# 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:** 531
**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:** [September 12, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10601 "2013-09-12T15:16:34Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Perhaps. I don’t generally edit quotes to reflect my personal feelings, however. I wasn’t suggesting you misplaced the quote which is why I didn’t include posted by. I was referring to the quoted “educator, parent, and grandparent” ---
**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 12, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10602 "2013-09-12T16:33:33Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > “As an educator, parent, and grandparent, I feel very firmly that ‘creation science’ based on Biblical principles should be incorporated into every Biology book that is up for adoption.” > > The brazen stupidity here is almost admirable. Hopefully, he’s a parent and grandparent of one of those adopted books, and not an actual person. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10603 "2013-09-12T16:48:24Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > I wasn’t suggesting you misplaced the quote which is why I didn’t include posted by. I was referring to the quoted “educator, parent, and grandparent” This I would edit to – “educator”, parent and grandparent ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10604 "2013-09-12T18:23:24Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Ted Cruz thinks we [“need 100 more like Jesse Helms”](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/ted-cruz-we-need-100-more-jesse-helms) in the U.S. Senate. > > Well, at least Cruz wouldn’t have a seat anymore. You’re forgetting that Gunsylvania will have seceded from the commie part of Colorado to become the 51st state. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10605 "2013-09-12T18:24:24Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Ted Cruz thinks we [“need 100 more like Jesse Helms”](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/ted-cruz-we-need-100-more-jesse-helms) in the U.S. Senate. > > Well, at least Cruz wouldn’t have a seat anymore. Which is the way Jesse Helms would have preferred it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10606 "2013-09-12T18:36:37Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Hopefully, he’s a parent and grandparent of one of those **adopted books,** and not an actual person. :mad: You see?! You see where gay marriage leads?! A well-lubed slippery slope, that’s where! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10607 "2013-09-12T18:39:07Z")
Obamacare Repeal Vote #41 was today. So when do we get the Replace part? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10608 "2013-09-12T19:05:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Which is the way Jesse Helms would have preferred it. It’s a sad, sad state of affairs when I actually miss Jessie Helms. He was an asshole, his politics were abhorrent, but he actually did what he thought was best for the country. ---
**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 12, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10609 "2013-09-12T19:07:19Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > It’s a sad, sad state of affairs when I actually miss Jessie Helms. He was an asshole, his politics were abhorrent, but he actually did what he thought was best for the country. Oh, I think they’re all doing what they think is best for the country. I think that’s indictment enough. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10610 "2013-09-12T19:13:43Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Oh, I think they’re all doing what they think is best for the country. I think that’s indictment enough. I doubt it. They’re doing what’s best for them. They just view the country as another resource to be exploited. ---
**Author:** ![Unix\_Geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unix_geek/32/19368_2.png) [@Unix\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unix_Geek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10611 "2013-09-12T20:27:29Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Obamacare Repeal Vote #41 was today. > > So when do we get the Replace part? Working from home today so I was here when the Tea Party Patriots called me. They wanted to connect me to my US Rep’s office so I could tell them to defund Obamacare and not pass a continuing resolution until that happened. :rolleyes: They don’t want to fix anything, they just want to send us into another great depression. (We get it, he’s black, she’s a woman, and 1/2 of us live in just 146 counties out of 3000, but due to gerrymandering that damn redneck in rural Kansas has more say than anyone in Los Angeles). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10612 "2013-09-12T22:24:33Z")
[Dennis Prager: Tolerance is a slippery slope to fascism.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Prager) ---
**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:** [September 12, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10613 "2013-09-12T23:59:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Dennis Prager: Tolerance is a slippery slope to fascism.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dennis_Prager) While it’s NEVER precisely a _bad time_ to pit Dennis Prager, it’s my understanding that this thread is intended to have a heuristic component to its composition. Got anything with a date on it? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10614 "2013-09-13T00:34:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > While it’s NEVER precisely a _bad time_ to pit Dennis Prager, it’s my understanding that this thread is intended to have a heuristic component to its composition. > > Got anything with a date on it? Sorry, flubbed link, [here](http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/tolerance-health-and-fascism/). ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10615 "2013-09-13T02:20:56Z")
> [@](#): > > In the name of tolerance, girls’ high school teams in California and elsewhere must now accept male players who feel female. > > In the name of tolerance, businesses cannot fire a man who one day shows up on the sales floor dressed as a woman. You don’t get transsexuality that wrong at this point unless you WANT to get it this wrong. Fuck you, you disgusting fucking PIG. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10616 "2013-09-13T02:26:39Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > You don’t get transsexuality that wrong at this point unless you WANT to get it this wrong. Fuck you, you disgusting fucking PIG. :dubious: What are you, a fascist or something?! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10617 "2013-09-13T03:48:56Z")
I tried to feel female, but they didn’t put me on a team or anything - just detention. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10618 "2013-09-13T04:05:39Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Ted Cruz thinks we [“need 100 more like Jesse Helms”](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/ted-cruz-we-need-100-more-jesse-helms) in the U.S. Senate. > > Well, at least Cruz wouldn’t have a seat anymore. And he’d be replaced by a dead racist. Definitely a step up for Cruz. Dead racists are totally the best type of racists. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10619 "2013-09-13T14:19:12Z")
probably not the dictionary definition of stupid, [but Gov. Walker is a petty small man](http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/09/13/20476543-florida-bars-obamacare-aides-at-public-health-centers?lite). Barring people from helping others navigate Obamacare enrollment. Children, that’s what they are. Petulant small minded children who are throwing a conniption fit because they can’t get their way. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/10620 "2013-09-13T14:26:31Z")
Wiscorida is such a crap state. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=530) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=532)