# 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:** 528
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10541 "2013-09-05T00:28:54Z")
Really? I googled “Jim Garrow” and of the top few results, the only one I saw that was him was another post of this story. Yeah, pretty much an anonymous internet crank from what I see. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10542 "2013-09-05T00:50:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The latest flap in Looney-Land is the grave disrespect Obama has for the [Resolute Desk](http://www.teaparty.org/does-seeing-president-obamas-foot-on-the-oval-office-desk-make-your-blood-boil-28018/). Despite photos of W and Ford with their feet up on the very same desk, conservatives are all aboil that some uppity Nee-gro would sully the desk with his feet. Man, Obama sucks at being a Muslim. He should know all about proper foot etiquette. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10543 "2013-09-05T01:02:39Z")
Nobody said he was a _good_ Muslim. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10544 "2013-09-05T01:11:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Nobody said he was a _good_ Muslim. Well yeah they repeatedly say he’s an evil Muslim. They don’t teach foot etiquette at Evil Muslim School. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10545 "2013-09-05T01:59:01Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Man, Obama sucks at being a Muslim. He should know all about proper foot etiquette. He’s been laying low since Tennessee lawmakers discovered his other foot-related plot: [http://gawker.com/5992352/crisis-averted-when-tennessee-lawmakers-discover-muslim-foot-bath-is-actually-just-a-mop-sink](http://gawker.com/5992352/crisis-averted-when-tennessee-lawmakers-discover-muslim-foot-bath-is-actually-just-a-mop-sink) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10546 "2013-09-05T02:22:34Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > He’s been laying low since Tennessee lawmakers discovered his other foot-related plot: > [http://gawker.com/5992352/crisis-averted-when-tennessee-lawmakers-discover-muslim-foot-bath-is-actually-just-a-mop-sink](http://gawker.com/5992352/crisis-averted-when-tennessee-lawmakers-discover-muslim-foot-bath-is-actually-just-a-mop-sink) So here we have a version of Poe’s Law. No article can be so ridiculous that it can’t be mistaken for an \*Onion \*article. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10547 "2013-09-05T03:47:08Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > He’s been laying low since Tennessee lawmakers discovered his other foot-related plot: > [http://gawker.com/5992352/crisis-averted-when-tennessee-lawmakers-discover-muslim-foot-bath-is-actually-just-a-mop-sink](http://gawker.com/5992352/crisis-averted-when-tennessee-lawmakers-discover-muslim-foot-bath-is-actually-just-a-mop-sink) I thought I’d remembered that one. It was too good not to have made this thread before now. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16135914&postcount=9049](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16135914&postcount=9049) ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10548 "2013-09-05T16:55:47Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Another quote is, “The fact is, television shows attempt to appeal to a wide range of audiences. But audiences aren’t likely to watch programs that praise racism, homophobia, and hating women, therefore aren’t likely to remain on the air long if they make it at all.” Heck, that’s what I thought, “Over the Hill”, was about - especially Hank’s Dad. nitpick: I assume you mean “King of the Hill”, and it’s a pretty much middle of the road politically, making fun of whiny liberal social workers and gun nuts with equal vigor > [@sugaree](#): > > I did a little Googling on the “2009 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow” and his Pink Pagoda (terrible name) organization, and he sounds like a real piece of work. At best, a con man and teller of tall tales; at worst, a trafficker of children. Following this up led me to one of the the weirdest juxtapositions I had ever come across. [Girl’s Saving Girls Gun Giveaway](http://www.pinkpagodagirls.com/girls-saving-girls-gun-giveaway/http://) ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10549 "2013-09-05T19:12:13Z")
[Stupid Republican ideas have consequences](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/04/florida-man-cites-bush-doctrine-after-pre-emptive-killing-of-neighbors-at-labor-day-cookout/): > [@](#): > > Lawyers for a Florida man this week cited President George W. Bush’s pre-emptive war in Iraq and the “Bush Doctrine” as a defense after their client killed two neighbors and attempted to kill a third on Labor Day… ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10550 "2013-09-05T19:36:50Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > nitpick: I assume you mean “King of the Hill”, and it’s a pretty much middle of the road politically, making fun of whiny liberal social workers and gun nuts with equal vigor … > > [Girl’s Saving Girls Gun Giveaway](http://www.pinkpagodagirls.com/girls-saving-girls-gun-giveaway/http://) Yes, “King of the Hill”. It’s me that’s, “Over the Hill”:smack::smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10551 "2013-09-05T21:57:24Z")
