# 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:** 1053
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21042 "2015-04-16T18:58:59Z")
RW Rabbi: [“Effeminate” liberals are sexually attracted to the “masculine brutality of Islam.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/16/effeminate_liberals_are_sexually_attracted_to_masculine_brutality_of_islam_according_to_right_wing_rabbi/) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21043 "2015-04-16T19:00:17Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Michigan business owner refuses to serve gay people because you can’t put a car together with “all bolts and no nuts”.](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/16/michigan_business_owner_refuses_to_serve_gay_people_because_you_cant_put_a_car_together_with_all_bolts_and_no_nuts/) (Doesn’t say he’s a Pub, but, you know . . .) But he’ll give you a discount if you open-carry a gun…unless you are an on duty police officer. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21044 "2015-04-16T19:01:19Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Michigan business owner refuses to serve gay people because you can’t put a car together with “all bolts and no nuts”.](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/16/michigan_business_owner_refuses_to_serve_gay_people_because_you_cant_put_a_car_together_with_all_bolts_and_no_nuts/) (Doesn’t say he’s a Pub, but, you know . . .) Its time to let the free market deal with these yahoos. Lets see how they stick to their principles once their business suffers. And maybe businesses who will NOT discriminate may get a boost. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21045 "2015-04-16T19:12:49Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Its time to let the free market deal with these yahoos. Lets see how they stick to their principles once their business suffers. And maybe businesses who will NOT discriminate may get a boost. You’re posting this here because the idea that the free market will solve all problems is a stupid Republican idea, right? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21046 "2015-04-16T19:59:15Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Has he set up his GoFundMe page yet? Yeah not really a stupid idea on his part if he’s just hoping to cash in on those bigot bucks. I want someone to pull this shit then turn around and donate the money to an LGBT cause. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21047 "2015-04-16T20:31:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > RW Rabbi: [“Effeminate” liberals are sexually attracted to the “masculine brutality of Islam.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/16/effeminate_liberals_are_sexually_attracted_to_masculine_brutality_of_islam_according_to_right_wing_rabbi/) That’s actually kinda clever. And it’s disparaging on two fronts. I like it! I guess this logic wouldn’t apply to right wingers fanning themselves over Putin’s manliness. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21048 "2015-04-16T21:37:56Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > Yeah not really a stupid idea on his part if he’s just hoping to cash in on those bigot bucks. I just googled Memories Pizza - the top hit is an ad for a GoFundMe page for a poor woman who was sued by the state of Washington because she wouldn’t let her flowers be gay or something - Arlene’s Flowers. I try to be cynical, but I can’t keep up. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21049 "2015-04-16T23:23:51Z")
FoxNews talking heads accuse Hillary Clinton of lacking transparency - [because she wore sunglasses to Chipotle](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ayt6ed/had-mex---marcnado). They also posited that this was "“Hispanic outreach”. Sure, they could have been joking - certainly they shouldn’t be taken seriously - but “woman orders lunch” is not something that normally requires extensive political analysis. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21050 "2015-04-16T23:28:18Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > You’re posting this here because the idea that the free market will solve all problems is a stupid Republican idea, right? No, its because I would like to see these businesses fail for trying to turn away customers and being idjits. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21051 "2015-04-16T23:29:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Sure, they could have been joking - certainly they shouldn’t be taken seriously - but “woman orders lunch” is not something that normally requires extensive political analysis. It does when you want to turn “woman orders lunch” into “Clinton female needs to be stopped!” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21052 "2015-04-17T03:33:44Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > RW Rabbi: [“Effeminate” liberals are sexually attracted to the “masculine brutality of Islam.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/16/effeminate_liberals_are_sexually_attracted_to_masculine_brutality_of_islam_according_to_right_wing_rabbi/) It’s amazing how these right wingers can interpret ANY FRICKING THING in terms of sex, especially gay sex. I have a feeling they’re thinking about something. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21053 "2015-04-17T04:46:42Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > It’s amazing how these right wingers can interpret ANY FRICKING THING in terms of sex, especially gay sex. I have a feeling they’re thinking about something. Not rapey enough. ---
