# 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:** 430
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8581 "2013-02-08T00:06:13Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > I said nothing of the sort. > > I’ve never seen so many people work so hard not to say they aren’t perfect, or that their chosen “team” isn’t perfect. Jeez, people. I’m fine with saying that Democrats/liberals aren’t perfect. As Barney Frank said, “Democrats aren’t perfect, but Republicans are NUTS!” We’re not perfect, but there is a vast difference between the two parties. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8582 "2013-02-08T00:07:06Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > How can anyone participate in a “Stupid Republican idea of the day” thread and still harp on self-righteously about being aware of biases? The whole fucking thread is about mocking Republicans. If you want to be scrupulously fair, this isn’t the thread for it. Okay, another honest reply. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8583 "2013-02-08T00:08:11Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > I **completely** agree with you on this, but the rest of what you’re saying, sorry no. Others are pointing out what I also think, but better and quicker than I. > > Again, I sincerely and fully support your statement above, though the question was not quite as awful as just that word _retard_, which I believe I’ve seen you comment on. It’s very unkind for people born with these conditions to have that word used as an insult. Thanks. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8584 "2013-02-08T00:09:09Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > First honest reply. I don’t think you’ll find anyone who’s following this thread who would dispute that the purpose of the thread is to make fun of Republicans. If they’d stop giving us so much ammunition, we’d stop making fun of them. Frankly, if you can find ANYTHING in the Stupid Liberal Ideas thread that even comes CLOSE to being as stupid and ignorant as ANYTHING in this thread, I’d be surprised. There’s certainly stuff over there. But it’s mostly penny-ante crap proposed by what are basically the Democratic man on the street. The stuff in this thread tends more toward serious and dangerous proposals by actual Republican elected officials or party leaders. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8585 "2013-02-08T00:18:49Z")
“Rep. William Tracy Arnold, R-Booneville, has introduced a bill that would outlaw the creation of “human-animal hybrids” in Mississippi and slap offenders with a hefty fine.” > **[USA TODAY - Breaking News and Latest News Today](https://www.usatoday.com/)** > > USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos. Of course, there’s some anti-abortion shit thrown in for good measure. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8586 "2013-02-08T00:22:44Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > “Rep. William Tracy Arnold, R-Booneville, has introduced a bill that would outlaw the creation of “human-animal hybrids” in Mississippi and slap offenders with a hefty fine.” > > [Latest World & National News & Headlines - USATODAY.com](http://blogs.clarionledger.com/thebuzz/2013/01/30/house-bill-would-ban-human-animal-hybrids/) > > Of course, there’s some anti-abortion shit thrown in for good measure. No self-respecting Republican can write a bill without anti-abortion shit thrown in for good measure. It’s a reflex. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8587 "2013-02-08T00:32:36Z")
> [@bup](#): > > God, you people are harshing my make fun of Republicans buzz. > > Stop it. > [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > First honest reply. If you read it carefully, you may notice that it’s also a request (albeit phrased somewhat peremptorily). I’ll also try to bring it to your attention that most of the responses to what you’ve posted in this thread come from people who are motivated by the same desire (that you stop harshing their make-fun-of-Republicans buzz). Do you suppose you could post a response to that aspect of the conversation? Thanks in advance! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8588 "2013-02-08T00:52:55Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Your link made me go look something else up on Wikipedia: > > Holy crap. 400 members in New Hampshire! Does every block captain get to be in the Legislature? “This American Life” recently did a piece on the New Hampshire House of Representatives. It made the point that you could win some seats with only about 700 votes. So theoretically you could personally know every person who voted for you. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8589 "2013-02-08T01:10:19Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > [Iowa bill would jail raped women for ‘murder’ of single-cell zygotes](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/07/iowa-bill-would-jail-raped-women-for-murder-of-single-cell-zygotes/) > > "State Rep. Tom Shaw says that he authored House File 138 to protect human life, whether “you’re a zygote, an infant, a teenager or an adult.” > > The bill defines a “person” as “an individual human being, without regard to age of development, from the moment of conception, when a zygote is formed, until natural death.” > > “Murder includes killing another person through any means that terminates the life of the other person including but not limited to the use of abortion-inducing drugs,” the measure states without making any exceptions for rape or incest. " > And apparently no exceptions for self-defense. If this bill were to pass, I’d love nothing more than to start forcing these fuckers to arrest every person who shot and killed someone in self-defense for murder, so I could shove their asses down their own slippery slope. And, no doubt, every miscarriage will now be prosecuted as manslaughter. No, you say? Why ever not? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8590 "2013-02-08T01:14:16Z")
Next up, a bill that will prohibit women from uttering, “Thank Christ!” when their period finally shows up. Reckless indifference, don’t you know. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8591 "2013-02-08T02:37:43Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > I think you’ve demonstrated quite well what level of discourse you’re at. Insults, refusal to consider other people’s opinions before dismissing them, more insults. The problem with our communication is that you aren’t listening and you aren’t patient enough, not that I have some kind of developmental disability. Trust me, I’m smarter than you think I am. Probably most people are smarter than you think they are. It’s ironic how holier-than-thou you come across with your un-needed offer to “help me improve my arguments” and telling me how blinded by bias I am, and **you** are telling **me** how you’re smarter than I think you are. At least I know what thread I am posting in (read the top of the screen, it might help you since you seem lost). Keep having an argument with yourself about something no one here has said though, it’s amusing. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8592 "2013-02-08T02:45:12Z")
Shhh, don’t encourage him to post another three-in-a-row. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8593 "2013-02-08T02:51:46Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Shhh, don’t encourage him to post IMO your post should have stopped there. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8594 "2013-02-08T04:19:07Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Yes, some people in this thread think there are only 2 or 3 stupid liberals in the whole wide world. Okay, name them. With cites. Not just one person, either. You used the plural, so pay up or shut up. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8595 "2013-02-08T04:42:23Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > … so pay up or shut up. Can he just do the latter? That would be just swell. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8596 "2013-02-08T04:46:01Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Okay, name them. With cites. Not just one person, either. You used the plural, so pay up or shut up. If he drops “I didn’t mean that literally” I will bust a gut…literally. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2013, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8597 "2013-02-08T07:46:21Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > “Rep. William Tracy Arnold, R-Booneville, has introduced a bill that would outlaw the creation of “human-animal hybrids” in Mississippi and slap offenders with a hefty fine.” Makes sense. Once you start introducing [these guys](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Horus_standing.svg) into the mix, they kind of take over. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8598 "2013-02-08T10:17:58Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Yes, some people in this thread think there are only 2 or 3 stupid liberals in the whole wide world. > [@dropzone](#): > > Okay, name them. With cites. Not just one person, either. You used the plural, so pay up or shut up. More importantly, he neglected to mention that there are some Republicans that think there aren’t any stupid Republicans in the world. So before we criticise people in this thread, we should improve the arguments of the Republicans by convincing them that all sides are equally bad, so vote Republican. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8599 "2013-02-08T10:26:23Z")
We are just too stupid to realize his tortured genius. If only he could reach through my thick skull and _better_ me some way, my arguments, my blind biases… I want to be a lump of clay to be moulded by his baffling superiority and eye for minutia. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8600 "2013-02-08T15:09:26Z")
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