# 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:** 774
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15461 "2014-06-27T19:51:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > What an excellent opportunity to buff my non-partisan cred! Given the choice between a corpse and a Republican, I will not hesitate to vote Republican! > > OK, I would be _reluctant_! But still… I think I’d be leaning corpse. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15462 "2014-06-27T19:51:18Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I think this one looks like actual mental illness, not stupidity. [Timothy Ray Murray’s homepage](http://www.timothyraymurray.com/Home_Page.html), particularly [the “Ambassador” subpage](http://www.timothyraymurray.com/Amb._Hon.html), provides plenty of arguments for either option. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15463 "2014-06-27T20:10:50Z")
Grover Norquist describes “Hey Joe” as pro-family and pro-second amendment in a tweet: > [@](#): > > 25 Jun > > Degenerate Gandhi@Bro\_Pair > > @GroverNorquist What is your favorite song by Janis Joplin and Jimi? > > Grover Norquist✔@GroverNorquist > > @Bro\_Pair Hendrix: “Hey joe…where you going with that gun in your hand.” pro-family, pro-2nd amendment. Janis: anything. Everything. > > 8:53 PM - 25 Jun 2014 > > 100RETWEETS64FAVORITESReplyRetweetFavorite ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15464 "2014-06-27T20:32:41Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > As the story notes: > > > [@](#): > > > > Murray felt the need to point this out because he believes the incumbent in the district, Rep. Frank Lucas is a robot! On his webpage, Murray claims the real Lucas was killed by the World Court over three years ago and replaced with an automaton. :smack: What a nutcase! No robot capable of that deception exists! Lucas was replaced with a **clone,** dumbass! ---
**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:** [June 27, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15465 "2014-06-27T20:45:33Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I think I’d be leaning corpse. Not a corpse. A robot corpse. A far better choice than the republican. And the entire corpse too. Not just a Robot Arm. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15466 "2014-06-27T21:33:51Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [This?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/06/27/stephen-colbert-examines-the-conspiracy-theory-of-fox-newss-keith-ablow/) Yeah, that was it. And you have to admit, having a President who hates America has been an effective strategy. No skyscrapers have been destroyed during Obama’s tenure. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15467 "2014-06-27T22:07:57Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > . . .robot corpse. Band name! ---
**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 27, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15468 "2014-06-27T22:15:07Z")
[GOP Candidate Releases Video Calling Global Warming ‘The Greatest Deception In The History Of Mankind’](http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/26/gop-candidate-calls-global-warming-greatest-deception-ever-video/) There are no limits to the depths of their stupidity or evil. They would sooner see earth destroyed than risk losing power. It’s sickening. ---
**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 27, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15469 "2014-06-27T22:39:08Z")
[Michigan GOP candidate: Ignore my arrests for publicly masturbating in other people’s cars](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/27/michigan-gop-candidate-ignore-my-arrests-for-publicly-masturbating-in-other-peoples-cars/) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15470 "2014-06-27T22:59:53Z")
Every time you think the GOP have scraped the bottom of the barrel… ---
**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 27, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15471 "2014-06-27T23:05:52Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > [Michigan GOP candidate: Ignore my arrests for publicly masturbating in other people’s cars](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/27/michigan-gop-candidate-ignore-my-arrests-for-publicly-masturbating-in-other-peoples-cars/) > [@](#): > > “stool of conservatism” Nicely phrased. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15472 "2014-06-28T00:22:14Z")
Even with Rule 34, I would have never considered engine porn to be a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15473 "2014-06-28T00:53:50Z")
When you think about it, it takes quite some dedication to one’s freak flag to not just masturbate in public inside one’s car, but to go and break into _other people’s_ cars and hotwire them just to have a wank. ---
**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 28, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15474 "2014-06-28T01:13:40Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Nicely phrased. QFT ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15475 "2014-06-28T01:32:46Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > When you think about it, it takes quite some dedication to one’s freak flag to not just masturbate in public inside one’s car, but to go and break into _other people’s_ cars and hotwire them just to have a wank. Brother was just looking for a little strange. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15476 "2014-06-28T01:36:15Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > When you think about it, it takes quite some dedication to one’s freak flag to not just masturbate in public inside one’s car, but to go and break into _other people’s_ cars and hotwire them just to have a wank. Is it possible he was trying to steal the car, saw the cops coming, and this was the best excuse he could come up with on short notice? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15477 "2014-06-28T02:29:10Z")
Not sure if this belongs here, but as a follow up to that whole Mississippi Tea Party vs. Establishment campaign, the TP official arrested with that blogger who broke into the nursing home to take pictures of Thad Cochran’s wife is now [dead of an apparent suicide](http://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-tea-party-leader-mark-mayfield-dead-apparent-154020451.html), gunshot to the head. Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on either, but I like how they say “apparent” suicide. I wonder how long it will take McDaniel to blame this on Cochran or Obama ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15478 "2014-06-28T02:54:13Z")
First Vince Foster, and now this? Connect the dot, people! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15479 "2014-06-28T03:26:18Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I wonder how long it will take McDaniel to blame this on Cochran or Obama In 3…2…1… [Chris McDaniel aide slams GOP over apparent suicide](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/mark-mayfield-chris-mcdaniel-aide-108395.html) ---
**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 28, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15480 "2014-06-28T03:59:23Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is it possible he was trying to steal the car, saw the cops coming, and this was the best excuse he could come up with on short notice? Do we really care why he broke into someone’s car and started jerking himself off? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=773) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=775)