# 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:** 285
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5681 "2012-06-13T19:20:10Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > By law, the property tax division may not factor the seawater above your property into its estimation of your bill… Nonsense - it means that your beachfront property is even more beach-fronty, which means we get to double your property taxes. Win win!!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5682 "2012-06-13T19:56:39Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > Nonsense - it means that your beachfront property is even more beach-fronty, which means we get to double your property taxes. Win win!!😃 But they must be pro-rated by the amount of time the ‘beach’ part of the beachfront is accessible–lose! Also, the Frogurt is cursed. ---
**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5683 "2012-06-13T20:52:10Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > This paragraph has me scratching my head: > > So either you are against it or oppose it? Huh? I believe the second sentence is meant to provide detail for the first sentence not to contrast it. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5684 "2012-06-13T21:46:18Z")
Why do so many 'Pubs think that cutting off unemployment benefits is going to make people “get serious” about finding work? Aren’t most of them pretty serious already? ---
**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:** [June 13, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5685 "2012-06-13T22:09:12Z")
For the same reason some conservatives think people choose to be poor, because it is such a sweet life. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5686 "2012-06-14T00:56:07Z")
And the same reason they think people choose to be gay, so they can get all the awesome benefits and love from their fellow citizens. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5687 "2012-06-14T01:17:08Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > For the same reason some conservatives think people choose to be poor, because it is such a sweet life. By the same token, being rich must really suck. They keep insisting that we lower their taxes and provide other incentives to encourage them to make millions. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5688 "2012-06-14T01:23:10Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > By the same token, being rich must really suck. They keep insisting that we lower their taxes and provide other incentives to encourage them to make millions. I forgot that one. “Cut our taxes, or life just won’t be worth living” ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5689 "2012-06-14T03:45:11Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > i just don’t think it’s either necessary or beneficial for the government to spend a whole lot of effort policing what people do to themselves and their bodies. If it reduced obesity and heart disease and strokes correspondingly decreased, it’d be worth it. Advertising regulation (clearly marked nutritional information, stringent guidelines on crap) and taxation (increased taxation on indicted food, subsidise healthier food and gym equipment, remove subsidies on corn) are probably better ways to address the problem. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5690 "2012-06-14T04:02:31Z")
Well, this isn’t about a stupid Republican _idea_, just a stupid Republican – one who can’t spell ‘conservative’. Lest you think Nanette Billings, wife of Utah’s Washington County Republican Party Chairman Willie Billings, just made a typo, she settled my doubts by repeating her spelling of it – “conseritave” – twice in a very brief email. The email, by the way, was addressed to another Republican, Fred Karger (openly gay Republican presidential candidate), who she was trying mightily to trash but merely succeeded in revealing herself to be a grade school dropout. [Washington Post story here](http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gay-republican-presidential-candidate-fred-karger-gets-rough-205847849.html). She seems stymied by several issues related to literacy. Also, it is not clear whether she was commanding Karger not to procreate, or believes he is unable to procreate. ---
**Author:** ![IceQube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5691 "2012-06-14T05:48:02Z")
I thought that you couldn’t … [QUOTE=Barry Goldwater] legislate morality [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5692 "2012-06-14T05:53:34Z")
I think the general theme of the Republican Party is more along the lines of “it’s tyranny for the government to legislate _my_ morality; it’s imperative for the government to do something about _your_ immorality.” ---
**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:** [June 14, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5693 "2012-06-14T13:56:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Despite his earlier opposition to [Mitt Romney](http://www.cnbc.com/id/45051863)’s candidacy for the White House, former [General Motors](http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837548) ([GM](http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=gm)) Vice Chairman [Bob Lutz](http://www.cnbc.com/id/47512229) said Wednesday he backed the former Massachusetts governor. > > “You know, all is forgiven. It depends who his opponent is,” he said on CNBC’s “[The Kudlow Report](http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838446).” > > Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, authored a New York Times editorial in October 2008 titled, “[Let Detroit Go Bankrupt](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19iht-edromney.1.17959143.html).” But in recent months, Romney reversed course, attempting to take credit for the bailout. > > “I think he has since modified his stand on that completely,” Lutz said. “He now says he was totally in favor of it and suggested it. That’s neither here nor there.” [http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bob-lutz-backs-romney-forgives-041532507.html](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bob-lutz-backs-romney-forgives-041532507.html) Pay no attention to the Mitt from 2008, we have a brand spanking new Mitt we like now. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5694 "2012-06-14T14:13:13Z")
Well, if the whole shaving gays thing is any indication, he may just not remember what he thought in 2008. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5695 "2012-06-14T17:07:50Z")
Gotta love tepid endorsement. “It depends who his opponent is.” ? Why not just go ahead and say “Look, I loathe the guy as much as you, but it’s him or Obama so…whaddayagonnado ? _shrug_” ---
**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:** [June 14, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5696 "2012-06-14T19:09:00Z")
[http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/romney-campaign-bus-circling-honking-at-obama-supporters.php](http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/romney-campaign-bus-circling-honking-at-obama-supporters.php) Romney Campaign Bus Circling, Honking At Obama Supporters > [@](#): > > Romney’s campaign bus — adorned with the words “Conservative. Businessman. Leader” today repeatedly honked at and took several laps around a group of Obama supporters before a campaign speech to be given by President Obama in Cleveland today, according to a tweet by CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller. Romney also moved his speech up to 1:30PM from 1:50PM to beat Obama’s planned time of 1:45PM. Also: [http://mediacast.realgravity.com/sharing/abd3f6b0-4082-012f-2a8c-12313d00d151/fc9a7210-8d6c-012f-2f22-12313d00d151.html](http://mediacast.realgravity.com/sharing/abd3f6b0-4082-012f-2a8c-12313d00d151/fc9a7210-8d6c-012f-2f22-12313d00d151.html) Naturally, Romney events have been and will be protested as well. Let’s not get our noses out of joint when it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5697 "2012-06-14T19:51:28Z")
And in the category of, “Shucks, They All Look The Same”, US News & World Report reports that the Republican National Committee’s site [RNCLatinos.com](http://RNCLatinos.com) uses a stock photo of Asian kids in its banner. [Cite](http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/06/14/rnc-latino-site-features-stock-photo-of-asian-children). ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5698 "2012-06-14T21:20:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > By the same token, being rich must really suck. They keep insisting that we lower their taxes and provide other incentives to encourage them to make millions. It’s very simple. If you give poor people money it makes them lazy but if you give rich people money it makes them work harder to create jobs. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5699 "2012-06-15T15:06:09Z")
Michigan GOP Congresscritters [up in arms](http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/michigan-state-representative-silenced-by-gop-for-saying-vagina.php?m=1) at the inflammatory language used by Democratic representative Lisa Brown in opposing a proposed abortion bill ! Said one State representative, “It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company.” Following her gross and disgusting words, Rep. Brown would be barred from further participating in the debate. I’m sorry, did I forget to mention the word in question ? Well, I’m not sure I can say this in mixed company, even in the Pit. I’ll put it in spoilers, just in case: vagina ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/5700 "2012-06-15T15:12:15Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > vagina Reported!!! :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=284) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=286)