# Stupid Republican idea of the day
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897
**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
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4441 "2012-02-09T06:01:53Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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> [Rick Santorum’s Hanukkah card.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/02/08/happy_hanukkah_from_rick_santorum.html)
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> Behold.
What. the. Holy. Fuck.
As I was waiting for it to load, I was saying, “Please please let it be really dumb (and not a fake).” Oh, good lord, it was, and past what I imagined (which was, you know, some cultural “Xmas” artifact short of _quoting the Gospel of John_).
I guess he’s really brazen or he’s really ignorant.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4442 "2012-02-09T06:07:44Z")
“or”?
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### Author:  [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4443 "2012-02-09T07:05:25Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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> [Rick Santorum’s Hanukkah card.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/02/08/happy_hanukkah_from_rick_santorum.html)
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> Behold.
[“Wishing you an _Ecce_llent Passover…Team Santorum”](http://daystarvisions.com/Pix/Masters/Full/Ecce_Homo-Antonio_Ciseri-19th_c-DC_edit.png).
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4444 "2012-02-09T17:23:10Z")
It’s a War on Hannukah! Seriously, though, that one might have won the thread.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4445 "2012-02-09T17:45:51Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#):
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> [“Wishing you an _Ecce_llent Passover…Team Santorum”](http://daystarvisions.com/Pix/Masters/Full/Ecce_Homo-Antonio_Ciseri-19th_c-DC_edit.png).
“Homo? Ecch!”
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4446 "2012-02-09T17:57:04Z")
I’m disappointed that Richard John Santorum is tantalizingly close to and anagram of “major christ hardon”. “nu-major christ hardon” just doesn’t cut it.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4447 "2012-02-09T18:17:36Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> What. the. Holy. Fuck.
>
> As I was waiting for it to load, I was saying, “Please please let it be really dumb (and not a fake).” Oh, good lord, it was, and past what I imagined (which was, you know, some cultural “Xmas” artifact short of _quoting the Gospel of John_).
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> I guess he’s really brazen or he’s really ignorant.
Well, to be fair, that wasn’t his personal Hannukah card. It’s possible all he did was tell his various state election workers to send one out and left it to them to choose it and never saw it.
I kinda hate having to be fair about it, because I find his positions on so many social issues to be abhorrent. And yeah, the buck is supposed to stop with him. But even so, I have to come down on the side of “stupid Republican campaign workers” as opposed to “stupid Santorum”.
Now I feel all icky.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4448 "2012-02-09T18:31:55Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> 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.
All that’s missing is a coupon for a nice [Hanukkah ham.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/hanukkah.asp)
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4449 "2012-02-09T18:38:30Z")
Can we have our “Oy!” smiley back?
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### Author:  [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4450 "2012-02-09T18:45:27Z")
Has[this](http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/08/421510/new-hampshire-gop-repeal-lunch/) made it yet?
New Hampshire GOP wants to eliminate the law concerning lunch breaks. It’s hurting the Job Creators.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4451 "2012-02-09T18:57:43Z")
No support for lunch breaks in the Magna Carta! Out it goes!
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### Author:  [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4452 "2012-02-09T19:02:06Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I’m disappointed that Richard John Santorum is tantalizingly close to and anagram of “major christ hardon”. “nu-major christ hardon” just doesn’t cut it.
Major Christ hard-on, nu?
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### Author:  [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4453 "2012-02-09T20:02:57Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#):
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> Major Christ hard-on, nu?
How about:
Major Christ hard-onn, U?
It’s Santorum, no reason to assume he can spell something associated with naughty bits.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4454 "2012-02-09T20:07:13Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> No support for lunch breaks in the Magna Carta! Out it goes!
Indeed!
> [@](#):
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> \*\*Originally posted by ye olde Magna Carta \*\*(33) All fish-weirs shall be removed from the Thames, the Medway, and throughout the whole of England, except on the sea coast.
That’s right! Take yer damn fish-weirs out of here. If you need to trap fish, do it on your own time, in your own rivers. And if you’ve got a problem with it, you can do what Martin Luther (the social media content provider of his time) did.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4455 "2012-02-09T20:55:35Z")
Politifact’s latest is an example of what qualifies them to be on this thread: They rate the statement “White House official says 98 percent of Catholic women have used contraception” as only “mostly” true by straining to find a qualifier (punchline spoilered):
“the statistic refers specifically to women who have had sex”
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4456 "2012-02-09T21:07:55Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I’m disappointed that Richard John Santorum is tantalizingly close to and anagram of “major christ hardon”. “nu-major christ hardon” just doesn’t cut it.
How about “major unchrist hardon”.
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### Author:  [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4457 "2012-02-09T21:18:20Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#):
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> Politifact’s latest is an example of what qualifies them to be on this thread: They rate the statement “White House official says 98 percent of Catholic women have used contraception” as only “mostly” true by straining to find a qualifier (punchline spoilered):
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> “the statistic refers specifically to women who have had sex”
I must have missed something. What are you complaining about? 😕
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4458 "2012-02-09T21:37:15Z")
Because the only way a nun can get pregnant is by dressing up as an altar boy?
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4459 "2012-02-09T21:45:57Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#):
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> Politifact’s latest is an example of what qualifies them to be on this thread: They rate the statement “White House official says 98 percent of Catholic women have used contraception” as only “mostly” true by straining to find a qualifier (punchline spoilered):
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> “the statistic refers specifically to women who have had sex”
Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your Catholic here is only _mostly_ virginal…
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4460 "2012-02-09T22:07:23Z")
Another hit from the dumbest man in Texas, Rep. Louie Gomert (R-Goober) (by way of our good friends over at _Daily Kos_
> **[Rep. Louie Gohmert: Republican congressman and noted caribou sex expert](https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/09/1063179/-Louie-Gohmert-expert-on-caribou-sex?detail=hide&via=blog_1)**
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> Must be on his way to the nearest pipeline.
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> ...
> [@](#):
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> …Here’s his theory: The caribou very much enjoy the warmth the pipeline radiates. “So when they want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline,” he informed his colleagues. It’s apparently the equivalent of being wined and dined. And that has resulted in a tenfold caribou population boom, he concluded.
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> “So my real concern now …if oil stops running through the pipeline…do we need a study to see how adversely the caribou would be affected if that warm oil ever quit flowing?” he asked…
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