# 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:** 452
**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:** [March 22, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9021 "2013-03-22T17:32:20Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the [Left’s War on Religion continues](http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/03/22/1760681/oreilly-easter-bunny/), says Bill O’Reilly:I love that bit in the Bible where Jesus rolls away the giant chocolate egg… > [@Smapti](#): > > Reince Priebus to LBGT Americans; [just because we don’t believe that you deserve any form of legal recognition or protection whatsoever, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote for us.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/22/1759651/gop-chairman-tries-to-appeal-to-gay-voters-by-bragging-about-his-great-marriage/) I’m am equally shocked, _shocked_, to learn that Republicans believe these things. 😛 C’mon folks, there’ve got to be some _new_ Republican stupidities around. I think we’re recycling the old ones too much. The again, how often do Republicans come up with new ideas, even stupid ones, about anything? ---
**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:** [March 22, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9022 "2013-03-22T17:46:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Reince Priebus to LBGT Americans; [just because we don’t believe that you deserve any form of legal recognition or protection whatsoever, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote for us.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/03/22/1759651/gop-chairman-tries-to-appeal-to-gay-voters-by-bragging-about-his-great-marriage/) Even better in context: > [@](#): > > STEIN: On the issue of inconclusivity. What would you tell an independent minded gay man who believes the right to marry is a civil right? What would you tell him about why he should vote Republican? > > PRIEBUS: I would tell him, look, we might not agree on every single issue but, for the most part, if you look at where we are at in our economy and look at where we are with educational choice and our military positions and positions on a strong defense in our party for the most part, we agree on almost everything and doesn’t make someone a bad Republican. It means we are good Republicans and disagree on one or two things. My God, I don’t agree with my wife on 100 percent of the issues but **it doesn’t mean we don’t have a great marriage**. Yeah, gays are bound to understand better when you use a marriage analogy. :smack: ---
**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:** [March 23, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9023 "2013-03-23T02:39:44Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > One from many days ago, [just now coming to light](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-22/the-secret-gingrich-santorum-unity-ticket-that-nearly-toppled-romney): > > Ah, to be a fly on the wall for the Battle Of The Ego Titans. Ahh . . . _boyz_ . . . reality check. Neither one of you could have won. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9024 "2013-03-23T03:17:08Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Ahh . . . _boyz_ . . . reality check. Neither one of you could have won. But together, think of the awesome synergy! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9025 "2013-03-23T03:25:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the [Left’s War on Religion continues](http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/03/22/1760681/oreilly-easter-bunny/), says Bill O’Reilly:I love that bit in the Bible where Jesus rolls away the giant chocolate egg… Snipping and re-quoting… “. . . they’re trying to diminish any form of religion. The goal is to marginalize religious opposition . . . In Scandanavia, there are laws that say you cannot criticize minorities and if you do, you could be arrested. Secular progressives want laws like that here.” The guy has problems with logic, doesn’t he? How would we possible “diminish any form of religion” if there are laws saying we can’t “criticize minorities?” Doesn’t he get it that he, himself, is in a minority? (This being the Pit, “fuck him sideways with ten toothbrushes and one of Joe Biden’s jogging shoes.”) ---
**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:** [March 23, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9026 "2013-03-23T17:42:55Z")
Fox News: [If Obama takes away our assault weapons, how will we defend ourselves when Iran and Syria invade?](http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/03/23/1766581/fox-americans-need-assault-weapons-to-protect-themselves-from-an-iranian-invasion-al-qaeda/) ---
**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:** [March 23, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9027 "2013-03-23T18:13:57Z")
But without assault weapons, how can we celebrate our enforced Muslim weddings? For a supposed smart and thoughtful person I don’t think Obama has thought through all the ramifications of his gun grabbing. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9028 "2013-03-23T19:30:04Z")
Easy. The American assault weapon is the AR-15. The traditional wedding weapon is the AK-47. The AK gets a wedding exemption, the AR gets banned. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9029 "2013-03-23T23:52:07Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Snipping and re-quoting… “. . . they’re trying to diminish any form of religion. The goal is to marginalize religious opposition . . . In Scandanavia, there are laws that say you cannot criticize minorities and if you do, you could be arrested. Secular progressives want laws like that here.” > > The guy has problems with logic, doesn’t he? He also has a problem with political geography. There are no such thing as “Scandinavian laws”. Heck, Scandinavians can’t even agree on the definition of Scandinavia\*. \*I’ve seen Scandinavia variously used to describe Norway, Denmark and Sweden, or Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, or Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9030 "2013-03-24T08:50:19Z")
