# 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:** 1219
**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:** [September 19, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24362 "2015-09-19T23:42:03Z")
[Ben Carson’s campaign has sent a takedown notice to CafePress demanding that all pro-Carson for President materials be taken down for violating Carson’s copyright.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/18/ben-carson-threatens-his-own-fans-for-making-carson-for-president-shirts-he-doesnt-profit-from/) ---
**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:** [September 19, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24363 "2015-09-19T23:51:16Z")
Ted Nugent reveals he is a gay vegetarian. [And he may also be a pirate](http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1854043/barack-obama-muslim-christian-ted-nugent-gay-vegetarian-pirate/). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24364 "2015-09-20T00:25:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Ted Nugent reveals he is a gay vegetarian. [And he may also be a pirate](http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1854043/barack-obama-muslim-christian-ted-nugent-gay-vegetarian-pirate/). Aarrrgghhh! Heave to and strike sail, ye scurvy seadogs! Yer cucumbers or yer lives! ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24365 "2015-09-20T00:42:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ben Carson’s campaign has sent a takedown notice to CafePress demanding that all pro-Carson for President materials be taken down for violating Carson’s copyright.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/18/ben-carson-threatens-his-own-fans-for-making-carson-for-president-shirts-he-doesnt-profit-from/) Hilarious line. > [@](#): > > Rick Santorum’s campaign notwithstanding, public figures should not expect to be absolutely ignored by the people – that comes with the territory of being a public figure. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24366 "2015-09-20T03:00:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Ted Nugent reveals he is a gay vegetarian. [And he may also be a pirate](http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1854043/barack-obama-muslim-christian-ted-nugent-gay-vegetarian-pirate/). He’s not a pirate. Pirates don’t shit their pants to avoid the draft. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24367 "2015-09-20T03:06:53Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > 'Sides, everything you need to know is right there in the Bible\*. > > \*My Bible, that is — the only real true Word of God, in English like the Prophets and Apostles used — not those traps of Satan that _pretend_ to be Bibles. It’s the same old story Everywhere I go, I get slandered, Libeled, I hear words I never heard In the Bible. And I’m one step ahead of the shoe shine, Two steps away from the county line, Just trying to keep my customers satisfied, Satisfied. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24368 "2015-09-20T03:08:59Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > He’s not a pirate. Pirates don’t shit their pants to avoid the draft. Of course they do. What else is the point of deserting the Royal Navy for a pirate ship?! Pirates get to elect their captains . . . and to sit in judgment on the captains and officers of all the RN and merchant ships they capture. Many such crews did, and sometimes ordered such captains and officers, if strict and cruel and Captain-Bligh-like, to be hanged – to which I can conceive of no serious moral objection. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24369 "2015-09-20T03:14:42Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > He’s not a pirate. Pirates don’t shit their pants to avoid the draft. Ted often fondly refers to his pants as the _poop deck_. As for his avoidance of Vietnam: give credit where credit is due–his pants served with di-stink-tion ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24370 "2015-09-20T04:22:04Z")
His name wasn’t originally Ted Nugent, it was originally Turd Nugget. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24371 "2015-09-20T05:39:56Z")
Has some issues with this parents, I take it. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24372 "2015-09-20T15:14:35Z")
[Ben Carson: Muslim shouldn’t be elected president](http://news.yahoo.com/gop-candidate-carson-muslims-shouldnt-elected-president-130119296--election.html) > [@](#): > > Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Islam is antithetical to the Constitution, and he doesn’t believe that a Muslim should be elected president. > > He did not specify in what way Islam ran counter to constitutional principles. And of course no Christian would try to force their beliefs on the nation. _eye roll_ ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24373 "2015-09-20T16:04:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Has some issues with this parents, I take it. In her defense, Ma Nugent was cool and had a column in the same Chicago Reader that gave Cecil his start. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24374 "2015-09-20T16:08:45Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Has some issues with this parents, I take it. Per Wikipedia > [@](#): > > Nugent’s father was an Army staff sergeant, and he was raised in a very strict household I’ve got visions of the Army’s equivalent Great Santini running the show. IMHO, that does explain Ted’s internal makeup and his resulting life choices. But that’s no excuse for being a bitter, hate-filled, pit-of-darkness human being who gives evil a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24375 "2015-09-20T16:18:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Ben Carson: Muslim shouldn’t be elected president](http://news.yahoo.com/gop-candidate-carson-muslims-shouldnt-elected-president-130119296--election.html) > > And of course no Christian would try to force their beliefs on the nation. _eye roll_ So I gather he’d like the president to hold some kind of Christian qualification… sort of a guarantee that he or she is not a “secret Muslim”. A test of their religion to make sure they’re qualified to hold public office, if you will. Probably no rule against that, right? ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24376 "2015-09-20T16:26:21Z")
Maybe we can settle the Transubstantiation vs Consubstantiation question once and for all. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24377 "2015-09-20T17:08:17Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Maybe we can settle the Transubstantiation vs Consubstantiation question once and for all. And after that we can finally count those frickin’ angels… ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24378 "2015-09-20T18:56:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Has some issues with this parents, I take it. His dad heard “A Boy Named Sue” and wanted to up the ante. ---
**Author:** ![canned\_mayhem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@canned\_mayhem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/canned_mayhem)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24379 "2015-09-20T19:18:56Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > No, the Republiopaths hate education because they want there to be people that will vote for them. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Skw-0jv9kts/maxresdefault.jpg "Obama Supporters Actually Hate Obama's Policies") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skw-0jv9kts) Oh the irony lmao… ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24380 "2015-09-20T19:43:50Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > [http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Skw-0jv9kts](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Skw-0jv9kts) > > Oh the irony lmao… There are ignorant voters on both sides. It’s very easy to interview a large number and edit the video to show only the intended viewpoint. Meanwhile, [rejecting Common Core is a focus of the GOP](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/20/inside-gop-question-is-where-do-stand-on-common-core/) as a whole. > [@](#): > > Common Core has emerged as the newest Republican litmus test for gauging candidates’ conservative bona fides, and experts say the controversial national education standard will help shape elections from school boards to the White House for the foreseeable future. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/24381 "2015-09-20T20:49:10Z")
Jeb! supports Common Core, and was just booed at a gathering where he renewed his support. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1218) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1220)