# 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:** 366
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7301 "2012-10-21T13:07:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, great. Now we’ll have all the anti-circumcision folks raising hell in this thread. it’s jkust another case of Republican Hy Bris! b:D ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7302 "2012-10-21T16:16:16Z")
Ignorance is _bris_. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7303 "2012-10-21T17:14:35Z")
Look, here’s how it is. That thing of the end of a guy’s auxiliary brain? In scientific parlance, called the “knob”? That is the male equivalent of a clitoris. If it is not swathed in flesh, it gets rubbed by clothing, etc., and becomes relatively desensitized. Relatively. When this desensitizing occurs, the length of time between actual intromission and rolling over and going to sleep gets significantly longer. This can have a direct bearing on a woman’s orgasmic incidence ratio. Which in turn directly affects such behavior as the cheerful delivery of a sammich and a beer during The Game a.k.a., Quality of Life. As we all know, women choose and maintain husbands based on character, integrity, and acting ability (as in “pretending to be interested”). Its certainly possible that a much higher OI! factor is a minor concern. Place your bets. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7304 "2012-10-21T18:08:00Z")
I have no idea what that has to do with this thread. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7305 "2012-10-21T20:15:04Z")
Stupid Republicans. Knobs. What are you missing? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7306 "2012-10-21T22:45:55Z")
[Hartman knows Republicans](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2vkiLHiTcY). ---
**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:** [October 22, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7307 "2012-10-22T13:32:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Hartman knows Republicans](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2vkiLHiTcY). Blocked at work; summary please people? ---
**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:** [October 22, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7308 "2012-10-22T13:50:08Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Blocked at work; summary please people? _ **Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:** I bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around._ ---
**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 22, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7309 "2012-10-22T15:03:29Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Look, here’s how it is. That thing of the end of a guy’s auxiliary brain? In scientific parlance, called the “knob”? That is the male equivalent of a clitoris. If it is not swathed in flesh, it gets rubbed by clothing, etc., and becomes relatively desensitized. Relatively. > > When this desensitizing occurs, the length of time between actual intromission and rolling over and going to sleep gets significantly longer. This can have a direct bearing on a woman’s orgasmic incidence ratio. Which in turn directly affects such behavior as the cheerful delivery of a sammich and a beer during The Game a.k.a., Quality of Life. > > As we all know, women choose and maintain husbands based on character, integrity, and acting ability (as in “pretending to be interested”). Its certainly possible that a much higher OI! factor is a minor concern. > > Place your bets. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7310 "2012-10-24T04:34:39Z")
[GOP Senate candidate: Pregnancies from rape God’s will](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/23/gop-senate-candidate-pregnancies-from-rape-gods-will/?hpt=hp_t2) (CNN) – Richard Mourdock, running for U.S. Senate in Indiana, said at a debate Tuesday that pregnancies resulting from rape are intended by God. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7311 "2012-10-24T04:44:35Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > [GOP Senate candidate: Pregnancies from rape God’s will](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/23/gop-senate-candidate-pregnancies-from-rape-gods-will/?hpt=hp_t2) > > (CNN) – Richard Mourdock, running for U.S. Senate in Indiana, said at a debate Tuesday that pregnancies resulting from rape are intended by God. [And the day after the GOP started running an ad with Mitt endorsing this dick, Mitt has to repudiate the statement (but not the candidate, of course).](http://news.yahoo.com/romney-distances-himself-mourdocks-comments-025217767--election.html) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7312 "2012-10-24T05:45:42Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > [GOP Senate candidate: Pregnancies from rape God’s will](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/23/gop-senate-candidate-pregnancies-from-rape-gods-will/?hpt=hp_t2) > > (CNN) – Richard Mourdock, running for U.S. Senate in Indiana, said at a debate Tuesday that pregnancies resulting from rape are intended by God. Tangent: Isn’t that a totally meaningless statement, to a believer? I mean, isn’t EVERYTHING God’s will, kind of by definition, if you believe in that sort of thing? