# 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:** 462
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9221 "2013-04-12T16:06:19Z")
[This post nailed it.](http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/03/07/john-rogers-is-still-a-genius/) > [@](#): > > Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That’s crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9222 "2013-04-12T16:24:30Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [This post nailed it.](http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/03/07/john-rogers-is-still-a-genius/) The problem with a 27% crazification level is that only 10% of Americans DON’T want some gun legislation. Does this mean we have some of the crazies on our side of this argument? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9223 "2013-04-12T16:36:57Z")
Present! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9224 "2013-04-12T16:40:44Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > The problem with a 27% crazification level is that only 10% of Americans DON’T want some gun legislation. Does this mean we have some of the crazies on our side of this argument? Oh, **prr** , you make it so easy sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9225 "2013-04-12T18:12:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You’re not the Human Resources Dept. of me! That would be [here](http://www.maine.gov/bhr/about_us/index.htm). ---
**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:** [April 12, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9226 "2013-04-12T21:07:18Z")
[TIME](http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/12/steve-stockman-if-babies-had-guns-they-wouldnt-be-aborted-quote/) **[“If babies had guns they wouldn’t be aborted.” — Texas Rep. Steve Stockman’s …](http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/12/steve-stockman-if-babies-had-guns-they-wouldnt-be-aborted-quote/)** **Not much to add, it’s his campaign bumper sticker. Oh yeah, he’s (R).** ---
**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:** [April 12, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9227 "2013-04-12T21:16:36Z")
Someone should explain to him how is babby formed. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9228 "2013-04-13T18:47:49Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > The problem with a 27% crazification level is that only 10% of Americans DON’T want some gun legislation. Does this mean we have some of the crazies on our side of this argument? Hey, 8% of **Democrats** think Obama is the Antichrist. Every side has crazies. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9229 "2013-04-13T19:00:32Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > The problem with a 27% crazification level is that only 10% of Americans DON’T want some gun legislation. Does this mean we have some of the crazies on our side of this argument? Yea, but the other 17% want to make gun ownership mandatory. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9230 "2013-04-13T23:36:13Z")
Michele (_leave off the last L for loony_) Bachmann (_add an N for nutty_) failing at doing an Elizabeth Warren impression. Yes, she was soft spoken, but she was also terribly off center and off point. [http://theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/2013/04/offical-michele-bachman-deep-head-ass-video/](http://theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/2013/04/offical-michele-bachman-deep-head-ass-video/) (Video at the link) From the link: > [@](#): > > If you have not yet seen this video of “Batshit Bachmann” - that whacky ALEC-puppet TEALIBAN Republican from Minnesota - addressing the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, new CIA Director John Brennan, Defense Intelligence Agency director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and FBI Director Robert Mueller in a House Intelligence Committee meeting on Thursday, you’re in for a real treat. > > The baffled looks on the faces of Brennan and his colleagues are priceless, as Bachmann clearly demonstrates that she has no place on the committee in the first place, asking questions about potentially classified operations in an open forum broadcast live on C-SPAN. Also: > **[Rep. Michele Bachmann Completely Baffles John Brennan With Bizarre Questions...](https://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep-michele-bachmann-completely-baffles-john-brennan-with-bizarre-questions-during-cia-hearing/)** > > Representatives from the CIA, including newly-installed Director John Brennan, didn't quite know what to make of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) this week when they sat down to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. Each topic she... ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9231 "2013-04-14T00:32:15Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Also: > [Rep. Michele Bachmann Completely Baffles John Brennan With Bizarre Questions During CIA Hearing](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep-michele-bachmann-completely-baffles-john-brennan-with-bizarre-questions-during-cia-hearing/) > [@](#): > > Representatives from the CIA, including newly-installed Director John Brennan, didn’t quite know what to make of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) this week when they sat down to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. House \*\*\*Intelligence \*\*\*Committee… Nah, too easy. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9232 "2013-04-14T01:16:36Z")
With her constant referring to nine one one, someone should have called them to have her safely put away. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9233 "2013-04-16T19:25:26Z")
