# 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:** 1172
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23422 "2015-08-04T00:59:01Z")
[Ted Cruz shows the world what the GOP is all about by frying bacon on the barrel of a machine gun.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/ted-cruz-cooks-bacon-machine-gun) I think they should just make all the Republican candidates duke it out in the Redneck Games. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23423 "2015-08-04T01:09:23Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > [Ted Cruz shows the world what the GOP is all about by frying bacon on the barrel of a machine gun.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/ted-cruz-cooks-bacon-machine-gun) > > I think they should just make all the Republican candidates duke it out in the Redneck Games. Bacon tastes terrible with Hoppes No. 9. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23424 "2015-08-04T01:14:03Z")
That can’t possibly be good for the gun. You shouldn’t fire a gun so much that it gets frying-pan hot in the first place. (Unless you’re defending Bastogne or something.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23425 "2015-08-04T04:41:51Z")
If any tighty righty Cruz-controlled droolers are accidentally reading this, **Trinopus** is joking. Bastogne does not need to be defended, no one is attacking, all you would do is ruin some bacon and scare the shit out of some German tourists. Course, if you made video, it would totally go viral. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23426 "2015-08-04T05:54:57Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > It’s next on the list after they get around to reading The Bible. Who needs a Constitution when you have The Bible? We Good Godly Christians don’t need no steenkin Constitution! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23427 "2015-08-04T06:12:15Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Yeah, that would be me and my poor transcription skills. I’d like to throw myself on the mercy of the court. _Ego te absolvo._ ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23428 "2015-08-04T06:14:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Who needs a Constitution when you have The Bible? > > We Good Godly Christians don’t need no steenkin Constitution! I thought the constitution was based on the goodness in the bible - reflecting the founders as proper christians and america as a christian country? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23429 "2015-08-04T11:59:56Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > [Ted Cruz shows the world what the GOP is all about by frying bacon on the barrel of a machine gun.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/ted-cruz-cooks-bacon-machine-gun) > > I think they should just make all the Republican candidates duke it out in the Redneck Games. As Rachel Maddow pointed out on last night’s show, that isn’t even a machine gun – it’s a semi-automatic: > **[Hey Ted Cruz, that's not a machine gun](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hey-ted-cruz--thats-not-a-machine-gun-497892419957)** > > Rachel Maddow debunks the claim of a new Ted Cruz video that the Republican senator and candidate is cooking bacon on the barrel of a machine gun. Also debunked is Chris Christie's explanation of his asserted preference for Bon Jovi over Bruce... ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23430 "2015-08-04T12:57:28Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Bastogne does not need to be defended, … Nuts. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23431 "2015-08-04T13:20:33Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > As Rachel Maddow pointed out on last night’s show, that isn’t even a machine gun – it’s a semi-automatic: > > [Hey Ted Cruz, that's not a machine gun you're cooking with](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hey-ted-cruz--thats-not-a-machine-gun-497892419957) A journalist who knows the difference? And a liberal at that. _faints_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23432 "2015-08-04T13:30:01Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > [Ted Cruz shows the world what the GOP is all about by frying bacon on the barrel of a machine gun.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/ted-cruz-cooks-bacon-machine-gun) All that manliness just dripping off his barrel … Shoulda done it barechested too, Rafael. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23433 "2015-08-04T13:44:42Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > All that manliness just dripping off his barrel … Shoulda done it barechested too, Rafael. If it’s good enough for Putin… ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23434 "2015-08-04T13:52:43Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Who needs a Constitution when you have The Bible? > > We Good Godly Christians don’t need no steenkin Constitution! Then Ben Carson’s your candidate: [http://www.occupydemocrats.com/watch-ben-carson-crashes-and-burns-when-asked-a-simple-constitutional-question/](http://www.occupydemocrats.com/watch-ben-carson-crashes-and-burns-when-asked-a-simple-constitutional-question/) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23435 "2015-08-04T13:56:49Z")
He didn’t even wrap the bacon himself. I don’t trust a man who can’t wrap his own bacon. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23436 "2015-08-04T15:30:19Z")
Then you don’t want to know about the pulled pork. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23437 "2015-08-04T16:03:45Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > [Ted Cruz shows the world what the GOP is all about by frying bacon on the barrel of a machine gun.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/ted-cruz-cooks-bacon-machine-gun) > > I think they should just make all the Republican candidates duke it out in the Redneck Games. So what’s he trying to communicate here? That he’s A-OK with pork in military weapons contracts? For supposedly godly folk, the occupants of the clown car are doing an awful lot of pandering, although this is vastly less offensive than the defunding of Planned Parenthood by that lickspittle Jindal. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23438 "2015-08-04T16:18:54Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Then you don’t want to know about the pulled pork. Doesn’t pull his own pork either ? Happy marriage then, I take it ? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23439 "2015-08-04T16:39:44Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > [Ted Cruz shows the world what the GOP is all about by frying bacon on the barrel of a machine gun.](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/ted-cruz-cooks-bacon-machine-gun) > > I think they should just make all the Republican candidates duke it out in the Redneck Games. That just looks so nasty. And he’s smiling so broadly as he eats the greasy, raw, taste-like-can dirt bacon. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23440 "2015-08-04T16:49:43Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > For supposedly godly folk, the occupants of the clown car are doing an awful lot of pandering, although this is vastly less offensive than the defunding of Planned Parenthood by that lickspittle Jindal. Well, now that Donald Trump’s pushing the envelope when it comes to wooing the batshit crazy demographic, they’ve got to try and catch up _somehow_. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23441 "2015-08-04T16:50:33Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > That just looks so nasty. And he’s smiling so broadly as he eats the greasy, raw, taste-like-can dirt bacon. Presumably he wanted to avoid an [Ed Miliband moment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Miliband_bacon_sandwich_photograph). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1171) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1173)