# 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:** 171
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3401 "2011-08-29T19:57:20Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/27/anti-gay-puetro-rican-senator-accused-of-posting-newd-pics-on-gay-social-app/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/27/anti-gay-puetro-rican-senator-accused-of-posting-newd-pics-on-gay-social-app/) > The list of gays masquerading as gay haters to get Republican financial support ,has a new member. It already is a very long list. > [@](#): > > Arango’s excuse for posting pics of himself on gay/bi hookup phone ap Grindr—including one of him bent over, cheeks spread, senatorial asshole winking at the camera—isn’t as catchy as “hiking the Appalachian Trail” or “lifting your luggage.” Those two were pure poetry. But Arango’s excuse is delightful in its own way: Arango wasn’t looking to hookup with dudes, he was just documenting his weight loss regimen. (“Why, Senator Arango! Your asshole is looking so slim these days! You simply must share your workout routine with me!”) [lol](http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/08/29/psssssst-hey-you-you-there-reading-slog-at-work-on-monday-morning-wanna-see-an-anti-gay-republican-senators-butthole-sure-ya-do) ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3402 "2011-08-29T20:10:06Z")
Well, he knew he’d get an honest assessment from the homosexuals, since they’re all sassy and up-front, especially about physical issues! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3403 "2011-08-29T20:14:12Z")
Here’s one from everybody’s favorite [drug addicted blowhard](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/rush-limbaugh-obama-hurricane_n_940572.html): > [@](#): > > ``` > Limbaugh firmly came down on the side of those who think that the media oversold the destructive power of Irene. He said that the storm was blown out of proportion to "push the leftist agenda," and tied it to what he said was Obama's desire to have a huge disaster. > > "I'll guarantee you Obama was hoping this was going to be a disaster as another excuse for his failing economy," he said. "If he's out there blaming tsunamis, blaming earthquakes, this one [was] made to order, but it just didn't measure up." > > ``` Yes Rush, Obama is quite upset that the storm didn’t create even more damage and kill even more people. That JUST MAKES SENSE. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3404 "2011-08-29T20:31:12Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Arango’s excuse for posting pics of himself on gay/bi hookup phone ap Grindr—including one of him bent over, cheeks spread, senatorial asshole winking at the camera—isn’t as catchy as “hiking the Appalachian Trail” or “lifting your luggage.” Those two were pure poetry. But Arango’s excuse is delightful in its own way: Arango wasn’t looking to hookup with dudes, he was just documenting his weight loss regimen. (“Why, Senator Arango! Your asshole is looking so slim these days! You simply must share your workout routine with me!”) I was expecting him to go with the Bachmann IRS story – “I was infiltrating them so I could learn my enemy.” And destroy them from within – possibly by poisoned sperm injected directly into enemy assholes. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3405 "2011-08-29T20:42:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > poisoned sperm injected directly into enemy assholes. Injected _grudgingly_! And he didn’t enjoy it! Anyone who says he did lies! ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3406 "2011-08-29T20:52:19Z")
No, injected _joyously_ as an offering to God! If it felt good it was only because God was rewarding him. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3407 "2011-08-29T20:53:49Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Here’s one from everybody’s favorite [drug addicted blowhard](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/rush-limbaugh-obama-hurricane_n_940572.html) I just happened to be in my car this afternoon and I flicked past El Rushbo and heard this very quote. As if I weren’t giggling enough by the raw quote, the fact that it was followed \*immediately \*by a news update about the catastrophic flooding, downed trees, power outages and washed out roads, etc., still plaguing the Northeast, sent me into outright guffaws. It’s like the liberal media timed it that way or something. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3408 "2011-08-29T20:59:33Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Arango’s excuse for posting pics of himself on gay/bi hookup phone ap Grindr—including one of him bent over, cheeks spread, senatorial asshole winking at the camera…is delightful in its own way: Arango wasn’t looking to hookup with dudes, he was just documenting his weight loss regimen. > > [lol](http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/08/29/psssssst-hey-you-you-there-reading-slog-at-work-on-monday-morning-wanna-see-an-anti-gay-republican-senators-butthole-sure-ya-do) So, this isn’t how you’re supposed to document weight loss. I knew my support group on Nutrisystem was fucking with me… ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3409 "2011-09-03T17:22:07Z")