[ul][li] The frat-boy and Mr. `shoot’m in the face’ Nasty[/li][li] The low-IQ war hero and the cheerleader[/li][li] The tax-evading mogul and the Ayn Rand fanatic[/li][/ul] and we almost had [ul][li] The Grinch and a sexual euphemism[/li][/ul] If the GOP were just some comic-book fantasy, could their Presidential candidacy teams be any more laughable? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2013, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9031 "2013-03-24T09:16:36Z")
I heard that McCain was something of a rageaholic and of course a political whore, but I never heard he was particularly any dimmer than his colleagues. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9032 "2013-03-24T15:01:17Z")
He’s a Republican. Q.E.D. 😛 ---
**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:** [March 24, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9033 "2013-03-24T17:26:47Z")
I was astounded that McCain, for whom foreign military affairs was supposed to be a strong suit, [frequently confuses Sunnis with Shi’ites](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mccain+confuses+sunni+and+shi%27ite). He doesn’t just reverse the names, but, for example, speaks of the Iran leadership and al-Qaeda as being of the same Islam branch. :smack: The term “low-IQ” might have been wrong, but by 2008 McCain was definitely long past his use-by date. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9034 "2013-03-24T17:31:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I heard that McCain was something of a rageaholic and of course a political whore, but I never heard he was particularly any dimmer than his colleagues. I read “The low-IQ war hero and the cheerleader” as GHWB and Quayle, with McCain as the Grinch. But I find that the less I dwell on the GOP, the lower my blood pressure. > [@](#): > > “Rabbi, is there a proper blessing for the Republicans?” > > “A blessing for the Republicans? Of course. May God bless and keep the Republicans . . . far away from us.” ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9035 "2013-03-25T16:08:47Z")
This reads like satire, but it’s apparently real. [Tea Partiers are boycotting Fox News for being too liberal.](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/23/why-tea-partiers-are-boycotting-fox-news.html) > [@](#): > > Among the demands the protesters have is that Fox News “be the right-wing CBS News: to break stories, to break information, and to do what news organizations have always done with such stories: break politicians,” that the network have at least one segment on Benghazi every night on two of its prime-time shows; that Fox similarly devote investigative resources to discovering the truth of Obama’s birth certificate; and that the network cease striving to be “fair and balanced.” > > “We need Fox to turn right,” said Hjerlied. “We think this is a cover-up and Fox is aiding and abetting it. This is the way Hitler started taking over Germany, by managing and manipulating the news media.” ---
**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:** [March 25, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9036 "2013-03-25T16:17:25Z")
This is too too precious, but I refuse to believe it until there are some more confirming stories. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9037 "2013-03-25T16:29:24Z")
> [@Yumblie](#): > > This reads like satire, but it’s apparently real. [Tea Partiers are boycotting Fox News for being too liberal.](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/23/why-tea-partiers-are-boycotting-fox-news.html) Even better is the break-out quote the piece gives, in huge letters: > [@](#): > > **“The more I looked at it, I have come to the conclusion that Fox is not as fair and balanced as I thought. They shade the truth also.”** ---
**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:** [March 25, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9038 "2013-03-25T16:49:23Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I read “The low-IQ war hero and the cheerleader” as GHWB and Quayle, with McCain as the Grinch. But I find that the less I dwell on the GOP, the lower my blood pressure. Say what you will about GHWB, but I don’t think low IQ applies. He was CIA Director. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9039 "2013-03-25T17:04:55Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Say what you will about GHWB, but I don’t think low IQ applies. He was CIA Director. Oh, c’mon, George “slam dunk” Tenent was CIA Director too. My favorite Tenent story is about the guy they captured ahead of time – the sharp-witted guy in flight school who told his instructors not to bother teaching him how to land, and got arrested by the FBI weeks before the attacks. Some people in the lower levels of the FBI and CIA knew that was critical intelligence pointing directly to the use of commercial aircraft as weapons, and they got the report of the circumstances of the arrest into Tenent’s hands within a week. The result was … nothing. No orders, or even discussions about, checking out other students in flight schools, tightening airline security, or any other possible investigative options. “Heck of a job, Tenent! You’re going to get the highest medal that can be given for sitting on your ass.” ---
**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:** [March 25, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9040 "2013-03-25T17:24:04Z")
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