# 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:** 1185
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23682 "2015-08-17T19:45:52Z")
We’ve seen birthers saying Rubio, Cruz and Jindal don’t meet the qualifications for President because their parents were not born in the US, [now we’ve got WND taking on Santorum for the same reason](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/rubio-jindal-cruz-santorum-birthers). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23683 "2015-08-18T05:45:43Z")
Interesting style. He expresses skepticism for some of the totally batshit stuff, like Santorum not qualifying as a citizen. Then relies on that demonstration of sensible analysis to make the merely crazy stuff seem plausible. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23684 "2015-08-18T06:26:07Z")
I like the photo at the bottom of the interview of the TPM reporter who interviewed him. That smirk and sort of rolled eyes. Very apropos. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23685 "2015-08-18T07:46:04Z")
Also like how he weaseled in the question of “loyalty”, as if that were an established criteria so widely accepted everyone just sort of nods their heads, yep, that’s what it means, all right. And furthermore > [@](#): > > …They were, certainly his father and to a lesser degree his mother, hostile to the United States. If the case came down to allegiance, there would be some question… Of course, a reasonable man must accept that > [@](#): > > …if Obama were in fact born in Hawaii, and I still think that’s questionable, I think he would prevail in court as a natural born citizen… Real good chance of that, since that’s exactly what it says. And then: > [@](#): > > …I think if he were born, say, in Canada, he would not prevail… He goes too far. Marxist, socialist, atheist, bad enough. But Canada? Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23686 "2015-08-18T10:52:41Z")
Carly Fiorina slammed by conservatives because she said nice things about Muslims [fourteen years ago](http://nbcnews.to/1UPpzPE): > [@](#): > > On September 26, 2001, Fiorina addressed her employees, expressing her concern over the safety of their HP colleagues, “who are of Middle Eastern descent or who practice the Muslim religion here in the US and abroad.” > > In the two weeks before her speech, approximately 11 hate crimes had been perpetrated against Muslim, South Asian, and Arab Americans, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. One day after Fiorina’s speech, someone left a note reading “We’re going to kill all (expletive) Arabs” on a Yemeni-American man’s car windshield in Reedley, California. Two days later, he was shot to death. > > In her speech, Fiorina lauded the contributions of ancient Islamic civilization to modern American society, saying that the “gifts [of Muslim civilizations] are very much a part of our heritage.” ---
**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 18, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23687 "2015-08-18T11:20:37Z")
Carly Fiorina slammed by conservatives because she said nice things about Muslims [fourteen years ago](http://nbcnews.to/1UPpzPE): Fixed link. ETA: Entertaining as this all is, I’d really prefer that they hold off eating their own until much closerr to the 2016 convention. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23688 "2015-08-18T17:02:04Z")
[2010’s Style Death Rays!](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/kkk-member-plotted-to-harm-obama-with-x-ray-weapon-of-mass-destruction-prosecutor/) > [@](#): > > A Ku Klux Klan member conspired to use a remote-controlled X-ray device hidden in a truck, which he called “Hiroshima on a light switch,” as a weapon of mass destruction to harm Muslims and President Barack Obama, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday. > > But a lawyer for Glendon Scott Crawford at the start of his trial said that government undercover agents dragged him further into the plot to build what media dubbed the “death ray” machine after he tried to pull away in the initial stages, when he had no more than “a piece of paper” sketching out his ideas. > > In opening arguments at U.S. District Court in Albany, a lawyer for Crawford, 51, of Galway, New York, said the device would have never been built if not for the government supplying the necessary components via “criminal” sources. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23689 "2015-08-18T19:22:26Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Carly Fiorina slammed by conservatives because she said nice things about Muslims [fourteen years ago](http://nbcnews.to/1UPpzPE): > > Fixed link. > > ETA: Entertaining as this all is, I’d really prefer that they hold off eating their own until much closerr to the 2016 convention. The last line of the article explains why: [QUOTE=] An NBC News Poll this month found that 22% of Republican-leaning voters who followed the debates said Fiorina performed the best among all the candidates. The next highest performer, according to the poll, was Donald Trump, with 18% of viewers saying that he did the “best job in the debate.” [/QUOTE] You ignore them until they’re actually a threat, then you attack them. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23690 "2015-08-18T20:34:47Z")
