# 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:** 1062
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21222 "2015-04-27T00:00:11Z")
Oh, not to worry. Michele Bachmann says Obama and gay marriage are pushing us even closer to a rapture date, so we ought be glad about it: [http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-rapture-imminent-thanks-gay-marriage-obama](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-rapture-imminent-thanks-gay-marriage-obama) But…but… if that’s so, then why do her ilk spend so much time tearing their hair out over Obama and gay marriage? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21223 "2015-04-27T02:37:32Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Oh, not to worry. Michele Bachmann says Obama and gay marriage are pushing us even closer to a rapture date, so we ought be glad about it: > [Bachmann: Rapture Imminent Thanks To Gay Marriage & Obama | People For](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-rapture-imminent-thanks-gay-marriage-obama) Did you hear Obama’s response to that at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? > [@Commander in Chief](#): > > [Michele Bachmann predicted I would bring about the Biblical end of days. Now _that’s_ a legacy. … Lincoln, Washington — they didn’t do that.](http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/04/26/402293168/7-obama-jokes-that-stood-out-from-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21224 "2015-04-27T02:52:18Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Did you hear Obama’s response to that at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? 😃 ---
**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 27, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21225 "2015-04-27T02:55:39Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Did you hear Obama’s response to that at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Breaking news on Fox: Obama confirms he’s The Anti-Christ. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21226 "2015-04-27T03:34:56Z")
Maybe it’s because I’m post-surgical and still not feeling great, but these guys’ faces are really bugging me. There’s Mitch McConnell, the human turtle: [http://hardnoxandfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mitch-mcconnell.jpg](http://hardnoxandfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/mitch-mcconnell.jpg) Louie Gohmert, who looks rather like Quark from ST: DS9 but without the charming ears: [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile\_images/378800000474059588/ae423b08bb7a6e382fbd54184d3257a9\_400x400.jpeg](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000474059588/ae423b08bb7a6e382fbd54184d3257a9_400x400.jpeg) Tom DeLay, who resembles a Gremlin without the green body : [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/TomDeLay.jpg/200px-TomDeLay.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/TomDeLay.jpg/200px-TomDeLay.jpg) Bobby Jindal’s The Joker face: [![](http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/members/photos/228/J000287.jpg) ](http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/members/photos/228/J000287.jpg) Finally, Ted Cruz’s smirk: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21227 "2015-04-27T03:57:32Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Tom Delay says that God wrote the constitution. > > [https://youtu.be/WxFp0TRgN7w](https://youtu.be/WxFp0TRgN7w) > > So God endorsed the 3/5 compromise and the protection of the slave trade till 1808. John McNaughton’s [One Nation Under God](http://jonmcnaughton.com/content/ZoomDetailPages/OneNationUnderGod.html) illustrates Tom “I Can’t Believe He’s Not in Jail” DeLay’s theory. Cursor over each figure & object in the picture to see an explanation of the subtle symbolism. Bad Art & Bad History in the service of Bad Politics… ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21228 "2015-04-27T03:57:35Z")
Is it possible some of those photos have been altered slightly? (Fox News got caught doing that. I’d really hate to think that anyone on my side of the great divide would descend to that level of chicanery.) As for Mitch McConnell, shrug. If you take as many photos of anyone as have been taken of him, some will come out with a doofus expression on 'em. There are doofus photos of Obama, and Clinton (Bill and Hillary) and…well, just about anyone who’s famous enough to be the subject of thousands of photos. We liberals and progressives and moderates are supposed to be the ones who don’t care about externalities such as physical appearance. We don’t mock people for body issues. Let’s try to hold up that moral standard. (Some of the wickedest people in history have been rather handsome.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21229 "2015-04-27T13:39:43Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > (Some of the wickedest people in history have been rather handsome.) Hitler weren’t no uggo. ---
