# 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:** 791
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15801 "2014-07-23T22:55:42Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > This topic has its own thread where **Freddy the Pig** points out that Ham’s point was rather the opposite: God wouldn’t create naturally damned creatures; therefore intelligent aliens cannot exist. And wouldn’t someone like Ham react to the idea of aliens going to hell with the rather firm decision to convert them, teach them about Jesus Christ, not just abandon them to them being damned for eternity through ignorance? (Then again, Dante had a “good” circle of Hell for those who just didn’t and couldn’t know about Christianity, didn’t he?) ---
**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:** [July 23, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15802 "2014-07-23T23:05:22Z")
It’s fucking Newt again - anything to sow hatred and sell a book. More red meat for the “core constituency”. > **[Newt Gingrich slams Bush family’s friendship with Clintons, says it may bring...](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/newt-gingrich-slams-bush-family-friendliness-clintons-article-1.1876934)** > > Newt Gingrich has blasted the Bushes for being too nice and getting chummy with the Clintons, blaming the family’s friendliness for Hillary Clinton’s likely presidency. Newt Gingrich has blasted the Bushes for being too nice and getting chummy with the Clintons, blaming the family’s friendliness for Hillary Clinton’s likely presidency. me-at least it’s far better than a Newt presidency. “The most single damaging thing the Bush family has done to politics was to resuscitate Bill and Hillary Clinton and give them a bipartisan veneer,” Gingrich says, in the chapter “Seducing the Bushes.” ---
**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:** [July 23, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15803 "2014-07-23T23:45:57Z")
\*"Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) [said that he wants a special congressional investigation](http://http://thedailybanter.com/2014/07/wont-fking-believe-republican-congressman-wants-investigate-google) of Google because of recent a issue with the company’s search algorithm that’s affecting a single movie. “That just so happens to be ‘America: Imagine a World Without Her,’ (which is a very bad movie) by conservative pundit, filmmaker, and campaign finance violator Dinesh D’Souza. D’Souza and his Team America have been on Google’s case about the problem, with Google calmly explaining that ‘America’ is ‘a common term and appears in many movie titles,’ and that its database hadn’t been fully updated yet to display the movie’s local showtimes.”\* Way to waste my tax dollars, ya [filthy putz](http://www.ocweekly.com/2013-12-19/news/moxley-confidential-dana-rohrabacher-robert-polyniak/). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15804 "2014-07-24T01:08:07Z")
I demand a congressional investigation into badly-formatted links! [Here you go, Shayna.](http://thedailybanter.com/2014/07/wont-fking-believe-republican-congressman-wants-investigate-google/) ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15805 "2014-07-24T01:33:01Z")
Sowwy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15806 "2014-07-24T01:45:27Z")
I was trying to make a pun about Rohrabacher giving up a security deposit for liberty (i.e. he deserves neither) but it’s not gelling. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15807 "2014-07-24T03:19:54Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > D’Souza and his Team America America! Fuck, yeah! ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15808 "2014-07-24T05:37:55Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > _… D’Souza and his Team America …_ D’Souza is supported by a bunch of marionettes? ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15809 "2014-07-24T17:15:18Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > D’Souza is supported by a bunch of marionettes? I wasn’t following the context of the conversation and thought this said Maronites and was really confused. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15810 "2014-07-24T17:26:35Z")
[The guy’s funny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Maron) but I didn’t know his followers actually had _names_. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15811 "2014-07-24T19:14:19Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > And wouldn’t someone like Ham react to the idea of aliens going to hell with the rather firm decision to convert them, teach them about Jesus Christ, not just abandon them to them being damned for eternity through ignorance? Because in Ham’s interpretation of Scripture that would be pointless; only the children of Adam can be saved. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15812 "2014-07-24T19:17:30Z")
Well, in Ham’s opinion, neither are most of the rest of us so I may as well increase my chances of getting a Wookiee sidekick in my lifetime. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15813 "2014-07-25T01:03:57Z")
Heh. Yeah. Like _he’d_ be the sidekick. :dubious: 😃 😛 ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15814 "2014-07-25T21:48:24Z")
Not a Stupid Republican Idea. Just a Stupid Republican (who probably has Stupid Republican Ideas): [Pol mistakes U.S. staff for Indians](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/curt-clawson-mistakes-staff-indians-109391.html?hp=r2) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15815 "2014-07-25T23:34:47Z")
> **[Bachmann: Gays Want Laws That Would Let Adults ‘Prey On Little Children...](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michele-bachmann-gay-child-sex-laws)** > > In an interview this week with the host of a conservative radio show, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said the gay community wants to “do away with statutory rape laws so that adults will be able to… This spoiled my day, so fuck it, I’ll spoil yours. Baby Jesus puked His little guts out… > [@](#): > > …Bachmann predicted the gay community would push for “multiple” people in a marriage next, and after that, the elimination of sexual consent laws. > > “They want to abolish age of consent laws, which means children would, we would do away with statutory rape laws so that adults will be able to freely prey on little children sexually,” Bachmann said. “That’s the deviance that we’re seeing embraced in our culture today."… Just shut the fuck up, OK. Seriously. Shut. The. Fuck. Up! ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15816 "2014-07-25T23:39:42Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Not a Stupid Republican Idea. Just a Stupid Republican (who probably has Stupid Republican Ideas): > > [Pol mistakes U.S. staff for Indians](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/curt-clawson-mistakes-staff-indians-109391.html?hp=r2) Wait. He’s from Florida. I need to see the names of his staff from a few days ago so that if any apply for a job, I make sure not to hire them. I would imagine that there’s at least one on the market right now… ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15817 "2014-07-26T00:07:10Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Just shut the fuck up, OK. Seriously. Shut. The. Fuck. Up! Fuck that woman with an entire pile of fucks. Fucking coward, hiding behind a microphone. I’d actually have a little more respect for her if I thought she would ever in a million years dare to say that shit to my face. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15818 "2014-07-26T00:31:11Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Fuck that woman with an entire pile of fucks. Fucking coward, hiding behind a microphone. I’d actually have a little more respect for her if I thought she would ever in a million years dare to say that shit to my face. I do not condone violence… But, gawdam, if it happens, please sell tickets! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15819 "2014-07-26T00:42:03Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Fuck that woman with an entire pile of fucks. Fucking coward, hiding behind a microphone. I’d actually have a little more respect for her if I thought she would ever in a million years dare to say that shit to my face. Hm. I was trying to imagine what she’d say if someone approached her and said, calmly, “Representative Bachmann, I am gay, and I’d like you to explain [this remark].” I guess it’d depend on whether there were any cameras around? It may be just me, but I could actually imagine her actually at least coming close to saying it to your face if she didn’t think she was being recorded. Which, of course, may strengthen your point, but that’s just my imagination running wild. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/15820 "2014-07-26T00:57:23Z")
I dunno. I don’t think Bachmann is actually mean-spirited. I think she is just profoundly clueless and, of course, batshit insane. Most of these folks are just playing to their target audience, whether they believe this stuff themselves or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=790) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=792)