I was raised a fundagelical Christian. I used to pick (rhetorical) fights with Mormon missionaries. I used to believe that listening to death metal was sinful or demonic or otherwise dangerous bad. But objecting to the existence of a foot bath because of “creeping sharia” is a scary kind of nuts. So what if it _were_ a foot bath for observant Muslims? How is this a problem? Objecting to it is somewhere on the level of objecting to “pareve” tags on food packaging, or deciding to be constantly drunk to prove you’re not from a teetotal sect. I’m afraid that much of this country is turning into a very bad country in which to live, where freedom of religion itself is treated as the enemy. (Yet, somehow, billionaires bankrolling campaigns will still be “free speech.”) ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10552 "2013-09-05T22:05:08Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > nitpick: I assume you mean “King of the Hill”, and it’s a pretty much middle of the road politically, making fun of whiny liberal social workers and gun nuts with equal vigor Indeed, half the humor is in Hank Hill being endlessly perplexed and nonplussed when he encounters various kinds of liberals, who apparently were absent from the Texas he grew up in. He just does not know what to make of their world-view. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10553 "2013-09-05T22:13:51Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > But objecting to the existence of a foot bath because of “creeping sharia” is a scary kind of nuts. So what if it _were_ a foot bath for observant Muslims? How is this a problem? Objecting to it is somewhere on the level of objecting to “pareve” tags on food packaging, or deciding to be constantly drunk to prove you’re not from a teetotal sect. Reminds me of the crazy woman who objected to halal turkey slaughter of Butterballs. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10554 "2013-09-06T01:09:46Z")
In Ohio, [the Tea Partiers are turning against Republican Gov. Kasich.](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/04/ohio-republican-party-goes-to-war-with-itself-leaving-2016-in-doubt.html) ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10555 "2013-09-06T01:38:12Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [https://sphotos-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1186168\_440219109424352\_493846810\_n.jpg](https://sphotos-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/1186168_440219109424352_493846810_n.jpg) > > Faux News wants him impeached for this. Just as a fortune cookie fortune is funny when “in bed” is appended, Faux News and Tea Party criticism of Obama is understandable only if followed by “and he’s black”. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10556 "2013-09-06T01:47:21Z")
I’m not sure this counts as a dumb idea, but it sure wasn’t a bright move. We’ve been able to re-use this headline a few times, it feels like. I swear it’s a new story: [**GOP-Led Voter Fraud Investigation Uncovers only GOP Fraud**](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/florida-gop-and-voter-fraud) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10557 "2013-09-06T03:29:01Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > But objecting to the existence of a foot bath because of “creeping sharia” is a scary kind of nuts. So what if it _were_ a foot bath for observant Muslims? How is this a problem? Objecting to it is somewhere on the level of objecting to “pareve” tags on food packaging, or deciding to be constantly drunk to prove you’re not from a teetotal sect. Either they think that foot baths are a foothold (heh) for Sharia, or they’re the kind of people who thinks Muslims should be shot, not accommodated in any way. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10558 "2013-09-06T06:30:54Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I’m not sure this counts as a dumb idea, but it sure wasn’t a bright move. > > We’ve been able to re-use this headline a few times, it feels like. I swear it’s a new story: > > [**GOP-Led Voter Fraud Investigation Uncovers only GOP Fraud**](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/florida-gop-and-voter-fraud) That’s fucking awesome! I’ve said it before I’ll say it again: for so many issues, conservatives seem to think “well we do it so they must be doing it too!” ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10559 "2013-09-06T14:28:09Z")
> [@bup](#): > > [**GOP-Led Voter Fraud Investigation Uncovers only GOP Fraud**](http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/florida-gop-and-voter-fraud) Is there a link from a mainstream, relatively unbiased source for this? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10560 "2013-09-06T14:50:46Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Is there a link from a mainstream, relatively unbiased source for this? [Miami Herald.](http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/08/fdle-voter-fraud-investigations-come-up-empty-again.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=527) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=529)