# 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:** 151
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3001 "2011-05-20T00:20:51Z")
> [@Spavined\_Gelding](#): > > Santorum will be here next week. Too predictable. The same old frothing at the mouth and raising a stink. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3002 "2011-05-20T00:27:14Z")
The mouth isn’t where the froth occurs, I’m given to understand. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3003 "2011-05-20T07:09:11Z")
3000 responses! The stupid is powerful in this political party! ---
**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:** [May 20, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3004 "2011-05-20T09:18:31Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Too predictable. The same old frothing at the mouth and raising a stink. If you ever watch Santorum speak you’ll see what comes out of an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3005 "2011-05-20T15:41:58Z")
> [@Spavined\_Gelding](#): > > …Our GOP however has pulled a real boner --hired The Donald to be the keynote speaker at the annual fundraiser without arraigning a backup in the event their guy pulled a Pailin. He did. Their stuck. Annual Lincoln Day (in June?) canceled. … The same thing happened in South Carolina. Tea Party rally where Trikki Nikki was to speak. Trump scheduled to attend. He bailed. Rally fizzled. It is to laugh. [Cite](http://www.thestate.com/2011/05/20/1825938/tough-week-for-tea-party-ends.html). So TN is creating a Governor’s Tea Party Coalition to be run _out of her office_. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3006 "2011-05-20T20:58:34Z")
This is just a mild amusement, especially for the comic nerds, but I thought it worth sharing nonetheless: [http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/05/politicians-mother-makes-him-apologize-for-calling-neil-gaiman-pencil-necked-geek/](http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/05/politicians-mother-makes-him-apologize-for-calling-neil-gaiman-pencil-necked-geek/) Minn. politician calls Neil Gaiman names after the state paid him to speak; Politician’s mother chastises him. Life goes on. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3007 "2011-05-20T21:20:18Z")
> [@Time\_Stranger](#): > > This is just a mild amusement, especially for the comic nerds, but I thought it worth sharing nonetheless: > > [ComicsAlliance - Comic book culture, news, humor and commentary.](http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/05/05/politicians-mother-makes-him-apologize-for-calling-neil-gaiman-pencil-necked-geek/) > > Minn. politician calls Neil Gaiman names after the state paid him to speak; Politician’s mother chastises him. Life goes on. I’m actually impressed that the guy apologized. Normally, Republicans only issue apologies to Rush Limbaugh. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lady)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3008 "2011-05-21T14:23:01Z")
Finally got up to date with this thread. (Thanks for the tip, B.E.G., that was waaay helpful. 15 pages instead of 60? Count me in!) I do think the thread should come with a warning, though. Between laughing until my sides hurt, and alternately banging my head on the keyboard, I am in serious pain, and will soon need a new laptop, and this is All Your Fault! Thankfully, (or sadly) the Rapture will happen later today, and all those good God-fearing folks will be whooshed away, never to amuse (or cause pain) again. Damn, I’m gonna miss 'em. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3009 "2011-05-21T14:38:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > If he runs, gonna have to see a more pictures of his latest wife, who truly creeps me out. I know she doesn’t rise in the night to feed on the blood of the living. I know that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3010 "2011-05-21T17:21:20Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’m actually impressed that the guy apologized. Normally, Republicans only issue apologies to Rush Limbaugh. I’d say it’s more of a shocker to learn that Republican politicians have mothers… ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3011 "2011-05-21T17:46:09Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’d say it’s more of a shocker to learn that Republican politicians have mothers… Those eggs don’t lay themselves. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3012 "2011-05-21T18:37:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’d say it’s more of a shocker to learn that Republican politicians have mothers… I thought they came out of a mold. The mold certainly needs a good cleaning it’s all gummed up and leaving defects on every candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3013 "2011-05-21T19:16:31Z")
