# 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:** 703
**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:** [April 12, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14041 "2014-04-12T23:46:28Z")
[Mike Huckabee thinks there is more freedom in North Korea than in the United States.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/huckabee-more-freedom-north-korea) ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14042 "2014-04-13T00:33:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Mike Huckabee thinks there is more freedom in North Korea than in the United States.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/huckabee-more-freedom-north-korea) Plus, our country allows legal abortion and in some states sanctions same-sex marriages, denying people like Mike Huckabee the freedom of having their religious beliefs enshrined into law. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14043 "2014-04-13T01:20:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Mike Huckabee thinks there is more freedom in North Korea than in the United States.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/huckabee-more-freedom-north-korea) > [@Mike Huckabee](#): > > “When I go to the airport, I have to get in the surrender position, people put hands all over me, and I have to provide photo ID and a couple of different forms and prove that I really am not going to terrorize the airplane – but if I want to go vote I don’t need a thing," Gosh, Governor, if you wanted to give the impression that you’re in a really good position to terrorize a polling place, you’ve probably succeeded beyond your wildest imaginings. I’m sure we could arrange to have you strip-searched every time you go to vote… ---
**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 13, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14044 "2014-04-13T15:15:38Z")
> [@I voted for Obama & I don't think Hillary Clinton has prayer of being the next POTUS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-voted-for-obama-i-dont-think-hillary-clinton-has-prayer-of-being-the-next-potus/681404/145): > > … The Republican contenders also have drawbacks. I’m afraid that Huckabee, who disbelieves in evolution, might be the most stomachable of the lot. :smack: [QUOTE=Mike Huckabee, arguing against woman’s coice] Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape … And so I know it happens, and yet even from those horrible, horrible tragedies of rape… life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Mike Huckabee] I’m beginning to think theres more freedom in North Korea sometimes than there is in the United States. [/QUOTE] I nominate **septimus** for stupid idea _about_ a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14045 "2014-04-13T16:26:48Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > I smell a parody site. Look at the other articles and note that none of the links work. It’s just the [_Topeka News._](http://topekasnews.com/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14046 "2014-04-13T16:29:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > It’s just the [_Topeka News._](http://topekasnews.com/) But, [Wiki lists no such print publication in Topeka.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka,_Kansas#Print) Hmmm . . . ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14047 "2014-04-13T17:58:31Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > It’s just the [_Topeka News._](http://topekasnews.com/) Topekas News, you mean. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14048 "2014-04-14T02:09:12Z")
Well, parody or not, if the Neil deGrasse Tyson “cussing” quote is legit, I have more respect for him since he otherwise strikes as kinda mild and bloodless. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14049 "2014-04-14T02:46:28Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I nominate **septimus** for stupid idea _about_ a Republican. Sorry, I c can’t second the nomination. You said"most stomachable," which compared to the general field gives you lots of leeway. Now, if you’d care to choose from a wide selection of other dumb things you’ve said… (Disclaimer: septinus may or may not have said other dumb things. He may or may not have taunted Happy Fun Ball. He may or may not be a dog on the internet…) ---
**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 14, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14050 "2014-04-14T13:36:49Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Some of the links work. And some of the articles seem legit. But I agree it does appear to be a parody news site. > > My bad! Sorry Oklahomans! It’s definitely a parody. There’s no such place as Saddlebridge Township, Oklahoma. I reposted it on my Facebook page before reading the responses in this thread though. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14051 "2014-04-14T14:32:39Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > It’s definitely a parody. There’s no such place as Saddlebridge Township, Oklahoma. I reposted it on my Facebook page before reading the responses in this thread though. :smack: What about that photo of people standing in the street holding signs that spell out “SECDEE”? Staged for this parody-story, or real from another story? ---
**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 14, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14052 "2014-04-14T15:24:29Z")
It’s from at least [2012](http://tinfoilhatman45.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/secdee/) and probably relates to reelection of the Socialist Muslim Antichrist in Chief. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14053 "2014-04-14T22:03:39Z")
