# 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:  [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4461 "2012-02-09T22:19:21Z")
> [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](#):
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> I must have missed something. What are you complaining about? đ
I imagine his problem is that they rated an entirely truthful statement as merely _mostly true_ due to a technical distinction that no reasonable person would make. Nobody could honestly think that the White House was trying to hide the fact that some Catholics hadnât had sex yet, or that the tiny number of virgin Catholics were relevant to the statistic in any way whatsoever.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4462 "2012-02-10T00:10:20Z")
Santorum may not have sent the Hanukkah cards but thatâs only because he was saving up the Stupid for something special, like saying that [Obama Has Put America On âThe Pathâ Of Executing Religious People By Decapitation](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/02/09/421882/santorum-obama-has-put-america-on-the-path-of-executing-religious-people-by-decapitation/?mobile=nc):
> [@Rick Santorum](#):
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> They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then whatâs left is the French Revolution. Whatâs left is the government that gives you right, whatâs left are no unalienable rights, whatâs left is a government that will tell you who you are, what youâll do and when youâll do it. Whatâs left in France became the guillotine. Ladies and gentlemen, weâre a long way from that, but if we do and follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are headed down that road.
Yes, you heard rightly - enforcing the separation of church and state means that Obama is going to start guillotining people. If that slope got any more slippery theyâd build a ski lift on it.
This is a fun game we all can play! âRick Santorum eats beef which means that heâs okay with killing animals and we all know kittens are animals too. Therefore if we elect Rick Santorum weâll have a President who bites the heads off kittens for fun, and is that the kind of man we want in the White House?â
The sad thing is that, as insane as that last paragraph is, it still makes more sense than what Santorum said.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4463 "2012-02-10T01:29:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Santorum may not have sent the Hanukkah cards but thatâs only because he was saving up the Stupid for something special, like saying that [Obama Has Put America On âThe Pathâ Of Executing Religious People By Decapitation](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/02/09/421882/santorum-obama-has-put-america-on-the-path-of-executing-religious-people-by-decapitation/?mobile=nc):Yes, you heard rightly - enforcing the separation of church and state means that Obama is going to start guillotining people. If that slope got any more slippery theyâd build a ski lift on it.
What really chaffs my hide is that the blokes who ran the French Revolution happened to come up with a handful of inalienable rights, applicable to all men regardless of religion, state or even nationality. You may have [heard of them](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_Citizen). Iâd wager Santorum has too, heâs an educated man.
Also, how does the âmarginalization of faithâ (whatever the fuck that may mean) removes Creator-granted rights ? Does god only grant rights in a clap-your-hands-if-you-believe-you-have-the-right-to-bear-arms capacity ? Would he take away those rights in a huff if people stopped worshipping ? And if so, _how the fuck are they inalienable_ ?
Why am I getting so pissed off by this one quote I do not know, but GAWD.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4464 "2012-02-10T02:38:26Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#):
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> Has[this](http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/08/421510/new-hampshire-gop-repeal-lunch/) made it yet?
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> New Hampshire GOP wants to eliminate the law concerning lunch breaks. Itâs hurting the Job Creators.
The logic of this hurts my brain.
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> âThis is an unneeded law,â [Republican state Representative Kyle Jones] said. âIf I was to deny one of my employees a break, I would be in a very bad position with the companyâs human resources representative. If you consider that this is a very easy law to follow in that everyone already does it, then why do we need it? Our constituents have already proven that they have enough common sense to do this on their own.â
and
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> The billâs sponsor, state representative J.R. Hoell, argued that companies failing to provide lunch breaks would be shamed over social media, thus rendering the law unnecessary. âIf they are not letting people have lunch, they could put it out though the news media, though social media. I donât think that abusive behavior would continue, the way communications are today,â he said.
Most Americans have the common sense to not force anyone to have sex. And, if someone did, theyâd probably be shamed over Facebook. Therefore, the law is unnecessary. Right?
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4465 "2012-02-10T02:59:43Z")
What if you work for Facebook? You bitch about working there, come back and your Facebook page says you work for the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful company Iâve ever known in my life.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4466 "2012-02-10T03:21:15Z")
Why do the socialists want to cockblock the caribou? [Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) demands to know.](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=2&ved=0CDIQqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inquisitr.com%2F192125%2Ftexas-republican-supports-pipeline-for-the-sake-of-caribou-sex%2F&ctbm=nws&ei=x4w0T5WWOe702wXvkLGnAg&usg=AFQjCNE0imSD-e0UGYlRV_eW4iEiWHXesQ&sig2=5DR2FSQAVvSbl4SBXX9krg)
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4467 "2012-02-10T03:49:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> What if you work for Facebook? You bitch about working there, come back and your Facebook page says you work for the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful company Iâve ever known in my life.
