# 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:** 1437
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28722 "2016-04-26T08:31:21Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Pat Boone wants the FCC to punish Saturday Night Live’s Satanic Blasphemy.](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-boone-government-should-outlaw-blasphemy-and-punish-saturday-night-live-if-it-blasphemes) Pat Boone is still alive? Sentient? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28723 "2016-04-26T09:44:55Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Yeah, but he did bring up a good point that SNL treats Allah and Mohammed as sacred, and if they did actually blaspheme, the government would get involved. > > If the government is favoring one religion over another, that’s a seperation of church and state violation. If you’re going to threaten people who make anti-Mohammed videos or threaten to burn Korans, then you have to do the same to people who make anti-Jesus articles and threaten to burn Bibles. Bullshit that the government would get involved. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28724 "2016-04-26T09:52:34Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > He epitomizes the stereotypical “tough” Democrat. You know, that mythical creature who wants diplomacy but plans for war, who will tell you to stop being a pussy and man up if you’re offended, who has no problems with gays, but wants them to voluntarily stay in the closet, the kind of Democrat that has no problem calling union members thugs and says police sometimes has to shoot people and to get over it. You know, a Republican. I thought you were describing Hillary Clinton (apart from the last bit - I thought the Clintons were pro-union. Ish.) ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28725 "2016-04-26T10:12:34Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Bullshit that the government would get involved. The government got involved in the youtube video. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28726 "2016-04-26T10:23:24Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The government got involved in the youtube video. For blasphemy? I’ll take the position that anything other than blasphemy means you are wrong. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28727 "2016-04-26T11:01:57Z")
There are no laws against blasphemy, but let’s be real. The government only decided to arrest him after the video created a stir. Dealing with SNL producers and cast would be easy. How many drug law violations do you think are committed in that building on a weekly basis? The government could get a warrant to search the place in a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28728 "2016-04-26T12:15:13Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > There are no laws against blasphemy, but let’s be real. The government only decided to arrest him after the video created a stir. Dealing with SNL producers and cast would be easy. How many drug law violations do you think are committed in that building on a weekly basis? The government could get a warrant to search the place in a heartbeat. Conspiracy mongering bullshit. Tons and tons of people say bigoted things against Muslims publicly every day and aren’t arrested. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28729 "2016-04-26T12:58:55Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > …if they did actually blaspheme, the government would get involved. Do you ever pause before hitting the “Submit Reply” button, and think “Is what I just typed a fact?” Apologies if you’re way ahead of us and do actually fact-check your posts. In which case you’re diabolically clever, and are probably thinking “Aha, now I’ve got them! I’ll dig deep into my fantasies and present my own spin as a fact. And those ignorant “Fighting Ignorance” posters will never know the difference. Bwaaah-ha-ha!” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28730 "2016-04-26T13:07:06Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Yeah, but he did bring up a good point that SNL treats Allah and Mohammed as sacred … And that’s more bullshit. SNL makes fun of things that are forefront in American culture. Christianity and the incredibly stupid movie that skit parodies are most certainly in Americans’ faces every day. Besides, you think SNL never made fun of terrorists? This is just one more in a series of bitches and moans from Christians that people exercising their freedom of speech aren’t exercising them the way they would prefer. And I just say a jolly,“tough shit,” to that. You want more parodies of Muslims on SNL? Then get a job on the show as a writer. Or embrace the free market and produce your own stupid show. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28731 "2016-04-26T15:26:21Z")
[Oklahoma bill would strip doctors who perform abortions of their medical licenses.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/23/this-is-our-proper-function-oklahoma-advances-measure-to-revoke-licenses-of-doctors-that-perform-abortions/) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28732 "2016-04-26T15:45:03Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > . . . Besides, you think SNL never made fun of terrorists? > > . . . > > You want more parodies of Muslims on SNL? Then get a job on the show as a writer. Or embrace the free market and produce your own stupid show. DiNero doing a SNL Muslim related bit: Just for good measure, Colbert using some of the same material a few years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYUEW3\_WvH0 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28733 "2016-04-26T16:18:20Z")
[Republican Congressional candidate in Florida accuses Obama of creating a racial divide by giving blacks “free stuff.”](http://www.salon.com/2016/04/26/yes_a_florida_republican_actually_said_this_congressional_candidate_mark_freeman_accuses_obama_of_creating_racial_divide_by_giving_blacks_free_stuff/) ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28734 "2016-04-26T18:06:02Z")
