# 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:** 267
**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 2, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5321 "2012-05-02T17:55:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > 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. Objection ! Assumes Ann Coulter is a woman ! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5322 "2012-05-02T18:02:46Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Objection ! Assumes Ann Coulter is a woman ! Objection! Assumes Ann Coulter is human. ---
**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 3, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5323 "2012-05-03T14:22:22Z")
Well the pubbies will be able to get the vote of people like [this guy](http://start.toshiba.com/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9UH823O1%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1011): > [@](#): > > Ready took offense at the term “neo-Nazi,” but acknowledged he had identified with the National Socialist Movement, an organization that believes only non-Jewish, white heterosexuals should be American citizens and that everyone who isn’t white should leave the country “peacefully or by force.” Not that guy specifically, he died in a shooting (go figure). But there’s more like him, and doggone it, they’re gonna take this country _back_ (from non-idiots). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5324 "2012-05-03T14:47:42Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Not that guy specifically, he died in a shooting (go figure). Murder-suicide, actually…with him as the murderer. ETA: And I see that the linked article does say that…sorry… ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5325 "2012-05-04T03:35:44Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Ban on gay marriage and civil unions needed to Protect The White Race:](http://yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/racialized-remark-about-marriage.html) This part _has_ to be made up: > [@](#): > > Me: > You didn’t tell her anything about Caucasians? > > Silence. > > Me: > I want you to clear it up if you could. > > Brunsetter: > Right now I am a little confused myself because there has been confusion here today about this amendment where it is very simple. The opponents are saying things that are not true and there has been a lot of conversation back and forth. > > **Right now I have some heat stroke going on. Um there has been lots of confusion.** ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5326 "2012-05-06T02:16:42Z")
[New Arizona law bars public funds from Planned Parenthood](http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/05/4468768/new-arizona-law-bars-public-funds.html) "[Arizona](http://topics.sacbee.com/arizona/) Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill barring any public money - city, county or state - from going to [Planned Parenthood,](http://topics.sacbee.com/Planned+Parenthood/) a decision that she says closes loopholes for funding abortions. The bill, known as the Whole Woman’s [Health Funding Priority Act,](http://topics.sacbee.com/Health+Funding+Priority+Act/) " Priority funding for women?? Asshats. Where is the funding?? Retards. Who the hell comes up with these names? “About 4,000 women on Medicaid - 10 percent of [Planned Parenthood Arizona’s](http://topics.sacbee.com/Planned+Parenthood+Arizona/) patients - will be affected by the law, Howard said.”:mad: ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5327 "2012-05-06T02:37:16Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > The bill, known as the Whole Woman’s [Health Funding Priority Act,](http://topics.sacbee.com/Health+Funding+Priority+Act/) " > Priority funding for women?? Asshats. Where is the funding?? Retards. Who the hell comes up with these names? George Orwell would be proud, except that he wouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5328 "2012-05-06T13:48:19Z")
Nothing wrong with the bill’s name. Priorities can be set high or low. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5329 "2012-05-06T15:43:07Z")
> **[Heartland Institute compares belief in global warming to mass murder | Leo...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2012/may/04/heartland-institute-global-warming-murder?newsfeed=true)** > > Leo Hickman: US thinktank launches poster campaign comparing Unabomber and Osama Bin Laden to those concerned about global warming They’re putting up billboards that compare Ted Kaczynski (the Unibomber) to people who “believe in global warming”. They’ve made the same comparison using Charles Manson and Osama Bin Laden. The side that starts name-calling first loses. The Heartland Institute is another Koch Gang front organization. From Heartland: > [@](#): > > Of course, not all global warming alarmists are murderers or tyrants. Ya think? and > [@](#): > > The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society. This is why the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen. Even some Republicans have objected to this. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/leading-house-goper-chastises-right-wing-group-for-comparing-climate-change-believers-to-madment/2012/05/04/gIQAfI521T\_blog.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/leading-house-goper-chastises-right-wing-group-for-comparing-climate-change-believers-to-madment/2012/05/04/gIQAfI521T_blog.html) > [@](#): > > As Andrew Sullivan, writing about the billboards, put it: “In some ways, this is an almost perfect illustration of what has happened to the `right.’ A refusal to acknowledge scientific reality; and a brutalist style of public propaganda that focuses entirely on guilt by the most extreme association.” Apparently Heartland has either promised to remove the billboards or has done so. Per the WaPo, they’ve “turned it off”, whatever that means. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/group-pulls-plug-on-billboard-linking-global-warming-believers-to-terrorists/2012/05/04/gIQAU2q51T\_story.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/group-pulls-plug-on-billboard-linking-global-warming-believers-to-terrorists/2012/05/04/gIQAU2q51T_story.html) Edit: I see there is a separate thread on this below. But considering how closely Heartland and the GOP are linked, I think it’s fair to have it here as well. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5330 "2012-05-06T17:04:34Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > The side that starts name-calling first loses. Cite? (I doubt that John Kerry would agree.) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5331 "2012-05-06T23:19:15Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Cite? > (I doubt that John Kerry would agree.) Automatic loss for the kid who’d do such a thing in front of me when I was a HS Lincoln-Douglas debate judge. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5332 "2012-05-06T23:53:41Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > This is why you put cars into “Drive” instead! “The country is like a car. Pick D to go forward, R to go backward.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5333 "2012-05-07T02:18:55Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Automatic loss for the kid who’d do such a thing in front of me when I was a HS Lincoln-Douglas debate judge. Cool! What was Lincoln like in high school? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5334 "2012-05-07T02:31:57Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Cool! What was Lincoln like in high school? The bullies made fun of his mole. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5335 "2012-05-07T02:35:10Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Cool! What was Lincoln like in high school? Asshole woudn’t even _try out_ for basketball. Said it interfered with Math Club and Rhetoric, whatever the devil **that** is. And waaaay too proud of the chin whiskers. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5336 "2012-05-07T02:36:14Z")
> [@](#): > > The bullies made fun of his mole. Well, then, he should have had a more normal pet, like a dog or a cat. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5337 "2012-05-07T02:40:01Z")
> [@xenophon41](#): > > …And waaaay too proud of the chin whiskers. Funny story about that. He didn’t have the chin whiskers until one day, when he was campaigning and an adorable little blonde tyke looked up at him and said “You are one \*ugly \*motherfucker!” The line was later stolen for a popular Hollywood film, but predates it by many years. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5338 "2012-05-07T02:50:51Z")
Sooo… the adorable tyke was a predater? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5339 "2012-05-07T13:12:40Z")
What is the Predator in charge of anyway? And that’s a chick? Damn, I’d hate see what the male of that species looks like. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5340 "2012-05-07T14:19:37Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Automatic loss for the kid who’d do such a thing in front of me when I was a HS Lincoln-Douglas debate judge. It’s too bad you’re not judging the Presidential campaign then. GOP won 2004 because of their slimy name-calling and lies and, I’m afraid, those who think it won’t happen in 2012 are over-optimistic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=266) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=268)