# 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:  [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4741 "2012-03-06T22:40:40Z")
[Greatest Freudian slip evah?](http://silencedmajority.blogs.com/silenced_majority_portal/2012/03/romney-family-misspells-name-in-greatest-freudian-slip-in-history.html)
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4742 "2012-03-06T22:53:28Z")
He’s prepping for his post-Presidential bid job, as the heavily autotuned rapper R-Money.
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### Author:  [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4743 "2012-03-06T23:08:06Z")
[Photoshop](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/mitt-romney-rmoney-photoshop_n_1257877.html). Sorry.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4744 "2012-03-07T00:13:54Z")
> [@C3](#):
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> Want to be a Republican? [No premarital sex or porn for you](http://www.clintonchronicle.com/latest_news/doc4f510610f0e05550131047.txt)!
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> I think it would be smarter for them to ease up on the criteria for being a Republican candidate - this kind of thing is what gets them in trouble when they get caught soliciting gay sex in the men’s room and posting naked pictures of themselves on Craigslist.
A Daily Show correspondent probably already has a ticket to head down there.
I wonder what happens when a candidate who signed the pledge and got elected is discovered in the men’s room do the Republican footie dance? Do they drum him out of the party? Impeach him? Or accept his tearful apology?
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4745 "2012-03-07T00:26:51Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#):
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> [Photoshop](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/mitt-romney-rmoney-photoshop_n_1257877.html). Sorry.
“Many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.” Huxley.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4746 "2012-03-07T00:32:58Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> “Many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.” Huxley.
You see, this is why you guys on the left will never win an election. Facts? What are they? You should deny the obvious photoshop, swear that the photo is correct, and scream with all your might that the right wing media conspiracy wing is trying to smear you.
Jeez Louis. Facts? You think elections are won with _facts_?
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4747 "2012-03-07T02:11:13Z")
> [@Voyager](#):
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> A Daily Show correspondent probably already has a ticket to head down there.
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> I wonder what happens when a candidate who signed the pledge and got elected is discovered in the men’s room do the Republican footie dance? Do they drum him out of the party? Impeach him? Or accept his tearful apology?
Line up on the other side of the glory hole, probably.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4748 "2012-03-07T04:50:12Z")
More Republican voter suppression efforts. [WI will no longer be required to hold voter registration in high schools.](http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e639536710f94c4ebab9b8d5d7d43555/WI-XGR--High-School-Voters/) Raise your hand if you’re surprised.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4749 "2012-03-07T06:29:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> You see, this is why you guys on the left will never win an election. Facts? What are they? You should deny the obvious photoshop, swear that the photo is correct, and scream with all your might that the right wing media conspiracy wing is trying to smear you.
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> Jeez Louis. Facts? You think elections are won with _facts_?
Well, we do have the definition of the word “santorum,” and the whole business about Glenn Beck raping and murdering a woman… So, you know, little baby steps… We’ll get better at it as it pays off…
That’s the free market in action!
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4750 "2012-03-07T10:25:29Z")
Not specifically Republican and not an idea, but it’s FoxNews and it’s not worth a thread of its own:
[Geography FAIL](http://www.jumpkicktofreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fox-middle-east.png).
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4751 "2012-03-07T13:32:01Z")
> [@Shayna](#):
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> More Republican voter suppression efforts. [WI will no longer be required to hold voter registration in high schools.](http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e639536710f94c4ebab9b8d5d7d43555/WI-XGR--High-School-Voters/) Raise your hand if you’re surprised.
They’re no longer required to? Or they’re no longer allowed to?
Because didn’t the Republicans pitch a bitch a few years ago when SF dissallowed military recruiting drives in high schools? Apparently it’s fine to get them to sign up to potentially die, but not to potentially vote.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4752 "2012-03-07T14:13:49Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> Well, we do have the definition of the word “santorum,” and the whole business about Glenn Beck raping and murdering a woman… So, you know, little baby steps… We’ll get better at it as it pays off…
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> That’s the free market in action!
Hey, those allegations about Glen Beck raping and killing a girl in 1990 have never been proven. It is sad that he’s never denied them, either.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4753 "2012-03-07T14:21:49Z")
I think I won the thread. No, really: [Missouri Capitol to host bronze statue of Rush Limbaugh](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/rush-limbaugh-should-he-be-honored-with-a-sculpture-in-the-missouri-capitol/2012/03/06/gIQANvIpuR_blog.html).
