# 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:** 811
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16201 "2014-08-18T18:13:56Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I hope Perry remembers he has the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney and… some third thing that slips my mind. …the right to sing the blues? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16202 "2014-08-18T18:27:10Z")
The right to party? You gotta fight for that one. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16203 "2014-08-18T18:52:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Iowa state legislator (R) arrested for having sex with his mentally incapacitated wife despite having been told by a judge to stop doing it](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/18/iowa-gop-rep-arrested-for-having-sex-with-incapacitated-wife-after-judge-told-him-not-to/#.U_I_H71JAbE.facebook). So the Republicans are finally putting their theoretical approval of rape into practice. Figures. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16204 "2014-08-18T18:57:41Z")
Republican legislator and mentally incapacitated wife. Isn’t that an oxymoron? Or just redundant? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16205 "2014-08-18T19:19:50Z")
[Ohio wingnut has thing about boobies](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/18/ohio-anti-abortion-leader-ban-public-nudity-breastfeeding-because-boobs-promote-gay-pride/): > [@](#): > > At least six bare-breasted women and other supporters of the Foxhole North club marched in front of the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw earlier this month after the church spent nine years coming to their club to protest nudity. > > Dr. Patrick Johnson, who is director of the anti-abortion group Personhood Ohio, responded to the protests by asking Ohioans to call the legislature in support of banning “all public nudity in the state,” according to WSYX. > > “I am sick that women can legally bare their breasts to children and to married men against their will in Ohio,” he wrote on his Facebook page following last week’s protest. > … > > He also argued that women with exposed breasts were the reason that Ohio’s Gay Pride parade was so popular. > > “The gay pride parade in Columbus is 500,000 strong – why? Because the women go topless,” he insisted on Facebook. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16206 "2014-08-18T19:24:00Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Obama is going to murder 25,000,000 Americans to make room in their houses for illegal aliens](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barbwire-pundit-obama-will-kill-least-25-million-americans). I guess Solyndra diversified ? I mean, you have to assume there’s an energy tie-in to this wholesale covert disposal of corpses. Think, man, think ! (But not too hard. Pace yourself.) ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16207 "2014-08-18T19:28:07Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Ohio wingnut has thing about boobies](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/18/ohio-anti-abortion-leader-ban-public-nudity-breastfeeding-because-boobs-promote-gay-pride/): The gay pride. Noted for its strong female presence. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16208 "2014-08-18T20:25:25Z")
Wait a second. Having a thing for, like, a strong attraction for wobbly orbs, that means you’re _gay?_ Oh, fuck… ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16209 "2014-08-18T21:50:55Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Ohio wingnut has thing about boobies](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/18/ohio-anti-abortion-leader-ban-public-nudity-breastfeeding-because-boobs-promote-gay-pride/): Ho-lee Christmas, I’m usually uncomfortable making disparaging remarks about someone based on their physical appearance, but WOW. My first thought was that if Marcus Bachmann ever emerges from the closet and kicks Michele to the curb, I could definitely see her moving to Ohio to find some solace with Dr. Johnson. He not only has her eyes, he looks like he fits her demographic for romance, too, IYKWIM. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16210 "2014-08-18T22:06:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Ho-lee Christmas, I’m usually uncomfortable making disparaging remarks about someone based on their physical appearance, but WOW. > > My first thought was that if Marcus Bachmann ever emerges from the closet and kicks Michele to the curb, I could definitely see her moving to Ohio to find some solace with Dr. Johnson. > > He not only has her eyes, he looks like he fits her demographic for romance, too, IYKWIM. Yeah, that guys is so far in the closet, he’s found Narnia. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16211 "2014-08-18T22:33:32Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Iowa state legislator (R) arrested for having sex with his mentally incapacitated wife despite having been told by a judge to stop doing it](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/18/iowa-gop-rep-arrested-for-having-sex-with-incapacitated-wife-after-judge-told-him-not-to/#.U_I_H71JAbE.facebook). “You don’t understand, Your Honor! She was like this when I married her!” ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16212 "2014-08-18T23:23:02Z")
