# 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:** 1125
**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:** [June 25, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22482 "2015-06-25T20:54:38Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > [Texas names homeschool to chair board of education.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/texas-gov-greg-abbott-picks-homeschooler-to-chair-state-board-of-education/) Wonder if she’ll tele-commute. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22483 "2015-06-25T21:58:47Z")
Glenn Beck is “just asking if” [Chief Justice Roberts was blackmailed.](http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/was-supreme-court-justice-john-roberts-blackmailed/) > [@](#): > > Is the idea implausible that this same Obama administration that orders IRS attacks, then orders destruction of key evidence, would stop at nothing to save Obama’s signature achievement? Is it impossible to believe that Obama and his socialist cabal that learned from Saul Alinsky that “the ends justify the means” would hold something over a Supreme Court justice’s head? But we expect nothing else from him. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22484 "2015-06-26T03:01:34Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Can one be relentlessly straight, or is it only gays that can be relentless? All I know is, it’s really hard to be relentlessly abstinent. [http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/bristol-palin-announces-second-pregnancy/](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/bristol-palin-announces-second-pregnancy/) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22485 "2015-06-26T03:11:59Z")
Lest my last post be taken the wrong way, I’m not saying that pregnancy is a stupid idea. I’m saying this is: > **[Bristol Palin Sticks by Abstinence Pledge](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bristol-palin-sticks-abstinence-pledge/story?id=9636913)** > > As Bristol Palin, perhaps the most famous teen mom in America, prepares to battle her ex-lover for custody of their child, the 19-year-old did not take up Oprah Winfrey's offer to "retract" a recent pledge to not have sex again until she gets... ---
**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:** [June 26, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22486 "2015-06-26T04:14:06Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Glenn Beck is “just asking if” [Chief Justice Roberts was blackmailed.](http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/was-supreme-court-justice-john-roberts-blackmailed/) But we expect nothing else from him. Is it implausible to believe that a sports radio shock jock turned political commentator might finally have gone insane and is babbling any crazy shit the voices in his head are telling him to babble as he slowly descends into becoming the mass-murdering pedophile junkie that he is at heart? I’m just asking … ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22487 "2015-06-26T05:54:42Z")
Bristol Palin is going to take a break from advocating Abstinence Only education and would like some privacy as she is pregnant again. She still isn’t married. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2015, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22488 "2015-06-26T09:01:55Z")
Can I just say that I’d never even \*heard \*of Saul Alinsky until the Right started accusing me of being a rabid supporter of him? I still have no real idea who he is - he seems like Orwell’s “Goldstein”, a bugbear created as a focus for the Two-Minute Hate. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2015, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22489 "2015-06-26T10:32:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Can I just say that I’d never even \*heard \*of Saul Alinsky until the Right started accusing me of being a rabid supporter of him? I still have no real idea who he is - he seems like Orwell’s “Goldstein”, a bugbear created as a focus for the Two-Minute Hate. You and me both, and probably most Democrats. And isn’t it odd that they picked someone with such an obviously Jewish name? Just a coincidence, right? ---
**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:** [June 26, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22490 "2015-06-26T11:08:01Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > Bristol Palin is going to take a break from advocating Abstinence Only education and would like some privacy as she is pregnant again. She still isn’t married. That she pledged to be abstinent and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is unfortunate. That she tells other people to be abstinent and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is hypocritical. \*\*That she has made over a quarter of a million dollars promoting abstinence-only education \*\*and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is a fucking travesty. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22491 "2015-06-26T12:43:07Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > [Texas names homeschool to chair board of education.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/texas-gov-greg-abbott-picks-homeschooler-to-chair-state-board-of-education/) That’s Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s stupid idea. From the article: > [@](#): > > Even Republican State Board member Thomas Ratliff called the move a mistake. > > “Public school isn’t for everybody, but when 94 percent of our students in Texas attend public schools I think it ought to be a baseline requirement that the chair of the State Board of Education have at least some experience in that realm, as a parent, teacher, something,” Ratliff argued. The article mentions a “watchdog” group–here’s the word from the [Texas Freedom Network](http://www.tfn.