# 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:** 1861
**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 5, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37202 "2018-04-05T19:02:18Z")
_The Atlantic_ Magazine has fired columnist Kevin Williamson, after he called for the death penalty for women who have abortions. > **[The Atlantic Finally Fires Kevin Williamson, Who Said Women Who Have...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-williamson-fired-the-atlantic-memo-jeffrey-goldberg-abortion-hanging)** > > The mag’s editor initially defended the controversial view as simply a bad tweet. But then it was revealed that he’s long held the opinion that abortion patients should be hanged. He had only been with the publication for a month, and his hiring itself was problematic after people pointed out some of his less savory comments (which are reported in the link above). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37203 "2018-04-05T19:41:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > _The Atlantic_ Magazine has fired columnist Kevin Williamson, after he called for the death penalty for women who have abortions. How very pro-life of him. ---
**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 5, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37204 "2018-04-05T21:32:21Z")
So this guy would be in favor of killing a woman who may already have children. Also killing women who have an abortion because the pregnancy would likely kill them (that’s really weird) or pregnant because of rape or incest. He has a wonderful way treating women. Is he married? Is she allowed to have an opinion? Does he have guns? The asshat is a domestic terrorist. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37205 "2018-04-06T01:08:19Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > So this guy would be in favor of killing a woman who may already have children. Probably never occurred to him that a woman who had ever given birth would abort a later pregnancy. I know the pro-lifers I see socially would assume it would never happen. It’s a black-and-white world for most of these people - either you abort babies, or you have babies - never both. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37206 "2018-04-06T01:17:24Z")
" Originally Posted by Rick Kitchen View Post The Atlantic Magazine has fired columnist Kevin Williamson, after he called for the death penalty for women who have abortions." These folks have zero sense of irony. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37207 "2018-04-06T02:50:48Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Romney might be effective. Trump seems pretty effective at wrecking Interior and State, I’m not clear what’s left of Treasury, he likely will effectively get us into a hot war, and he might yet subvert Justice. And you’re afraid Rmoney will be effective? ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37208 "2018-04-06T03:01:16Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > [Ted Cruz refuses to take DNA test to prove he’s human.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-va3WUAnXE) Out of context? Perhaps, but still funny. Well, of course. I believe I have said that boy was a Deep One hybrid. :searches: Why, yes, yes I have. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37209 "2018-04-06T03:52:05Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > [Ted Cruz refuses to take DNA test to prove he’s human.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-va3WUAnXE) Out of context? Perhaps, but still funny. Cruz is a knucklehead and by all accounts a thoroughly unlikable person, and I disagree with him politically. But I think he comes off pretty well in that exchange. Random person throws down a silly challenge, and he stays polite and refuses to take the bait. 99.99% of the time, I’ll take the side of anyone against Cruz. But there I kind of have to acknowledge that he handled that pretty well. ---
**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 6, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37210 "2018-04-06T05:23:59Z")
Except for his expression. I cannot think of an image of him where he does not have that look of bafflement. ---
**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 6, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37211 "2018-04-06T18:29:15Z")
Montana Republican candidate for Senate ad. Apparently attacking his opponent because … he plays the trumpet? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrVIMHTGIsc) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37212 "2018-04-06T18:31:46Z")
[quote=“Rick\_Kitchen, post:37211, topic:490897”] Montana Republican candidate for Senate ad. Apparently attacking his opponent because … he plays the trumpet? [/QUOTE] One blows into a trumpet…and the other sucks on a Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37213 "2018-04-06T18:39:29Z")
[quote=“Rick\_Kitchen, post:37211, topic:490897”] Montana Republican candidate for Senate ad. Apparently attacking his opponent because … he plays the trumpet? [/QUOTE] Good God was that a horrible ad. ---
**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 6, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37214 "2018-04-06T19:30:34Z")
Talk about overcompensation. His penis must be inverted. ---
**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 6, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37215 "2018-04-06T20:16:56Z")
Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama thinks National Guardsmen deployed at the Mexican border must be allowed to use whatever force is necessary to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the US: > [@](#): > > "They need to be allowed to use whatever force is necessary to secure that border, and they need to be protected from liability associated with the kind of snap judgments they have to make under very difficult circumstances in deciding how to handle an immigrant, an unlawful alien, who is illegally crossing our border and coming into our country.” > **[Rep. Mo Brooks: National Guard Must ‘Be Allowed To Use Whatever Force Is...](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-mo-brooks-national-guard-must-be-allowed-to-use-whatever-force-is-necessary-on-border/)** > > Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama said in a radio interview yesterday that the National Guard members whom President Trump is sending to the southern ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37216 "2018-04-06T20:18:35Z")
National Guardsmen shooting poor children will make great news ☹ ---
**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 6, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37217 "2018-04-06T20:21:03Z")
Why is all of the Right-Wing imagery of undocumented aliens coming across the border violent and militaristic? They act like these rag-tag border-crossers are all wearing bandoliers and toting AR-15’s…oh, wait. That’s the Minutemen… ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37218 "2018-04-06T20:21:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama thinks National Guardsmen deployed at the Mexican border must be allowed to use whatever force is necessary to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the US:[Rep. Mo Brooks: National Guard Must ‘Be Allowed To Use Whatever Force Is Necessary’ On Border | People For](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-mo-brooks-national-guard-must-be-allowed-to-use-whatever-force-is-necessary-on-border/) Is this happening on our soil, or on theirs? If on our soil, then we are murdering people in our country, if on theirs, then we are declaring war on mexico. ---
**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 6, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37219 "2018-04-06T20:22:08Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > National Guardsmen shooting poor children will make great news ☹ The optics will be GREAT for Trump’s re-election…killing brown people will firm up that base like nothing else. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37220 "2018-04-06T20:46:49Z")
[quote=“Rick\_Kitchen, post:37211, topic:490897”] Montana Republican candidate for Senate ad. Apparently attacking his opponent because … he plays the trumpet? [/QUOTE] > [@Slash1972](#): > > Good God was that a horrible ad. No shit. He’s called “the America-hating fuckstick” because he HATES America (also, because he’s a fuckstick). And any candidate who supports him can also be said to HATE America. Any candidate who opposes him at least gets the benefit of the doubt. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/37221 "2018-04-06T20:50:30Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > National Guardsmen shooting poor children will make great news ☹ Actually, I think it only makes the news when the children are at least rich enough to go to [college…](http://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*453/blog-kentstate-500x280-v01.png) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1860) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1862)