# 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:** 1136
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22702 "2015-07-05T14:40:30Z")
If you’re cynical enough to believe Walker is a real life Dr. Evil, the genius of this is almost Machiavellian. He gets exactly what he wants and then with a sideways wink to his coconspirators he publicly comes out in opposition knowing they’ll never overturn it. He gets to wrap himself in this protective blanket of secrecy while emphatically stating his disapproval of it. He’ll spin it to make an actual talking point of it on the campaign trail, telling us how he stood up for transparency. Of course this assumes Walker isn’t just another asshole who got caught doing something shitty and is trying to backpedal his way out of it. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22703 "2015-07-05T15:40:23Z")
I wonder if there would be some sort of grounds for legal action, like an “activist” circuit court judge ruling the law invalid. Freedom of the press, perhaps? (As it would be the press pressing the issue.) This could get ugly, though. We can be pretty certain that the federal government is not so keen to have daylight penetrating some of their dark corners. Shit, I was paranoid enough already, this will just make it worse. Time to go spray some vinegar at the sky. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22704 "2015-07-05T17:38:04Z")
Suppose you’re steadfastly opposed to same-sex marriage in spite of majority support for it and the Supreme Court’s ruling, and you can’t find a way around the argument that people should be allowed to marry the person they love. What do you do? If you’re Mike Huckabee, the answer is simple - [condemn the idea of love as being harmful to marriage.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/07/05/3677050/huckabee-takes-sex-marriage-opposition-logical-conclusion-criticizes-love-emotional/) ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22705 "2015-07-05T17:44:37Z")
On the up side, pretty soon Huckabee is going to fly up his own asshole and disappear. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22706 "2015-07-05T17:58:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Suppose you’re steadfastly opposed to same-sex marriage in spite of majority support for it and the Supreme Court’s ruling, and you can’t find a way around the argument that people should be allowed to marry the person they love. What do you do? > > If you’re Mike Huckabee, the answer is simple - [condemn the idea of love as being harmful to marriage.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/07/05/3677050/huckabee-takes-sex-marriage-opposition-logical-conclusion-criticizes-love-emotional/) 😃 Heck I was thinking about that the other day. That the real hardline ultracons in the religious right deep inside harbor a rejection of the notion of marriage and/or family-building as something based on “expressing love”, as opposed to it being about fulfilling a _societal duty_. I mean, it IS a radical modern idea 😉 ---
**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 5, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22707 "2015-07-05T18:17:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If you’re Mike Huckabee, the answer is simple - [condemn the idea of love as being harmful to marriage.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/07/05/3677050/huckabee-takes-sex-marriage-opposition-logical-conclusion-criticizes-love-emotional/) Well, he’s got a point. Traditional marriage, the \*really \*traditional marriage has fuck all to do with love. You know, back when divorce was a non-starter unless one partner was infertile or impotent (also a worse mark on one’s reputation than most anything) and discrete murder was the honourable exit to a hateful union. Twisting marriage to be about love did wreck traditional marriage, which was about inheritance and property and doing what you’re goddamn told. Tradition’s generally shitty, is what I’m saying :). That’s how it becomes tradition - when you can’t think of any \*other \*reason to keep doing it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22708 "2015-07-05T18:43:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Suppose you’re steadfastly opposed to same-sex marriage in spite of majority support for it and the Supreme Court’s ruling, and you can’t find a way around the argument that people should be allowed to marry the person they love. What do you do? > > If you’re Mike Huckabee, the answer is simple - [condemn the idea of love as being harmful to marriage.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/07/05/3677050/huckabee-takes-sex-marriage-opposition-logical-conclusion-criticizes-love-emotional/) Even if I were to get behind his stupid line of logic, I’m still not seeing why it is imperative that one person has to be male while the other has to be female. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22709 "2015-07-05T19:07:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Megyn Kelly thinks that all Constitutions are pretty much the same thing, since they have “[a lot of similar words](http://www.salon.com/2015/07/02/megyn_kelly_gets_taken_behind_the_woodshed_by_the_satanic_temples_lucien_greaves/)”. Ya had to go mention Megyn Kelly again, didn’t ya? You know how long it took for “Dirty Laundry” to quit playing in my head after the last time? :mad: ---
**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:** [July 5, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22710 "2015-07-05T21:38:07Z")
Rick Santorum: “[All undocumented immigrants are here with bad intent](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/rick-santorum-all-undocumented-immigrants-obviously-are-coming-with-a-bad-intent/)”. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22711 "2015-07-06T00:47:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Rick Santorum: “[All undocumented immigrants are here with bad intent](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/rick-santorum-all-undocumented-immigrants-obviously-are-coming-with-a-bad-intent/)”. Well, they all must be coming to cast their illegal votes for Donald Trump! What intent could be worse than _that?_ :dubious: ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22712 "2015-07-06T02:19:42Z")
Most of you probably already guessed I’m talking about the [Coultergeist.](http://www.inquisitr.com/2224648/ann-coulter-book-signing-disaster/#utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_rss). This is her response to the presence of protestors at a book signing. > [@](#): > > You have to understand, screaming and defacing things is how Latin Americans express disagreement. At least as long as they were destroying books and screaming in a book store, they weren’t molesting any 4-year-olds. How in hell is she capable of looking at herself in the mirror? The woman has no sense of common human decency. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22713 "2015-07-06T02:29:25Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > How in hell is she capable of looking at herself in the mirror? The woman has no sense of common human decency. That’s how. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22714 "2015-07-06T02:35:39Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > How in hell is she capable of looking at herself in the mirror? Is her reflection even visible in a mirror? ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22715 "2015-07-06T02:44:55Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Is her reflection even visible in a mirror? She’s been seen in daylight, so I’m guessing vampire is out. She’s only a metaphorical blood sucker. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22716 "2015-07-06T03:36:53Z")
I just wish the media would stop paying attention to her. STOP giving her what she wants! ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22717 "2015-07-06T05:27:37Z")
If you guys haven’t yet figured out that Coulter is simply a troll, there’s more to be said about you than her. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22718 "2015-07-06T12:29:51Z")
[GOP Rep: Marriage-equality decision is offensive to Civil War dead. Because Christianity.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-rep-marriage-equality-decision-offensive-civil-war-dead-because-they-were-fighting-furth) ---
**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:** [July 6, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22719 "2015-07-06T12:43:41Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > This is just the break the Romney campaign is looking for! I bet Mitt doesn’t wear wife beaters! I thought Mitt already had his own special Mormon underwear? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22720 "2015-07-06T13:43:12Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I just wish the media would stop paying attention to her. STOP giving her what she wants! I think Fox News is the only medium she has any more. ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/22721 "2015-07-06T14:54:11Z")
[Further news on Texas taking their gold back.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-mattress-texas-lawmakers-want-to-hide-their-gold-from-obama-but-dont-know-where/) They want it brought back to Texas because Obama might seize it or something, but forgot to mention in the bill: where the new depository would be, how it would be built, who would be in charge of it, funding for doing anything about it, etc. I would truly _love_ to see these maroons in charge of “Texas, the Country.” It would make the funniest TV show ever. Too bad it would only run a couple of weeks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1135) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1137)