Well, I’ve confirmed this one ain’t parody, believe it or not: _Detroit News_ columnist Nolan Finley: [Dem Lt. Gov. candidate Lisa Brown is “milking the vagina business.”](http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1291024) There’s such thing?! I’m gonna **kill** my guidance counselor! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14054 "2014-04-14T22:08:42Z")
[url=]Meanwhile, in Florida: > [@](#): > > **7. Florida Rep: Floridians can’t vote on solar ballot measure.** > > Solar energy is increasingly popular among Floridians, which is why a Republican representative is hellbent on keeping the issue out of the polls. As we all learned in high school civics class, democracy means not letting people vote on things you don’t want them to vote on. A Senate committee in the Sunshine State approved an amendment for the November ballot that would give tax breaks to businesses that install solar panels. But Ritch Workman is using his power as the chairman of the House Finance and Tax Committee to prevent that from happening. His lame excuse? > > “I just don’t see the need to continue to expand the incentives and underwriting of solar,’’ Workman said. “Solar is coming a long way and eventually it’s going to be able to stand on its own two feet. But right now it doesn’t.” > > More likely, say proponents of the bill, Workman is under the sway of Florida’s electric utilities, which adamantly oppose rooftop solar energy because it will end their monopoly. > > Ah well, it’s not as if there’s some big hurry to convert to clean energy or anything. It’s not as if climate change and global warming are some big urgent problem that the whole country needs to immediately address in no uncertain terms in order to avert what is certain to be catastrophic climate events, the likes of which we are only just beginning to see. No, no, no. > > Anyway, we all know the sun is for frying your skin, not heating your home or running your appliances. Silly. OK, that one’s mainly evil, but stupid comes into it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14055 "2014-04-14T22:10:54Z")
[VA GOP candidate: No incest exception for abortion because sometimes it’s ‘voluntary’.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/11/va-gop-candidate-no-incest-exception-for-abortion-because-sometimes-its-voluntary/) No doubt, Assemblyman Marshall. And no doubt you could tell us some family stories. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14056 "2014-04-14T22:12:46Z")
[Charles Murray: No ‘evidence’ that women are ‘significant thinkers’.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/09/adviser-to-texas-gops-greg-abbott-no-evidence-that-women-are-significant-thinkers/) What, did you think he was just a racist? There’s no need to choose! 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 14, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14057 "2014-04-14T22:26:27Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [VA GOP candidate: No incest exception for abortion because sometimes it’s ‘voluntary’.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/11/va-gop-candidate-no-incest-exception-for-abortion-because-sometimes-its-voluntary/) > > No doubt, Assemblyman Marshall. And no doubt you could tell us some family stories. You’d think sooner or later these people would learn, or at least their PR managers would smack them silly until they learned, that talking about rape and incest with regards to abortion is kind of a _really bad idea_. Oh well, more fodder. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14058 "2014-04-14T22:29:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [VA GOP candidate: No incest exception for abortion because sometimes it’s ‘voluntary’.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/11/va-gop-candidate-no-incest-exception-for-abortion-because-sometimes-its-voluntary/) > > No doubt, Assemblyman Marshall. And no doubt you could tell us some family stories. > [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > You’d think sooner or later these people would learn, or at least their PR managers would smack them silly until they learned, that talking about rape and incest with regards to abortion is kind of a _really bad idea_. Oh well, more fodder. To be fair, he said that about **25 years ago**. On the other hand, nothing he’s said since leads me to believe he’s changed his stance on the subject, and it’s just a bit too wide. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14059 "2014-04-14T22:32:26Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > You’d think sooner or later these people would learn, or at least their PR managers would smack them silly until they learned, that talking about rape and incest with regards to abortion is kind of a _really bad idea_. Oh well, more fodder. You’d think, but they represent their constituents. It’s up to the rest of us constituents to hit the bars and exert our democratic free speech rights. With freedom comes responsibility and all that. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14060 "2014-04-14T23:00:10Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, I’ve confirmed this one ain’t parody, believe it or not: _Detroit News_ columnist Nolan Finley: [Dem Lt. Gov. candidate Lisa Brown is “milking the vagina business.”](http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1291024) Where to start, where to start, oh my! 1. Perhaps the most badly conceived metaphor in the history of political metaphors! 2. He thinks vaginas can be MILKED!!! Is there some central Republican medical text that says stuff like this, and that a woman’s body can end a pregnancy if it’s by a rapist? I mean … maybe doing it in the dark under the sheets and ONLY for procreation AND not ever listening to women has left these guys PROFOUNDLY ignorant … 3. Remembering Opalcat! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=702) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=704)