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Not specifically Republican and not an idea, but it’s FoxNews and it’s not worth a thread of its own:
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> [Geography FAIL](http://www.jumpkicktofreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fox-middle-east.png).
Given that it’s Fox News, I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just label the map “Israel” and “everything else”.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4754 "2012-03-07T15:05:50Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> They’re no longer required to? Or they’re no longer allowed to?
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> Because didn’t the Republicans pitch a bitch a few years ago when SF dissallowed military recruiting drives in high schools? Apparently it’s fine to get them to sign up to potentially die, but not to potentially vote.
It may end up being a difference without a distinction. I’m gonna have to do some research into this, but here’s my WAG. Most of WI is fairly heavily conservative and Republican, and typically elections officials are at the county level, and also Republican. So changing the law will allow them to stop high school voter registration in most of the state. It might continue in Madison and Milwaukee, and maybe some of the other liberal outpost college towns. But believe me, if they passed the law, they have plans to shut it down everywhere they’re in a position to do so.
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### Author:  [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4755 "2012-03-07T22:49:11Z")
So it looks like the New Hampshire House is working on repealing the 12 year old state law which states that [insurance coverage must include contraception](http://www.npr.org/2012/02/24/147326639/n-h-gop-moves-to-revise-states-contraception-law). Again, being framed as a religious rights issue.
Edit: the Governor is expected to veto, and they do not have enough votes to overturn the veto.
I’m so tired of this horseshit. I know there is no logic to it, its just very depressing.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4756 "2012-03-07T23:13:52Z")
The Republicans have finally awoken to the huge mass of people in the “Never had none, ain’t gonna have none, don’t want none, ever!” demographic.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4757 "2012-03-08T06:06:14Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> It may end up being a difference without a distinction. I’m gonna have to do some research into this, but here’s my WAG. Most of WI is fairly heavily conservative and Republican, and typically elections officials are at the county level, and also Republican. So changing the law will allow them to stop high school voter registration in most of the state. It might continue in Madison and Milwaukee, and maybe some of the other liberal outpost college towns. But believe me, if they passed the law, they have plans to shut it down everywhere they’re in a position to do so.
This.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4758 "2012-03-08T06:14:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Not specifically Republican and not an idea, but it’s FoxNews and it’s not worth a thread of its own:
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> [Geography FAIL](http://www.jumpkicktofreedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fox-middle-east.png).
If that’s real, it just supports my suspicion that Fox News is a giant troll, designed to look stupid so CBS-ABC-NBC-CNN look smart by comparison.
> [@Shayna](#):
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> More Republican voter suppression efforts. [WI will no longer be required to hold voter registration in high schools.](http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e639536710f94c4ebab9b8d5d7d43555/WI-XGR--High-School-Voters/) Raise your hand if you’re surprised.
> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> They’re no longer required to? Or they’re no longer allowed to?
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> Because didn’t the Republicans pitch a bitch a few years ago when SF dissallowed military recruiting drives in high schools? Apparently it’s fine to get them to sign up to potentially die, but not to potentially vote.
Wait, don’t Republicans need stupid young people who have no sense of the real economic costs of their policies to register and vote? How bad must things be if a bunch of ignorant kids just starting out can’t be persuaded to vote for the majority party?
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### Author:  [@biddee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biddee)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4759 "2012-03-08T13:35:34Z")
Just two more ridiculous ideas from the Republicans.
[Utah bans talking about anything but abstinence and heterosexual sex in sex ed](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/07/utah-senate-republicans-ban-teaching-of-contraception-homosexuality-and-pre-marital-sex/) and [a bill is coming in to law in Arizona that ALLOWS a doctor not to tell a pregnant woman about a dangerous issue that could even lead to her death and not be sued for it if telling her means that she might get an abortion.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/07/arizona-senate-passes-bill-allowing-doctors-to-not-inform-women-of-prenatal-issues-to-prevent-abortions/)
Seriously these people don’t have half a brain to put together?
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4760 "2012-03-08T14:31:45Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> …don’t Republicans need stupid young people who have no sense of the real economic costs of their policies to register and vote? How bad must things be if a bunch of ignorant kids just starting out can’t be persuaded to vote for the majority party?
No, they prefer to prevent them from voting for Democrats while they’re young and more likely to be communist/socialist/satanist Democrats. and get them later after they age some and grow bitter over their failures, and are ready to blame someone else and vote Republican.
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