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_press_releases) site: > [@](#): > > "If Gov. Abbott wanted to demonstrate that he won’t continue his predecessor’s efforts to politicize and undermine our state’s public schools, this appointment falls far short. The governor has appointed as board chair an ideologue who voted to adopt new textbooks that scholars sharply criticized as distorting American history, who rejected public education for her own family and who supports shifting tax dollars from neighborhood public schools to private and religious schools through vouchers. This appointment almost guarantees that the board will continue to put culture war agendas ahead of educating more than 5 million Texas kids.” ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22492 "2015-06-26T13:21:48Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Can I just say that I’d never even \*heard \*of Saul Alinsky until the Right started accusing me of being a rabid supporter of him? I still have no real idea who he is - he seems like Orwell’s “Goldstein”, a bugbear created as a focus for the Two-Minute Hate. Really? Fuck, I must have grown up in a conservative’s nightmare because I definitely remember trying to read my parents’ copy of “Rules for Radicals” when I was 12 or so. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22493 "2015-06-26T13:23:12Z")
IOW, about the age \*they \*were reading Ayn Rand. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22494 "2015-06-26T13:27:20Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > That’s Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s stupid idea. A propos of nothing, every time this guy comes up I mistake him for Australia’s vaguely human-shaped lizard slash PM, also named Abbott, also a blinkered spiteful moron. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22495 "2015-06-26T13:51:54Z")
Bristol Palin pregnant out of wedlock [again](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2015/06/25/bristol-palin-is-pregnant-again-and-doesnt-want-a-lecture-about-it/). She doesn’t want a lecture about it. She has made [thousands](http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/bristol-palin-earns-262000-as-abstinence-ambassador-201154) as an abstinence ambassador. The results of Republican sex education in action, people. I sort of feel sorry for her on one level but she’s been such a santimonious asshole it makes it very hard to feel anything but schadenfreude. If she doesn’t want a lecture then perhaps she should stop giving them out. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22496 "2015-06-26T15:15:23Z")
I know it’s been posted up in the elections forum, but [Donald Trump’s big mouth has cost him a lot of money.](http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/25/media/univision-donald-trump-mexicans/) It will be interesting to see if the other clowns make any hay out of this. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22497 "2015-06-26T15:18:32Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > A propos of nothing, every time this guy comes up I mistake him for Australia’s vaguely human-shaped lizard slash PM, also named Abbott, also a blinkered spiteful moron. [Australia being Australia](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife?from=Main.AustralianWildlife), Abbott might actually **be** some kind of lizard. 😉 ---
**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:** [June 26, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22498 "2015-06-26T15:21:06Z")
Well, that didn’t take long - [Fox News is explaining how the Supreme Court has now made it legal for three people to get married.](http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/06/26/foxs-martha-maccallum-on-marriage-equality-deci/204167) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22499 "2015-06-26T15:22:03Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Can I just say that I’d never even \*heard \*of Saul Alinsky until the Right started accusing me of being a rabid supporter of him? I still have no real idea who he is - he seems like Orwell’s “Goldstein”, a bugbear created as a focus for the Two-Minute Hate. When the Pubs for a boogeyman bawl They will point, finger trembling, at Saul! Whose endowments . . . judgmental Both moral and . . . mental Make theirs look exceedingly small! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22500 "2015-06-26T15:24:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > IOW, about the age \*they \*were reading Ayn Rand. Who wasn’t? We all read _Anthem_ because it was the shortest book on the summer reading list. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22501 "2015-06-26T15:35:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > \*\*That she has made over a quarter of a million dollars promoting abstinence-only education \*\*and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is a fucking travesty. You could drop “and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time” and it would still be accurate. Making ten cents promoting abstinence-only education is a fucking travesty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1124) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1126)