# 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:** 649
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12961 "2014-02-21T20:27:31Z")
Maybe normie guilt over the plight of the mentally handicapped was responsible for Bachmann’s brief presidential hopes. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12962 "2014-02-21T20:28:10Z")
The degree of narcissism in American political life (Jesus died so America could be free) is breath taking. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12963 "2014-02-21T20:28:53Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Michele Bachmann says Obama was elected because of[ white guilt towards blacks. Ya know, that’s far from the craziest thing she’s ever said. There probably are a number of white voters who, all things being equal, felt queasy about voting against a black man and/or felt it was time to give a black man a shot. That number probably shrinks to insignificance compared to the number of voters who would rather vote for Mickey Mouse, Lyndon LaRouche or Josef Stalin than a black man. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12964 "2014-02-21T20:30:30Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Nah. Fuck 'em. That’s right! It’s still Rape Month, right? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12965 "2014-02-21T20:34:32Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > There probably are a number of white voters who, all things being equal, felt queasy about voting against a black man and/or felt it was time to give a black man a shot. [A vignette from the 2008 campaign trail:](http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-western-pennsylvania.html) > [@](#): > > So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, “We’re votin’ for the n\*\*\*er!” > > Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: “We’re voting for the n\*\*\*er.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12966 "2014-02-21T20:38:35Z")
> [@Batshit crazy](#): > > I know, everybody says that was a metaphor. IT WAS NOT A METAPHOR! > > […] > > And the sword today is an AR-15 If it weren’t a metaphor wouldn’t he actually be buying real swords? ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12967 "2014-02-21T20:46:35Z")
That is going to be a surprise to a bunch of guys at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Also, If the All-Mighty was the scrivener, what if anything did He have to do with the amendments? Just maybe He was involved in numbers 13, 14 and 15, but surely the Deity had nothing to do with number 16. Somehow I have trouble imagining that The Lord God had anything to do with the 3/5 compromise, either. Charlatans pandering to idiots, that is to say Republicans… ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12968 "2014-02-21T22:59:02Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Tom DeLay says God wrote the Constitution.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/20/tom-delay-god-constitution_n_4826503.html) > > Discuss. I especially loved this part: “…And Jesus destroyed Satan so that we could be free and that is manifested in what is called the Constitution of the United States…” The war is over, Satan is dead! Of course, it makes one wonder who we are to blame the next time one of these hypocrites get caught blowing some guy in an airport restroom… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12969 "2014-02-21T23:12:40Z")
Well, Obama! Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12970 "2014-02-22T01:02:16Z")
If God wrote the Constitution, does that mean that He doesn’t believe that black people are the equals to white people? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12971 "2014-02-22T02:52:38Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > If God wrote the Constitution, does that mean that He doesn’t believe that black people are the equals to white people? Actually, the (original) Constitution does not exactly **mention** black people . . . or use the “s” word. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12972 "2014-02-22T03:10:36Z")
> [@Spavined\_Gelding](#): > > That is going to be a surprise to a bunch of guys at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Also, If the All-Mighty was the scrivener, what if anything did He have to do with the amendments? Just maybe He was involved in numbers 13, 14 and 15, but surely the Deity had nothing to do with number 16. > > Somehow I have trouble imagining that The Lord God had anything to do with the 3/5 compromise, either. > > Charlatans pandering to idiots, that is to say Republicans… And the 21st seems to be incompatible with the idea of omniscience. Not to mention that the 18th seems incompatible with the idea of a benevolent God, but then the sort of deity people like Tom DeLay worship has never really struck me as benevolent to begin with. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12973 "2014-02-22T03:13:07Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Actually, the (original) Constitution does not exactly **mention** black people . . . or use the “s” word. True, but the “Person held to Service or Labour” was indeed talking about slaves. In any case, that part of Article 4 was declared moot thanks to the 13th amendment. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12974 "2014-02-22T03:16:16Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > And the 21st seems to be incompatible with the idea of omniscience. Well, it’s like when the Pope changes a doctrine an earlier Pope wrote, y’know? It doesn’t mean they’re not both infallible, it means . . . oh, mysterious ways, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12975 "2014-02-22T03:18:25Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Michele Bachmann says Obama was elected because of[white guilt towards blacks](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/20/bachmann-americans-not-anxious-for-a-woman-president/?tid=hpModule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394): Is this from the same interview in which she opined that 'Murica is not ready for a female president? Even though she ran in 2012? Quoting a phrase read elsewhere: “Irony takes a worse beating from Republicans than Wile E. Coyote does from Acme.” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12976 "2014-02-22T03:35:32Z")
I wonder if the fact that the Constitution has amendments means that God isn’t omnipotent after all. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12977 "2014-02-22T04:06:23Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Former U.S. Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin thinks, Jesus is coming back as a warrior and an AR-15 will be his weapon of choice… What I want to know is whether the “horse” ridden by gun toting Jesus will be a Velociraptor. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12978 "2014-02-22T04:45:30Z")
You may remember him from some years past, when he appeared in full uniform to lecture a fundamentalist group on his Christian approach to Islamic terrorism, how he told them flat out that their Allah was bullshit and his God was the real deal, and that’s how he knew he would win. He was United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. I swear, I’m not making that up. Intelligence. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12979 "2014-02-22T04:54:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I wonder if the fact that the Constitution has amendments means that God isn’t omnipotent after all. Regarding slavery, it is just about time he should also had amended one of the ten commandments at least. > [@](#): > > ``` > The Ten Commandments: Rabbi M.J. Raphall (circa 1861) justified human slavery on the basis of the 10th commandment. It places slaves > > ``` > > > [@](#): > > > > ``` > > "... under the same protection as any other species of lawful property...That the Ten Commandments are the word of G-d, and as such, of the very highest authority, is acknowledged by Christians as well as by Jews...How dare you, in the face of the sanction and protection afforded to slave property in the Ten Commandments--how dare you denounce slaveholding as a sin? When you remember that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job--the men with whom the Almighty conversed, with whose names he emphatically connects his own most holy name, and to whom He vouchsafed to give the character of 'perfect, upright, fearing G-d and eschewing evil' (Job 1:8)--that all these men were slaveholders, does it not strike you that you are guilty of something very little short of blasphemy?" 1 > > > > ``` > > > [@](#): > > > > Exodus 20:17"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s." ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/12980 "2014-02-22T05:05:51Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Regarding slavery, it is just about time he should also had amended one of the ten commandments at least. Well, then, there. To want your neighbor’s servant liberated is the same thing as stealing or coveting him, is it not? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=648) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=650)