# 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:** 716
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14301 "2014-04-25T16:24:18Z")
Hey, he can be the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful poster AND be on ignore. ---
**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 25, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14302 "2014-04-25T16:35:06Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Or maybe everyone but me has you on ignore. Has who on ignore? ---
**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 25, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14303 "2014-04-25T16:55:08Z")
Iain M. Banks. He’s dead, so he won’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14304 "2014-04-25T17:01:25Z")
Bundy always seems to be talking with that bridge in the background. It’s obvious to me he lives under it. ---
**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 25, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14305 "2014-04-25T17:18:40Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Or maybe everyone but me has you on ignore. I’m going to ignore 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 25, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14306 "2014-04-25T17:20:04Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Evil Captor is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful poster I’ve ever known in my life. I’m Evil Captor, and I approve this message. And stop all that blinking! ---
**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 25, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14307 "2014-04-25T17:21:11Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Hey! **Evil Captor** is cool, one of my favorite posters. WTH? 😕 :mad: +1 ---
**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 25, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14308 "2014-04-25T17:22:21Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > “We were actually strategizing to put all the women up at the front,” said former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, a Bundy ally. “If they are going to start shooting, it’s going to be women that are going to be televised all across the world getting shot by these rogue federal officers.” > > Lest you worry too much about those women, Stephen Colbert pointed out they will protect them with a line of children. > > [The Ballad of Cliven Bundy](http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/ehanpl/the-ballad-of-cliven-bundy) Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Women and children first!” ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14309 "2014-04-25T17:39:45Z")
I heard the radio talk show host this morning say that Bundy’s “unpolished” speech about black people wasn’t his fault; he’s an old farmer. The real blame belongs with the liberal media reporters who drove him past those black people sitting on their porch, knowing that he would provide them with some damning quotes they could use against all conservatives. I swear to God, that was the actually spin I heard. I don’t know the guy’s name though - he’s the conservative talk show host here during the morning commute. I never listen to him but I got tired of another Ukraine story on NPR. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14310 "2014-04-25T17:47:24Z")
Does anyone know when he took his drive through north LA neighborhoods? I have a feeling it was 1970. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14311 "2014-04-25T18:08:28Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > +1 I swear, make one little mistake and the Gatorade buckets of love come pouring out all over your back. There is a guy in Nevada who needs to take mistake-making lessons from you. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14312 "2014-04-25T18:14:30Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I heard the radio talk show host this morning say that Bundy’s “unpolished” speech about black people wasn’t his fault; he’s an old farmer. Of course not. See, Republicans aren’t racist because old, white people aren’t guaranteed to be racist, until they say something racist at which point of course all old, white people are racist and you can’t judge them for it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14313 "2014-04-25T18:31:12Z")
[Ronald Reagan owns Cliven Bundy.](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/25/ronald_reagan_owns_cliven_bundy_hes_born_of_gop_racial_and_anti_government_hostility/) ---
**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 25, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14314 "2014-04-25T19:21:05Z")
SC Senate candidate: “[Women cause 95% of divorces because they love their children more than they love their husbands](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/25/sc-gop-candidate-women-cause-95-percent-of-divorces-by-loving-their-kids-too-much/).” I guess if you don’t have kids then it might not be your fault? ---
**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:** [April 25, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14315 "2014-04-25T19:49:53Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > SC Senate candidate: “[Women cause 95% of divorces because they love their children more than they love their husbands](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/25/sc-gop-candidate-women-cause-95-percent-of-divorces-by-loving-their-kids-too-much/).” I guess if you don’t have kids then it might not be your fault? You didn’t quote the best part: > [@](#): > > “It is an abominable idolatry to love your children more than you love your husband, and it will ruin your marriage. And yet you blame it on him because he ran off with some other woman! He did run off with some other woman, and you packed his bags. All of his emotional bags, you packed for him. Is that true in every case? No, but it’s true in the vast preponderance of them.” > > He described “abominable idolatry” as “unlawful worship” as he continued lecturing women. > > “You just ran him off,” Bowers said. “You paid more attention to your children than you did to him. ‘Oh, he doesn’t need me?’ He needs you more than they do. He chose you, they didn’t. An abominable idolatry.” I didn’t know “idolatry” was the result of putting someone ahead of my husband. He’ll be pleased to learn this, I think. Right up until I remind him I’m an atheist. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14316 "2014-04-25T20:19:55Z")
For a change, here’s a **smart** RIOTD: Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), formerly a climate-change skeptic, changed his mind [after researching the issue](http://www.salon.com/2014/04/25/someone_actually_managed_to_convince_a_gop_climate_denier_to_change_his_mind/). Excuse me, I have to go wash some pigshit out of my hair. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14317 "2014-04-25T20:21:58Z")
Has this been reported yet? [McConnell’s Tea Party Challenger Caught Attending a Cockfighting Rally](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/04/mcconnells-gop-challenger-caught-attending-a-cockfighting-rally/?google_editors_picks=true) > [@](#): > > Despite saying today he is against animal cruelty, earlier this month on WHAS radio Bevin again defended cockfighting, as well as dog fighting, by citing its historical roots in the state and in the nation’s founding. > “You look at cockfighting and dog fighting as well, this isn’t something new. It wasn’t invented in Kentucky for example,” Bevin said. “I mean the founding fathers were all, many of them, very actively involved in this and always have been. These things are part of a tradition and a heritage that go back for hundreds of years and were very integral early on in this country.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14318 "2014-04-25T20:29:20Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Has this been reported yet? > > [McConnell’s Tea Party Challenger Caught Attending a Cockfighting Rally](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/04/mcconnells-gop-challenger-caught-attending-a-cockfighting-rally/?google_editors_picks=true) Ahem. You mean, “chicken boxing.” ---
**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:** [April 25, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14319 "2014-04-25T20:35:18Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Ahem. You mean, “chicken boxing.” Where the bantamweights are real bantams! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14320 "2014-04-25T20:49:03Z")
Same-sex cockfighting. Doesn’t sound \*that \*bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=715) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=717)