# 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:** 1285
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25682 "2015-11-20T20:55:53Z")
Jerome Corsi of World News Daily (those who still insist Obama was born in Kenya) had a breathless headline a few years back that Obama wears a wedding ring with the Muslim holy words on it because he’s really gay married to his Pakistani college roommate. When closeups of the ring showed that it had no such thing on it, he’s now saying, “[Well, the White House changed it after I exposed him](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jerome-corsi-obama-altered-his-muslim-wedding-ring).” ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25683 "2015-11-20T20:59:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Jerome Corsi of World News Daily (those who still insist Obama was born in Kenya) had a breathless headline a few years back that Obama wears a wedding ring with the Muslim holy words on it because he’s really gay married to his Pakistani college roommate. Because, you know, Muslims have _totally_ been onboard with gay marriage since Day One. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25684 "2015-11-20T22:10:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I thought his Christan faith didn’t allow lying. Nah. Its not lying. Southern Baptists are all about the post-modernist irony. That said, it seemed to me upon reading that his “gun and Koran” remark was something akin to humor, except joyless and hollow. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25685 "2015-11-20T23:02:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Mike Fuckabee: “[Obama is going to make us give up our guns and memorize a Koran verse](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/mike-huckabee-says-obama-will-make-us-memorize-the-koran-after-mali-terrorist-attack/).” Is it gonna be the same one verse for everybody ? 'Cause [some Muslims](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_%28Quran%29) can recite the whole thing cover to cover. Can y’all really allow a surah gap ?! ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25686 "2015-11-20T23:16:48Z")
[Ohio Republicans suggest that once they shut down Planned Parenthood, women can get their gyno exams at dental offices and food banks.](http://wonkette.com/596246/ohio-republicans-suggest-getting-your-lady-parts-checked-at-food-banks) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25687 "2015-11-20T23:48:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ohio Republicans suggest that once they shut down Planned Parenthood, women can get their gyno exams at dental offices and food banks.](http://wonkette.com/596246/ohio-republicans-suggest-getting-your-lady-parts-checked-at-food-banks) I guess they do believe in the vagina dentata. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25688 "2015-11-21T00:20:23Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Judeo-Christian human rights include slavery, women-as-chattel, disdain for homosexuals, and xenophobia. > > To the extent our societies have gotten human rights, it’s largely by throwing Judeo-Christian ethics in the garbage. Plus one. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25689 "2015-11-21T00:23:16Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ben Stein: [Obama hates America because he’s black](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-stein-obama-has-a-strong-hatred-of-america-because-hes-part-black/) > > They’ve finally stopped pretending. Looks like a Battle of the Bens for who’s the biggest idiot savant. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25690 "2015-11-21T00:25:43Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > The ideas of humanism, democracies and freedom came from the philosophers of the Enlightenment, who themselves drew from the Antiquity. They didn’t come by way of the Church, they were conquered \*against \*the Church. Wait, you mean Pericles wasn’t a Christian? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25691 "2015-11-21T00:36:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Ohio Republicans suggest that once they shut down Planned Parenthood, women can get their gyno exams at dental offices and food banks.](http://wonkette.com/596246/ohio-republicans-suggest-getting-your-lady-parts-checked-at-food-banks) As an Ohio resident, I clicked on your link. It appears to use The Guardian (a U.K. newspaper) as a source, but Wonkette has no links to the source (simply a [The Guardian] at the end of the article), or to supporting evidence. It states that the Ohio Senate passed a bill (last year), and the Ohio House passed a bill (this year), and that Ohio Governor Kasich is expected to sign “a version” of the bill(s). I’ll agree that expecting women to get gyno exams at dentists and food banks is pretty ridiculous, but I await evidence that that is what Ohio Senate Republicans have suggested. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25692 "2015-11-21T00:45:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Southern Baptists are all about the post-modernist irony. Aren’t the Southern Baptists the ones who broke away from the Baptist church because it wasn’t racist enough for them? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25693 "2015-11-21T02:30:09Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I’ll agree that expecting women to get gyno exams at dentists and food banks is pretty ridiculous, but I await evidence that that is what Ohio Senate Republicans have suggested. If anyone wants to take on that request: [Ohio legislature search page](https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/search-legislation?3) and [links to status reports here](https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/status-reports) Ohio legislature page looks really nice, well organized and okay to navigate. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25694 "2015-11-21T02:36:55Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > As an Ohio resident, I clicked on your link. It appears to use The Guardian (a U.K. newspaper) as a source, but Wonkette has no links to the source **(simply a [The Guardian]** at the end of the article), or to supporting evidence. It states that the Ohio Senate passed a bill (last year), and the Ohio House passed a bill (this year), and that Ohio Governor Kasich is expected to sign “a version” of the bill(s). > > I’ll agree that expecting women to get gyno exams at dentists and food banks is pretty ridiculous, but I await evidence that that is what Ohio Senate Republicans have suggested. Actually, that is a link. No bill number but there is this. > [@](#): > > In defense of the cuts, senators disseminated a list of alternative providers that include dentist offices, school nurses and a food bank as options for Ohio women. No link to the list, text of the bill or any other information useful to verifying the story. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25695 "2015-11-21T12:26:59Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Looks like a Battle of the Bens for who’s the biggest idiot savant. Stein and Carson are both creationists, so they start tied. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25696 "2015-11-21T14:26:41Z")
Perhaps this is the wrong thread but contrast [the views of GWB, the worst President ever](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/11/george_w_bush_needs_to_speak_to_republicans_the_former_president_should.html) … [Quote=George Walker Bush] These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war. [/QUOTE] … with views of GOP front-runners like Trump (Muslim-Americans should be required to carry special identification cards that note their faith) or Cruz (only Christian refugees should be admitted to the U.S.) It’s as though the GOP has taken an upside-down lesson from the GWB years: _It’s not that GWB was stupid; **it’s that he wasn’t stupid enough**._ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25697 "2015-11-21T15:31:26Z")
Fun Fact: In order to make that speech convincing, they told Bush it was [Opposite Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite_Day). ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25698 "2015-11-21T16:51:50Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Wait, you mean Pericles wasn’t a Christian? Well he was accused of embezzling money donated to the temple of Athena and his wife was accused of going around Athens seducing young girls for him to roger later; so I figure he might have been Catholic :D. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25699 "2015-11-21T16:57:25Z")
[John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can’t crack](http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-calls-anti-encryption-legislation-paris-attacks-isis-back-doors-2015-11?r=UK&IR=T) Because the government can be trusted to respect the limits of the Fourth Amendment. Because purposely weakening encryption technology such that a third party can break it won’t result in non-governmental exploits. Because … because I have a bag of stupidity marshmallows and the only way to toast them is over something so stupid it burns. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25700 "2015-11-21T17:57:49Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Well he was accused of embezzling money donated to the temple of Athena and his wife was accused of going around Athens seducing young girls for him to roger later; so I figure he might have been Catholic :D. Well, if the Virgin Mary is an aspect of the Ever-Virginal Athena, you might have something. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/25701 "2015-11-21T17:58:48Z")
Alabama Congressman expands the “poor people just want the government to give them free stuff” meme; [Syrian refugees just want a paid vacation.](http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/21/3724723/mo-brooks-syrian-refugees-vacation/) > [@](#): > > “We’re paying them about $15,000 a year in free health care, free food, free shelter, free clothing, free transportation,” Brooks said. “That answers very quickly why so many of them want to come to the United States of America.” $15,000 a year? What _luxury_! I’d never work a day in my life again with that kind of money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1284) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1286)