Already posted. Shoulda hit preview first. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16213 "2014-08-18T23:27:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Iowa state legislator (R) arrested for having sex with his mentally incapacitated wife despite having been told by a judge to stop doing it](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/18/iowa-gop-rep-arrested-for-having-sex-with-incapacitated-wife-after-judge-told-him-not-to/#.U_I_H71JAbE.facebook). At first I felt a little sorry for him but then I thought, do you not have an ounce of self control? The judge told you to stop doing that shit and then you did it while her roommate was in the same room? WTF? Maybe your the one with Alzheimer’s. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16214 "2014-08-19T04:45:49Z")
Strictly speaking, do the batshit baboons over at World Nut Daily count as Republicans? Well, anyway, by way of our good friends at Talking Points Memo… > **[Larry Klayman: ‘Racist In Chief’ Obama Siding With ‘Black Brothers’ in Ferguson](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/larry-klayman-obama-racist-ferguson)** > > Conservative lawyer and WND columnist Larry Klayman dedicated his weekly column on Friday to what he described as “racism” displayed by President Barack Obama by siding with his “black brothers” in… **Larry Klayman: ‘Racist In Chief’ Obama Siding With ‘Black Brothers’ in Ferguson** > [@](#): > > …Klayman used the President’s comments about the fatal police shooting of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown to launch a rant of what he said was Obama’s targeting of “whitey” and preferential treatment of his “black brothers.” > > “When was the last time We the American People heard President Barack Hussein Obama comment on the death of a white man at the hands of a black man?” Klayman wrote. > > Accusing Obama of starting a “race war,” Klayman cited things like Obamacare as examples of “anti-white” bigotry, arguing the law was intended to have “whitey pay reparations to blacks.”… . There’s more, but this will do. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16215 "2014-08-19T05:46:57Z")
Wasn’t Larry Klayman the guy who supposedly had proof of Obama’s clandestine gay lovers or something? ETA: Nope! That was Larry Sinclair. Never mind! ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16216 "2014-08-19T05:57:47Z")
I can’t prove it, but I’m _pretty sure_ Obama disapproves of black people killing white people for no reason. Maybe I’m grasping at straws here, but as one point of evidence, he did actually say that violent protests in Missouri would hurt rather than help the cause of justice. If you squint, he’s kind of telling black people not to kill white people… again, grasping at straws, maybe there is some other shred of evidence that Obama is not promoting the murder of white people at the hands of black people. If I’m living in some kind of fantasy, fine, I’m ready to confront it. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16217 "2014-08-19T06:52:32Z")
And as we sail past the 40th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation, [liberal hack George Will reminds us](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-nixons-long-shadow/2014/08/06/fad8c00c-1ccb-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html) that Nixon worked to undermine Johnson’s 1968 peace negotiations between North and South Vietnam, possibly contributing to another 4 years of war and another 20,000 American dead (and God knows how many Vietnamese dead). Perhaps the GOP should change their slogan to “The GOP–killing Americans for political gain for over 40 years!” Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, though. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16218 "2014-08-19T06:56:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Wasn’t Larry Klayman the guy who supposedly had proof of Obama’s clandestine gay lovers or something? > > ETA: Nope! That was Larry Sinclair. Never mind! You’re thinking of Laury Hagman, who was in _F-Troop Does Dallas_, She was the blonde getting some cable installed. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16219 "2014-08-19T14:45:00Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > At least six bare-breasted women and other supporters of the Foxhole North club marched in front of the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw earlier this month **after the church spent nine years coming to their club** to protest nudity. Is this like those anti pornography groups that have to watch dirty movies over and over just to be sure? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16220 "2014-08-19T14:53:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Ho-lee Christmas, I’m usually uncomfortable making disparaging remarks about someone based on their physical appearance, but WOW. > > My first thought was that if Marcus Bachmann ever emerges from the closet and kicks Michele to the curb, I could definitely see her moving to Ohio to find some solace with Dr. Johnson. > > He not only has her eyes, he looks like he fits her demographic for romance, too, IYKWIM. Why am I not surprised that this guy is named Pat Johnson? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=810) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=812)