# 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:** 363
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7241 "2012-10-12T16:27:52Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Now, I don’t know for absolute certain that he’s lying… But I’ll bet a pickle that the idea is totally bogus. I will not bet the pickle. [The Jobless Report Was Correct - 7.8%](http://www.businessinsider.com/california-the-jobless-report-was-correct-2012-10) ---
**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:** [October 13, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7242 "2012-10-13T19:46:37Z")
The latest Daily Show provides examples of GOP stupidity: [QUOTE=REV. STONEY SHAW of Ferguson First Baptist Church] Some of my family was – my children: Dad, you’re not going to support him [Todd Akin], are you? Everybody is turning against him. I said, well, there was another guy that everybody turned against, Jesus Christ. But he prevailed. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Jon Michael Hubbard, Arkansas legislator] … the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7243 "2012-10-13T20:04:00Z")
Heckuva disguise. Like Hannibal Lecter dressing up as the Grinch. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7244 "2012-10-13T23:23:50Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player\_embedded&v=2E87gciwebw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2E87gciwebw) > > Obama is a Communist, but she doesn’t know what that means. Wow. Incredibly stupid AND smug. ---
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7245 "2012-10-15T00:08:01Z")
I hate to see this thread idle for a day. OK 2nd district Dempublican congressman Dan Boren is retiring. The Republican nominee for his seat is Markwayne Mullin, owner of a plumbing company that bears his name. He of course despises the O’bama stimulus package. Except… [Tulsa World](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=688&articleid=20120907_16_A12_CUTLIN307786) He claims ignorance, always believable in a Republican, of the federal connection but in another report the Cherokees say he was well informed. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7246 "2012-10-15T11:39:37Z")
[An anti-bullying campaign is actually part of the “homosexual agenda.”](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/us/seeing-a-homosexual-agenda-christian-group-protests-an-anti-bullying-program.html?_r=0) My favorite quote: > [@almost-certainly-repressed-gay-Bryan-Fischer](#): > > These anti-bullying policies become a mechanism for punishing Christian students who believe that homosexual behavior is not something that should be normalized. See, if we don’t allow people to ostracize others for _teh gay_, it makes Jesus sad. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7247 "2012-10-15T12:01:04Z")
> [@Batfish](#): > > I hate to see this thread idle for a day. > > OK 2nd district Dempublican congressman Dan Boren is retiring. The Republican nominee for his seat is Markwayne Mullin, owner of a plumbing company that bears his name. He of course despises the O’bama stimulus package. Except… > > [Tulsa World](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=688&articleid=20120907_16_A12_CUTLIN307786) > > He claims ignorance, always believable in a Republican, of the federal connection but in another report the Cherokees say he was well informed. I also like how how Markwayne gets preferential treatment in the bidding because he’s registered with the Cherokee nation, which, if you ask certain members of his party, is affirmative action. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7248 "2012-10-15T13:17:05Z")
Amongst the Cherokee people, he is known as “Speaks with Forked Butt Crack”. My tribal name is “Dances with Vulvas”. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7249 "2012-10-15T15:06:38Z")
[http://voice4america.com/articles/2012/10/12/jon-stewart-slams-gop-candidates-how-do-these-fing-crazy-people-make-it-to-the-national-stage.html?fb\_action\_ids=389168474485816&fb\_action\_types=og.likes&fb\_ref=wp&fb\_source=other\_multiline&action\_object\_map={"389168474485816"%3A363635863724442}&action\_type\_map={"389168474485816"%3A"og.likes"}&action\_ref\_map={"389168474485816"%3A"wp"}#axzz29NcBBfR9](http://voice4america.com/articles/2012/10/12/jon-stewart-slams-gop-candidates-how-do-these-fing-crazy-people-make-it-to-the-national-stage.html?fb_action_ids=389168474485816&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=wp&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%22389168474485816%22%3A363635863724442%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22389168474485816%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%7B%22389168474485816%22%3A%22wp%22%7D#axzz29NcBBfR9) Jon Stewart summarizes this thread. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7250 "2012-10-15T17:23:50Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > The latest Daily Show provides examples of GOP stupidity: It’s even dumber [in context](http://blaria.com/2012/10/08/jon-michael-hubbard-youre-embarrasing-white-folk/): > [@](#): > > “… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” – excerpt from Rep. Jon Michael Hubbard’s book Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative ---
