# 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:** 742
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14821 "2014-05-20T23:27:42Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > Jesus Christ. Read it and puke. > > [http://www.mediaite.com/online/man-found-guilty-of-drugging-and-raping-wife-gets-no-prison-time/](http://www.mediaite.com/online/man-found-guilty-of-drugging-and-raping-wife-gets-no-prison-time/) While this appears to be an appalling miscarriage of justice and definitely qualifies as a “stupid idea” on many counts, how on earth is it specifically “Republican”? I don’t see any indication in your link of the political affiliation of any of the parties involved. Did you accidentally drop this on your way to the May Mini-rants thread, or what? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14822 "2014-05-20T23:46:34Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > While this appears to be an appalling miscarriage of justice and definitely qualifies as a “stupid idea” on many counts, how on earth is it specifically “Republican”? I don’t see any indication in your link of the political affiliation of any of the parties involved. > > Did you accidentally drop this on your way to the May Mini-rants thread, or what? [The judge who gave him such a lenient sentence is a Republican.](http://judgepedia.org/Kurt_Eisgruber) ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14823 "2014-05-21T00:17:47Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > While this appears to be an appalling miscarriage of justice and definitely qualifies as a “stupid idea” on many counts, how on earth is it specifically “Republican”? I don’t see any indication in your link of the political affiliation of any of the parties involved. > > Did you accidentally drop this on your way to the May Mini-rants thread, or what? Apologies. I ran into an unexpected time crunch. I checked the judge’s bona fides before I posted, but neglected to type that he is, indeed, a Republican. Who is (as of today) running unopposed in November. Forgive me. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14824 "2014-05-21T01:50:50Z")
The guy also has (had?) an official Facebook page with a big Republican banner on it. I saw it about an hour ago, but now it’s gone. I’m betting that the page took a deluge of negative comments, and got taken down as a defensive strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14825 "2014-05-21T03:45:00Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > Apologies. I ran into an unexpected time crunch. I checked the judge’s bona fides before I posted, but neglected to type that he is, indeed, a Republican. Who is (as of today) running unopposed in November. > > Forgive me. No problem, thanks to you and **Czarcasm** and **mhendo** for the follow-ups! Gosh, it’s like you can’t even spell “rape” nowadays without “R” and “AP”. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14826 "2014-05-21T03:55:29Z")
And now, [CNN refuses to promote the crazy](http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/20/cnn-tells-republicans-sell-crazy-refusing-cover-benghazi.html), saying they will _not_ be covering the Benghazi hearings gavel-to-gavel, and will only report on them if there is, like, news involved. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14827 "2014-05-21T04:02:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > And now, [CNN refuses to promote the crazy](http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/20/cnn-tells-republicans-sell-crazy-refusing-cover-benghazi.html), saying they will _not_ be covering the Benghazi hearings gavel-to-gavel, and will only report on them if there is, like, news involved. Or any kind of airplane! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14828 "2014-05-21T07:40:17Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Now they’re blaming the failure of Operation American Spring on . . . Glenn Beck.](http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10639) From the story regarding the comments - “Reading through them, one finds many calls for an armed or otherwise violent overthrow of the government.” More work for the Secret Service. Now I understand their drinking problem. Too many asshats. ---
**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 21, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14829 "2014-05-21T07:59:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > And now, [CNN refuses to promote the crazy](http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/20/cnn-tells-republicans-sell-crazy-refusing-cover-benghazi.html), saying they will _not_ be covering the Benghazi hearings gavel-to-gavel, and will only report on them if there is, like, news involved. Wow, so the news organization that thinks random garbage floating in the sea is “breaking news” is refusing to cover Benghazi because it isn’t really fucking news. Good for CNN. But really, if you can’t meet the low standards of CNN as to what qualifies as news, Fox and the Repubs might seriously want to rethink their world view. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14830 "2014-05-21T14:22:38Z")
[They just can’t wean themselves from The R-Word, can they?](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378310/crying-rape-j-delgado/page/0/1) > [@](#): > > Are women themselves being taught to believe they were raped (the aforementioned “only sober consent is true consent!” notion)? Yes. And that, ironically enough, makes these women victims of liberal culture, too. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14831 "2014-05-21T15:47:28Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Or any kind of airplane! That’s an entirely different proposition, altogether. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14832 "2014-05-21T16:02:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Are women themselves being taught to believe they were raped (the aforementioned “only sober consent is true consent!” notion)? Yes. And that, ironically enough, makes these women victims of liberal culture, too. Rape is a figment of liberal culture! Of COURSE! And if rape is a figment of liberal culture, then WE DON’T HAVE TO PERMIT ABORTIONS FOR RAPE VICTIMS BECAUSE THEY ALL REALLY CONSENTED AND JUST DON’T REALIZE IT!!! [GOP rape litmus test.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYp6n9CVKG4) ---
**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:** [May 21, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14833 "2014-05-21T16:23:19Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Or any kind of airplane! Yeah, but that was Obama’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14834 "2014-05-21T16:28:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [North Carolina Pubs want to make it a felony to disclose fracking chemicals](http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/05/north-carolina-felony-fracking-chemicals-disclosure) (because they’re trade secrets). And, apparently and unsurprisingly, this legislation [is tied to the Koch Brothers, Halliburton and ALec,](http://samuel-warde.com/2014/05/nc-fracking-law-tied-to-koch-bros/) and to [hydraulic fracturing industry lobby groups](http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/16/emails-reveal-officials-close-with-fracking-lobbyest/). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14835 "2014-05-21T16:29:58Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Rape is a figment of liberal culture! Of COURSE! And if rape is a figment of liberal culture, then WE DON’T HAVE TO PERMIT ABORTIONS FOR RAPE VICTIMS BECAUSE THEY ALL REALLY CONSENTED AND JUST DON’T REALIZE IT!!! And, of course, if it **had** been legitimate rape their uteri would have shut down anyway, QED. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14836 "2014-05-21T16:31:22Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [They just can’t wean themselves from The R-Word, can they?](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378310/crying-rape-j-delgado/page/0/1) Making Obama the greatest serial raper of all time. Great, meaning large or immense, I use it in the pejorative sense. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14837 "2014-05-21T16:41:30Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Or any kind of airplane! > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That’s an entirely different proposition, altogether. That’s an entirely different proposition. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14838 "2014-05-21T16:47:11Z")
[GOP Rep. Ted Yoho: Voting should be limited to property owners.](http://www.salon.com/2014/05/21/gop_rep_ted_yoho_voting_should_be_limited_to_property_owners/) Some RWs want things back like they were before the Great Society. Some want things like they were before the New Deal. Some want things like they were before the Fed and the income tax. Some want things like they were before the Civil War. Yoho has 'em all beat! He wants things like they were in the 18th Century! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14839 "2014-05-21T17:12:02Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [They just can’t wean themselves from The R-Word, can they?](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378310/crying-rape-j-delgado/page/0/1) I think their core problem is that they think of women more as something created by Jesus to entertain men and crap out babies than as equals. Why should there be laws against how you treat your toys? ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/14840 "2014-05-21T17:34:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And, of course, if it **had** been legitimate rape their uteri would have shut down anyway, QED. Or the rape kit will clean them all out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=741) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=743)