# 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:** 677
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13521 "2014-03-17T19:04:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Cite, please? Sure, [here’s a relevant section on the Wiki about NAMBLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association#Relations_with_LGBT_organizations). Note that any outreach occurred VERY early in the gay rights movement and was quickly quashed. Also note that if you do a Google search on “gay outreach NAMBLA” you will find cite after cite after cite – all of it on social conservative blogs and sites who try to misrepresent it as a current thing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13522 "2014-03-17T19:20:56Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Sure, [here’s a relevant section on the Wiki about NAMBLA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association#Relations_with_LGBT_organizations). Note that any outreach occurred VERY early in the gay rights movement and was quickly quashed. Also note that if you do a Google search on “gay outreach NAMBLA” you will find cite after cite after cite – all of it on social conservative blogs and sites who try to misrepresent it as a current thing. My thanks to both you and **running coach**. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13523 "2014-03-17T19:35:27Z")
Texas GOPer’s Palinese Preamble… > [@](#): > > If you look at it, women are… extremely busy, we lead busy lives,” she explained. “And times are extremely busy. It’s just — it’s a busy cycle for women, and we’ve got a lot to juggle. to her Palinese response when asked for a better solution after dissing the Lilly Ledbetter Act… > [@](#): > > And so when we look at this issue, we think, what’s practical?” Christman continued. “And we want more access to jobs. And we want to be able to go to get a higher education degree at the same time we’re working or raising a family. That’s common sense. And we believe that real-world solution is a more practical way to approach the problem. [The Raw Story](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/17/awkward-gop-womens-pac-leader-says-women-too-busy-to-need-equal-pay-laws/) ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13524 "2014-03-17T19:41:11Z")
Palinese is a pretty apt descriptor. She’s just throwing out phrases like “real world solutions” with no idea what that means or what an example might be. ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13525 "2014-03-17T23:10:33Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Yeah, I’m not really getting the outrage over a 20 year old book either. The problem is that one never knows _which_ [book](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf) will have people 20 years later surveying the wreckage wondering if the whole thing could have been avoided if somebody had paid attention to the early warning… ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13526 "2014-03-17T23:41:10Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The problem is that one never knows _which_ [book](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf) will have people 20 years later surveying the wreckage wondering if the whole thing could have been avoided if somebody had paid attention to the early warning… Oh no you didunt! ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13527 "2014-03-17T23:55:59Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The problem is that one never knows _which_ [book](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf) will have people 20 years later surveying the wreckage wondering if the whole thing could have been avoided if somebody had paid attention to the early warning… [True dat.](http://www.amazon.com/The-Straight-Dope-Cecil-Adams/dp/0345333152) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13528 "2014-03-18T01:04:37Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The problem is that one never knows _which_ [book](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf) will have people 20 years later surveying the wreckage wondering if the whole thing could have been avoided if somebody had paid attention to the early warning… And by that argument, we should be looking at more recent … stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13529 "2014-03-18T01:11:26Z")
> [@j666](#): > > And by that argument, we should be looking at more recent … stuff. This one is a bit more recent. Dagnabbit, I can’t get the link right on my tablet. Here: [The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries). ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13530 "2014-03-18T01:22:09Z")
Um … was Pierce a Republican? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13531 "2014-03-18T01:34:11Z")
Um…I don’t know. Do you? Um… did you pay attention to the little side thing about Mein Kampf? Um… was Hitler a Republican? Um… is starting a post with “Um…” not kind of puerile? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13532 "2014-03-18T01:34:23Z")
> [@](#): > > And by that argument, we should be looking at more recent … stuff. The only one that will matter will be the one the cockroaches write. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13533 "2014-03-18T01:50:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The only one that will matter will be the one the cockroaches write. Oh, I hate that. They can’t hit the “shift” key on a computer keyboard any more than they can on a typewriter, so it all comes out looking weird. > **[Archy and Mehitabel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_mehitabel)** > > Archy and Mehitabel (styled as archy and mehitabel) are fictional characters created in 1916 by Don Marquis, a columnist for The Evening Sun newspaper in New York City. Archy, a cockroach, and Mehitabel, an alley cat, appeared in hundreds of humorous verses and short stories in Marquis's daily column, "The Sun Dial". Their exploits were first collected in the 1927 book archy and mehitabel, which remains in print today, and in two later volumes, archys life of mehitabel (1933) and archy does his p... > **[Don Markstein's Toonopedia: archy and mehitabel](http://www.toonopedia.com/mehitabl.htm)** > > Hypertext encyclopedia of comics and animation ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13534 "2014-03-18T02:34:45Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Um…I don’t know. Do you? > > Um… did you pay attention to the little side thing about Mein Kampf? > > Um… was Hitler a Republican? > > Um… is starting a post with “Um…” not kind of puerile? No, I think it a trifle more polite that asking what your post has to do with “Stupid Republican idea[s] of the day”, given that it is not about a Republican, or about “the day”, as it refers to a work from over a quarter of a century ago. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13535 "2014-03-18T02:46:21Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Oh, I hate that. They can’t hit the “shift” key on a computer keyboard any more than they can on a typewriter, so it all comes out looking weird. > [Archy and Mehitabel - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_and_mehitabel) > [Don Markstein's Toonopedia: archy and mehitabel](http://www.toonopedia.com/mehitabl.htm) But at least they’re not Republicans! Cockroaches have standards! 😉 ---
**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:** [March 18, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13536 "2014-03-18T03:32:33Z")
[GOP Lawmaker Says Businesses Should Be Allowed To Deny Services To Black People](http://huff.to/1fDCI7m%22) Because free market: > [@](#): > > "If someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and they were running a little bakery for instance, the majority of us would find it detestable that they refuse to serve blacks, and guess what? In a matter of weeks or so that business would shut down because no one is going to patronize them,” Jensen told the Journal, advocating for the free market’s role in promoting civil rights. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13537 "2014-03-18T14:46:41Z")
Well, I guess this “free market” shit is better than rape comments. But yo’ linky no worky. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13538 "2014-03-18T14:53:44Z")
Just like the free market shut down all those whites-only businesses down South during the Jim Crow era! That only took weeks.\* \*Weeks, plus a entire fucking century, and sweeping federal laws, and huge sustained protests… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13539 "2014-03-18T15:45:33Z")
[Texas GOP top official (female): Gender pay gap persists because men are “better negotiators.”](http://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/texas_gop_top_official_gender_pay_gap_persists_because_men_are_better_negotiators/) Never been married, have you, ma’am? ---
**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:** [March 18, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13540 "2014-03-18T15:49:42Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Just like the free market shut down all those whites-only businesses down South during the Jim Crow era! That only took weeks.\* > > \*Weeks, plus a entire fucking century, and sweeping federal laws, and huge sustained protests… On a stretch-the-legs Greyhound bus stop in Greenville SC a century later, I was happy to see the **White Only** sign in the laundromat window was really only about the color of the _laundry_ allowed there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=676) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=678)