# 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:** 1133
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22642 "2015-07-01T17:17:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Win Johnson’s LinkedIn page says he went to the University of Alabama School of Law.](https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2901810&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=sYj3&locale=en_US&srchid=4082411721435707707932&srchindex=2&srchtotal=9&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A4082411721435707707932%2CVSRPtargetId%3A2901810%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue) His Alabama Bar profile says the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22643 "2015-07-01T17:52:46Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Did you notice this: > (Emphasis added.) > > IANAL, so I don’t know the specifics of Alabama’s sodomy laws, but I found it interesting that he would distinguish between the flavors. You can’t come out against heterosexual sodomy, even in Alabama. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22644 "2015-07-01T18:13:58Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > You can’t come out against heterosexual sodomy, even in Alabama. Something something creampie joke. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22645 "2015-07-01T20:34:25Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I think that many or most of the letter-writers, preachers, and other prominent anti-gay folks have interacted quite intimately with a number of real homosexuals in their private lives. [Definitely-Not-Gay-Man Meets His Arch Nemesis!!](http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/tom-the-dancing-bug-definitely.html) ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22646 "2015-07-01T21:04:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Maine Governor Paul LePage advocates shooting a political cartoonist](http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/maine-gop-governor-loses-it-threatens-to-shoot-a-cartoonist-and-execute-lawmakers/). To the face of the son of the cartoonist. He is such a fucking embarrassment. More LePage antics from the past week as he bullies a school, threatening to withhold funding over hiring decisions: [http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2015/06/25/lepage-halted-100k-payment-good-will-hinckley-when-eves-hired/1733143](http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2015/06/25/lepage-halted-100k-payment-good-will-hinckley-when-eves-hired/1733143) ---
**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:** [July 1, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22647 "2015-07-01T21:47:02Z")
Tom DeLay Knows Of Secret DOJ Memo To Legalize ‘12 New Perversions,’ Including Bestiality And Pedophilia [http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tom-delay-knows-secret-doj-memo-legalize-12-new-perversions-including-bestiality-and-pedophi](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tom-delay-knows-secret-doj-memo-legalize-12-new-perversions-including-bestiality-and-pedophi) > [@](#): > > Tom DeLay appeared on Newsmax TV yesterday, where he told host Steve Malzberg that, just as he had predicted, all Hell is now breaking loose because of the Supreme Court ruling striking down gay marriage bans. Things are now so out of control, DeLay said, that he even knows about a “secret memo” from the Justice Department aimed at legalizing “12 new perversions,” including bestiality and pedophilia. ---
**Author:** ![climbuponahilltop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@climbuponahilltop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/climbuponahilltop)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22648 "2015-07-01T22:01:33Z")
I can’t even name twelve illegal perversions. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22649 "2015-07-01T22:03:02Z")
Silly man. Bestiality isn’t [new](http://corvus.freeshell.org/corvus_corax/two/art/leda/Leda_with_the_Swan_by_Bartolomeo_AMMANATI_marbe_Museo_Nazionale_del_Bargello_Florence.jpg). ---
**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:** [July 1, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22650 "2015-07-01T22:09:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Silly man. Bestiality isn’t [new](http://corvus.freeshell.org/corvus_corax/two/art/leda/Leda_with_the_Swan_by_Bartolomeo_AMMANATI_marbe_Museo_Nazionale_del_Bargello_Florence.jpg). I think he means newly added to the list, not new in the history of mankind. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22651 "2015-07-01T22:12:46Z")
Step one: Bone the chicken… ---
**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:** [July 1, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22652 "2015-07-01T22:17:29Z")
> [@climbuponahilltop](#): > > I can’t even name twelve illegal perversions. That’s because you’re not a virtuous man. A truly holy person, committed to the service of our lord Jesus and a healthy sinless lifestyle spends a \*lot \*of time thinking about butt stuff [del]and fapping furiously[/del]. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22653 "2015-07-02T01:37:02Z")
Macy’s has announced that they will no longer carry Trump’s line of menswear because he’s a racist asshole. Kinda sad, since he is the rare celeb who actually wears the products carrying his name. He does, right? You’re not saying his ill-fitting suits of cheap materials aren’t off-the-rack from a third-tier department store, are you? ---
