# 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:** 1438
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28742 "2016-04-26T19:06:21Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > 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: Clearly a RINO. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28743 "2016-04-26T19:14:20Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > 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. I recently saw a car with the bumper sticker **God is my Pilot**. It’s one of the scariest bumper stickers I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t bother me if you consider God to be your co-pilot. But if He’s _DRIVING_, then I don’t want to be on the same street as you. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28744 "2016-04-26T19:21:34Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I recently saw a car with the bumper sticker **God is my Pilot**. It’s one of the scariest bumper stickers I’ve ever seen. > > It doesn’t bother me if you consider God to be your co-pilot. But if He’s _DRIVING_, then I don’t want to be on the same street as you. Now, now, maybe they meant the last plane they were on. 😃 ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28745 "2016-04-26T19:40:02Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > North Carolina Attorney General candidate: “[Keep out state straight](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/buck-newton-keep-north-carolina-straight-hb2)”. “Keep”? Senator, your state is North Carolina. It was always about as straight as a dandy with the vapors being served a coolin’ drink by a black boy with a sore ass. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28746 "2016-04-26T21:08:36Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ugh. Keep _ou **r** _ state straight. I CAN type (usually). Just type in dialect, where the word in that state would be spelled “ahwr”. ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28747 "2016-04-26T21:26:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I recently saw a car with the bumper sticker **God is my Pilot**. It’s one of the scariest bumper stickers I’ve ever seen. > > It doesn’t bother me if you consider God to be your co-pilot. But if He’s _DRIVING_, then I don’t want to be on the same street as you. Was he driving a Honda Pilot? Could be a simple case of automotive worship. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28748 "2016-04-27T01:09:25Z")
Ted Cruz doesn’t believe transgender people should be allowed to use any restroom except the ones [in the privacy of their own home](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/04/26/3772708/ted-cruz-transgender-bathrooms-at-home/): > [@](#): > > “Every one of us has the right to live our lives as we wish,” he said. “If any one of us wants to dress up as a woman or man and wants to live as woman or man and believes that we might be something other than what we were born, God has made each of us with free will and the ability to choose to do that if man to wants to dress as a woman, and live as a woman, and have a bathroom at home.” > > A reporter sought clarification on the remark: “So then they shouldn’t use the bathroom out in public?” > > Cruz then confirmed just that. “You don’t have a right to intrude upon the rights of others because whether or not a man believes he’s a woman, there are a lot of women who would like to be able to use a public restroom in peace without having a man there — and when there are children involved, you don’t have a right to impose your lifestyle on others.” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28749 "2016-04-27T01:17:23Z")
Piss on him. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28750 "2016-04-27T01:25:47Z")
> [@](#): > > you don’t have a right to impose your lifestyle on others. Irony, thy name is Cruz. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28751 "2016-04-27T01:41:02Z")
You know, I always hear about how punchable Ted Cruz’s face is, but nobody ever really talks about how kickable his nuts are. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28752 "2016-04-27T01:51:37Z")
And that’s the only alternative to Trump in that party. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28753 "2016-04-27T02:02:42Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You know, I always hear about how punchable Ted Cruz’s face is, but nobody ever really talks about how kickable his nuts are. “There are raisins in my chocolate.” “He didn’t have any nuts.” ---
**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:** [April 27, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28754 "2016-04-27T02:34:40Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Pat Boone is still alive? Sentient? :eek: The same way a slime mold is sentient. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28755 "2016-04-27T05:39:57Z")
…about your assertions re: SNL and Muslims skits? You got kinda invisible, there… ---
**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:** [April 27, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28756 "2016-04-27T06:44:02Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [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/) Well, doctors should not abort their medical licenses, and they should be allowed to wear clothing afterward, even if they do. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28757 "2016-04-27T12:48:07Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > …about your assertions re: SNL and Muslims skits? You got kinda invisible, there… If he made a post for everytime he was wrong it would double his post count. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28758 "2016-04-27T16:41:07Z")
Those skits all made fun of extremists, not mainstream versions of the faith. They did not make fun of Mohammed or Allah the way they’ve made fun of Christian beliefs. Please, don’t even try it. You know damn well that except for South Park and Bill Maher, no one is going to cross certain lines. And South Park got censored. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28759 "2016-04-27T16:58:24Z")
So, you’re saying that they make fun of Christian beliefs, but that making fun of Muslim beliefs isn’t enough? That they have to make fun of Allah or Mohammed? That’s not internally consistent. By definition, making fun of extremists IS making fun of a particular religion. It sounds to me like you’re saying that SNL has to make fun of the Muslim deity himself, and not just the beliefs. But that they can make fun of Christian beliefs without making fun of God himself. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk ---
**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:** [April 27, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28760 "2016-04-27T17:12:23Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Those skits all made fun of extremists, not mainstream versions of the faith. They did not make fun of Mohammed or Allah the way they’ve made fun of Christian beliefs. > > Please, don’t even try it. You know damn well that except for South Park and Bill Maher, no one is going to cross certain lines. And South Park got censored. It’s cute that you think people like the “God Is Not Dead” folks aren’t extremists. _pats **adaher** ’s head_ ---
**Author:** ![drew870mitchell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drew870mitchell/32/3946_2.png) [@drew870mitchell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drew870mitchell)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/28761 "2016-04-27T17:16:04Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Those skits all made fun of extremists, not mainstream versions of the faith. They did not make fun of Mohammed or Allah the way they’ve made fun of Christian beliefs. > > Please, don’t even try it. You know damn well that except for South Park and Bill Maher, no one is going to cross certain lines. And South Park got censored. You should consider whether comics are “punching up” or “punching down.” A skit that makes fun of the faith of 75% of the viewers is punching up - it’s fresh, challenging, unexpected, you know, funny. A skit that makes fun of a faith that 50% of the viewers mistrust is punching down. Even for the audience that all the jokes land with, what are you hoping for? You’re just going to get laughter based in recognition of the “haha they’re not like us!” tropes. That’s just “dog bites man” level stuff. It’s a waste of comic talent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1437) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1439)