# 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:** 222
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4421 "2012-02-08T18:49:37Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Someone in the comments section of one of these articles claimed that a Republican congress person or representative tried to ban _animal husbandry._ I’m having trouble finding a cite, though… does anyone know about this? > > I almost hope it’s true, just so I can point and laugh. > > :googles: > > I found [this](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/floridas-bestiality-law_n_860836.html#s277665&title=Josh_Chambers): could that be the reference? It’s a little out dated (and possibly mentioned earlier in this behemoth of a thread), but still hilarious… banning sex! Santorum wishes it was his idea! > ETA: And from the comments _there_, I found [this](http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/2009/03/bestiality-monk.html). That must be it. Hmm, well let’s be fair. Both Rich and Bullard are Democrats, it says. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4422 "2012-02-08T18:53:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Doth thou shitteth me, as the Amish say? \*Dost \*thou shitteth me ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4423 "2012-02-08T19:04:22Z")
[http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/421298/mississippi-legislator-proposes-renaming-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/421298/mississippi-legislator-proposes-renaming-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4424 "2012-02-08T19:14:16Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > [http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/421298/mississippi-legislator-proposes-renaming-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/421298/mississippi-legislator-proposes-renaming-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/) Again, another Democrat. ☹ ---
**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:** [February 8, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4425 "2012-02-08T19:19:05Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Again, another Democrat. ☹ Yes, but it’s a _Mississippi_ Democrat. Whole other breed entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4426 "2012-02-08T19:21:11Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Again, another Democrat. ☹ I was just going to post that, should have looked before posting, it was just that the idea was so wingnutty I automatically assumed it was a Republican, and when you ASSume… ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4427 "2012-02-08T19:33:22Z")
Oh! I have a good one. Santorum accuses Obama of being bigoted towards bigots: “Santorum, speaking at a campaign stop Wednesday in Texas, said the administration’s view of advocates of Proposition 8 is that their “belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on irrational hatred and bigotry. Where’s the tolerance in that?”” [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/209435-in-wake-of-prop-8-ruling-santorum-attacks-obama-](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/209435-in-wake-of-prop-8-ruling-santorum-attacks-obama-) Also like to note that Obama hasn’t made any comments on the Prop 8 repeal. But when has the truth ever stopped a good talking point? ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4428 "2012-02-08T19:37:45Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Hmm, well let’s be fair. Both Rich and Bullard are Democrats, it says. That was part of my confusion - sorry I wasn’t clear. I was wondering if there was something else out there, but found those stories, which seemed to be the referenced story. One is “banned sex” and one is “didn’t understand the term” but neither is "banned animal husbandry’. I was googling and typing my post and it was all kind of haphazard. Also, in my defence (:dubious:), I’m Canadian so you’re all to the right of me 😉 ---
**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:** [February 8, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4429 "2012-02-08T19:55:36Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > [http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/421298/mississippi-legislator-proposes-renaming-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/08/421298/mississippi-legislator-proposes-renaming-gulf-of-mexico-as-gulf-of-america/) Cross-posted from ThinkProgress: > [@](#): > > A companion bill in the US House of Representatives would rename Mississippi “the asscrack of America”, so it all evens out. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4430 "2012-02-08T20:01:22Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > Oh! I have a good one. Santorum accuses Obama of being bigoted towards bigots: > > “Santorum, speaking at a campaign stop Wednesday in Texas, said the administration’s view of advocates of Proposition 8 is that their “belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on irrational hatred and bigotry. Where’s the tolerance in that?”” > > [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/209435-in-wake-of-prop-8-ruling-santorum-attacks-obama-](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/209435-in-wake-of-prop-8-ruling-santorum-attacks-obama-) > Also like to note that Obama hasn’t made any comments on the Prop 8 repeal. But when has the truth ever stopped a good talking point? Yeah, well I find offensive Santorum’s intolerance of Obama’s “intolerance” of homophobic intolerance. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4431 "2012-02-08T20:11:21Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Yeah, well I find offensive Santorum’s intolerance of Obama’s “intolerance” of homophobic intolerance. I’m offended by your intolerance of Santorum’s intolerance of Obama’s intolerance of homophobic intolerance! ---
**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:** [February 8, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4432 "2012-02-08T20:22:00Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Someone in the comments section of one of these articles claimed that a Republican congress person or representative tried to ban _animal husbandry._ I’m having trouble finding a cite, though… does anyone know about this? > > I almost hope it’s true, just so I can point and laugh. > > :googles: > > I found [this](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/floridas-bestiality-law_n_860836.html#s277665&title=Josh_Chambers): could that be the reference? It’s a little out dated (and possibly mentioned earlier in this behemoth of a thread), but still hilarious… banning sex! Santorum wishes it was his idea! > ETA: And from the comments _there_, I found [this](http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/2009/03/bestiality-monk.html). That must be it. I remembered [this.](http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/06/bizarre_sex_habits_of_the_extreme_rightwing.php#more) But he was fringe party all the way. Not even a Republican, it turns out. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4433 "2012-02-08T22:27:17Z")
> [@L. G. Butts](#): > > Yeah, when I started there I thought it was the Colorado School of Minds. I thought it was Mimes ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4434 "2012-02-08T22:28:20Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I’m offended by your intolerance of Santorum’s intolerance of Obama’s intolerance of homophobic intolerance! I could never ever vote for someone named after an anal dripping :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4435 "2012-02-08T22:50:26Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I could never ever vote for someone named after an anal dripping :eek: 😃 So you would not vote to re-elect Senator Diarrhea? Should we let gubernatorial candidate Thomas ‘Big Red’ Hemorrhoid know that he can’t count on your vote? What about mayoral candidate Sam Stool? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4436 "2012-02-08T22:56:10Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I thought it was Mimes Obviously they wouldn’t allow speeches at the Colorado School of Mimes. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4437 "2012-02-08T23:20:24Z")
Well played, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4438 "2012-02-08T23:27:34Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > Oh! I have a good one. Santorum accuses Obama of being bigoted towards bigots > [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Yeah, well I find offensive Santorum’s intolerance of Obama’s “intolerance” of homophobic intolerance. > [@Frodo](#): > > I’m offended by your intolerance of Santorum’s intolerance of Obama’s intolerance of homophobic intolerance! Offensensitivity. [/Opus the penguin] ---
**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:** [February 9, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4439 "2012-02-09T03:53:40Z")
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. [Rick Santorum’s Hanukkah card.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/02/08/happy_hanukkah_from_rick_santorum.html) Behold. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4440 "2012-02-09T04:15:42Z")
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