Add a few - **GOP mayor acting badly:** > **[Account Suspended](http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi)** > [@](#): > > Authorities allege that late on the evening of Feb. 21, Schiliro contacted the young man by text message and had a police officer deliver him to his borough home. There… the mayor allegedly gave the young man alcohol and produced three firearms, one of which was fired into papers inside the house. During the encounter, the mayor repeatedly asked the young man if he could give him oral sex, according to court documents. > > He’s being charged with “official oppression, recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment and providing alcohol to a minor,” all misdemeanors. **Conservative radio host, Alex Jones, thinks the FBI was responsible for the Boston Marathon attack.** [http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/15/was-the-fbi-responsible-for-the-attack-at-the-boston-marathon-alex-jones-seems-to-think-so/](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/15/was-the-fbi-responsible-for-the-attack-at-the-boston-marathon-alex-jones-seems-to-think-so/) > [@](#): > > . . . . (he) also apparently named the biggest threat to America as being nerds, because they end up running the world, innovating, and controlling everything. He believes that, because they’re so upset about the fact that they weren’t the jocks or part of the popular crowds in high school, they use their brains to play games on everybody else. **Bill O’Reilly Goes After Obama for Calling Boston Bombings a ‘Tragedy’** > **[O'Reilly Goes After Obama For Calling Boston Bombings A 'Tragedy'](https://crooksandliars.com/heather/oreilly-goes-after-obama-calling-boston-bo)** > > Apparently Bill-O doesn't believe that something can be both a tragedy and and act of terrorism, because he decided to spend his opening segment on this Monday's The Factor, attacking President Obama for calling the Boston Marathon bombings a tragedy... > [@](#): > > Apparently Bill-O doesn’t believe that something can be both a tragedy and and act of terrorism, because he decided to spend his opening segment on this Monday’s The Factor, attacking President Obama for calling the Boston Marathon bombings a tragedy and not using the word terrorism during his brief press conference this afternoon. > > Note to Bill-O – the President may not have used the word “terrorism” during his presser, but it was clearly implied and what he said was we should wait and find out more information before we jump to conclusions about what happened. > > Which is exactly what O’Reilly and his guest Rep. Peter King did here. And pardon me if I’m not in the mood to hear from hypocrite Peter King given his record on terrorism.\* (He supported the IRA)\* ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9234 "2013-04-16T21:15:45Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Add a few - > > **Bill O’Reilly Goes After Obama for Calling Boston Bombings a ‘Tragedy’** > > > [@](#): > > > > Apparently Bill-O doesn’t believe that something can be both a tragedy and and act of terrorism, because he decided to spend his opening segment on this Monday’s The Factor, attacking President Obama for calling the Boston Marathon bombings a tragedy and not using the word terrorism during his brief press conference this afternoon Seriously, why is this such an issue with the right wingnuts? Is there some terrorist code of conduct that forces them to turn themselves in if Obama calls it a terrorist act? It reminds me of a few years ago, when the wingnuts were outraged over the use of “suicide bomber.” They wanted them to be called “homicide bombers,” I guess because “bomber” didn’t adequately convey the violence of the act. But “suicide bomber” tells you something significant about the type of bomber, while “homicide bomber” tells you only that the bomb didn’t go off in an empty field. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9235 "2013-04-16T21:28:40Z")
I also get annoyed when people use “tragedy” for every damn thing. I’m not a wingnut, though. I’m just a pedant. A tragedy involves the downfall of an otherwise admirable or powerful protagonist arising out of a single, possible ironic, flaw. Not every accident or crime is a tragedy. In fact, almost none of them are. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9236 "2013-04-16T21:34:26Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Seriously, why is this such an issue with the right wingnuts? Nonsense issues. Remember flag pins? Obama got flack for not wearing a flag pin. Meanwhile, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain were all also not wearing flag pins on a daily basis. But Obama got flack for it because his name sounds foreign and he’s black. Obama didn’t say the word terrorism, even though his white house said they were treating it as an act of terror. So it’s like a game of Simon Says. Obama isn’t really the President if he’s not wearing a flag pin and saying the word “terrorism”. He didn’t say Simon Says! You’re outta there! Nonsense issues are what the right uses against Obama because they lose on all the actual, non-nonsense issues. So they have to criticize his word choices or fashion statements. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9237 "2013-04-16T21:36:52Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Not every accident or crime is a tragedy. In fact, almost none of them are. **[TRAGEDY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tragedy)** > [@](#): > > _a_ **:** a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great man > _b_ **:** a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror > _c_ **:** the literary genre of tragic dramas > 2 > \*\*_a_ **:** a disastrous event **:** calamity \*\* > _b_ **:** misfortune > > 3 > **:** tragic quality or element And here’s calamity, just in case that’s not good enough. > [@](#): > > **:** a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting ["]distress]([DISTRESS Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/distress)[1) and suffering ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9238 "2013-04-16T22:34:33Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Alan Keyes compares gay marriage to eating boogers.](http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/04/keyes-gays-dont-have-a-right-to-marry-just-as-we-dont-have-a-right-to-pick-our-nose-and-eat-boogers/). Actually I don’t know which bothers me more, Alan Keyes’ comparison between gay marriage to boogers, or that his implication that picking you nose and eating boogers should be illegal. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9239 "2013-04-16T23:02:34Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > **[TRAGEDY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tragedy)** > > And here’s calamity, just in case that’s not good enough. When I define myself as a “pedant” for the purposes of a post, the premise is that _no_ modern (descriptive) dictionary is good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9240 "2013-04-16T23:15:01Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Actually I don’t know which bothers me more, Alan Keyes’ comparison between gay marriage to boogers, or that his implication that picking you nose and eating boogers should be illegal. Keyes proves that his brain has not developed in any way shape or form since the first grade. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=461) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=463)