# 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:** 736
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14701 "2014-05-15T21:13:24Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Has someone posted this yet? [http://youtu.be/CQlPcwiruaY](http://youtu.be/CQlPcwiruaY) > > The Idaho GOP Primary Governor’s Tea Party Retardothon. That’s almost an hour long. Is there anything in particular you’d like to bring to our attention? ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14702 "2014-05-15T21:22:22Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That’s almost an hour long. Is there anything in particular you’d like to bring to our attention? Gawker has some highlights: [http://gawker.com/i-cant-stop-watching-this-bizarre-idaho-gop-governors-d-1576919917](http://gawker.com/i-cant-stop-watching-this-bizarre-idaho-gop-governors-d-1576919917) ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14703 "2014-05-15T21:32:05Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That’s almost an hour long. Is there anything in particular you’d like to bring to our attention? Every moment is gold. GOLD! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14704 "2014-05-15T21:43:17Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Every moment is gold. GOLD! Of course, Idaho gold = yellow potatoes. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14705 "2014-05-15T22:21:16Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Has someone posted this yet? [http://youtu.be/CQlPcwiruaY](http://youtu.be/CQlPcwiruaY) > > The Idaho GOP Primary Governor’s Tea Party Retardothon. So, you’ve got an S&M guy, uncle Jesse from the Dukes of Hazard, and two suits debating with each other. Fucking classic. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14706 "2014-05-15T22:23:47Z")
Harley Brown looks an awful lot like George R. R. Martin…which would make for an interesting gubernatorial tenure. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14707 "2014-05-15T22:56:46Z")
Okay, that debate is my favorite debate ever. The bar wasn’t high, but still. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14708 "2014-05-16T00:03:55Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I really don’t get the RW’s hostility here at all. 300 schoolgirls abducted by jihadist terrorists in a foreign country – how does that present any Dem v. Pub or LW v. RW issue?! Boko Haram have established their conservative bona fides. Bunch of religious dudes with guns living in the woods, living the dream. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14709 "2014-05-16T00:59:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Don’t be knocking the hippies, dude-We came _this_ close to levitating the Pentagon back in '67. And you nearly released Yog-Sothoth. Y’all didn’t think that one through, didja? Like that attempt to free him on 9/11. Absolutely insane. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14710 "2014-05-16T01:21:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The Pentagon is [prepared](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/13/exclusive_the_pentagon_has_a_plan_to_stop_the_zombie_apocalypse) for that eventuality. I knew about the CDC but had no idea the Pentagon was involved. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14711 "2014-05-16T01:45:05Z")
About that debate. . . as a New Yorker the only thing I can say is, “The rent’s too damn high!” ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14712 "2014-05-16T02:10:59Z")
Makes me SO proud to be an Idahoan. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14713 "2014-05-16T02:56:30Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Leviticus is just rules and Numbers is boooooring, lists of people and animals. But after Deuteronomy the action picks up with the wars and the killing and the gnashing of teeth! Ezekiel 23:30 - _She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse._ ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14714 "2014-05-16T06:39:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I really don’t get the RW’s hostility here at all. 300 schoolgirls abducted by jihadist terrorists in a foreign country – how does that present any Dem v. Pub or LW v. RW issue?! > [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Duh, Obama’s wife supported it. Bringing us back to how this thread got started! _“We have always been allied with Boko Haram, against the evil, treacherous Mrs Obama.”_ > [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I don’t know, I never seem to be able to spot people with freckles. 😕 But–aren’t you–what? > [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > […]No Jesus power at home for you! Well, if they’re really serious fundamentalists, maybe they think the sun is the pagan god Apollo, and to be despised. Or something. > [@](#): > > If it isn’t immediately jumping out at you why this is stupid, realize that people with solar panels on their homes sell power to the utility at wholesale prices, who turn around and sell it to someone else at retail prices, guaranteeing a profit without burning any fuel. The “people with solar panels are freeriders on the grid!” argument fails, and fails hard. In fact, they’re increasing the amount of energy available! I guess the utility companies want to create artificial scarcity, but that seems foolish. The end of natural gas reserves is well in sight. > [@](#): > > What I really want to know, though, is why do conservatives hate Jesus? > [@eschereal](#): > > It is kind of like the diet-food version, > > **American Christianity** > _ **NEW!** > Improved! > Jesus-FREE!