**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:** [October 15, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7251 "2012-10-15T18:45:42Z")
> [@Batfish](#): > > I hate to see this thread idle for a day. > > OK 2nd district Dempublican congressman Dan Boren is retiring. The Republican nominee for his seat is Markwayne Mullin, owner of a plumbing company that bears his name. He of course despises the O’bama stimulus package. Except… > > [Tulsa World](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=688&articleid=20120907_16_A12_CUTLIN307786) > > He claims ignorance, always believable in a Republican, of the federal connection but in another report the Cherokees say he was well informed. I really don’t get this one. They received the money, they were gonna spend it, they needed plumbing work… Was he supposed to turn the job down?? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7252 "2012-10-15T18:56:15Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Was he supposed to turn the job down?? If he’s opposed to the stimulus and knew it was stimulus funds, then yeah. Otherwise he should be honest and acknowledge that stimulus funds were responsible for providing him with work he might not otherwise have had. But that would be acknowledging a Dem idea worked, so we can’t have that. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7253 "2012-10-15T19:11:31Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I really don’t get this one. > > They received the money, they were gonna spend it, they needed plumbing work… > Was he supposed to turn the job down?? [That’s what he says he would have done.](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=688&articleid=20120907_16_A12_CUTLIN307786) > [@](#): > > He also said he might not have submitted a bid had he known that the money was coming from the federal stimulus package. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7254 "2012-10-15T19:19:55Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I really don’t get this one. > > They received the money, they were gonna spend it, they needed plumbing work… > Was he supposed to turn the job down?? Well, I question whether he really didn’t know where the money was coming from. I also question why funds from the Federal government are a-ok, unless they come from the subcategory Stimulus, in which case those same Federal funds are suddenly not a-ok and should be rejected immediately and without hesitation. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7255 "2012-10-15T20:42:03Z")
Former Wisconsin GOP governor Tommy Thompson will likely be[taking his son Jason to the woodshed](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/tommy-thompson-son-obama-kenya_n_1967364.html): > [@](#): > > Republican Senate candidate Tommy Thompson’s campaign says his son apologizes for suggesting voters in the fall election should send President Barack Obama back to Kenya. > > Jason Thompson, the son of the former Wisconsin governor, was caught on camera Sunday making those remarks duing a brunch hosted by the Kenosha County Republican Party. > > “We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago – or Kenya,” said Jason Thompson, an attorney at a large Milwaukee law firm. > > The comment drew laughs from the crowd, with one woman jokingly adding, “We are taking donations for that Kenya trip.” ---
**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:** [October 15, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7256 "2012-10-15T23:33:42Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > [That’s what he says he would have done.](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=688&articleid=20120907_16_A12_CUTLIN307786) Well then, that _is_ moronic. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7257 "2012-10-16T01:10:34Z")
> [@](#): > > These anti-bullying policies become a mechanism for punishing Christian students who believe that homosexual behavior is not something that should be **normalized**. I do not think that word means what he thinks it means. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7258 "2012-10-16T03:30:31Z")
Funny thing, their idea of “normal” is so narrow and constricted, very few people actually fit within the category. Even Ozzie, of _Ozzie and Harriet_, he was an atheist. That’s a true fact, you could look it up… ---
**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:** [October 16, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7259 "2012-10-16T21:33:48Z")
[Steve Fitzgerald, Kansas State Senate candidate, says Democrats aren’t true Christians.](http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/16/1019861/democrats-arent-real-catholics-says-kansas-senate-candidate/) I wonder if people giving these kind of “You can either be a Christian or a liberal” options are why the number of self-professed non-religious people in America has doubled since 2000. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7260 "2012-10-18T11:02:35Z")
1. [See Scott](http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/x1292877457/Brown-claims-Warren-uses-actors-in-asbestos-ads) try to deflect Elizabeth’s ads by saying that the family members of asbestos-related illness victims in the ads are just paid actors. 2. See the people in the ads get righteously pissed as Scott. 3. See Scott issue a weaselly\* non-apology (“It was wrong for me to have jumped to those conclusions.”) \*Definition Time: “Jumping to conclusions” is an honest mistake one makes when one misinterprets evidence. “Lying” is a dishonest stratagem one uses when one just makes stuff up without regard to evidence. Scott’s misadventure is an example of the latter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=362) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=364)