# 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:** 880
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17581 "2014-10-22T03:59:14Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I have no words. In the end, Shock and Awe was delivered. Not by bombs and artillery, but by rank stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17582 "2014-10-22T04:58:00Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Michael Savage: Veterans with PTSD are crybabies.](http://www.salon.com/2014/10/21/conservative_radio_host_veterans_with_ptsd_are_crybabies/) Almost every response dismisses him as a chickenhawk. Low hanging fruit I suppose, but I’m curious what they’d say if he was a highly decorated veteran. I guess by their own logic if they weren’t in the military they’d just have to shrug their shoulders. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17583 "2014-10-22T05:01:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > (Emphasis added in shock, horror, and dismay…) > > Ted? He’s a doctor, Ted. Teaches at Harvard Medical School. You say that as if he cares. He has an agenda to push and talking points to stick to. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17584 "2014-10-22T05:45:00Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Almost every response dismisses him as a chickenhawk. Low hanging fruit I suppose, but I’m curious what they’d say if he was a highly decorated veteran. I guess by their own logic if they weren’t in the military they’d just have to shrug their shoulders. Or someone who was a highly decorated veteran wouldn’t say something that insulting and wrong. Do you know any highly decorated veterans who have? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17585 "2014-10-22T10:48:23Z")
Voter ID strategist argues that voting shouldn’t be convenient because fast food is convenient and [fast food can be unhealthy:](http://huff.to/1s5pfLE) > [@](#): > > There’s no doubt that many people in our increasingly mobile and hectic society want voting to be as easy and convenient as buying fast food. But too much of anything can be bad — just ask someone who has gorged on drive-thru burgers and fries. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17586 "2014-10-22T11:09:32Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Almost every response dismisses him as a chickenhawk. Low hanging fruit I suppose, but I’m curious what they’d say if he was a highly decorated veteran. I guess by their own logic if they weren’t in the military they’d just have to shrug their shoulders. Nope. Or at least, the troops themselves wouldn’t feel a problem with taking the piss out of him. [Cite](http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/08/hagel-cold-war-isil-terror-group/). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17587 "2014-10-22T17:30:05Z")
[Eugene Delgaudio](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/eugene-delgaudio-warns-gay-men-will-soon-be-skipping-down-adoption-centers-pick-out-little-b), Loudoun County (Virginia) Supervisor, fears an outbreak of fabulousness in his county: > [@](#): > > Passage of the Homosexual Agenda will ignite a firestorm that will rip through families, communities and businesses: > > - Special job rights for homosexuals. Businesses may have to adopt hiring quotas to protect themselves from lawsuits. Every homosexual fired or not hired becomes a potential federal civil rights lawsuit. Radical homosexuals will terrorize daycare centers, hospitals, churches and private schools. Traditional moral values will be shattered by federal law. > > - Same-sex marriages and adoptions. Wedding gown-clad men smooching before some left-wing clergyman or state official is just the beginning. You’ll see men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to “pick out” a little boy for themselves. > > - The Homosexual Classrooms Act, which pushes their agenda into our schools. Your children or grandchildren will be taught homosexuality is moral, natural and good. High school children will learn perverted sex acts as part of “safe sex” education. With condoms already handed out in many schools, radical homosexuals will have little trouble adopting today’s “if it feels good do it” sex-ed curriculum to their agenda. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17588 "2014-10-22T18:24:15Z")
And then, when all that happens, somewhere, Eugene Delgaudio will be picked up by the local police for soliciting sex with a male hooker. And we’ll all realize his “warnings” of what was to come were merely his dreams made manifest ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17589 "2014-10-22T18:25:48Z")
[U.S. Rep. Young blames students for friends suicide at school assembly.](http://www.adn.com/article/20141021/young-rattles-wasilla-high-students-hurtful-remark-about-suicide) Yeah, this guy really knows how to interact with today’s youth. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17590 "2014-10-22T18:30:48Z")
Delgaudio can always move to the gay-free, Mexican-free [State of Reagan](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/author-says-south-should-form-new-nation-without-gays-and-hispanics-called-reagan/). > [@](#): > > Douglas MacKinnon, a former speechwriter for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush… told the religious conservative host that southern states – starting with Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina – should leave the United States so they can implement a right-wing Christian system of government. > > MacKinnon envisions other states joining, but he hopes to leave out Texas because “there have been a number of incursions into Texas and other places from some of the folks in Mexico.” > … > > MacKinnon did not specifically address during the radio program whether slavery would be legal in the new secessionist government, nor did he describe the status of black people living in Reagan. > > But he made clear that LGBT people would be second-class citizens – or worse – saying that advances in their rights as citizens was a major factor in his call to break up the United States. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17591 "2014-10-22T19:11:37Z")
How did Gavin Newsome ever marry Kimberly Guilfoyle? “[Young women shouldn’t vote, nor be on juries.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/fox-news-young-women-voters-kimberly-guilfoyle-midterm-election_n_6028054.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000018)” ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17592 "2014-10-22T19:18:05Z")
Which side would the US take in the ongoing war between Reagan and Cuba? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17593 "2014-10-22T19:20:11Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Eugene Delgaudio](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/eugene-delgaudio-warns-gay-men-will-soon-be-skipping-down-adoption-centers-pick-out-little-b), Loudoun County (Virginia) Supervisor, fears an outbreak of fabulousness in his county: > [@](#): > > Radical homosexuals will terrorize daycare centers, hospitals, churches and private schools. Daycare centers? “WE’RE HERE! WE’RE QUEER! IT’S NAP TIME!” _\ \_ ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17594 "2014-10-22T19:23:34Z")
The side with the most gays, of course. Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17595 "2014-10-22T19:27:30Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > And then, when all that happens, somewhere, Eugene Delgaudio will be picked up by the local police for soliciting sex with a male hooker. [It’s certainly possible.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU0iI3C-m0) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17596 "2014-10-22T19:33:15Z")
I’m sure he’s already got selfies wearing his wedding gown somewhere out in the cloud. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17597 "2014-10-22T20:33:11Z")
[Conservatives threaten to kill Hispanic man because he legally delivered absentee ballots to a polling place.](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/22/conservatives-threaten-to-kill-hispanic-man-because-he-legally-delivered-absentee-ballots-to-a-polling-place-video/) Arizona is the new Florida. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17598 "2014-10-22T23:30:58Z")
How did they even get the video?? ---
**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:** [October 22, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17599 "2014-10-22T23:33:00Z")
FoIA? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/17600 "2014-10-23T00:13:07Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Delgaudio can always move to the gay-free, Mexican-free [State of Reagan](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/author-says-south-should-form-new-nation-without-gays-and-hispanics-called-reagan/). > > > [@](#): > > > > Douglas MacKinnon, a former speechwriter for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush… told the religious conservative host that southern states – starting with Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina – should leave the United States so they can implement a right-wing Christian system of government. > > > > MacKinnon envisions other states joining, but he hopes to leave out Texas because “there have been a number of incursions into Texas and other places from some of the folks in Mexico.” > > … > > > > MacKinnon did not specifically address during the radio program whether slavery would be legal in the new secessionist government, nor did he describe the status of black people living in Reagan. > > > > But he made clear that LGBT people would be second-class citizens – or worse – saying that advances in their rights as citizens was a major factor in his call to break up the United States. Welcome to the Republic of Gilead, by way of Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=879) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=881)