# 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:** 1322
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26422 "2015-12-31T00:38:33Z")
[Kevin Swanson thinks Hillary will turn kids gay.](http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/12/kevin-swanson-hillary-clinton-will-turn-thousands-of-american-kids-into-homosexuals/) ---
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26423 "2015-12-31T00:47:58Z")
[New Hampshire male Republican legislators seem to be threatened by the possibility of seeing a woman’s breasts.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-hampshire-house-nipples-breastfeeding_568437bce4b0b958f65b19d6) ---
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26424 "2015-12-31T01:18:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [New Hampshire male Republican legislators seem to be threatened by the possibility of seeing a woman’s breasts.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-hampshire-house-nipples-breastfeeding_568437bce4b0b958f65b19d6) See? _See??_ [QUOTE=Josh Moore, R] If it’s a woman’s natural inclination to pull her nipple out in public and you support that than you should have no problem with a mans inclantion [sic] to stare at it and grab it. After all… It’s ALL relative and natural, right? [/QUOTE] (from the link) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26425 "2015-12-31T01:46:54Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [New Hampshire male Republican legislators seem to be threatened by the possibility of seeing a woman’s breasts.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-hampshire-house-nipples-breastfeeding_568437bce4b0b958f65b19d6) Wasn’t it John Ashcroft who made them cover up the statue of Justice when he was AG? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26426 "2015-12-31T01:52:36Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Wasn’t it John Ashcroft who made them cover up the statue of Justice when he was AG? Yeah, but mostly because photogs were lying on the floor to get an angle that would show a tit in the background of his press conferences. They did the same to Ed Meese, but Ashcroft is even more terrible… …than…Ed. Meese. Jeezus, I just gave myself a chill. But yeah, it wasn’t entirely out of prudery. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26427 "2015-12-31T02:00:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Kevin Swanson thinks Hillary will turn kids gay.](http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/12/kevin-swanson-hillary-clinton-will-turn-thousands-of-american-kids-into-homosexuals/) Point of order: I don’t think we have any evidence that Kevin Swanson, while inarguably a loon, is a Republican, nor that he represents the Republican Party in any way. And to demonstrate that, I expect Ted “Theodore” Cruz, Bobby Jindal, and Huckleberry will immediately express their disagreement with the loon’s bullshit, and state unequivocally that they do not agree with him, even though they have appeared on stage with him. I expect this disavowal any moment. Aaaaaaaaany moment. … ---
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26428 "2015-12-31T02:06:53Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Point of order: I don’t think we have any evidence that Kevin Swanson, while inarguably a loon, is a Republican, nor that he represents the Republican Party in any way. > > And to demonstrate that, I expect Ted “Theodore” Cruz, Bobby Jindal, and Huckleberry will immediately express their disagreement with the loon’s bullshit, and state unequivocally that they do not agree with him, even though they have appeared on stage with him. > > I expect this disavowal any moment. > > Aaaaaaaaany moment. > > … That’s a _lovely_ shade of blue you’re turning. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26429 "2015-12-31T02:15:19Z")
> [@andros](#): > > … Aaaaaaaaany moment. > > … Are you new to this? ---
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26430 "2015-12-31T03:05:04Z")
[Former GOP Senate staffer uses a 2nd Amendment solution to get his computer repaired.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/30/gop-staffer-holds-dell-technician-at-gunpoint-forces-him-to-work-on-computer/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26431 "2015-12-31T06:05:00Z")
> [@andros](#): > > …than…Ed. Meese… . Loathe the man. Him, his wife, his children, all of them That right, I hates Meeses to pieces! ---