Anyone remember the Obama is a Muslim flap? It’s still [big news in Minnesota](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/21/controversial-anti-gay-pastor-recites-prayer-minnesota-state-house-drawing/). Having your pet anti-gay activist turn up to pray all over the House while wearing sweat pants is one thing, but then… > [@](#): > > It’s not about the Baptists, not about the Catholics alone, or the Lutherans, or the Evangelicals, or any other denomination, but rather the head of the denomination, and his name is Jesus, as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged and we pray it in Jesus’ name. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3014 "2011-05-21T19:20:49Z")
The Republican Speaker of the house immediately ran down to the floor and apologized for inviting that guy, so I have to give him credit for that. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3015 "2011-05-22T01:26:10Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The Republican Speaker of the house immediately ran down to the floor and apologized for inviting that guy, so I have to give him credit for that. It was a classy apology, so if it was him that was responsible, I can’t really hold it against him as anything other than a mistake. Bradlee Dean, the sweatpants-wearing preacher who’s unclear about the meaning of non-denominational, on the other hand, is a total jackass. And, shocking almost no one, is [good friends with Michele Bachmann](http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/michele-bachmann-bradlee-dean). [ > [@Michele Bachmann](#): > > Lord, I thank you for what you have done with this ministry. I thank you for how you are going to advance them from 260 schools a year, Lord, to 2,600 schools a year. Lord, we ask by faith that you would expand this ministry beyond anything the originators of this ministry could begin to think or imagine. ]([Bachmann-Supported Group Claims Rep. Ellison Using Gays To Impose Sharia on US | People For](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-supported-group-claims-rep-ellison-using-gays-impose-sharia-us))Yet another sign that everyone who voted Republican with the idea that they were going to focus on the economy, rather than their hateful social agenda, was played for a fool yet again. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3016 "2011-05-22T01:30:42Z")
Michele Bachmann also belongs to a church that says the Pope is the Antichrist. It will be interesting if she runs to see if that gets any attention given the sobbing hysteria the Republicans displayed over Reverend Wright. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3017 "2011-05-22T02:04:28Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Yes, but that’s because hardline Muslims…all under the banner of the Crescent. > > Can’t you see the difference ? _They use the wrong symbol, man !_ Mmm, _croissants._ Yeah, what have the Christians got? > [@legalsnugs](#): > > \*\*Kansas GOPer: Let’s Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs > \*\* > [Article](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/kansas-goper-lets-shoot-illegal-immigrants-like-pigs.php). > > Asked about his comment, Peck was unapologetic. “I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person,” he said. > > Any Dopers here from southeast Kansas who can verify that all southeast Kansans are unthinking, unfeeling racist bastards? I wouldn’t say unthinking. Well, not all. A certain proportion of plain silly, yes. Of course, I’m from southwest Missouri, so my opinion is biased. 😛 Seriously, though, my part of the country, and I hate when racist shitheads try to justify their crap with that attitude of “Well, I’m just a hick.” > [@Knorf](#): > > > [@K.T. McKee](#): > > > > When members of Wasilla High School’s symphonic jazz choir heard Friday it wouldn’t be singing the popular Queen hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” at this year’s graduation ceremony after working on it all year, the students couldn’t get their heads around it. > > > > WHS Principal Dwight Probasco reportedly had received complaints from at least one parent that the 1975 hit written by Freddie Mercury wasn’t appropriate for the ceremony simply because Mercury was gay. > > [Cite](http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2011/05/12/local_news/doc4dc8c8e0a76f2219524721.txt). Are you sure that isn’t an excuse? The song clearly references Galileo, who denied the Biblical truth of a flat Earth with four corners standing still in the center of the Universe. Sinful science! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3018 "2011-05-22T02:50:59Z")
C’mon, I dare you to name one musical anthem that has never been sung by teh gay. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3019 "2011-05-22T03:09:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > C’mon, I dare you to name one musical anthem that has never been sung by teh gay. Freebird! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3020 "2011-05-22T03:16:57Z")
By that criteron, school choirs and bands also can’t play anything by Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein (no more productions of _West Side Story_), Aaron Copeland. Stephen Sondheim and a laundry list of others. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=150) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=152)