# 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:** 820
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16381 "2014-09-02T18:23:15Z")
He’s not bright enough to make that joke. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16382 "2014-09-02T19:10:09Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He’s not bright enough to make that joke. Have you listened to the audio? He’s obviously joking. Unlike the hacks trying to create a Stupid Liberal Idea of the Day thread, we don’t _need_ to pad our post count with nonsense like this. There are plenty of real stupid Republican ideas. Legitimately stupid ideas may make some republicans re-evaluate their political affiliation, but all garbage posts like yours do is make them want to circle wagons to defend against “liberal bias.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16383 "2014-09-02T19:14:07Z")
If you say so, but even when he’s serious it sounds like he’s joking. The contrast with the GOP partisans stoutly defending “voter integrity” by requiring ID was worth pointing out, I thought. It’s deadly serious, it’s not a game, and we aren’t keeping score, btw. And if we were, post count wouldn’t be the method. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16384 "2014-09-02T20:16:59Z")
How about this to make up for it. [Meet Utah state rep Mike Kennedy:](http://fox13now.com/2014/08/28/state-representative-to-legislature-hospitals-can-be-dangerous/) > [@](#): > > "Sometimes access to health care can be damaging and dangerous. And it’s a perspective for the [Legislative] body to consider is that, I’ve heard from National Institutes of Health and otherwise that we’re killing up to a million, a million and a half people every year in our hospitals. And it’s access to hospitals that’s killing those people.” Apparently he’s opposed to ACA. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16385 "2014-09-02T20:48:31Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > How about this to make up for it. [Meet Utah state rep Mike Kennedy:](http://http://fox13now.com/2014/08/28/state-representative-to-legislature-hospitals-can-be-dangerous/)Apparently he’s opposed to ACA. And the guy is a _doctor_. Astonishing. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16386 "2014-09-02T21:01:12Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > How about this to make up for it. [Meet Utah state rep Mike Kennedy:](http://http://fox13now.com/2014/08/28/state-representative-to-legislature-hospitals-can-be-dangerous/) > > > [@](#): > > > > "Sometimes access to health care can be damaging and dangerous. And it’s a perspective for the [Legislative] body to consider is that, I’ve heard from National Institutes of Health and otherwise that we’re killing up to a million, a million and a **half** people every year in our hospitals. And it’s access to hospitals that’s killing those people.” > > Apparently he’s opposed to ACA. Seems like kind of a waste of resources to bother killing a the half-person. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16387 "2014-09-02T21:04:38Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > How about this to make up for it. [Meet Utah state rep Mike Kennedy:](http://http://fox13now.com/2014/08/28/state-representative-to-legislature-hospitals-can-be-dangerous/)Apparently he’s opposed to ACA. He’s right! People **die** in hospitals! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![common\_good](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@common\_good](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/common_good)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16388 "2014-09-02T22:10:41Z")
Longest thread I’ve ever seen. And still not long enough. Republicans sure are funny. Guess we’ll always have that, at least, if not their actual participation in the democratic form of government. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16389 "2014-09-02T23:26:23Z")
Bryan Fischer: “[If Michelle Obama was serious about fighting a war on obesity, she would tell lesbians to turn straight](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-wants-michelle-obama-start-fight-obesity-go-straight-anti-lesbian-campaign).” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16390 "2014-09-03T00:31:14Z")
Clearly, he has not seen the documentary _Teenage Lesbian Vampire Stewardesses from Outer Space._ ---
**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:** [September 3, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16391 "2014-09-03T00:53:15Z")
Are we sure they’re not trying to be stupid? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16392 "2014-09-03T01:01:27Z")
The plot line doesn’t make that clear. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16393 "2014-09-03T01:06:09Z")
The problem is that the Republicans embrace so many dangerously insane ideas and dangerously insane people that when they make a joke that _should_ be obviously sarcastic, we can’t quite tell… ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16394 "2014-09-03T01:12:21Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Are we sure they’re not trying to be stupid? If they are, at least they can claim success at something. Unmitigated. Wildly successful. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16395 "2014-09-03T01:16:00Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Fox News’ _ **The Five** _: [Sure wish Putin was our president, so we could attack preemptively like Bush used to do.](http://www.forwardprogressives.com/fox-news-host-says-wants-putin-leader-get-things-done-right/) I guess she’d really like to sneak a bunch of Delta Force dudes into Mexico to start some shit, then declare said shit proof that Michoacan yearns to be part of the US and roll in ? 'Cause I ain’t seen Putin doing squat about ISIS. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16396 "2014-09-03T01:44:16Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I guess she’d really like to sneak a bunch of Delta Force dudes into Mexico to start some shit, then declare said shit proof that Michoacan yearns to be part of the US and roll in ? Michoacan? Hell, I heard a bunch of them Albertans are sick and tired of them Green Party yahoos. And they’ve got beaucoup petro-deposits to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16397 "2014-09-03T05:51:27Z")
Ted Cruz’s father: "[The average black doesn’t understand"](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rafael-cruz-average-black-minimum-wage) that they’d be better off if there were no minimum wage. (Okay, that’s a bit of a paraphrase that perhaps takes a little too much liberty. What he _actually_ said is that the average black doesn’t understand that _increasing_ the minimum wage would cause unemployment amongst that demographic group to “skyrocket,” and that unemployment in whites and African-Americans were the same before minimum wage laws. That’s why I phrased things that way.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16398 "2014-09-03T06:43:38Z")
Entirely true! If you are unemployed, you are equally unemployed regardless of race. There is some stuff that sorta suggests that if you are black, you are more likely to stay unemployed, but at any given moment, the two are entirely equal! The fact that lefties try to make a big deal out of that just shows that liberals are the _real_ racists! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16399 "2014-09-03T14:03:34Z")
Right, to focus on racial inequality is to focus on race = racist. To focus on economic inequality is to focus on class = classist. Did the Ancien Regime act like this? No. The Republicans sure keep it classy. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/16400 "2014-09-03T14:58:18Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > (Okay, that’s a bit of a paraphrase that perhaps takes a little too much liberty. What he _actually_ said is that the average black doesn’t understand that _increasing_ the minimum wage would cause unemployment amongst that demographic group to “skyrocket,” and that unemployment in whites and African-Americans were the same before minimum wage laws. That’s why I phrased things that way.) How many times has the minimum wage been raised in the past 70+ years? (rhetorical question) How many times have conservatives gnashed their teeth and rent their garments, saying that this would result in massive layoffs and price hikes? How many times has that actually been true? You’d think they’d shut up and/or find a better argument. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=819) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=821)