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26432 "2015-12-31T08:56:43Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Since Texas Republican leaders announced they were kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicare (after they also swallowed the fake videos) it does not take a genius to expect that Republicans are once again behind this idiocy: > > [http://www.houstonpress.com/news/texas-strips-planned-parenthood-of-hiv-prevention-funding-without-warning-8017247](http://www.houstonpress.com/news/texas-strips-planned-parenthood-of-hiv-prevention-funding-without-warning-8017247) > > Ok, I have to say it, the Texas Republicans do not care if their policies will kill people. Um, surely if it kills the “wrong kind of people,” or goads them into leaving the state of Texas, that’s a plus in some eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26433 "2015-12-31T20:05:22Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Texas state rep. says go ahead and take all you want from your wife, since there ain’t no such thing as marital rape: > > [Texas GOP lawmaker: 'Rape is non-existent in marriage, take what you want'](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/texas-gop-lawmaker-rape-is-non-existent-in-marriage-take-what-you-want/) This guy has me all confused. Is he OK with just anyone raping his wife? Or just him? Because, you know, the thing about rape is, it’s fucking someone who doesn’t want to be fucked, or at least, is not in a position to say “no” (like Bill Cosby’s accusers). It always thought it kind of doesn’t matter who’s doing the raping, it’s rape if the other person isn’t into it. I have to assume that this guy thinks married women in general are OK with rape … because they’re used to it? Does this mean I can rape married women but not single women? Need answer fast! ---
**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:** [December 31, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26434 "2015-12-31T20:19:44Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > This guy has me all confused. Is he OK with just anyone raping his wife? Or just him? Because, you know, the thing about rape is, it’s fucking someone who doesn’t want to be fucked, or at least, is not in a position to say “no” (like Bill Cosby’s accusers). It always thought it kind of doesn’t matter who’s doing the raping, it’s rape if the other person isn’t into it. > > I have to assume that this guy thinks married women in general are OK with rape … because they’re used to it? Does this mean I can rape married women but not single women? > > Need answer fast! It comes down to the belief that God requires women to submit to their husband. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26435 "2015-12-31T20:45:20Z")
Via an [official statement today](https://www.texasobserver.org/jonathan-stickland-rape-post/): > [@Jonathan Stickland](#): > > “I do not feel that way today. I can only repent and ask for forgiveness from the people it offended and hurt. Rape is serious and should never be joked about the way that I did regardless of my age.” In 2008, when he said that–on an online discussion board!–he would have been 24 or 25, so I totally get trying to play the “Ah was young and dumb” card along with the tired “Jesus forgives me” shtick. And based on a quick scan of his record, as well as his FB and Twitter followers, it will very likely fly with his core constituency. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26436 "2015-12-31T20:57:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Former GOP Senate staffer uses a 2nd Amendment solution to get his computer repaired.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/30/gop-staffer-holds-dell-technician-at-gunpoint-forces-him-to-work-on-computer/) Lucky for him he wasn’t 12 years old and in Cleveland. Oh, and black. Yeah, All(White and Affluent)LivesMatter ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26437 "2015-12-31T21:26:12Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Classic: [the Paris bombers targeted the lead singer of Eagles of Death Metal because he is critical of Obama and supports Trump](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/right-wing-media-pushing-bizarre-claim-that-paris-terrorists-targeted-rocker-because-he-insulted-obama/). > > Obama must be a terrorist, I guess. **We need to take this guy** [QUOTE= From link] … which suggests the 43-year-old Hughes was targeted by Islamic militants for his outspoken Christian conservative views. [/QUOTE] **and this guy** > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Kevin Swanson, the “kill all the gays” buddy of Jindal, Cruz and Huckabee, says the people killed in the concert hall in Paris deserved it because they were devil worshippers.](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/23/pastor-who-hosted-republicans-paris-victims-were-devil-worshippers.html) **put them in a room together so they can hash out their differences.** (and more importantly so they will quit bothering us.) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26438 "2015-12-31T23:04:35Z")
