# 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:** 519
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10361 "2013-08-22T11:33:37Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Gay conversion therapy is [a freedom of religion issue.](http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201308200001) Freedom to impose your religion and values on others. I must’ve missed that one in the Bill of Rights… ---
**Author:** ![Sinaptics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Sinaptics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaptics)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10362 "2013-08-22T13:51:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > On the one hand, I wonder what the numbers are for Louisiana Democrats. On the other hand, I suspect that the answer would make me sad. Dumb people are dumb. I know, right? Maybe they missed it? Huge hurricane tearing through your state, people huddled in the superdome, any of this ringing a bell? You’d think they’d know best about how it all went down. My only explanation is that they knew it was an obvious “gotcha” question and picked the “Not sure” response. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10363 "2013-08-22T13:55:03Z")
> [@sylmar](#): > > Freedom to impose your religion and values on others. I must’ve missed that one in the Bill of Rights… It’s in The Declaration of Independence, under “…pursuit of happiness.” Some people aren’t happy unless they are oppressing others, I guess. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10364 "2013-08-22T14:26:26Z")
A lot of the people who had to take shelter in the Superdome ended up leaving Louisiana. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10365 "2013-08-22T14:43:50Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > A lot of the people who had to take shelter in the Superdome ended up leaving Louisiana. And weren’t Republicans. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10366 "2013-08-22T14:55:25Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > A lot of the people who had to take shelter in the Superdome ended up leaving Louisiana. Greener pastures, according to one Compassionate :rolleyes: Conservative… [Tree the Apple fell from](http://philadelphians2.50megs.com/barbara.html) “What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.” ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10367 "2013-08-22T15:38:28Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > My only explanation is that they knew it was an obvious “gotcha” question and picked the “Not sure” response. Didn’t they know that the correct answer to a “gotcha” question is “All of them”? So saith Saint Sarah, Our Lady of Perplexity. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10368 "2013-08-22T15:44:27Z")
[Ted Cruz makes the thread](http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20111087-cruz-to-gop-dont-blink-in-obamacare-fight?lite) yet again: > [@](#): > > Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s message to Republican lawmakers who won’t support defunding “Obamacare” at the risk of shutting down the government? “Don’t blink.” Those sneaky Democrats are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away, and don’t blink! ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10369 "2013-08-22T15:56:12Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > So saith Saint Sarah, Our Lady of Perplexity. Ha! I like that one, up there with Bible Spice, Caribou Barbie & Moosalini. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10370 "2013-08-22T16:16:44Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Ted Cruz makes the thread](http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20111087-cruz-to-gop-dont-blink-in-obamacare-fight?lite) yet again: > > Those sneaky Democrats are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away, and don’t blink! Rather, I think he means ‘don’t back down even though right now it looks like were getting the worst of this’. Man’s still a douche. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10371 "2013-08-22T16:37:32Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Rather, I think he means ‘don’t back down even though right now it looks like were getting the worst of this’. > > Man’s still a douche. And a **Canadian!** [Just look at 'im!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ted_Cruz,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress.jpg) Typical whey-faced, shifty-eyed, poutine-guzzling Molson-breath Canuckistani, that one . . . How can America trust this man?! If the U.S. goes to war with Canada, will he stand with the Americans . . . or with them?! :mad: ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10372 "2013-08-22T16:44:37Z")
