausal, honey. She’s not going to start wars just because it’s that time of the month again. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21018 "2015-04-15T14:22:00Z")
Oh dear god! You know who else has a female leader? ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21019 "2015-04-15T14:43:11Z")
I can only think that Dame Thatcher had purged herself of all the weak female characteristics that will inhibit Mrs. Clinton from starting wars, beating up on labor and starving members of the legislature and all the other strong leader like stuff that Dame Thatcher pursued to the greater glory of the Empire. Sometimes I can’t help but think that some of these people just blurt out anything that comes to mind, no matter how irrational, as if there is no filter between the dark recesses of the brain and the mouth. Better to stand on the street corner shouting “Poopy-head, poopy-head.” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21020 "2015-04-15T15:28:45Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Do you also believe this of NARAL, who sees no distinction between a zygote and a viable baby? 😕 😕 😕 Its not the pro-choice side that has difficulty [distinguishing between zygotes and babies](http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/23/narals-pro-abortion-science-fail-a-zygote-is-not-a-baby/http://). ---
**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 15, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21021 "2015-04-15T15:33:37Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Pretty sure Hillary’s post-menopausal, honey. She’s not going to start wars just because it’s that time of the month again. Yes, but Bible! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1050) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1052)