# 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:** 384
**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:** [November 21, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7661 "2012-11-21T01:45:22Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Will a foetus count as three fifths of a person? That depends. What race are the parents? Really, though, we tried that already and it didn’t end well, especially since the partial people could not vote. Much like a fetus. Unless it will vote Republican. Then they will lower the voting age to conception. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7662 "2012-11-21T15:55:04Z")
News flash: A Republican has a smart idea – [reform copyright law to make it benefit all of society instead of just greedy corporations](http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11/19/1217271/republican-study-committee-flip-flops-on-copyright-reform-in-24-hours/) – but is forced by the Republican establishment to retract it within 24 hours. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7663 "2012-11-21T16:21:06Z")
“Unskewed Polls” guy Dean Chambers [has doubled down on teh stoopid](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/268963-unskewed-polls-founder-sets-up-site-claiming-obama-stole-the-election): > [@](#): > > Dean Chambers, the man behind the “Unskewed Polls” website, has a launched a new website declaring the election was stolen by Democrats. > > The website, [www.BarackOFraudo.com](http://www.BarackOFraudo.com), identifies four _“black states”_ Chambers claims were stolen by President Obama through massive voter fraud and suppression operations. According to the website, Democratic ballot stuffing was the reason Obama carried the critical swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida. > > The website provides no evidence for the allegations, other than to say that “Democrats are known for years for stuffing the ballot boxes,” and says that in this case, circumstantial evidence is sufficient. (Emphasis added in case anyone missed the oh-so-subtle dogwhistle.) ---
**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:** [November 21, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7664 "2012-11-21T18:59:54Z")
[This is a week old](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/allen-west-georgia-gop_n_2122407.html), but I didn’t see it mentioned and it gave me the giggles: > [@](#): > > Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) may not yet be ready to accept his apparent reelection defeat in Florida last week, but his Republican colleagues in Georgia are already seeking to provide a backup plan for the conservative darling’s political future. > > In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week, Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia GOP, praised Atlanta native West as “one of the finest congressmen this country’s ever had.” She then extended an invite for him to pursue a return to congress in Georgia in the future. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7665 "2012-11-21T19:04:07Z")
You mean we will have Allen West to kick around some more? Joy. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7666 "2012-11-21T19:07:38Z")
A new stupid idea from WorldNetDaily, that bastion of objective reporting: [“How Obama can be stopped in Electoral College”](http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/how-obama-can-be-stopped-in-electoral-college/). > [@](#): > > We have one last, final chance to save America. We have one last, final chance to stop Barack Obama. One final chance. > > … > > According to the 12th Amendment, for the Electoral College to be able to select the president, it must have a quorum of two-thirds of the states voting. If enough states refuse to participate, the Electoral College will not have a quorum. If the Electoral College does not have a quorum or otherwise cannot vote or decide, then the responsibility for selecting the president and vice president devolves to the Congress. Except, as it turns out, [they don’t understand the 12th Amendment](http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/electoral.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7667 "2012-11-21T20:37:32Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > How would that work exactly? I mean, what’s to stop someone from claiming a tax credit every single year? > > “Oh, proof of our pregnancy? Sorry, we don’t have health insurance. We never went to the doctor.” > > “Proof of our miscarriage? That’s a private matter. I don’t wish to discuss that.” Nah, if the fetus is a person when there is a miscarriage a death certificate will be required, and a $500 casket for a dozen cells or so. And a pathology report. Coroners, start buying really tiny scalpels. Maybe this is really a plot by the funeral industry. I can see the show now - Six Inches Under. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7668 "2012-11-23T03:49:32Z")
> [@ctnguy](#): > > A new stupid idea from WorldNetDaily, that bastion of objective reporting: [“How Obama can be stopped in Electoral College”](http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/how-obama-can-be-stopped-in-electoral-college/). > > > [@](#): > > > > We have one last, final chance to save America. We have one last, final chance to stop Barack Obama. One final chance. > > According to the 12th Amendment, for the Electoral College to be able to select the president, it must have a quorum of two-thirds of the states voting. If enough states refuse to participate, the Electoral College will not have a quorum. If the Electoral College does not have a quorum or otherwise cannot vote or decide, then the responsibility for selecting the president and vice president devolves to the Congress. > > Except, as it turns out, [they don’t understand the 12th Amendment](http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/electoral.asp). [A followup selection of choice wingnut comments:](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/22/1163842/-Having-fun-at-the-teabaggers-expense) > [@](#): > > [Obama] is a harvard law professor of course the electoral COLLEGE will side with one of their own. This is the true scandal here. > [@](#): > > Maybe we should march on the campus of the electoral college and occupy it until they change their vote. Those stupid leftists won’t know what to do when true Americans use their God given rights in the constitution to support the country for a change instead of trying to redistribute the wealth. :smack: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7669 "2012-11-23T03:53:40Z")
Something about that last one has a hint of post-modernist irony. “Campus of the electoral college” seems a mite complex for a shit-for-brains WorldNutter. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7670 "2012-11-23T04:50:29Z")
Yeah, that whole set of comments has me stuck firmly athwart Poe’s Law…I just can’t tell… ---
**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:** [November 23, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7671 "2012-11-23T06:06:03Z")
Yeah, I thought they were [Poes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=673131). ---
**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:** [November 23, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7672 "2012-11-23T12:58:24Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Maybe this is really a plot by the funeral industry. Well, if any industry knows plots… \ ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7673 "2012-11-23T17:40:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You mean we will have Allen West to kick around some more? Joy. As long as we’re kicking him around a different state. Some of us are still trying to scrape the “_duhh!_” off the end of “ **Flori-** ”. It’s been an uphill battle. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7674 "2012-11-23T17:41:38Z")
Born and raised in Texas, I can relate. We’re getting there. Slow, but slow. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7675 "2012-11-23T17:51:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Born and raised in Texas, I can relate. We’re getting there. Slow, but slow. It’s a foregone conclusion. By executing the mentally disabled, Texas is only accelerating the marginalizing of the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7676 "2012-11-23T17:52:55Z")
Dear God, they are going to nuke the Aggies? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7677 "2012-11-23T18:01:18Z")
> **[Care2 is the world's largest social network for good, a community of over 40...](https://www.care2.com/)** > > Largest online community empowering people to lead a healthy and green lifestyle while taking action on important causes such as human rights, animal welfare and global warming. I searched for a mention of this in the Pit and did not see it. Story is from March. Still stupid is strong with this man and he should get his due credit. > [@](#): > > **Sen. Inhofe: The Bible Proves Global Warming Is A “Hoax”** > > Senator James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, has been calling global warming a “hoax” for years – that’s nothing new. However, he’s just written a book called The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future, and interviews with him regarding the book have been…interesting. > > In an interview with Vic Eliason of Voice of Christian Youth America on Wednesday, for instance, he explained that his theory is “biblically inspired.” He claims that the idea that man-made pollution could affect the climate is “arrogance,” because, as we all know, only God can affect the climate: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7678 "2012-11-23T18:18:53Z")
Prayer as a method of drought relief works about as well as prayer as a method of birth control. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7679 "2012-11-23T18:38:53Z")
Of course prayer doesn’t work as birth control. God _wants_ you to have that rape-baby. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/7680 "2012-11-23T20:59:44Z")
Actually, Lord, I was thinking that a youngish virgin female is quite miracle enough. No need to overdo this, boil the baby in the bathwater, so to speak… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=383) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=385)