# 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:** 218
**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:** [January 29, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4341 "2012-01-29T13:55:57Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > The Moon Is a Harsh Gingrich I dunno about that, but I’m pretty sure Gingrich had some harsh mistresses. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4342 "2012-01-29T15:49:06Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > The Moon Is a Harsh Gingrich I predict this will show up on the Daily Show next week. Stewart’s flunkies hang out here, I am sure of it. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4343 "2012-01-29T16:36:16Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > The Moon Is a Harsh Gingrich That sounds like Heinlein Seussified. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4344 "2012-01-29T23:37:01Z")
Palin admits she is [just a troll](http://nation.foxnews.com/sarah-palin/2012/01/29/palinrage-against-machinevote-newtannoy-liberal): > [@](#): > > “So, if for no other reason to rage against the machine, vote for Newt, annoy a liberal.” ---
**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:** [January 29, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4345 "2012-01-29T23:40:32Z")
She’s even dumber than I thought, which I didn’t believe was possible. Voting for Newt in the primaries will absolutely delight liberals. Easy pickings come November. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4346 "2012-01-29T23:56:12Z")
Palin? “…rage against the machine…”? What next, Romney quoting Zappa? ---
**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:** [January 30, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4347 "2012-01-30T00:22:54Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Voting for Newt in the primaries will absolutely delight liberals. Easy pickings come November. I suppose we should at least act like we are annoyed, just to keep up appearances. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4348 "2012-01-30T00:33:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Palin admits she is [just a troll](http://nation.foxnews.com/sarah-palin/2012/01/29/palinrage-against-machinevote-newtannoy-liberal): Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me ! Should be the automatic answer to that statement. But I doubt all that many hip, cool, with it Palin supporters are too fond of RATM for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4349 "2012-01-30T00:35:04Z")
Focus on the Family, with a pocketful of shells. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4350 "2012-01-30T03:36:17Z")
With the thoughts from a militant mind, hardline hardline after hardline. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4351 "2012-01-30T05:21:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > We could send them nacho cheese Doritos for about eleven million dollars each. Each Dorito, that is. He can’t have them. [Max]They’re mine, [Not’cho’s](http://gfx.gaminator.tv/data/screen/4253/576/12275-2.jpg)![/Max] ---
**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:** [January 30, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4352 "2012-01-30T09:17:16Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4353 "2012-01-30T14:26:53Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > With the thoughts from a militant mind, hardline hardline after hardline. This was less funny when I realized I hadn’t actually had to change any lyrics to make it sound Palinesque. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4354 "2012-01-30T14:31:54Z")
Surely this one counts, right? Or are we still pretending Tea Party =/= Republican? [Tea Party group asks TN lawmakers to re-write slavery to highlight the positive side](http://www.wbir.com/news/article/202678/2/Groups-asking-TN-lawmakers-to-re-write-how-to-teach-slavery). [QUOTE=Tea Party Activist] Slavery is of course portrayed in the textbooks nowadays I’m sure as a totally negative thing. Had there not been slavery in the south, the economy would’ve fallen [/QUOTE] But they’re not racist, of course. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4355 "2012-01-30T14:52:29Z")
Isn’t that self-demonstrably wrong, considering the economy didn’t fall after the slaves became free (for a relative amount of freedom) ? It’s also a repulsive concept in and of itself, since it puts the economy (and wealth) of landowners above the well-being of fellow humans. But hey, a buck’s a buck, right ? But the best part has to be that “I’m sure” bit. Guy didn’t even bother checking the most elementary of facts before forming a counter-opinion. That’s bold. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4356 "2012-01-30T16:28:08Z")
Is there a contest for stupidest Republican idea or something, because it seems lately that Tennessee is trying to win… ---
**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:** [January 30, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4357 "2012-01-30T20:53:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) falsely claimed on Thursday that it was nearly impossible for someone to contract AIDS through heterosexual contact. > > > > “Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community,” he told Michelangelo Signorile, who hosts a radio program on SiriusXM OutQ. “It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall.” > > > > “My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex.” > > If he RECALLS? He was there? Was he the airline pilot’s partner? [A followup](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/30/414125/tennessee-restaurant-throws-out-anti-gay-lawmaker/): > [@](#): > > A restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee refused to serve state Sen. Stacey Campfield, the man who sponsored the state’s “don’t say gay” bill, compared homosexuality to bestiality, and most recently told Michelangelo Signorile that it’s virtually impossible to spread HIV/AIDS through heterosexual sex. “I hope that Stacy Campfield now knows what if feels like to be unfairly discriminated against,” the Bistro at the Bijou wrote on its Facebook wall on Sunday. The restaurant has received an overwhelmingly positive response. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4358 "2012-01-30T21:43:33Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Palin]'s even dumber than I thought, which I didn’t believe was possible. Voting for Newt in the primaries will absolutely delight liberals. Easy pickings come November. Her plan is for the primary to run long enough for all of the candidate’s negative ratings to rise up to the level of hers, so she can jump in the race at the last minute. It’s just the break she’s been waiting for! > [@mnemosyne](#): > > Is there a contest for stupidest Republican idea or something, because it seems lately that Tennessee is trying to win… WOOT! First we claim the title of “Most Meth Labs” and now “Stupidest Republican Ideas.” WE’RE NUMBER ONE!! ---
**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:** [January 31, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4359 "2012-01-31T17:26:38Z")
[Another update](http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2012/01/31/campfield-responds-to-controversy-via-blog) in the tale of Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield: He has written a post on his blog claiming that the restaurant owner was rude to him and comparing his ejection to Jim Crow era racial segregation. :rolleyes: Addendum: This guy [also tried to join the state Black Caucus](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9508168#.Tygkx_n4LEw), comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan when they rejected him. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4360 "2012-01-31T18:02:36Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Another update](http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2012/01/31/campfield-responds-to-controversy-via-blog) in the tale of Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield: He has written a post on his blog claiming that the restaurant owner was rude to him and comparing his ejection to Jim Crow era racial segregation. :rolleyes:… That’s a totally legitimate response (except for possibly the comment on rudeness). The restaurant owner was quoted as saying he wanted the guy to understand how it felt to be discriminated against. The owner was almost certainly wrong if he thought the guy would learn anything positive from it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=217) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=219)