# 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:** 335
**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:** [August 31, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6681 "2012-08-31T16:41:11Z")
The [Republican Party Platform](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/0829/Audit-the-fed-Gold-standard-Five-new-things-in-GOP-platform-video) provides some choice stupidities. [ul][li] The GOP will fight jihadists who seek to impose Shariah law in the U.S. (“There must be no use of foreign law by US courts in interpreting our Constitution and laws. Nor should foreign sources of law be used in State courts; adjudication of criminal or civil matters.”)[/li][li] The GOP “reject[s] the UN Agenda 21 as erosive of American sovereignty, and we oppose any form of UN Global Tax.” Agenda 21 is a widely-ignored “neo-Communist” plan to promote health, empower women, combat poverty,and protect the environment.[/li][li] Bring back the gold standard. (“Now, three decades [after Reagan’s commission rejected a right-wing plan to restore gold standard], as we face the task of cleaning up the wreckage of the current administration’s policies, we propose a similar commission to investigate possible ways to set a fixed value for the dollar.")[/li][li] GOP takes a stand on recent rampages by armed American maniacs: “We oppose legislation that is intended to restrict our Second Amendment rights by limiting the capacity of clips or magazines or otherwise restoring the ill-considered Clinton gun ban.”[/li][li] Although it was FoxNews that recently outed a U.S. Navy SEAL, they blame Obama (“The current administration’s leaks of classified information have imperiled intelligence assets which are vital to American security.”)[/li][li] Et cetera.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6682 "2012-08-31T17:37:36Z")
“Agenda 21 is a widely-ignored “neo-Communist” plan to promote health, empower women, combat poverty,and protect the environment.” Why would anyone be against those things? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6683 "2012-08-31T17:49:21Z")
I can just picture the platform committee, hunched over a large white canvass in a smoky treehouse, furiously scribbling out the mean things Obama has done in crayon an hour before they had to unveil it at the convention. Not that the GOP had much faith in facts before, but this is like they copied and pasted a freeper post and decided it was what the party stands for. Never have I seen as big a group like the GOP with presumeably at least a couple of intelligent people churn out so much shit that could clog up an outhouse ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6684 "2012-08-31T17:52:02Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > “Agenda 21 is a widely-ignored “neo-Communist” plan to promote health, empower women, combat poverty,and protect the environment.” > > Why would anyone be against those things? See the title of this thread. I’m beginning to suspect that supporting any of these things is against their religion. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6685 "2012-08-31T18:29:22Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > The [Republican Party Platform](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/0829/Audit-the-fed-Gold-standard-Five-new-things-in-GOP-platform-video) provides some choice stupidities. > > [ul][li] The GOP will fight jihadists who seek to impose Shariah law in the U.S. (“There must be no use of foreign law by US courts in interpreting our Constitution and laws. Nor should foreign sources of law be used in State courts; adjudication of criminal or civil matters.”) [/li][/ul] Note that the reason given for opposing this has nothing to do with it violating the First Amendment. I wonder why? ---
**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 31, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6686 "2012-08-31T19:11:57Z")
[quote=“septimus, post:6681, topic:490897”] The [Republican Party Platform](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/0829/Audit-the-fed-Gold-standard-Five-new-things-in-GOP-platform-video) provides some choice stupidities. [ul] [li]The GOP will fight jihadists who seek to impose Shariah law in the U.S. (“There must be no use of foreign law by US courts in interpreting our Constitution and laws. Nor should foreign sources of law be used in State courts; adjudication of criminal or civil matters.”)[/li][/quote] [/ul] How long until some Liberal points out to them the the Bible was written in the Middle East? ---
**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 31, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6687 "2012-08-31T19:53:19Z")
[Mitt Romney says the US is a “company”;](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/31/783791/romney-calls-america-company/) [QUOTE=Mitt Romney] Paul Ryan and I understand how the economy works, we understand how Washington works, we will reach across the aisle and find good people who like us, want to make sure this company deals with its challenges. We’ll get America on track again. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6688 "2012-08-31T20:49:52Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Mitt Romney says the US is a “company”;](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/31/783791/romney-calls-america-company/) Should we expect downsizing? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6689 "2012-08-31T20:54:20Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Should we expect downsizing? Or at least offshoring. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6690 "2012-08-31T21:00:58Z")
“I like being able to fire people.” ---
**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:** [August 31, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6691 "2012-08-31T21:06:12Z")
Maybe he can ship Texas to Rangoon or something. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6692 "2012-08-31T22:20:57Z")
Can I have Idaho? I wanna go-go-go to Ida-ho-ho-ho. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6693 "2012-09-01T02:41:39Z")
Today in “words mean things”: If there’s one industry that hates Obama to its core, it’s the coal industry. They’ve not been shy about using their astroturf groups to explicitly campaign against the President, and my friends who work in the mines say that they’ve been pretty shameless in telling their employees how they need to vote. [So it’s no surprise that when Romney showed up at a coal mine in Ohio, the miners were forced to take the day off without pay and attend the rally.](http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/28/759131/miners-say-they-were-forced-to-attend-romney-campaign-event-without-pay-we-knew-what-would-happen/) Of course, Murray Energy’s CFO denies that anyone was “forced” to attend. > [@](#): > > “Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend,” Moore said. He confirmed that pay was docked for all the workers. So it was mandatory, but no one was _forced_ to go. Got it. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6694 "2012-09-01T04:01:44Z")
I’m kinda guessing that paying them for the lost workday would have constituted a campaign finance crime. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6695 "2012-09-01T04:06:41Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > [/list] > How long until some Liberal points out to them the the Bible was written in the Middle East? But not the Book of Mormon ! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6696 "2012-09-01T04:07:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m kinda guessing that paying them for the lost workday would have constituted a campaign finance crime. Screwing coal miners. Nostalgia. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6697 "2012-09-01T06:19:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Screwing coal miners. Nostalgia. The more things change, same as the old boss. You load sixteen tons… ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6698 "2012-09-01T10:41:03Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > But not the Book of Mormon ! Naaah. For that you need a good old fashioned 100 % American con man. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6699 "2012-09-01T11:00:41Z")
If my employer told me “the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, and that my pay would be docked” how eager would I be to actually vote for Romney? Man, I’d be so pissed I’d be making phone calls for Obama until my fingers fell off. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/6700 "2012-09-01T11:28:27Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Well the chair kept interrupting him! I think in his mind, it actually was, or was just about to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=334) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=336)