**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:** [July 2, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22654 "2015-07-02T01:38:00Z")
Republican Congressman Steve King thinks Donald Trump is[right on the money about Mexicans](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-rep-steve-king-endorses-trumps-mexican-rapist-comments/): > [@](#): > > “I would say to Donald Trump, I appreciate the scrappiness of him,” King said of the candidate, “When he’s attacked by other people, he counterattacks and plunges forward and he delivers more facts to support the statement that he’s made.” Sometimes, King added, you have say things “real plain” instead of trying to be “nice” in order to get attention. > > Repeating an argument Trump made in Iowa this weekend, King said that “many of these kids that are coming into the United States from Central America are sexually violated and raped.” > > “I’d say in Donald Trump’s defense, someone’s doing that to these kids that are being raped and abused,” King continued. “And, when they’re coming across Mexico, it’s a reasonable assumption to conclude the people doing that are Mexicans.” ---
**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:** [July 2, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22655 "2015-07-02T01:50:44Z")
Never mind. Wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22656 "2015-07-02T02:20:29Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > He is such a fucking embarrassment. More LePage antics from the past week as he bullies a school, threatening to withhold funding over hiring decisions: > [http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2015/06/25/lepage-halted-100k-payment-good-will-hinckley-when-eves-hired/1733143](http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2015/06/25/lepage-halted-100k-payment-good-will-hinckley-when-eves-hired/1733143) Ooooh that one is gonna get him criminal charges, I betcha. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22657 "2015-07-02T03:14:54Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > He is such a fucking embarrassment. More LePage antics from the past week as he bullies a school, threatening to withhold funding over hiring decisions: > [http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2015/06/25/lepage-halted-100k-payment-good-will-hinckley-when-eves-hired/1733143](http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2015/06/25/lepage-halted-100k-payment-good-will-hinckley-when-eves-hired/1733143) > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Ooooh that one is gonna get him criminal charges, I betcha. [QUOTE=Governor LePage] They can’t investigate me. It’s in the Constitution. [/QUOTE] [Meantime, the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee has unanimously voted to investigate him.](http://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/01/lepage-attorney-to-watchdog-agency-you-dont-have-power-to-investigate-governor/) ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22658 "2015-07-02T06:10:44Z")
[The Senator from the Commonwealth of Kentucky meets Clive Bundy of the Silver State.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-cliven-bundy-meeting) Clive told rambling stories about how he saved Nevada’s land from the clutches of the evil Union while tying an onion to his belt (as was the style at the time). Allegedly, when Rand walked out, his tongue was sore and bleeding from lapping it all up. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22659 "2015-07-02T08:26:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Republican Congressman Steve King thinks Donald Trump is[right on the money about Mexicans](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-rep-steve-king-endorses-trumps-mexican-rapist-comments/): Wait a sec; I though the Mexicans coming across were rapists - not rapees. I’m also disappointed that neither Trump or King noted again the [del]kumquat[/del] cantaloupe sized calves sported by our southern neighbors. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22660 "2015-07-02T08:56:00Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [QUOTE=Governor Lepage] > They can’t investigate me. It’s in the Constitution. [URL=“[Maine watchdog agency to investigate LePage’s funding threat in Mark Eves hiring](http://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/01/lepage-attorney-to-watchdog-agency-you-dont-have-power-to-investigate-governor/)”] [/QUOTE] Hmm. Must be in the fine print. I’m still chuckling at this 'un, from the linked article : > [@](#): > > This is the latest development in a conflict that became public after Eves’ hiring was announced in early June. On June 8, LePage wrote to the board of Good Will-Hinckley, the organization that hired Eves, disparaging Eves, calling his hiring “unabashed political patronage” and saying, “Although he is employed as a family therapist, **I have seen firsthand that his skills in conflict resolution, leadership, negotiation and reconciliation are sadly lacking**." Contacted by our publication, Kettle had no comment on Pot’s inflammatory and frankly quite racist remarks. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22661 "2015-07-02T09:12:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Silly man. Bestiality isn’t [new](http://corvus.freeshell.org/corvus_corax/two/art/leda/Leda_with_the_Swan_by_Bartolomeo_AMMANATI_marbe_Museo_Nazionale_del_Bargello_Florence.jpg). And it’s not federally illegal: “There is no federal law which explicitly prohibits sex between humans and animals.” It’s a state issue. It’s also not illegal in Texas. You’d think Delay would know that. [Cite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia_and_the_law_in_the_United_States). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1132) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1134)