# 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:** 266
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5301 "2012-05-01T01:29:01Z")
Those stupid Independents and their independent ways- totally un-American! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5302 "2012-05-01T02:02:00Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > “Stupid Independent idea of the day”? We’d be typing 24/7 with Ron Paul alone. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5303 "2012-05-01T02:07:41Z")
Can we just get to a new page already, please? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5304 "2012-05-01T02:08:42Z")
Hey, let’s get to the next page and throw some rocks there! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5305 "2012-05-02T01:49:42Z")
Have you ever used the word “forward”? According to Bill Kristol, Jim Hoft, [Breitbart.com](http://Breitbart.com), and the Washington Times, you might be a Communist! [http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/05/01/474507/right-wing-claims-obamas-new-campaign-slogan-reveals-his-secret-communist-andor-fascist-allegiances/](http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/05/01/474507/right-wing-claims-obamas-new-campaign-slogan-reveals-his-secret-communist-andor-fascist-allegiances/) ---
**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:** [May 2, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5306 "2012-05-02T01:58:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Have you ever used the word “forward”? > > According to Bill Kristol, Jim Hoft, [Breitbart.com](http://Breitbart.com), and the Washington Times, you might be a Communist! > > [http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/05/01/474507/right-wing-claims-obamas-new-campaign-slogan-reveals-his-secret-communist-andor-fascist-allegiances/](http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/05/01/474507/right-wing-claims-obamas-new-campaign-slogan-reveals-his-secret-communist-andor-fascist-allegiances/) This is why you put cars into “Drive” instead! Cars are divinely capitalistic. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5307 "2012-05-02T02:04:36Z")
Remember to look carefully in your mirrors before moving the shifter to Reactionary. And then don’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5308 "2012-05-02T02:36:13Z")
Richard Grenell used to be Romney’s spokesman for foreign policy issues. He has now resigned. He > [@](#): > > had come under fire for tweeting all sorts of flippant comments about liberals, Democrats, women and, especially, U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration. Only a day after the announcement of his new post, Grenell joked on Twitter that President Obama had committed treason by passing missile secrets to the Russians. What made him resign? The mean liberals? The Democrats tromping on his rights to say what he wants? No. [Conservative groups like the American Family Foundation painted Grenell as a “homosexual activist” and condemned Romney for bringing him on board.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/01/474811/grenell-resign/) Good job Republicans. Trash a qualified person because you can’t stand his gayness. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5309 "2012-05-02T11:57:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Good job Republicans. Trash a qualified person because you can’t stand his gayness. Trashing a qualified person because he made all the ignorami look bad is just the cherry on the sundae. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5310 "2012-05-02T11:58:11Z")
Well, if there was any doubt in anyone’s mind that opposition to homosexuality was based on bigotry rather than a conception of “hate the sin, love the sinner”, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5311 "2012-05-02T14:57:49Z")
Will the last Log Cabin Republican please turn out the lights? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5312 "2012-05-02T14:58:18Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Well, if there was any doubt in anyone’s mind that opposition to homosexuality was based on bigotry rather than a conception of “hate the sin, love the sinner”, that’s it. Not to mention that we’ve settled any doubts as to whether Romney has more spine than a chocolate eclair (making his whining about the “would he have taken the risk of authorizing the bin Laden raid?” ad all the more risible). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5313 "2012-05-02T16:51:03Z")
[Ban on gay marriage and civil unions needed to Protect The White Race:](http://yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/racialized-remark-about-marriage.html) > [@](#): > > Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist who is currently active in electoral campaigning, says poll workers outside the early voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown Winston-Salem reported to him that the wife of NC Sen. Peter Brunstetter remarked today that her husband sponsored legislation to put the marriage amendment on the primary ballot “to protect the Caucasian race.” > > Nance said he recorded a conversation with the woman, whose name is Jodie Brunstetter, on video, and that she confirmed that she used the term “Caucasian” in a discussion about the marriage amendment, but insisted that otherwise her comments had been taken out of context by other poll workers… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5314 "2012-05-02T17:06:45Z")
She should favor gay marriage for blacks, as it will ultimately reduce their numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5315 "2012-05-02T17:18:38Z")
…will the last minority member of the Republican Party check the lock on the way out? K thanks. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5316 "2012-05-02T17:19:15Z")
Has it occurred to anybody to ask her what the proper context was, that will make her comment seem wise and considered? ---
**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:** [May 2, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5317 "2012-05-02T17:25:26Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Has it occurred to anybody to ask her what the proper context was, that will make her comment seem wise and considered? She was actually promoting gay marriage and decrying miscegenation. See, it makes so much more sense! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5318 "2012-05-02T17:39:38Z")
She must think all white guys are just itchin’ to ditch their fertile ladies for a chunk of barren man-ass. it must have happened to her, maybe more than once. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5319 "2012-05-02T17:40:29Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > She was actually promoting gay marriage and decrying miscegenation. See, it makes so much more sense! Ha, you joke! I’ve been phone banking against the Constitutional Amendment up for a vote here in NC (it says the only recognized domestic union is a marriage between a man and a woman). We’ve actually had people say that they think gay marriage should be illegal AND they think mixed race marriages should be illegal. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5320 "2012-05-02T17:43:42Z")
There is no woman so neutron-density ugly and repulsive that her very presence can reverse a man’s sexual orientation. OK, Ann Coulter. Give you that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=265) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=267)