They finally [just come out and say it](http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/registering_the_poor_to_vote_is_un-american.html) - all the voter ID laws and kerfuffle over ACORN is because > [@](#): > > Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country – which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote. Huh, woulda thunk it? If you let the poor vote, they might sometimes vote in their best interests. Weird. Better fix that. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3410 "2011-09-03T19:01:29Z")
> [@C3](#): > > If you let the poor vote, they might sometimes vote in their best interests. I have heard this exact argument from my righty friends. And also that only property owners should be allowed to vote. So I ask them if we should allow only the wealthy and property owners to make decisions for the rest of us, and how much money or property would be the minimum required. For some reason that makes them bristle a little bit. I think that little bit of reserve I see after some probing of the idea is just a case of them realizing they are not thinking the whole problem through. Weird. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3411 "2011-09-03T22:02:23Z")
From that link: [QUOTE=Matthew Vadum] Trotsky thought too many bureaucrats and middle-class people were involved in the Soviet Communist Party and that it was moving too slowly in its efforts to change that society. He wanted more poor people in the party in order to overthrow Stalin’s obstructionist bureaucracy and clear the way for “true” communism. [/QUOTE] So we’re supposed to hate Trotsky for being more seriously egalitarian than Stalin, & by comparison prefer Stalin? Yeah. Riiiight. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3412 "2011-09-04T13:16:39Z")
I’m just shocked to learn that someone who wrote a book entitled: _Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers,_ would have such a low opinion of poor people. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3413 "2011-09-04T19:00:38Z")
[Sarah Palin thinks solar energy](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/sarah-palin-obama-republican-rivals) is a “harebrained idea” that is a “non-starter”. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3414 "2011-09-04T20:12:03Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Sarah Palin thinks solar energy](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/sarah-palin-obama-republican-rivals) is a “harebrained idea” that is a “non-starter”. The Chinese were using solar energy to start fires 700 years before Jesus walked the earth. Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized harnessing solar power in the 15th century. In the early 20th century, Albert Einstein was writing about the photoelectric effect and subsequently won a Nobel in Physics for that work. In a flash of prescience, Thomas Edison told Henry Ford in 1931: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” As is usually the case, Ms. Palin is severely out of her league. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3415 "2011-09-04T20:26:01Z")
Well, ok, smartypants, I’d sure like to see Mr Einstien field-dress a moose! ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3416 "2011-09-06T00:02:23Z")
Ain’t no solar powered 'lectricity mentioned in the Bible nohow. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3417 "2011-09-06T00:07:17Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [Sarah Palin thinks solar energy](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/04/sarah-palin-obama-republican-rivals) is a “harebrained idea” that is a “non-starter”. Well, of course she’d say that. Don’t they only have like 6 months of daylight in Alaska ? Now, aurora borealis energy, that’s the ticket ! ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3418 "2011-09-06T01:20:26Z")
Hey, watch that language. There’s no reason to go talking about a lady’s bosom parts. This is a civil discussion here. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3419 "2011-09-06T16:31:18Z")
I don’t know where to post this, but I didn’t want to start a new thread for it. With the Texas wildfires as the biggest disaster in the nation right now, [there’s lots of calls for prayer](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/rick-perry-to-skip-south-carolina-forum-to-deal-with-texas-wildfires/)- for the firefighters, for rain, for the victims. If this is God’s response to Perry’s prayer event last month, maybe we should try a more pragmatic approach this time around. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/3420 "2011-09-06T16:57:12Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > As is usually the case, Ms. Palin is severely out of her league. Actually, she has it on very good authority that the sun uses very little in the way of petroleum and natural gas to meet its energy needs. By opposing solar power, she’s just trying to make sure that we rely first on domestic sources of energy. Besides, how do we know who is supplying the sun with all that hydrogen? For all we know, it could be Middle Eastern terror supporters, or the ChiComs! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=170) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=172)