# 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:** 369
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7361 "2012-10-26T21:36:56Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > No, it was on his show. He’s usually more standoffish in his comedy, but I thought his real feelings were coming through about the stupid things that have been said. > > ETA; I didn’t realize \*\*boytyeranma \*\* responded before I did. MORE people need to be ranting about this, and not just Colbert and Stewart. More people need to be condemning the people who say such stupid things. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7362 "2012-10-26T21:51:42Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > MORE people need to be ranting about this, and not just Colbert and Stewart. More people need to be condemning the people who say such stupid things. Colbert has really turned it into a crusade. Last night he had Mitch Daniels on, and asked him about Mourdock’s comments. When Daniels sidestepped the question by talking about how it’s a difficult issue, and there are numerous viewpoints, and it wasn’t going to be resolved in this election, Colbert responded that _abortion_ is a difficult issue, but there’s pretty much only one side when it comes to _rape_. I don’t think Daniels had an answer to that. I think it’s clear that Colbert is truly angry about the rape comments. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7363 "2012-10-26T22:00:00Z")
From [here](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/25/pennsylvania-bill-requiring-women-to-prove-they-were-raped-is-withdrawn.html): “A Pennsylvania bill that would have limited welfare benefits for low-income mothers—unless they could prove their newborns were a result of rape—has been withdrawn by the lawmakers who introduced it after a wave of criticism following its announcement.” So they’re backing off on it, but it certainly was a stupid idea. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7364 "2012-10-26T22:14:45Z")
> [@mr. Greenjeans](#): > > from [here](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/25/pennsylvania-bill-requiring-women-to-prove-they-were-raped-is-withdrawn.html): > > “a pennsylvania bill that would have limited welfare benefits for low-income mothers—unless they could prove their newborns were a result of rape—has been withdrawn by the lawmakers who introduced it after a wave of criticism following its announcement.” > so they’re backing off on it, but it certainly was a stupid idea. _boggle_ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7365 "2012-10-26T22:32:51Z")
How are you supposed to _prove_… :eek: :mad: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7366 "2012-10-26T22:42:35Z")
I hereby solemnly swear that on the night of January 11, 2120, I forcibly raped (blank). The fact that I am vicious enough to do it and stupid enough to admit it should be enough to prove that I am unfit genetic material for a prospective citizen. Signed (Rapist name here) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7367 "2012-10-26T22:45:13Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Any chance Texas has something to hide? Because, you know, if you don’t have anything to hide then it doesn’t matter what we observe, no? Is there any chance Texas _doesn’t_ have something to hide? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7368 "2012-10-26T22:48:42Z")
Hid the Alamo once, then forgot where. Hence the phrase. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2012, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7369 "2012-10-26T22:51:31Z")
The seeming obsession with rape makes me think of [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_urvjCXg6c). (Audio is probably NSFW.) Charming. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7370 "2012-10-26T23:48:27Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I call pedophilia. 😃 Oh, and witchcraft. This could be the break the [O’Donnell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJyPsmEask) campaign has been waiting for! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7371 "2012-10-27T00:31:47Z")
If there’s one thing you shouldn’t try to get past the Left, it’s a [bad Photoshop.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-campaign-appears-to-exaggerate-size-of-neva) ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7372 "2012-10-27T00:56:50Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > If there’s one thing you shouldn’t try to get past the Left, it’s a [bad Photoshop.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-campaign-appears-to-exaggerate-size-of-neva) “Romneney”. It’s his very own gotchaya. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7373 "2012-10-27T01:01:05Z")
Wow, that is SO bad! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7374 "2012-10-27T01:11:11Z")
That’s definitely a 'shop. I can tell from the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7375 "2012-10-27T02:43:31Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Is there any chance Texas _doesn’t_ have something to hide? Hur hur, good one 🙂 I’m wondering if Texas wants to avoid something like this (from “[How to Rig an Election](http://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/)” in the latest Harper’s): > [@](#): > > Late on election day, John Kerry showed an insurmountable lead in exit polling, and many considered his victory all but certified. yet the final vote tallies in thirty states deviated widely from exit polls, with discrepancies favoring George W. Bush in all but nine. The greatest disparities were concentrated in battleground states- particularly Ohio. In one Ohio precinct, exit polls indicated that Kerry should have received 67 percent of the vote, but the certified tally gave him only 38 percent. The odds of such an unexpected outcome occurring only as a result of sampling error are 1 in 867,205,553. Such embarrassing outcomes never happen if you just don’t let professionals observe the election in the first place. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7376 "2012-10-27T03:07:23Z")
Well, now, are we really surprised that people who voted for Bush wouldn’t admit it? ---
**Author:** ![NineLineMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9e8a1a/32.png) [@NineLineMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineLineMan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7377 "2012-10-27T03:31:31Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > If there’s one thing you shouldn’t try to get past the Left, it’s a [bad Photoshop.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-campaign-appears-to-exaggerate-size-of-neva) That’s definitely NOT photoshopped. They’ve used the Panorama function built into the camera where you take one photo, manually pan and take another one, repeating as needed. The camera then automatically merges them to make one wide photo. It’s not very sophisticated and those types of cloning artifacts are common. Someone approved that photo for use after just glancing at it and didn’t notice. If something could be either insidious or incompetent, it’s usually the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7378 "2012-10-27T04:05:43Z")
I have no idea what specific panorama app they might have used, so I can’t say this with absolute certainty, but… I’ve used several panorama apps with my phone, and absolutely none of them have ever given me a result like that. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7379 "2012-10-27T04:14:02Z")
> [@NineLineMan](#): > > If something could be either insidious or incompetent, it’s usually the latter. Oh, come on. That’s not true. It can be both! ---
**Author:** ![NineLineMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9e8a1a/32.png) [@NineLineMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineLineMan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7380 "2012-10-27T04:36:58Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > I have no idea what specific panorama app they might have used, so I can’t say this with absolute certainty, but… > > I’ve used several panorama apps with my phone, and absolutely none of them have ever given me a result like that. The phone apps are better than the ones built into cameras since they have so much more processing power available. It can still go wrong if you don’t align the edges properly and it tries to merge the photos in the wrong place, you get those duplicated sections fading into each other. The most convincing evidence is that it is too awful to be done manually. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=368) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=370)