And you canât access any game except solitaire.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4468 "2012-02-10T04:42:23Z")
Hereâs a good one. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) is trying to get a bill called the âSusan B Anthony and Frederick Douglas Prenatal Nondiscrimination Actâ out of committee. One of its premises is that abortion is the leading cause of death in the black community, and that
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> [Even more invidious, a thorough review of the American family planning movement reveals a history of targeting African-Americans for âpopulation control,â arguably resulting in the current statistic that a black baby is five times as likely to be aborted as a white baby.](https://motherjones.com/files/020712_markup_memo.pdf)
(NB: the quoted link is to a PDF of the memo.)
To support this allegation, it cites [a study by the Guttmacher Institute](http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2008/08/13/index.html), which started as a semi-autonomous unit of Planned Parenthood (now independent).
My, my, my. Planned Parenthood is actually engaged in the long-term, secret genocide of African Americans by way of abortion. And they even publish studies that prove it if you read between the lines. How very supervillainy-reveal-the-plan-to-the-hero-monologuey of them!
Of course, what the cited study actually says is that abortion rates are higher amongst African Americans because unintended pregnancies rates are higher. And preventing unintended pregnancies is one of Planned Parenthoodâs primary purposes. Which the GOP is trying to prevent by defunding Planned Parenthood because â[more than 90% of their business is abortions](http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/)â, which are being used to wipe out African Americans (slowly, under the guise of helping them, how invidious!), so really the GOP is protecting African Americans from those crazy-ass, racist liberals.
Truly, the product of a dizzying intellect. Or Glenn Beck.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4469 "2012-02-10T05:30:52Z")
Is that stupid, or clever?
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4470 "2012-02-10T05:49:52Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> Is that stupid, or clever?
Thereâs a fine lineâŚ
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### Author:  [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4471 "2012-02-10T08:06:00Z")
We should get a lot of material for this thread, as the [del]Conservative[/del] Comedy Political Action Conference takes place over the next few days.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4472 "2012-02-10T14:03:29Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> Is that stupid, or clever?
Stupid like a fox!
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4473 "2012-02-10T14:16:40Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#):
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> Stupid like a fox!
Why do you think they named the network that? đ
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4474 "2012-02-10T14:59:15Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> Is that stupid, or clever?
I donât know, but the title is one of the most phenomenal namedrops in the history of namedropping.
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### Author:  [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4475 "2012-02-10T15:10:22Z")
Back to Santorum, now he says [Obama is actively trying to allow Iran to have a nuke](http://start.toshiba.com/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9SQ7IU00%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1017):
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> Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday accused President Barack Obama of actively seeking ways to allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon and suggested that the administration had betrayed Israel by publicly disclosing what may be a plan to attack the Muslim nation.
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> Santorum told CNN: "The president fought tooth and nail against putting sanctions on Iran and only capitulated at the end. This is a president who is not standing by our allies, is trying to appease, trying to find a way to allow â clearly to allow Iran to get this nuclear weapon. Heâs doing absolutely nothing in a consequential way to make sure that they do not get this weapon.
I think Santorum is starting to reach out to the People Who Never Read A Newspaper demographic. Warning Iran that they are going to get attacked⌠yup, that is one helluva betrayal of the people who would be fighting on our side, and not consequential at all! :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4476 "2012-02-10T15:52:38Z")
Back to Santorum, he also says [women on the front-lines might endanger the mission because men might try to protect them](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/02/10/146685806/if-women-are-in-combat-men-may-try-to-protect-them-santorum-says?sc=fb&cc=fp).
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> âŚit could be âa compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.â
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> This morning on NBC-TVâs The Today Show, Santorum explained he wasnât trying to say that women are too emotional to be in combat.
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> âI think men have emotions when [they] see a woman in harmâs way,â Santorum said. âItâs natural. Itâs very much in our culture to be protective. That was my concern. I think thatâs a concern with all of the militaries.â
Really Santorum? People on the front line arenât supposed to watch each othersâ backs? Men are so emotionally hopeless that theyâll compromise the mission to protect lilâ Mary Sue? How is it that other nationsâ military forces can integrate women into combat and make it work out just fine (e.g. Israel)?
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4477 "2012-02-10T16:09:12Z")
Thatâs been the standard argument against allowing women to serve on the front lines pretty much for ever. Stupid, yes, but not specifically Republican stupidity.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4478 "2012-02-10T16:10:28Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> Thatâs been the standard argument against allowing women to serve on the front lines pretty much for ever. Stupid, yes, but not specifically Republican stupidity.
But breathing new life into the meme is a fresh stupidity
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### Author:  [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4479 "2012-02-10T16:19:23Z")
Iâd rather have my sisters next to me in combat than a dweeb like Rick Santorum.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4480 "2012-02-10T16:32:04Z")
I donât want any santorum near me when Iâm in a foxhole.
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