# 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:** 767
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15321 "2014-06-20T18:31:01Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > At least he was aware enough to realize it, something I wouldn’t have credited him with during his failed 2012 run. I wouldn’t have credited him with breathing during that run. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15322 "2014-06-20T18:32:26Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > [Rick Perry Says He 'Stepped Right In It' While Comparing Homosexuality To Alcoholism | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/19/rick-perry-homosexuality_n_5512307.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular) > > At least he was aware enough to realize it, something I wouldn’t have credited him with during his failed 2012 run. “Oops”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15323 "2014-06-20T18:34:57Z")
I’m willing to credit his claim of alcoholism, indirect though it was. It would explain a lot, including his speech patterns, and his inability to remember which Cabinet departments he’d eliminate. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15324 "2014-06-20T18:51:48Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > So we’ll be adding black _and_ not-black-enough to the list… And don’t forget _pretending to be half-white_: [QUOTE=[Taibbi: Truth About the Tea Party](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-on-the-tea-party-20100928)] … Ron says his problem with Obama is the integrity thing. “He exaggerates too much,” Ron says. “He’s not honest.” “OK,” I say. “What does he exaggerate about?” “Well, like that time he was saying he had a white mother and a white grandmother,” he says. I ask him how this is an exaggeration. “Well, he was saying . . .” he begins. “As if that qualifies him to . . .” Despite my repeated prodding, Ron seems unable or unwilling to say aloud exactly what he means. Finally, his friend Mary, a grave-looking blonde with fierce anger lines around her eyes, jumps in, points a finger and blurts out one of the all-time man-on-the-street quotes. “Look, you either are or you aren’t,” she says. “And he aren’t,” Ron says, nodding with relief. [/QUOTE] ---
**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:** [June 20, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15325 "2014-06-20T23:03:58Z")
[Rick Santorum says Gay Marriage is bad for the economy.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rick-santorum-gay-marriage-economy) Because South Africa and such as. . . ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15326 "2014-06-21T00:42:52Z")
To properly asses the conspiracy, you have to look at the Big Gay Picture, see the pattern. Liberace, Elton John, Jerry Lee Lewis…connect the dot, people! ---
**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:** [June 21, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15327 "2014-06-21T01:59:31Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Jerry Lee Lewis 😕 Now Little Richard, yeah… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15328 "2014-06-21T02:17:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > asses…Big Gay Picture (Snipping mine) I see what you did there ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15329 "2014-06-21T02:53:05Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Rick Santorum says Gay Marriage is bad for the economy.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rick-santorum-gay-marriage-economy) Because South Africa and such as. . . More specifically, because: > [@](#): > > “When we continue to see a decline in marriage and a redefinition of marriage, you get less marriage,” he said. :rolleyes: I’ve been hearing this meme since the Defense of Marriage Act, but does anyone **really** believe that if same-sex couples start getting married, opposite-sex couples are going to start losing interest in doing the same?! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15330 "2014-06-21T02:55:40Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > 😕 Now Little Richard, yeah… Tutti-frutti\*, oh Rudy! 😃 - “All fruits.” ---
**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:** [June 21, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15331 "2014-06-21T03:06:37Z")
[\*\*\*\*QUOTE=septimus;17479674]And don’t forget _pretending to be half-white_: [/QUOTE] “Ron”? I wonder if **melodyharmonius** [knows that guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=495672). ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15332 "2014-06-21T03:14:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > :rolleyes: I’ve been hearing this meme since the Defense of Marriage Act, but does anyone **really** believe that if same-sex couples start getting married, opposite-sex couples are going to start losing interest in doing the same?! Never underestimate conservative stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15333 "2014-06-21T03:52:03Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Never underestimate conservative stupidity. Nevertheless, while we mustn’t underestimate it, we can’t ignore it; the contards do vote. ☹ For now, that is. Their cause is in the long run doomed by demographics – not racial/ethnic, but generational and cultural. When they declared the “Culture Wars,” they must have known they could never win them. Not in the long run. But, we all have to live in the **short** run. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15334 "2014-06-21T06:57:54Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > (Snipping mine) > > I see what you did there Hey, its just a typo! “Assess”, as in estimate or examine, wasn’t some sort of unconscious butt reference… OMG! I’m a victim of latent homosexuality! Black capsule. Only way… ---
**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:** [June 21, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15335 "2014-06-21T09:14:46Z")
Hey, now, let’s see if what Santorum is saying (about less marriage because of gay marriage) could make some internally consistent sense. We know that homophobia is pretty strong in the over-35 male demographic. If anything is associated with gays at all, it’s to be shunned, right? So marriage is now “tainted” by the fact that gays can marry. So now the fear is that [del]a statistically significant minority[/del], well, any number, however small, of a new generation of straight men will begin to say, “Get married? Are you crazy? Do you think I’m gay!??” This is silly, of course. It’s crazy on the level of refusing to live in a house because, "Queers do that."But for those who remember the era where gay men were seen as horrifying monsters and gayness a label assiduously to be avoided, understandable. Now this, this is pretty daft: > [@Santorum](#): > > “It’s also about a unity of men and women, for the purposes of having and raising children, and giving the child their birthright, which is to be raised by their natural mother and natural father,” he continued. “When we have less of that in America … then society struggles and suffers. Economically, it suffers.” How many children of war dead, products of rape, children of women who died in childbirth, etc., did Santorum just insult? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15336 "2014-06-21T17:18:49Z")
If Santorum wants to show the damage gay marriage is doing, he should just divorce his wife as an example. That’ll show us gay-lovers! It’ll really teach me a lesson! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15337 "2014-06-22T00:36:08Z")
[Ohio Signs Nation’s First Anti-Renewable Energy Bill Into Law](http://www.occupy.com/article/ohio-signs-nations-first-anti-renewable-energy-bill-law) Bought and paid for by none other than the Koch brothers. When are these old fuckers gonna do the country a favor and keel over and die? I just fucking hate them beyond measure. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15338 "2014-06-22T00:58:43Z")
What I wonder is: Don’t they have children and grandchildren (and possibly great-grandchildren) who have to, you know, breathe? Are they so on autopilot about the global warming stuff that they can’t see their way to maybe trying not to kill the planet before their descendants grow up? ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15339 "2014-06-22T01:06:16Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > What I wonder is: Don’t they have children and grandchildren (and possibly great-grandchildren) who have to, you know, breathe? Are they so on autopilot about the global warming stuff that they can’t see their way to maybe trying not to kill the planet before their descendants grow up? I think they are aware of their own mortality, and that they know already that it will be long gone before the worst effects are visible to all and not just the scientists. Après nous, le déluge. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15340 "2014-06-22T01:13:14Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > What I wonder is: Don’t they have children and grandchildren (and possibly great-grandchildren) who have to, you know, breathe? Are they so on autopilot about the global warming stuff that they can’t see their way to maybe trying not to kill the planet before their descendants grow up? If it weren’t for those Commie child labor laws, those worthless free-loaders would be working and contributing to society and thus might be worth saving. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=766) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=768)