# 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:** 694
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13861 "2014-04-04T04:30:11Z")
> [@andros](#): > > _Oh, let’s hear it for old Loki > He’s the God of Chaos, that’s why > This verse doesn’t rhyme or scan or even parse all that well, really… > Aaaand it’s good enough for me!_ \*Nice \*one ! Anansi and the tar baby Is a cute and funny story Appropriated by whitey And that’s horribly racist. We don’t sing about that. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13862 "2014-04-04T09:13:30Z")
Good old Iluvatar only he knows where the Elves are when they leave the plane of Arda and that’s good enough for me ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13863 "2014-04-04T09:49:52Z")
Yes, we love the sons of Ishmael Oil wells have a godly smell And for jets and tanks they pay well And that’s good enough for me! God said fight Magog and Gog, please So we raped the pagan Iraqis Halleluja-burt ‘n’ Saudis And that’s good enough for me! ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13864 "2014-04-04T13:43:48Z")
_We do dances to bring water, Prepare animals for slaughter, Sacrifice our sons and daughters, And it’s good enough for me._ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13865 "2014-04-04T13:47:03Z")
It was good enough for Dagon A conservative old pagan Who still votes for Ronald Reagan It’s good enough for me! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13866 "2014-04-04T13:56:34Z")
Let’s hoist a cup to Satan even though he’s just a bait and switch because no one’s just Jesus hatin’ but it’s good enough for me! ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13867 "2014-04-04T15:08:36Z")
_In the shrine of Cecil Adams All the misters and the madams Well, you know Ed Zotti’s had 'em So they’re good enough for me_ . ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13868 "2014-04-04T15:38:36Z")
_Can you seen old Janus? He doesn’t even face us, And he can see Uranus, That’s good enough for me!_ ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13869 "2014-04-04T15:43:26Z")
I weep for what has happened to this thread. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13870 "2014-04-04T15:46:41Z")
Jesus Christ. And no, that wasn’t supposed to rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13871 "2014-04-04T16:00:45Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I weep for what has happened to this thread. It will be okay. We just have to wait a few minutes for a republican to do something stupid and this thread will be right back on track. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13872 "2014-04-04T16:06:17Z")
_Howzabout the god I.P.U You need faith that that is her hue As gods go she is quite new And that’s good enough for me_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13873 "2014-04-04T16:11:41Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > It will be okay. We just have to wait a few minutes for a republican to do something stupid and this thread will be right back on track. [Here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/04/03/coats-im-at-the-wrong-hearing/), although it’s more in the nature of a non-ideological brainfart a pol of either party might conceivably do. > [@](#): > > Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) was prepped for an appropriations hearing on the defense budget when he took his turn Wednesday afternoon, flipping papers on his lap, reading from them and commending the witness for his department’s prompt response to a letter Coats had sent about a military accounting office in his home state. > > It was all fairly innocuous except for one problem: Coats was in the completely wrong hearing complimenting the wrong witness. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13874 "2014-04-04T16:44:32Z")
That’s just being a run off your feet human, not stupid. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13875 "2014-04-04T16:48:07Z")
It can be both, and non-partisan to boot. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13876 "2014-04-04T17:10:43Z")
[Wisconsin GOPer running for U.S. House: “Our country is not going to survive if we continue this war on men”](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/wisconsin_goper_running_for_u_s_house_our_country_is_not_going_to_survive_if_we_continue_this_war_on_men/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13877 "2014-04-04T17:13:13Z")
[Tea Party candidate Matt Bevin: The Founding Fathers were “very involved” in cockfighting and dogfighting](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/tea_party_candidate_matt_bevin_the_founding_fathers_were_very_involved_in_cockfighting_and_dogfighting/) They were also very involved in slavery, Matt; times change. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13878 "2014-04-04T17:13:48Z")
Technically that was a SRI of four years ago. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13879 "2014-04-04T18:40:22Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Tea Party candidate Matt Bevin: The Founding Fathers were “very involved” in cockfighting and dogfighting](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/04/tea_party_candidate_matt_bevin_the_founding_fathers_were_very_involved_in_cockfighting_and_dogfighting/) > > They were also very involved in slavery, Matt; times change. I love this story so much. Bevin says he thought the gathering he was speaking at was a “State’s Rights” rally, when it was actually about legalizing cockfighting. Considering what “States’ Rights” is usually dog whistle for, I can’t believe anybody thinks that’s better. “I didn’t know they were into fighting roosters; I thought they were just about keeping down the Negro.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/13880 "2014-04-04T19:36:12Z")
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