# 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:** 751
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15001 "2014-06-03T15:37:17Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Teabilly home schooling “expert” Marjorie Holstein](http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/education/home-schooling/homeschooling-expert-claims-sex-ed-will-ruin-marriages-help?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+opposingviews%2Fmain+(Opposing+Views+-+Issues%2C+Experts%2C+Answers)) says sex education leads to broken marriage and voting Democratic. Better still she says “sex education classes would help Democrats win elections **by** ruining marriages.” No misrepresentation of her words, either: > [@](#): > > “People say to me, why would they teach such awful things to our children?” Holsten said on the “Understanding the Times” radio show, noted [RightWingWatch.org](http://RightWingWatch.org). > > “If you go deep down and you connect those dots, you see that when children are desensitized to sexual things, that affects their ability at a later date to bond with a spouse,” added Holsten. > > “And so if you have somebody who can’t bond, they’re not going to have a stable marriage. When you have unstable, broken households, how do they vote? Democrat. So this has a very evil underlying intent.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15002 "2014-06-03T15:39:08Z")
I like the bit at the end where she laments that there’s no guinea pig porn on the Internet. Almost as if she had actually looked for some. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15003 "2014-06-03T15:42:22Z")
I do not hold with foisting drugs upon the unwilling. If I found myself in possession of a dose of acid I could slip into her Mr. Pibb, I would resist the temptation. Successfully, I hope. But I am not at all sure about that. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15004 "2014-06-03T15:43:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > I like the bit at the end where she laments that there’s no guinea pig porn on the Internet. > > Almost as if she had actually looked for some. She hasn’t looked hard enough. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15005 "2014-06-03T15:51:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > She hasn’t looked hard enough. Rule 34, after all. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15006 "2014-06-03T16:00:24Z")
15,000th reply. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15007 "2014-06-03T16:16:17Z")
And with that, I propose we create a poll to select the top ten Stupid Republican Ideas. Nominate your favorites, I’ll come up with a poll of 20-30, and we will let the people decide. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15008 "2014-06-03T16:22:49Z")
That would be like asking me to choose between my children. My stupid, stupid children. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15009 "2014-06-03T16:27:55Z")
Replacing Medicare with vouchers has to be up there. Let’s make Granny clip coupons so she can afford that hip replacement. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15010 "2014-06-03T16:28:04Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > And with that, I propose we create a poll to select the top ten Stupid Republican Ideas. Nominate your favorites, I’ll come up with a poll of 20-30, and we will let the people decide. Don’t we have a professional indexer on the boards? We need her! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15011 "2014-06-03T16:48:31Z")
I’m pretty sure “mentioning rape” is going to occupy at least 8 of the top 10 spots. Naturally, Louie Gohmert will be one of the other two. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15012 "2014-06-03T16:51:52Z")
The levels of stupid on this issue are so high and general to Republicans it should deserve its own thread. > **["Obamacare For The Air": How Reporting On EPA's Clean Power Plan Misses...](https://www.mediamatters.org/barack-obama/obamacare-air-how-reporting-epas-clean-power-plan-misses-republican-extremism)** > [@](#): > > Both articles left out why the EPA standards are contentious among the political class: it’s not because the proposals are “liberal,” but rather because the Republican party has shifted so far to the right that it now attacks proposals that it once advocated for. Many prominent Republicans supported a cap-and-trade program before Barack Obama was elected president, just as they once supported the individual mandate in Obamacare. In fact, the greenhouse gas emissions cuts that Sen. John McCain proposed during the 2008 election were far more extensive than the EPA’s current proposal. The video below by Media Matters Action Network shows how Republicans used to talk about climate change in ways that they never would today: > > As the Republican Party shifted to the right, so too did the conservative media. The Wall Street Journal editorial board previously stated that “the Bush Administration should propose a domestic cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide that could, of course, be easily expanded to Canada and Mexico. And then to Latin America. And then the world.” Now the paper’s editorials deride this conservative idea as “cap-and-tax.” Yet mainstream reporters are often loathe to point out this profound shift, sticking instead to “both-sides-to-blame reporting.” > > EPA’s new standards are also similar to Obamacare in that they are more controversial among politicians serving special interests than among the public. Polls of American voters show overwhelming support across party lines for regulating carbon pollution, just as there is significant bipartisan support for most provisions of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). Industry groups’ attacks on the EPA’s plan are hardly newsworthy. These same groups have overestimated the cost of action on nearly every policy to address environmental threats, including acid rain. So, besides McCain and Romney showing how the stupid has swallowed the whole party, the media is also the problem for not reporting that the current Republican party is not what many republican moderates and independents think it is. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15013 "2014-06-03T17:57:21Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > 15,000th reply. [Maxwell Smart]Missed it by **that** much![/MS] ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15014 "2014-06-03T18:06:15Z")
“If the teacher doesn’t teach that Obama’s the messiah,…”. Wait?? I thought he was the [da-da- **da**]\*\* ANTI-CHRIST\*\*:smack: Is this more right-wing slippage? ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15015 "2014-06-03T18:22:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Maxwell Smart]Missed it by **that** much![/MS] The very first post does not constitute a reply, therefore the 15,001st post is the 15,000th reply. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15016 "2014-06-03T18:32:05Z")
I don’t have any links, but the right’s attack on both the Bergdahl family and Obama’s efforts at getting him released are just the worst. Whatever the details of his capture turn out to be, lets deal with those separately from the fact that an American soldier is home. And the pundits on Fox talking about how his father looks like the Taliban are just moronic. Fuck, I hate people. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15017 "2014-06-03T18:35:51Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > And the pundits on Fox talking about how his father looks like the Taliban are just moronic. [American patriot.](http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/duck-dynasty2.jpg) [Terrorist freak.](http://static2.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1813342.1401658590!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/495162795.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15018 "2014-06-03T18:53:17Z")
Ooooh, the redneck Ayatollah! ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15019 "2014-06-03T19:03:16Z")
[Republican Senators demanding to know what Hillary Clinton knew about Bowe Bergdahl’s release](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/03/1304031/-Republicans-confuse-Bergdahl-with-Benghazi-and-demand-answers-from-Hillary). After all, she had lunch with Obama. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15020 "2014-06-03T19:08:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Republican Senators demanding to know what Hillary Clinton knew about Bowe Bergdahl’s release](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/03/1304031/-Republicans-confuse-Bergdahl-with-Benghazi-and-demand-answers-from-Hillary). After all, she had lunch with Obama. Bergdahl, Benghazi…who can keep all them furrin names straight? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=750) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=752)