**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 17, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21054 "2015-04-17T04:53:42Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Has he set up his GoFundMe page yet? At the bottom of this story, it says: > [@"\[ThinkProgress](#): > > ([http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/04/16/3647710/mechanic-will-legally-refuse-service-gay-people-michigan-updates-laws/](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/04/16/3647710/mechanic-will-legally-refuse-service-gay-people-michigan-updates-laws/))"]Mirroring the support for Indiana’s Memories Pizza, a GoFundMe page has already been started to support Dieseltec. As of publication of this post, only five dollars have been donated — from a woman in a same-sex marriage and mother of three who asks, “Will you except [sic] my money? Or is it too gay for you?” (Shortly after this post was published, the campaign was taken down.) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21055 "2015-04-17T05:01:04Z")
[Rubio complains about a lack of civility in politics.](https://www.yahoo.com/politics/rubio-responds-to-reids-loser-line-says-he-116567526801.html) Then blames liberals. > [@](#): > > “There used to be a line of civility in American politics,” Rubio said. “It’s particularly problematic on the left. They never argue with you about ideas. Their instant reaction is to attack you personally. I’m not saying people on the right don’t do it. It happens. But it’s so much more common on the left.” ---
**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 17, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21056 "2015-04-17T05:14:32Z")
Well look at this whole thread, it is attacking Republicans – oh, wait, no, it is attacking their ideas as being stupid, then insulting them for being sociopathic fuckwits who have stupid, vile, short-sighted and/or dangerous ideas. Which is no _post hoc ergo propter hoc_ fallacy, at least in this case. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21057 "2015-04-17T05:16:21Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > FoxNews talking heads accuse Hillary Clinton of lacking transparency - [because she wore sunglasses to Chipotle](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ayt6ed/had-mex---marcnado). They also posited that this was "“Hispanic outreach”. > > > > Sure, they could have been joking - certainly they shouldn’t be taken seriously - but “woman orders lunch” is not something that normally requires extensive political analysis. > > It does when you want to turn “woman orders lunch” into “Clinton female needs to be stopped!” The thing about Fox News is that their spidey-sense is tuned to such a fine pitch, they can see the [hidden symbolism](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/09/fox-anchor-calls-obama-fi_n_106027.html) in actions and gestures which the less perspicacious would simply gloss over. So instead of disparaging them, we should be thanking them for pointing out the nefariousness fnord of liberals in general and the Clintons in particular. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21058 "2015-04-17T17:26:00Z")
[Maggie Gallagher tells GOP hopefuls how to turn down a gay wedding invite.](http://www.salon.com/2015/04/17/bigots_demented_new_low_maggie_gallagher_tells_gop_hopefuls_how_to_turn_down_a_gay_wedding_invite/) > [@](#): > > Pro-marriage crusader and anti-gay marriage bigot Maggie Gallagher is sad that Sen. Marco Rubio showed what she called “kindness” in explaining why he would attend a gay wedding even though he opposes gay marriage. > > “Ultimately, if someone that you care for and is part of your family has decided to move in one direction or another or feels that way because of who they love, you respect that because you love them,” Rubio told Fusion’s Jorge Ramos. > > So Gallagher lays out the right way to handle a gay wedding invitation: by making clear to your gay friend or family member that “as much as I love you,” I can’t celebrate your “sin.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21059 "2015-04-17T17:43:47Z")
[Rand Paul: America’s hungry seniors should turn to charity.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/22/987624/-Rand-Paul-America-s-hungry-seniors-should-turn-to-charity?detail=email) Bernie Sanders schools him. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21060 "2015-04-17T17:51:47Z")
Shorter Maggie Gallagher: “You can be a Christian and still be an asshole”. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21061 "2015-04-17T17:56:50Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > No, its because I would like to see these businesses fail for trying to turn away customers and being idjits. I envy your simple faith. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1052) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1054)