I guess [the senator](http://kdvr.com/2013/08/21/sparks-fly-after-sen-marbles-fried-chicken-comment-in-poverty-hearing/) ran out of time before getting to her remarks concerning watermelon: > [@](#): > > Democratic lawmakers couldn’t believe their ears as they listened to Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, deliver a long soliloquy explaining that more blacks and Hispanics live in poverty, in part, because of fried chicken. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10373 "2013-08-22T16:54:47Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > I guess [the senator](http://kdvr.com/2013/08/21/sparks-fly-after-sen-marbles-fried-chicken-comment-in-poverty-hearing/) ran out of time before getting to her remarks concerning watermelon: The sad thing is, she’s probably right about the health effects of fried chicken. As for the consumption-demographics of fried chicken . . . she could be right, but I think it requires more study. More study, that is, than you can do by working at KFC. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10374 "2013-08-22T17:35:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And a **Canadian!** [Just look at 'im!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ted_Cruz,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress.jpg) Typical whey-faced, shifty-eyed, poutine-guzzling Molson-breath Canuckistani, that one . . . How can America trust this man?! If the U.S. goes to war with Canada, will he stand with the Americans . . . or with them?! :mad: I don’t blame him for following the calling to Texas, they just don’t execute enough people in Alberta. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10375 "2013-08-22T18:40:36Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Ted Cruz makes the thread](http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20111087-cruz-to-gop-dont-blink-in-obamacare-fight?lite) yet again: > > Those sneaky Democrats are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away, and don’t blink! > [@Sitnam](#): > > Rather, I think he means ‘don’t back down even though right now it looks like were getting the worst of this’. Agreed. Although, at first glance I thought it meant _Don’t you RINOs turn your back on us, because we **will** primary your fuckin’ ass._ But yeah, your way is better > [@Sitnam](#): > > Man’s still a douche. Again, agreed. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10376 "2013-08-22T19:38:37Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > I guess [the senator](http://kdvr.com/2013/08/21/sparks-fly-after-sen-marbles-fried-chicken-comment-in-poverty-hearing/) ran out of time before getting to her remarks concerning watermelon: I live in Fort Collins (I didn’t vote for her). I don’t understand why someone who comes from an overwhelmingly white place like this feels qualified to say anything at all about black people. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10377 "2013-08-22T19:41:14Z")
[Abortions and Facebook.](http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/fox_news_abortion_and_facebook_to_blame_for_murder_of_australian_baseball_player/) That’s what Fox News “contributor” Keith Ablow thinks is responsible for the shooting of the Australian baseball player. - [We] have a culture that is cheapening life, real life. And if in general, if you can’t outlaw third trimester abortions in every state, then you have part of the answer to why people don’t take life that seriously… ``` Facebook is the final common pathway for those people who are acting out in life and some of the people who are there are acting out their sexuality, other people are acting out how happy they are by posting all of these ridiculous pictures, where one is competing against the other to seem more content. But Facebook has become ground zero in the battle to either maintain our identities or to let them go into the web and these three became non people with no feelings for others and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were big users of Facebook and other things Internet-related.* ``` ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10378 "2013-08-22T19:42:49Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > I live in Fort Collins (I didn’t vote for her). I don’t understand why someone who comes from an overwhelmingly white place like this feels qualified to say anything at all about black people. Aw, don’t be redicamous. Some of her best friends are black, just ask her! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10379 "2013-08-22T23:39:36Z")
BTW, Democratic Underground’s [Top 10 Conservative Idiots of the Week](http://www.democraticunderground.com/101671154) is back! 😃 Today’s (early) edition [here](http://www.democraticunderground.com/~Nanjing%20to%20Seoul). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10380 "2013-08-23T01:11:39Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Steven King, speaking to _Newsmucks_ on the Dream Act… BTW, [Chad Brown, the co-chairman of the Polk County, Iowa, GOP just resigned, and registered as an independent, over King’s drug-mule remark, and over the GOP’s positions on gun control and climate change.](http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/iowa-gop-county-chairman-resigns-says-party-headed) > [@Chad Brown](#): > > In 2012, the Polk GOP lost Polk County by over 32,000 votes. Until 2002, Republicans were elected to the State House from Des Moines. In 2012, Republicans lost 2 State House seats in suburban, Republican-leaning districts and came two dozen votes from losing a third. Facts are stubborn things. I think we are now headed in the wrong direction on several fronts and regretfully must step aside. > > It’s my opinion that rather than fix the problems that led to such a massive 2012 defeat, the GOP does not seem to seriously want to fix the issues. I think helping a dysfunctional Party that does not want to address its problems is enabling. I do not believe in enabling. I debated this for weeks and am certain this is the only course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=518) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=520)