# 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:** 814
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16261 "2014-08-20T20:31:12Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It seems he thinks Liberia and Sierra Leone are located in South America. > > His comments seem like they are coming from someone in the initial stages of dementia. Perhaps he should be assessed by medical professionals. As you well know, Gohmert is speaking to a constituency that is prone to believing such nonsense without batting an eye. He knows exactly what he is doing. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16262 "2014-08-20T20:38:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Lou Gohmert: ["Undocumented Democrats could be bringing Ebola across the border.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/14/louie-gohmert-suspects-undocumented-democrats-are-bringing-ebola-across-the-border/) Judging from the photo in the link, I’d say cousin Louie is the latest to develop the Wingnut Stare™. It comes from masturbating to Michele Bachmann fantasies. At least the Bachmann looks kind of intimidating, all Gohmert looks is goofy. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16263 "2014-08-21T00:34:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > He managed to find a way to link “undocumented” with “Democrats” and both with “Ebola” – that’s an impressive mental (if that is not too strong a word) feat. If it made any sort of sense, it would be. As it is, he’s just playing Scary Terms Mad-Libs, and probably not even paying attention to little things like what the difference between an adjective and an adverb is. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16264 "2014-08-21T00:44:23Z")
> [@waterj2](#): > > If it made any sort of sense, it would be. As it is, he’s just playing Scary Terms Mad-Libs, and probably not even paying attention to little things like what the difference between an adjective and an adverb is. How dare you cast aspersions on his asparagus! 😉 CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16265 "2014-08-21T01:17:16Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > You should explain to the so called “non-bigots” that claim “Oh I don’t care if people want to be gay. I just don’t want it right there in my face. How am I going to explain that to my children?” how you talk to your children. Because they seem to really need your help. Sadly, I can’t imagine trying to explain it to homophobic people, their issues seem to lie below the level of reason. I’m very proud of how accepting and tolerant my kids are. It probably helps that they have 2 uncles who are gay. I guess familiarity breeds acceptance if you give it half a chance. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16266 "2014-08-21T03:44:25Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > As you well know, Gohmert is speaking to a constituency that is prone to believing such nonsense without batting an eye. He knows exactly what he is doing. People have long doubted the level of political intelligence in Texas. What makes the famous misquote of past Texas governor, Ma Ferguson, so funny is that it sounds just like the thing a Texas politician would say: “If English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16267 "2014-08-21T14:35:46Z")
[Fox host Andrea Tantaros on the Foley execution and Muslims:](http://www.salon.com/2014/08/20/foxs_andrea_tantaros_you_solve_it_with_a_bullet_to_the_head/) > [@](#): > > They’ve been doing this for hundreds and hundreds of years. If you study the history of Islam, our ship captains were getting murdered. The French had to tip us off. I mean these were the days of Thomas Jefferson. They’ve been doing the same thing. This isn’t a surprise. You can’t solve it with a dialogue. You can’t solve it with a summit. You solve it with a bullet to the head. It’s the only thing these people understand. And all we’ve heard from this president is a case to heap praise on this religion, as if to appease them. ---
**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 21, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16268 "2014-08-21T17:59:15Z")
Fuck yeah. Death to the Muslims, they’ve been Dolchtoßing America’s interests all along ! Oh, if only the US had a strong, decisive leader who could order the construction of congregation zones and solve the Muslim Concern once and for all with a minimum of fuss. Let us now gather in prayer for the eradication of this sub-human vermin. Fuck, but people really lack self-awareness. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16269 "2014-08-21T20:06:12Z")
[Rick Perry:](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/us/politics/rick-perry-says-terrorists-could-be-entering-us-along-mexico-border.html?_r=1) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — Gov. Rick Perry, Republican of Texas, on Thursday raised the “very real possibility” that individuals affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups have already slipped across the border as he made the case that border security was a pressing national security issue. > > While Mr. Perry said that there was “no clear evidence” recruits from terrorist organizations had entered the United States illegally, he pointed to the number of violent crimes committed in recent years by illegal immigrants. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16270 "2014-08-21T20:08:25Z")
No, that was just O’Keefe in his Bin Laden mask. 😉 ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16271 "2014-08-21T21:01:32Z")
> [@Andrea Tantaros](#): > > ]They’ve been doing this for hundreds and hundreds of years. If you study the history of Islam, our ship captains were getting murdered. The French had to tip us off. I mean these were the days of Thomas Jefferson. They’ve been doing the same thing. This isn’t a surprise. You can’t solve it with a dialogue. You can’t solve it with a summit. You solve it with a bullet to the head. \*\*It’s the only thing these people understand. \*\*And all we’ve heard from this president is a case to heap praise on this religion, as if to appease them. The bolded part is of course the Bigot’s Creed. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16272 "2014-08-21T21:08:30Z")
Oh, great. Obamacare is off the table, the GOP will replace it with Law and Order and Kill the Muslims. The good news its not likely to work, the bad news is, God help us, it might. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16273 "2014-08-21T21:25:13Z")
Joe the Plumber: “[The way to end the protests in Ferguson is to hold a job fair there. They’ll scatter like cockroaches.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-the-plumber-ferguson-protestors)” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16274 "2014-08-21T23:57:26Z")
Stay classy, Sam. Stay classy. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16275 "2014-08-22T00:12:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Joe the Plumber: “[The way to end the protests in Ferguson is to hold a job fair there. They’ll scatter like cockroaches.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-the-plumber-ferguson-protestors)” Good Lord above…What the fuck is wrong with these people?? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16276 "2014-08-22T00:49:43Z")
In a thread called “ **Stupid Republican idea of the day** ”, > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Joe the Plumber … any additional text of any kind is just superfluous. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16277 "2014-08-22T02:03:19Z")
So, Cruz, Christie, Perry, Paul, Bush…who will be the first to dip his campaign toe into the “Law and Order!” platform? (I guess that would be the Stupid Republican Idea of Tomorrow…) ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16278 "2014-08-22T19:33:39Z")
The [Westboro Baptist Church](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/22/this-should-go-well-westboro-baptist-church-says-its-going-to-iraq-to-protest-isis/) says it’s going to Iraq to protest ISIS. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16279 "2014-08-22T19:36:11Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > The [Westboro Baptist Church](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/22/this-should-go-well-westboro-baptist-church-says-its-going-to-iraq-to-protest-isis/) says it’s going to Iraq to protest ISIS. I am so torn about this. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16280 "2014-08-22T19:36:57Z")
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