# 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:** 328
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6541 "2012-08-23T04:28:31Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Leaving aside statutory rape, there’s also rape by intoxication and the like. I assume he means _forcible_, rather than _forced_, though. WTF does this mean? What do you think the difference between forcible rape and forced rape is? ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6542 "2012-08-23T10:20:10Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Wow. Did you read the comments section for that story? Is Texas still in the 1950s? Post after post of racist and ignorance-laden rants. Holy crap, please tell me I’m being whooshed. That comments section is beyond my worst nightmare. How can people smart enough to use the internet be so abysmally ignorant? And notice how the more ignorant the comment, the more up votes it gets. Looks like “No child left behind” is working to perfection. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6543 "2012-08-23T10:56:59Z")
According to that comments section, FEMA has put together camps with “gazillions of caskets”, the FDA and Social Security Administration have been issued with hollow-point bullets, Obama is a Communist under the control of third-world “handlers”, the Democrats will prevent Romney from winning the election and if he somehow does there will be race war, and the Tories (whoever they are) are going to be shipped back to Europe. And these people all vote. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6544 "2012-08-23T11:24:15Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I mean, I (very unexpectedly, I might add) lost my cherry to an eager 17 year old. I was 21 at the time, and shier than a squirrel. IANAL, but [you should be good](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#France) (if I recall correctly). ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6545 "2012-08-23T13:37:25Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > According to that comments section, FEMA has put together camps with “gazillions of caskets”, the FDA and Social Security Administration have been issued with hollow-point bullets, Obama is a Communist under the control of third-world “handlers”, the Democrats will prevent Romney from winning the election and if he somehow does there will be race war, and the Tories (whoever they are) are going to be shipped back to Europe. Thank God it’s out. I’ve been biting my tongue for _months_. Let’s not even wait until the election. Fuck 'em. Whip out the hollow points and let’s install Obama as dictator-for-life now! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6546 "2012-08-23T13:40:33Z")
First of all, there’s no such thing as “Republican ideas”, so calling them stupid is redundant. Secondly…isn’t the SS Admin and DHS buying up a huge quantity of ammunition true? Or is that false? ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6547 "2012-08-23T13:50:03Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Thank God it’s out. I’ve been biting my tongue for _months_. > > Let’s not even wait until the election. Fuck 'em. Whip out the hollow points and let’s install Obama as dictator-for-life now! Sadly, that would still be a better idea then most of what the GOP comes up with. ☹ ---
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6548 "2012-08-23T13:58:07Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Secondly…isn’t the SS Admin and DHS buying up a huge quantity of ammunition true? Or is that false? It’s the Park Service that’s buying all the ammo. Next time you go over your limit on walleye, shit’s gonna get _real_. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6549 "2012-08-23T14:03:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s the Park Service that’s buying all the ammo. Next time you go over your limit on walleye, shit’s gonna get _real_. I saw on Facebook (yeah I know) from a freeper friend that the SSN and DHS were also buying up huge quantities of ammo…allegedly for a civic uprising. I guessed it was bullshit but never really looked into it. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6550 "2012-08-23T14:10:01Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Leaving aside statutory rape, there’s also rape by intoxication and the like. Yes, but that is coerced (i.e. forced) - it just isn’t coerced by physical violence. Anyway, enough with the derail on semantics 🙂 [QUOTE=gamerunknown] IANAL, but [you should be good](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#France) (if I recall correctly). [/QUOTE] Huh. Could have sworn it was 18. Well, then. All right. Carry on. (as an aside, we once made distinctions between hetero- and homosexual consents ? The hell ?) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6551 "2012-08-23T15:21:39Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > …the Democrats will prevent Romney from winning the election… Isn’t that their job? ---
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6552 "2012-08-23T15:39:00Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > WTF does this mean? What do you think the difference between forcible rape and forced rape is? I think this is the difference he is talking about [QUOTE= God] **Deuteronomy 22: 23-27** 23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.(S) 25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed,(T) there was no one to rescue her. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6553 "2012-08-23T15:41:46Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > First of all, there’s no such thing as “Republican ideas”, so calling them stupid is redundant. Secondly…isn’t the SS Admin and DHS buying up a huge quantity of ammunition true? Or is that false? “FIRST of all”? It’s taken you three and a half years to come up with a “FIRST of all”? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6554 "2012-08-23T17:14:24Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > …the Democrats will prevent Romney from winning the election… > > Isn’t that their job? It’s the single most important thing they want to achieve. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6555 "2012-08-23T18:00:36Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > I suspect he meant “Rape is rape because if I say anything else my poll numbers will dip even further.” The way he just repeated the phrase in response to an attempt to get him to answer the damn question already, it’s clear that it’s the script fed to him by his handlers and he dares not deviate from it lest he uncork his own Akin moment of unintentional self-exposure. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6556 "2012-08-23T19:58:56Z")
[Sheriff candidate in NH says he’d use deadly force to stop an abortion.](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/23/733481/szabo-abortion/) That’s right - every life is so precious, that we have to _kill_ to protect them. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6557 "2012-08-23T20:14:00Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The way he just repeated the phrase in response to an attempt to get him to answer the damn question already, it’s clear that it’s the script fed to him by his handlers and he dares not deviate from it lest he uncork his own Akin moment of unintentional self-exposure. Somebody ask him, if his wife were raped… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6558 "2012-08-23T20:30:47Z")
You mean, would he want to kill the perpetrator, or would he be willing to raise the rapist’s child as his own? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6559 "2012-08-23T20:40:25Z")
I was thinking, if his wife got pregnant and wanted an abortion…? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6560 "2012-08-23T21:39:16Z")
Rush Limbaugh [blames hurricane warnings](http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/08/23/rush-limbaugh-blames-obama-for-hurricane-warnings/), which may coincide with the GOP convention, on Barack Obama. > [@Rush "I have Excrement for Brains" Limbaugh](#): > > The National Hurricane Center is Obama. The National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. It is Obama…They are talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing…We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it, and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center — we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=327) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=329)