# 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:** 570
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11381 "2013-10-24T16:19:45Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > They call him “Grover Norqueer” and tell him to loosen his burqa. It must be horrible to not know there’s anything beyond what life was in 7th grade… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11382 "2013-10-24T16:46:38Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > It so much more entertaining if you read all Palin quotes as Tina Fey doing Palin 😃 I’d **go** with Sarah, but I’d be thinking of Tina! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11383 "2013-10-24T16:47:37Z")
> [@bup](#): > > It must be horrible to not know there’s anything beyond what life was in 7th grade… It just makes me want to discover my own Freep name. I think it would be: jsgaydess ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11384 "2013-10-24T16:49:20Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [The House GOP invited software magnate John McAfee to consult](http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ex-fugitive-who-slept-with-17-year-olds-was-house-gops-choice-to-advise-on-obamacare-website/politics/2013/10/23/77306#.Umf9qybD_5p) over how to “investigate” the problems with the [healthcare.gov](http://healthcare.gov) site. Yes, the druggie who’s on the lam in Belize for murdering his neighbor, and who bragged about sleeping with ten 17-year old girls. Fuck what the law’s gonna do to you, who **wouldn’t** brag?! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11385 "2013-10-24T16:51:53Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Better fruitcakes than [Lesbian Communist Girl Scout Cookies](https://socialreader.com/me/content/GjTXl?chid=80029)! > > > [@](#): > > > > Kevin Swanson, a pastor and host of the Christian radio show “Generations,” went on a diatribe Monday blasting the Girl Scouts of the United States of America as an instrument of feminism and “antithetical to a biblical vision for womanhood.” He added that buying Girl Scout cookies is tantamount to supporting Planned Parenthood, abortion and lesbianism: > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > The individualism of feminism has been devastating to this country. I’d say you ought to say no the Girl Scout cookies too. I don’t want to support lesbianism, I don’t want to support Planned Parenthood and I don’t want to support abortion, and if that be the case I’m not buying Girl Scout Cookies… > > > > > > I think we understand why Barack Obama is president of the United States. He is incredibly popular with single women, incredibly popular. In fact, if you want a Communist in the White House in the year 2020, you have got to get more daughters raised with the worldview, the independent mindset, the worldview that is presented by the Girl Scouts of America… Yes, individualism and independence of mind do lead to totalitarian-groupthink Communism, there’s no doubt about it; and nothing instills an individualist, independent mindset in a girl better than putting her in a uniform and teaching her to follow a set of rules. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11386 "2013-10-24T16:58:25Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > [Libertarian/Republican/Tea Party whacko bird](http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/rand-paul-constitutional-amendment-98625.html) Rand Paul is so fed up with Obamacare that he wants to make sure that Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court are forced to go on the health care exchanges. He has authored a constitutional amendment which basically requires Congress to live by the same laws as average Americans. > > What? Laws should apply equally to Congress and the American people? Why, **Ravenman** , that’s not a stupid idea! > > No, the stupidity is that Senator Paul thinks his amendment would force Congress, the White House, and the Court to join health care exchanges. However, his proposal, according to [an actual legal expert](http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2013/10/rand-paul-proposes-amendment-to-apply-laws-to-congress-too.html), would have the exact OPPOSITE effect, of providing a constitutional basis to PREVENT laws that would require those people to go on the exchanges. In other words, Senator Paul’s proposal would make sure that a Vitter Amendment to force Congress onto “Obamacare” would be struck down by Federal courts. > > In the words of Rick Perry, “Oops.” “I’m a doctor, not a lawyer, dammit!” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11387 "2013-10-24T16:58:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Yes, individualism and independence of mind do lead to totalitarian-groupthink Communism, there’s no doubt about it; and nothing instills an individualist, independent mindset in a girl better than putting her in a uniform and teaching her to follow a set of rules. Y es, but one of the rules they must follow is to be independent and individual … in approved ways, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11388 "2013-10-24T17:31:53Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > I rarely comment upon someone physical appearance, but Mr. Adelson looks like a James Bond villain who is afflicted with some horrible disease. He looks like an older version of Alfred E. Neuman. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11389 "2013-10-24T18:03:57Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Y es, but one of the rules they must follow is to be independent and individual … in approved ways, of course. One of which is apparently to become lesbians. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11390 "2013-10-24T18:52:39Z")