Here’s a bit of a switch: Not-quite-so-stupid conservative Republican, former Reagan and GHWBush official, rants against “pandering to morons and bigots and racists and all the sort of stuff that defines today’s Republican coalition”. [“Complete and total destruction of the Republican Party”: Former Reagan official Bruce Bartlett on why he backs Trump](http://www.salon.com/2016/04/25/complete_and_total_destruction_of_the_republican_party_former_reagan_official_bruce_bartlett_on_why_he_backs_trump/). Excerpt: > [@Salon interview with Bruce Bartlett](#): > > [Interviewer:] I wanted to talk about 2016 and Trump and the future of the GOP. You are a former Reagan official, you worked for George H.W. Bush, and you voted for Donald Trump in the Virginia primary. And I was hoping if you could just explain why. > > [Bartlett:] I think the Republican Party is sick. It’s dying, it just doesn’t know it. And I think anything that speeds up its demise is to the good, because then it can reinvent itself and return as something healthy. Or you could use an addiction metaphor, where people have to hit bottom so that they can reach out and ask for help before they can cure themselves. I think that Trump is a symptom of a disease of rampant stupidity, pandering to morons and bigots and racists and all the sort of stuff that defines today’s Republican coalition. And I just think it’s awful. It’s terrible for the country in a great many ways that I don’t need to tell you. And I think that we need to have a healthy two-party system. We need to have a sane, functioning conservative party and a sane, functioning liberal party. And I think that half of that equation, at least, is not working, and it affects the other half. > > So I think it’s just bad for the country. So I think that giving Trump the nomination is the surest path to complete and total destruction of the Republican Party as we know it. And I look forward to him getting the nomination for that reason. I think he will have a historic loss. I think he may well bring in a Democratic Senate. But more importantly, my hope is, at least, that he will lead to a really serious assessment of the problems of the Republican Party, and lead to some opening of thought, opening of discussion, conversation among groups that have been sidelined for quite a long time. Mainly moderates and people of that sort who have been just pushed to the sidelines in favor of ever more rabid, nonsensical, right-wing authoritarianism. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28735 "2016-04-26T18:27:24Z")
I think he’s shit outa luck. The Republicans learn no lessons except that when they fail, it is because they didn’t try hard enough, they weren’t ruthless enough, they didn’t go far enough to the right. And they will claim this same lesson when they fail again this year. They didn’t have a “True [del]Scotsman[/del] CONSERVATIVE” running, their party failed them, all the RINOs and phony conservatives failed them, et al. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28736 "2016-04-26T18:32:16Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I think he’s shit outa luck. > > The Republicans learn no lessons except that when they fail, it is because they didn’t try hard enough, they weren’t ruthless enough, they didn’t go far enough to the right. > > And they will claim this same lesson when they fail again this year. They didn’t have a “True [del]Scotsman[/del] CONSERVATIVE” running, their party failed them, all the RINOs and phony conservatives failed them, et al. Some will no doubt say this. But I’m telling you, freepers are at most evenly split Trump/Cruz. I think they might even be leaning Trump. And most of that is BECAUSE it hurts the GOPe (their term for the establishment). They feel betrayed by the GOP. So it will be a “their party failed them” not a “No true conservative” for those folks. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28737 "2016-04-26T18:42:43Z")
Examples of SNL Muslim skits: So tell me again how SNL doesn't make fun of Muslims. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28738 "2016-04-26T18:55:01Z")
North Carolina Attorney General candidate: “[Keep out state straight](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/buck-newton-keep-north-carolina-straight-hb2)”. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28739 "2016-04-26T18:55:15Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Some will no doubt say this. But I’m telling you, freepers are at most evenly split Trump/Cruz. I think they might even be leaning Trump. And most of that is BECAUSE it hurts the GOPe (their term for the establishment). They feel betrayed by the GOP. So it will be a “their party failed them” not a “No true conservative” for those folks. Well, good luck to them. I honestly believe the best path for this country _IS_ for the Republican party to split. Then the moderates can return to the party and make it more centrist, and the loons, CINOs (Christians In Name Only) and other rabid types can create a new party. On a local scale, that might make the Republicans more competitive in areas that are currently solid Democrat, and there would be a choice in areas where the Republicans currently dominate. Locally, I expect it would remain a two party system, but which two of the three would vary. Then on a national scale (ie, Congress), the moonbats are going to meet FAIL head on trying to get their agenda pushed without help and the more moderate Republican Party can actually participate in governing the nation instead of being held hostage to the crazy. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28740 "2016-04-26T19:01:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > North Carolina Attorney General candidate: “[Keep out state straight](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/buck-newton-keep-north-carolina-straight-hb2)”. Ugh. Keep _ou **r** _ state straight. I CAN type (usually). ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28741 "2016-04-26T19:04:51Z")
Fox News talking blonde has a great idea: [Don’t bother voting, just pray, and God will choose the correct candidate.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/fox-friends-host-suggests-voting-by-prayer-god-will-pick-the-right-candidate/) I think this is a great idea. If you believe that God will pick the correct candidate, don’t vote, let those of us who don’t believe that way, vote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1436) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1438)