# 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:** 1472
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29422 "2016-06-02T14:35:54Z")
The incident at the Cincinnati Zoo has Rush Limbaugh [puzzled about evolution.](http://www.salon.com/2016/06/01/rush_limbaugh_is_a_moron_evolution_is_false_because_cincinnati_zoo_gorilla_never_turned_into_a_human/) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29423 "2016-06-02T15:22:09Z")
> [@DrumBum](#): > > The incident at the Cincinnati Zoo has Rush Limbaugh [puzzled about evolution.](http://www.salon.com/2016/06/01/rush_limbaugh_is_a_moron_evolution_is_false_because_cincinnati_zoo_gorilla_never_turned_into_a_human/) :smack: For one thing: If man evolved from apes, why is Rush Limbaugh still an ape? :dubious: ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29424 "2016-06-02T15:28:09Z")
Maybe Rush doesn’t have any cousins. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29425 "2016-06-02T16:53:35Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > For one thing: If man evolved from apes, why is Rush Limbaugh still an ape? :dubious: You don’t need to evolve if you’re adapted for your lifestyle. One does not have to be smarter to spew shit on the radio to willing sycophants ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29426 "2016-06-02T17:02:21Z")
My theory of evolution is that the unfortunate gorilla’s father was Limbaugh. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29427 "2016-06-02T17:05:38Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Five more months to go … It’s going to feel like ten. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29428 "2016-06-02T17:25:46Z")
[Governor of Iowa issues a proclamation urging Iowans to hold a marathon oral Bible reading fest at each of the state’s county courthouses for four days while people are trying to go about their business.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/iowa-governor-attempting-to-impose-christianity-as-state-governments-religion-say-rights-groups/) ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29429 "2016-06-02T17:31:30Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > My theory of evolution is that the unfortunate gorilla’s father was Limbaugh. Maybe he knows [Trump’s Dad](http://static01.mediaite.com/med/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-09-at-9.11.10-AM-300x196.png)? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29430 "2016-06-02T17:57:41Z")
One nice thing about Obama’s days as Prez drawing to a close is that we’ll be able to use carefully selected pictures of simians along side those of political leaders without being called racists. (Well, maybe by the simians.) ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29431 "2016-06-02T18:28:30Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Five more months to go … Somehow I feel you are being overly optimistic. Even a best-case scenario will almost certainly not convince him to STFU. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29432 "2016-06-02T18:57:24Z")
I don’t think he will go away even if he loses. I expect that he will crank up the crazy for another four years, for he’s having a lot more fun and getting a lot more attention now than he did before with reality TV. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29433 "2016-06-02T20:58:25Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > A Congressman is in a hurry, while we still have a sane President, to pass a law to thwart just one of Trump’s idiocies which has come to light — and may want to pass several other emergency laws over the coming months, as we become aware of more of the potential horrors of a real Trump Presidency — _ **and yet supports Trump’s White House bid.** _ > > Surely this is a prime example of stupidity. Yellow dog Republicans. Yellow dog used to apply to Southern Democrats. Not anymore. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29434 "2016-06-02T21:03:26Z")
> [@DrumBum](#): > > The incident at the Cincinnati Zoo has Rush Limbaugh [puzzled about evolution.](http://www.salon.com/2016/06/01/rush_limbaugh_is_a_moron_evolution_is_false_because_cincinnati_zoo_gorilla_never_turned_into_a_human/) :smack: > [@](#): > > A lot of people think that all of us used to be gorillas, and they’re looking for the missing link out there, the evolution crowd. They think we were originally apes. If we were the original apes, then how come Harambe is still an ape, and how come he didn’t become one of us? Oh boy. Face palm. > [@](#): > > “What a piece of work is a man! > How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties! > In form and moving how express and admirable! > In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! > The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals” - William Shakespeare; Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 I wonder if he’d write that today after viewing the happenings of the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29435 "2016-06-02T21:11:07Z")
Our hygiene would probably surprise him more than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29436 "2016-06-02T21:17:33Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Yellow dog Republicans. > > Yellow dog used to apply to Southern Democrats. Not anymore. Orange dog, surely. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29437 "2016-06-02T21:31:50Z")
[Greta Van Susteren wants to know what is wrong with the cumbersome NASA bureaucracy that it takes ten months to send photos back from Pluto.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/06/02/fox-news-host-makes-herself-a-total-laughingstock-in-attempted-dig-at-nasa-tweets/) ---
**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:** [June 2, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29438 "2016-06-02T21:37:43Z")
Damn it, Jim, she’s a scientologist, not a scientist! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29439 "2016-06-02T21:47:09Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Damn it, Jim, she’s a scientologist, not a scientist! Well then, dangnabbit, next time we’ll send her along! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29440 "2016-06-02T21:51:27Z")
“I can see Xenu from here!” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/29441 "2016-06-02T21:53:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Greta Van Susteren wants to know what is wrong with the cumbersome NASA bureaucracy that it takes ten months to send photos back from Pluto.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/06/02/fox-news-host-makes-herself-a-total-laughingstock-in-attempted-dig-at-nasa-tweets/) I was 100% certain the link would go to a parody site. The fact that it didn’t makes me sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1471) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1473)