_ :lol: ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14715 "2014-05-16T06:46:48Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Hmmm…10% of the US population drops everything and hangs out on the streets of D.C. for some unknown period of time. […] So big gains for the states and the Feds not having to dole out unemployment compensation. > > Meanwhile, I assume that if D.C. becomes too fetid, what with the logjam of R.V.s and lack of water and sewerage, then I assume the actual government will relocate to any of a number of backup sites while the protesters slowly expire from cholera and typhoid. > > Actually, it all sounds rather promising. I suggest moving the nation’s capital to Cairo, Illinois, with all the important offices newly built on giant barges. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14716 "2014-05-16T06:52:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I thought it was a Rainbow Cleansing. Or are we talking about two different things? I thought Fang said they were trying to release the entity inside, but it was a long time ago I read that. ETA: > [@dropzone](#): > > And you nearly released Yog-Sothoth. Y’all didn’t think that one through, didja? Like that attempt to free him on 9/11. Absolutely insane. Ninja’d! ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14717 "2014-05-16T07:05:58Z")
Well, scooped, anyway. Anyway… This is relatively common, low-grade stupidity, if stupidity it be: From [Democratic underground:](http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014805056) Apparently the Utah Attorney General is risking contempt of court for not recognizing gay adoptions. > [@](#): > > Same-sex couples fighting for the right to adopt children may force the Utah Supreme Court to address one of the biggest legal issues in the state: Whether the Utah marriages of more than 1,300 gay couples are valid. > > A state court judge this week ordered that the Utah Attorney General’s Office and several government agencies appear in court on June 16 to explain why they have refused to honor these adoptions. > > If they refuse, or provide an inadequate response, Attorney General Sean Reyes, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Health, W. David Patton, and the State Registrar of the Office of Vital Records, Janice Houston, may be held in contempt of court — a crime punishable by incarceration, a fine or both. > > “(These officials) must appear and show cause why they should not be held in contempt for their willful disregard and refusal to obey the Decree of Step-Parent Adoption,” wrote 3rd District Judge Andrew Stone. I await further developments. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14718 "2014-05-16T07:09:18Z")
I don’t know what to classify this as. No, yes I do, it’s Machiavellian. [Conservative legend slams GOP as ‘Party of Stupid’](http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/conservative-legend-slams-gop-as-party-of-stupid/) Why? Because they let “liberals” (a.k.a. non-fellow-travelers) moderate televised Presidential debates. Yep, that’s his whole reason. _Gevalt!_ ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14719 "2014-05-16T07:40:52Z")
I’m afraid those last two weren’t impressively enough stupid. How about this? (Admittedly ripping off [Asshole of the Day](http://assholeoftheday.us/post/85845814005/keith-ablow-asshole-of-the-day-for-may-15-2014)) > **[Fox Host Claims Girls "Provoked" Harassment By Wearing Leggings To School](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/fox-host-claims-girls-provoked-harassment-wearing-leggings-school)** > [@](#): > > Fox News’ “Medical A-Team” member Dr. Keith Ablow claimed that girls can “certainly provoke” harassment by wearing leggings to school. > > On the May 9 edition of Fox’s Outnumbered, Ablow and his fellow co-hosts discussed a [school](http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/03/24/evanston_school_bans_leggings_students_protest_for_the_right_to_wear_them.html) that is allegedly telling its female students that wearing leggings to school is inappropriate and distracting to the male students. Ablow said any harassment the girls might experience while wearing leggings “was certainly provoked” (emphasis added): > > > [@](#): > > > > ABLOW: You cannot come in with leggings. Because my son wants to learn and the truth is it is distracting. And it is kind of inappropriate because when did we decide as a culture that tights would become an overgarment instead of an undergarment. The reason we’re doing that is because girls are in a panic to be more and more sexual because we’ve taken all the restraint away from femininity. We’ve made girls into boys. > > > > […] > > > > ABLOW: I don’t know that we can restrain boys from being boys. So the long stare, the offhand comment, you have to – what do you do, excuse it? **Because it was certainly provoked. And I think girls put themselves in the line of fire that way.** Weirdo. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14720 "2014-05-16T11:24:59Z")
I’m not following the “girls are too sexy” argument with the “girls are too much like boys” argument. 😕 I mean I can actually understand the whole, “Girls, this is a school and there is a time and a place” argument, but the “it’s your fault my son can’t concentrate in school” thing is pretty :dubious: to me. Boys are gonna look at girls, Dad. They could be dressed head to toe in burlap bags and the boys would still be trying to see what’s under there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=735) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=737)