[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/24/obama-wants-marines-to-wear-girly-hats/](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/24/obama-wants-marines-to-wear-girly-hats/) How about blaming Obama for making the Marines look all girly? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11391 "2013-10-24T19:16:45Z")
Who knew Obama was a fashion designer at heart? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11392 "2013-10-24T19:21:53Z")
"(A) new hat that some have derided as so “girly” that they would make the French blush. " [Really?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_navy#Uniforms) ---
**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:** [October 24, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11393 "2013-10-24T19:45:49Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > "(A) new hat that some have derided as so “girly” that they would make the French blush. " > > [Really?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_navy#Uniforms) Nobody can out-girly French seamen! No one! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11394 "2013-10-24T20:19:37Z")
[Navy](http://english.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2007/07/04/uniform2.jpg) [uniforms](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/The_Royal_Navy_%288658940106%29.jpg) [are gay](http://www.russian-victories.ru/russian_navy_cadets.jpg) [the world](http://www.usnavy.com/images/navy_uniform.jpg) [over](http://img10.itiexue.net/1006/10061830.jpg). Proud old naval tradition. Like peg boys and that joke with the lighthouse. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11395 "2013-10-24T21:57:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Fuck what the law’s gonna do to you, who **wouldn’t** brag?! Father O’Riley is hearing confessions when someone enters and an excited voice from the other side of the partition pipes up: “Father, I’m 75 years old, and last night I had sex with two 18-year-old girls at the same time.” “Now, now, first things first. How long has it been since your last confession?” “I’ve never been to confession before, Father. I’m Jewish.” “You’re Jewish? Then why are you telling me this?” “Father, I’m telling _everybody_.” ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11396 "2013-10-24T23:47:19Z")
I guess the other day Obama had a Rose Garden speech or press conference or something, with some people who had signed up for healthcare under the ACA up on the podium with him. One of those people got a bit light-headed, and Obama steadied her, and made a little joke as she was escorted out to get medical attention. In the [wingnutosphere](http://www.lady-patriots.com/proof-obamas-fainting-lady-was-faked-in-3-minutes/), this was [obviously a staged event](http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15490), because that totally makes sense. OK, so maybe it’s like shooting fish in a barrel to pick on conspiracy theories floating around [WND](http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obamas-fainting-woman-a-staged-hoax/?cat_orig=politics) and [Infowars](http://www.infowars.com/woman-faints-during-obama-rose-garden-speech/), but it got picked up by Drudge as well. And [Sarah Palin had to chime in](http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/24/house-democrat-calls.html) to say she totally understands where these people are coming from: > [@](#): > > Whether accurate or not, for some reason I found this hilarious! Am I out of bounds for cracking up when I saw this take on a nauseated Obama fan, her absentminded pal, and our President’s heroics this week? If so, penance paying I’ll accept. With the Obama White House’s total lack of transparency, it’s no wonder that some will ask whether they staged even a fainting lady in the Rose Garden. What was once a major leap in logic has become a single step because President Obama has lied so often and so blatantly (“If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan” comes to mind!).’ ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11397 "2013-10-24T23:52:02Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > And [Sarah Palin had to chime in](http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/24/house-democrat-calls.html) to say she totally understands where these people are coming from: She is off her game, I didn’t see a single reference to Benghazi or Bill Ayers. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11398 "2013-10-25T00:28:12Z")
Wait, Sarah Palin used “logic” in a sentence? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11399 "2013-10-25T00:40:53Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Wait, Sarah Palin used “logic” in a sentence? Sarah Palin commonly makes use of terms for which she has no understanding. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/11400 "2013-10-25T01:06:45Z")
The right likes to throw around the “anti-American” cudgel on anyone who isn’t militaristic enough for their liking. The left likes to appropriate it too, especially when they think the right is trampling on what they consider bedrock social values and all that. It’s fundamentally an authoritarian slur, to make your target seem to be the Other. But damned if it doesn’t apply here. > [@Kevin Swanson](#): > > I don’t want to support lesbianism… Come on man. That’s about all we got left to celebrate. Hell won’t have lesbians! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=569) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=571)