[Gov, Greg Abbott found himself on the attacked side of religious intolerance.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/jesus-fight-furious-fundies-flood-texas-governors-facebook-page-over-virgin-mary-idolatry/) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23691 "2015-08-18T22:03:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Gov, Greg Abbott found himself on the attacked side of religious intolerance.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/jesus-fight-furious-fundies-flood-texas-governors-facebook-page-over-virgin-mary-idolatry/) “Comments ran to over 900 as people of various faiths battled over whose religion was the most righteous, argued over Scripture, and even questioned the accuracy of the Bible and whether Jesus wrote it.” Sounds like in Texas, Biblical scholarship is on a par with secular scholarship. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23692 "2015-08-18T22:32:58Z")
The Missouri state legislature apparently has a problem with their members sexually harrassing interns. The solution is obvious: [Issue a dress code for the interns so they won’t be so irresistible.](http://wonkette.com/593047/missouri-republicans-demand-interns-stop-being-too-sexy-to-resist) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23693 "2015-08-18T23:12:21Z")
Works for the Mooslims. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23694 "2015-08-18T23:40:04Z")
They’ll have the religious police canning the lascivious interns. Oh wait, the representatives are doing the canning already. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23695 "2015-08-18T23:44:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Missouri state legislature apparently has a problem with their members sexually harrassing interns. The solution is obvious: [Issue a dress code for the interns so they won’t be so irresistible.](http://wonkette.com/593047/missouri-republicans-demand-interns-stop-being-too-sexy-to-resist) That deserves an entire topic all by itself. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23696 "2015-08-18T23:59:08Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Missouri state legislature apparently has a problem with their members sexually harrassing interns. The solution is obvious: [Issue a dress code for the interns so they won’t be so irresistible.](http://wonkette.com/593047/missouri-republicans-demand-interns-stop-being-too-sexy-to-resist) To be fair, they’re correcting a mistake in a 1997 Missouri law that inadvertently required interns to wear French maid uniforms. And that was just the guys. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23697 "2015-08-19T00:12:25Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Missouri state legislature apparently has a problem with their members sexually harrassing interns. The solution is obvious: [Issue a dress code for the interns so they won’t be so irresistible.](http://wonkette.com/593047/missouri-republicans-demand-interns-stop-being-too-sexy-to-resist) Anybody want to bet that these interns work for free, and will have to pay for the clothes themselves? ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23698 "2015-08-19T00:42:55Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > To be fair, they’re correcting a mistake in a 1997 Missouri law that inadvertently required interns to wear French maid uniforms. And that was just the guys. Got to love the prose there. > [@](#): > > Speaker John Diehl, gets a shame boner in his knickers because one of those nubile co-ed intern girls just came into the room, and before you know it, he’s sending her text messages what say “God I want you right now” and wanna “leave you quivering” (probably in the vagina), punctuated with ALL THE EMOJIS, because that’s how you talk to Kids These Days. And then he has to resign, for being A Gross. > **[Missouri Republicans Demand Interns Stop Being Too Sexy To Resist](https://www.wonkette.com/p/missouri-republicans-demand-interns-stop-being-too-sexy-to-resist)** > > A typical Missouri intern, we guess. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23699 "2015-08-19T02:46:18Z")
Would “natural born” preclude anyone delivered by Cesarean section? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23700 "2015-08-19T03:28:21Z")
No… But it does permit you to kill Macbeth. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/23701 "2015-08-19T03:29:14Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Would “natural born” preclude anyone delivered by Cesarean section? Ask Macbeth. [Republican consultant asks Ann Coulter how much Donald Trump pays her for anal sex.](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/republican-consultant-asks-ann-coulter-if-trump-pays-more-for-backdoor-sex/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1184) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1186)