**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 27, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21230 "2015-04-27T13:59:12Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Hitler weren’t no uggo. Talk about cute mustaches! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21231 "2015-04-27T14:16:12Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > John McNaughton’s [One Nation Under God](http://jonmcnaughton.com/content/ZoomDetailPages/OneNationUnderGod.html) illustrates Tom “I Can’t Believe He’s Not in Jail” DeLay’s theory. Cursor over each figure & object in the picture to see an explanation of the subtle symbolism. Bad Art & Bad History in the service of Bad Politics… McNaughton cracks me up. Still pissed about Marbury v Madison. Roll over to Reagan’s face… “a true patriot of freedom”. Love Lincoln doing his Al Jolson impersonation. [Same piece with better captions](http://www.shortpacked.com/McNaughton%20Fine%20Art.htm) ---
**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 27, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21232 "2015-04-27T16:06:05Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Talk about cute mustaches! Which he plagiarized from a character whose creator was four days older than him (the jewish barber). ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21233 "2015-04-27T16:20:39Z")
Yeah, if Hitler wore old shoes that were too big for him and a bowler, but usually ended up winning the girl, that whole taking over Europe and exterminating the Jews thing would have been more palatable. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21234 "2015-04-27T18:33:01Z")
Sigh. The Governor of Texas Greg (Wheels) Abbot- R, launched a Pre-K expansion to help more kids get into and stay in daycare. The Lt. Gov.'s advisers went a little koo koo bannanas, calling the initiative “socialist” and decrying the children being ripped out of godly homes for a daycare with a "Godless environment. Money Quote: > [@](#): > > “We are experimenting at great cost to taxpayers with a program that removes our young children from homes and half-day religious preschools and mothers’ day out programs to a Godless environment with only evidence showing absolutely NO LONG-TERM BENEFITS beyond the 1st grade,” I know there have been intra party squabbles with the FOP and Tea Party loons, but is the strain finally at the breaking point? I for one, hope so. ---
**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 27, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21235 "2015-04-27T18:42:46Z")
He talks as if the children are being forcibly torn from the arms of their god-fearing mothers. What a loon. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21236 "2015-04-27T18:44:28Z")
Missed edit window. GOP, not FOP. Although, a FOP party would be fun to watch! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21237 "2015-04-27T19:10:27Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Is it possible some of those photos have been altered slightly? > > (Fox News got caught doing that. I’d really hate to think that anyone on my side of the great divide would descend to that level of chicanery.) > > As for Mitch McConnell, shrug. If you take as many photos of anyone as have been taken of him, some will come out with a doofus expression on 'em. There are doofus photos of Obama, and Clinton (Bill and Hillary) and…well, just about anyone who’s famous enough to be the subject of thousands of photos. > > We liberals and progressives and moderates are supposed to be the ones who don’t care about externalities such as physical appearance. We don’t mock people for body issues. Let’s try to hold up that moral standard. > > (Some of the wickedest people in history have been rather handsome.) It was just a weak attempt at humor welling up from pain and pain pills, but I do take your point. ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21238 "2015-04-27T20:08:11Z")
[Right wingers get punked.](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380621/-Nevada-man-punks-right-wing-conspiracy-theorists-with-fake-Harry-Reid-story) ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21239 "2015-04-27T20:19:42Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Missed edit window. GOP, not FOP. Although, a FOP party would be fun to watch! Next time, make sure your “typo” is “FUP”, that will make more sense on the face of it. ---
**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 27, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21240 "2015-04-27T23:10:34Z")
Ted Cruz says there are [no Christians in the Democratic Party](http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/ted_cruz_christians_cannot_be_democrats_because_of_liberal_fascism_on_gay_marriage): > [@](#): > > “There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical tenets on marriage,” Cruz told supporters. He also insisted that “there is no room for Christians in today’s Democratic Party” because of “intolerance,” but claimed it is “so extreme, it is waking people up.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/21241 "2015-04-27T23:42:41Z")
By Cruz’s definition, you could argue that there aren’t any Christians in the GOP either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1061) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1063)