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7313 "2012-10-24T13:21:24Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Tangent: Isn’t that a totally meaningless statement, to a believer? I mean, isn’t EVERYTHING God’s will, kind of by definition, if you believe in that sort of thing? Yes, it’s meaningless if you can think it through that far. It even suggests that if a woman gets an abortion, that too is “God’s will” – but NO, that just won’t do for the anti-abortion activists. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7314 "2012-10-24T13:23:29Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Tangent: Isn’t that a totally meaningless statement, to a believer? I mean, isn’t EVERYTHING God’s will, kind of by definition, if you believe in that sort of thing? Yup. When something good happens, it’s all “Oh thank Jesus! Isn’t the Lord wonderful?” When it’s bad, “I guess it’s part of God’s plan! Oh well!” And when you press them on it, some variation of “mysterious ways” is the result. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7315 "2012-10-24T13:51:19Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Yup. When something good happens, it’s all “Oh thank Jesus! Isn’t the Lord wonderful?” When it’s bad, “I guess it’s part of God’s plan! Oh well!” And when you press them on it, some variation of “mysterious ways” is the result. \ ***Duke Forrest:** Dammit, Henry, Frank Burns is a menace! Every time a patient croaks on him he says it’s “God’s will” or somebody else’s fault. **Hawkeye Pierce:** Yeah, and this time he blamed it on some kid who was stupid enough to believe him. \* I wish I could find a certain _Doonesbury_ strip from the 80s. It has two football players talking in the locker room: _ **Phil:** So, if I catch a touchdown pass… **Jimmy:** Jesus guided your hands. **Phil:** And if I drop it… **Jimmy:** It’s God’s will. **Phil:** Frankly, Jimmy, I’m not seeing an edge here._ ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7316 "2012-10-24T13:51:58Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Tangent: Isn’t that a totally meaningless statement, to a believer? I mean, isn’t EVERYTHING God’s will, kind of by definition, if you believe in that sort of thing? So, apparently rape is also God’s will. Just suck it up, ladies. You just can’t win this one. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7317 "2012-10-24T14:35:09Z")
Oh no, he’s already said that rape is not God’s will. Just the pregnancy is. > [@](#): > > While explaining why he would only support an abortion if the mother’s life was in danger, Mourdock said he opposes the abortion of a pregnancy caused by rape because: “Life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” > > After the debate, according to The Associated Press, "Mourdock further explained … that he did not believe God intended the rape, but that God is the only one who can create life. ‘Are you trying to suggest somehow that God preordained rape, no I don’t think that,’ Mourdock said. ‘Anyone who would suggest that is just sick and twisted. No, that’s not even close to what I said.’ " I have to admit as to being extremely confused - if God wanted that life, that must mean he wanted it with that genetic coding, which could only occur if those two particular individuals conceived. Which means that he did want the rape. Otherwise, its just a meaningless life, which can be created in a consenting relationship. I’m so confused. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7318 "2012-10-24T14:44:59Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > I’m so confused. Mysterious ways son, mysterious ways. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7319 "2012-10-24T14:50:49Z")
Oh, yeah. God’s will. Reminds me of the punchline, “But Preacher, we sent two boats and a helicopter!” ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7320 "2012-10-24T15:23:33Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > Oh no, he’s already said that rape is not God’s will. Just the pregnancy is. > > > [@](#): > > > > While explaining why he would only support an abortion if the mother’s life was in danger, Mourdock said he opposes the abortion of a pregnancy caused by rape because: “Life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” > > > > After the debate, according to The Associated Press, "Mourdock further explained … that he did not believe God intended the rape, but that God is the only one who can create life. ‘Are you trying to suggest somehow that God preordained rape, no I don’t think that,’ Mourdock said. ‘Anyone who would suggest that is just sick and twisted. No, that’s not even close to what I said.’ " > > I have to admit as to being extremely confused - if God wanted that life, that must mean he wanted it with that genetic coding, which could only occur if those two particular individuals conceived. Which means that he did want the rape. Otherwise, its just a meaningless life, which can be created in a consenting relationship. I’m so confused. OMG - I feel so… sick … and twisted. Mostly trying to figure out how the result is God’s will but the cause is not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=365) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=367)