# 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:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4821 "2012-03-15T04:39:08Z")
> [@Shayna](#):
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> _A thoughtful, sensitive male Wisconsin legislator has proclaimed that he is against divorce under all circumstances — even spousal abuse. And he’s got a message to all those ladies out there getting the shit beaten out of them by their husbands … **“If they can refind those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help.”** _
Just now I saw this thread juxtaposed with a forum thread titled _“Judge forces 16-year old Moroccan girl to marry her rapist”_.
It’s interesting how much the GOP now has in common with the enemy it’s so eager to condemn.
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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4822 "2012-03-15T12:30:35Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> Just now I saw this thread juxtaposed with a forum thread titled _“Judge forces 16-year old Moroccan girl to marry her rapist”_.
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> It’s interesting how much the GOP now has in common with the enemy it’s so eager to condemn.
That’s not fair: Barack Obama never, to the best of my knowledge, forced anyone to marry their rapist!
(Is there any other enemy the current Republicans give a rat’s ass about?)
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4823 "2012-03-15T13:26:26Z")
Common sense and logic?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4824 "2012-03-15T14:21:54Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> Common sense and logic?
Those words have no place in this thread.
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### Author:  [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4825 "2012-03-15T14:28:43Z")
> [@standingwave](#):
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> Unbelievable. You know, when this whole birth control flap broke a couple of weeks ago I joked that the next step would be a law allowing religious employers to discriminate against employees that pay out of pocket because since they are the ones paying the salary or wage, they would be morally paying for the evil birth control by proxy. I thought it was just a joke at the time, taking the slippery slope to a logical extreme. Consider me flabbergasted.
> [@septimus](#):
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> Just now I saw this thread juxtaposed with a forum thread titled _“Judge forces 16-year old Moroccan girl to marry her rapist”_.
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> It’s interesting how much the GOP now has in common with the enemy it’s so eager to condemn.
But Both Sides Do It ™
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4826 "2012-03-15T14:29:51Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#):
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> Those words have no place in this thread.
Sure they do… they’re like curse words to Republicans.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4827 "2012-03-15T14:50:52Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#):
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> But Both Sides Do It ™
No, the right response in the playbook is “But you believe in moral relativism, right? You tolerate foreign cultures, but not the oppressed Christians at home. This means you support Moroccan rapist-marrying, you secret muslim Christian hater!”
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4828 "2012-03-15T17:41:46Z")
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 - they _really_ believe in traditional marriage. In fact, they think that consensual sex is so heinous that God would prescribe death for those that engage in it (22:17 from the same book). Well, in that case if the man no longer consents to the marriage, the women is killed. If the women doesn’t consent then marriage is a suitable punishment. If both consent, both get killed.
Actually, that reminds me, Romney supports a traditional definition of marriage and he’s a _Mormon_. Clearly not “one man and one woman” then, eh?
Though I have to say, he’s probably the best Republican candidate for the American people. Ignoring every aspect of his personality and public appearance and going by policy alone, he commends moderate healthcare reform (though I’d support more comprehensive reform) and rights for gay couples (though I’d support marriage as well). I can’t say the same, at least on a federal level, for the other three remaining candidates.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4829 "2012-03-15T17:58:48Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> …Though I have to say, he’s probably the best Republican candidate for the American people. …
Yes, in the sense that whooping cough is a “better” disease than AIDS.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4830 "2012-03-15T18:57:22Z")
Those moderate positions were as of 12:41 pm, yes? What are his positions now, an hour later?
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4831 "2012-03-15T19:11:00Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Those moderate positions were as of 12:41 pm, yes? What are his positions now, an hour later?
Due to quantum uncertainty, the more precisely you know the timing of a Romney policy position, the less you know about the actual position.
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4832 "2012-03-15T19:23:45Z")
> [@Lobohan](#):
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> Due to quantum uncertainty, the more precisely you know the timing of a Romney policy position, the less you know about the actual position.
Schrodinger’s Candidate.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4833 "2012-03-15T21:19:23Z")
Another point for Tennessee!
[TN lawmaker says green policies are part of secret U.N. plot](http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120309/NEWS0201/303090079/TN-lawmaker-says-green-policies-part-secret-U-N-plot).
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> Rep. Rick Womick of Rutherford County, one of the resolution’s sponsors, said Tuesday that the U.N. created multiple political subdivisions and independent shadow organizations in a stealth move to work with towns and cities and undermine rights.
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> He said the “grandiose plan” is meant to stop economic growth and includes telling people they must, for instance, set aside wetlands or regulate against urban sprawl.
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> “It’s about taking property rights away from people,” said Womick, R-Rockvale. “People are fed up with government interfering with their lives.”
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> Womick said the Council for Local Environmental Initiatives is one of the U.N. groups worming its way into local activities — in Nashville, for one — to do harm.
Suck it Arizona! We’ll be laughing when your puny contraception laws are overturned by a UN one-world government conspiracy!
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4834 "2012-03-15T21:48:09Z")
Gotta love secret UN plots that are online at the UN’s [website](http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/).
Also gotta love wannabe evil overlords that can’t be bothered to follow the fucking [rules](http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html).
CMC fnord!
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4835 "2012-03-15T22:33:27Z")
> [@standingwave](#):
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> Unbelievable. You know, when this whole birth control flap broke a couple of weeks ago I joked that the next step would be a law allowing religious employers to discriminate against employees that pay out of pocket because since they are the ones paying the salary or wage, they would be morally paying for the evil birth control by proxy. I thought it was just a joke at the time, taking the slippery slope to a logical extreme. Consider me flabbergasted.
Next: forbidding paying in cash for anything the churchies are against - birth control, alcohol, cigarettes, lap dances, lotto tickets, public transportation, etc., cause you know, “In God We Trust” is printed right there on the dollar.
Bullets and guns, of course, will be OK.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4836 "2012-03-15T22:37:22Z")
And, thank God, altar boys are free.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4837 "2012-03-15T22:57:38Z")
[From the horse’s mouth](http://www.ricksantorum.com/enforcing-laws-against-illegal-pornography).
> [@Frothy Mixture](#):
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> America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography…It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking…
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> Current federal “obscenity” laws prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier. Rick Santorum believes that federal obscenity laws should be vigorously enforced…
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> The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws. While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Santorum Administration…
And there’s some further blather about a War on Pornography. Nothing like a righteous war to get the blood pumpin’.
So what’s more stupid, Santorum’s thinking that he can stop Internet porn, or that it should be a priority of a POTUS to try? You gotta love the dig that Obama “seems to favor pornographers over children and families” (won’t sombody PLEASE think of the children!?!?!) False dichotomy much?
REPUBLICANS: PLEASE, please, _please_, for the good of Jesus and America’s Future as a Great Nation, nominate this [del]clown[/del] guy. The GOP is sure to prevail with such visionary leadership.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4838 "2012-03-15T23:07:26Z")
> [@Lobohan](#):
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> Due to quantum uncertainty, the more precisely you know the timing of a Romney policy position, the less you know about the actual position.
> [@Eutychus](#):
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> Schrodinger’s Candidate.
Nitpick: that’s more accurately _Heisenberg’s Candidate Principle_
And a _BRILLIANT_ statement thereof, if a non-physicist may presume to start a slow clap.
Request permission to steal.
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4839 "2012-03-15T23:49:20Z")
I always thought _men_ were a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking. ☹
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4840 "2012-03-16T00:01:38Z")
Nope. It’s all Eve’s fault.
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