As an aging [hesher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twZ6u8Tryzk), it is important for me to clear these things up: > [@elucidator](#): > > Well, shit, if the death metal bands have turned against Obama, we might as well just give it up, get on the Romney bandwagon while there’s still room. Eagles Of Death Metal are _not_ a death metal band. Nor do they sound like the Eagles, which is what prompted the band’s moniker: > [@](#): > > Despite their band name, Eagles of Death Metal are not a death metal band. In a video interview taken at a converse [music.co.uk](http://music.co.uk) sponsored event at the Soho Revue Bar in London, Hughes states that he and Homme were in a bar watching a man dance to the song “Wind of Change” by the Scorpions. When asked what he was doing, the man yelled, “This is death metal, dude!”, to which Homme replied, “No it’s not. This is like the Eagles of death metal.” > > An alternate story concerning the origin of the band name claims that the name originated during an exchange in which a friend of Josh Homme was attempting to convert Homme to the death metal genre. When the friend played a song by the Polish band Vader and made a claim that the song was within the death metal genre, Homme then referred to Vader as “the Eagles of death metal”. After hearing this phrase, Hughes wondered what a cross between the Eagles and a death metal band would sound like. ([Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_of_Death_Metal)) To those who need to see the difference, [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHY1xCl4Qak) is my favorite Eagles Of Death Metal song and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_duhhVa-dk8) is one of my favorite death metal songs. You will notice a pretty vast difference… 🙂 > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Dave Mustaine (whose political views are nearly as out there as this EDF guy’s) endorsed Romney last time around. I gather most bands are pretty firmly in the (D) camp though. I wish this was the case, however there are a lot of metalheads who are conservative with their politics. Overseas a lot of black metal bands have Nationalist Socialist viewpoints (also known as NSBM) which are definitely not liberal. Here in America there are large swathes of [this guy](http://metalluminati.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pantera-Fatty1.jpg). The [bassist from Malevolent Creation](http://www.metalinjection.net/shocking-revelations/malevolent-creation-bassist-goes-on-xenophobic-rant-against-muslim-president-obama) made silly anti-Obama quotes. A [former drummer of Overkill](http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-overkill-drummer-rat-skates-uses-hitler-and-holocaust-footage-in-bizarre-anti-dictator-video/) who directed a documentary of the early thrash metal scene compared Obama to Hitler. Korn’s Jonathan Davis said [Obama is an “Illuminati puppet.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdix36wExS0) James Hetfield [identifies as a Libertarian](http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2009/04/rightwinger-american-patriot-james.html). Metal fans in the midwest cranking up Pantera, Slayer, Metallica… They love their guns, probably fly a confederate flag and most likely harbor ill feelings towards people who may not look like they do. I wish there were more Democratic-minded metalheads as I am one. But we are at best a slight majority, all fans considered. It’s probably about 50/50. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26439 "2016-01-01T01:47:19Z")
New Hampshire State Rep. Josh Moore thinks that if wimmins insist on whippin’ out their titties in public to feed babies because it’s natural to do so, men should be able to stare at said nips and grab them too: > **['Family values' Republican: Men should be allowed to grab breastfeeding...](https://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/family-values-republican-men-should-be-allowed-to-grab-breastfeeding-womens-nipples-in-public/)** > > A self-described "pro-family" conservative said on Facebook he should be allowed to grab the nipples of breastfeeding mothers if a law banning women exposing breasts in public didn't pass. New Hampshire state Rep. Josh Moore (R) deleted the comment,... ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26440 "2016-01-01T02:26:57Z")
Well…we are allowed to stare at them. It’s rude as hell, but it’s legal. Grabbing is right out. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/26441 "2016-01-01T04:22:02Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > New Hampshire State Rep. Josh Moore thinks that if wimmins insist on whippin’ out their titties in public to feed babies because it’s natural to do so, men should be able to stare at said nips and grab them too: > > ['Family values' Republican: Men should be allowed to grab breastfeeding women's nipples in public - Raw Story](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/family-values-republican-men-should-be-allowed-to-grab-breastfeeding-womens-nipples-in-public/) One can only hope that the next time Josh goes to the restroom and whips out his Johnson at the urinal, somebody will grab it and squeeze it with the exclamation: “Hey, all I want to do is stare at it–it’s only natural!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1321) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1323)