# 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:** 902
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18021 "2014-12-01T22:19:14Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > The political goal is to get a person or party elected. This requires public support. Public support is contingent upon public opinion. Social media presents opportunity to sway public opinion through posts and discussions. The SDMB is a social media. I’ll leave it to you to connect the dots. Still, wouldn’t even an old-fashioned letter to the editor put the message before more eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18022 "2014-12-02T00:00:18Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > “It’s your fault for paying attention to the shit we say!” AKA “Don’t report the stupid shit we say! That’s for the private use of the Party members ONLY!” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18023 "2014-12-02T03:46:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Still, wouldn’t even an old-fashioned letter to the editor put the message before more eyes? Get back to us one you have a clue about how social media works. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18024 "2014-12-02T03:48:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > AKA “Don’t report the stupid shit we say! That’s for the private use of the Party members ONLY!” “_ **Especially** _ if we said it in a public forum! We can’t be held responsible for that shit!” ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18025 "2014-12-02T06:48:42Z")
Florida cancels driver’s licenses of gay couple: > [@](#): > > There’s a new lawsuit in Florida. The state cancelled the drivers’ licenses of a gay couple after they married in New York and hyphenated their last name. Even though it’s their new legal name, the state of Florida is refusing to recognize it, so they’ve sued. [http://huff.to/1vA0E8b](http://huff.to/1vA0E8b) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18026 "2014-12-02T07:25:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It was a typo. He meant the _other_ '50s. “I wish I was in the Land of Cotton . . .” ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18027 "2014-12-02T07:48:15Z")
“…her cooking’s lousy, and her hands are clammy - but what the hell, it’s home!” ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18028 "2014-12-02T15:17:47Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > “I wish I was in the Land of Cotton . . .” He keeps hitting the nine key, I am not sure why. Maybe the eight key on his keyboard is broken. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18029 "2014-12-02T18:07:25Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Florida cancels driver’s licenses of gay couple: [http://huff.to/1vA0E8b](http://huff.to/1vA0E8b) I don’t even understand Florida’s reasoning. 😕 Driving while gay is legal, changing your name is legal. Maybe its different in Florida but my license in California doesn’t have my marital status. In what strange universe is a hyphenated name change on a license rejected? I would love to hear the arguments in this case, I feel they would be hilarious ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18030 "2014-12-02T18:12:06Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > In what strange universe is a hyphenated name change on a license rejected? I would love to hear the arguments in this case, I feel they would be hilarious It’s a threat to traditional hyphens. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18031 "2014-12-02T18:12:26Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I don’t even understand Florida’s reasoning. 😕 Driving while gay is legal, changing your name is legal. Maybe its different in Florida but my license in California doesn’t have my marital status. In what strange universe is a hyphenated name change on a license rejected? I would love to hear the arguments in this case, I feel they would be hilarious Straight people have drivers licenses. Certified gay people have Civil Driving Agreement Certificates. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18032 "2014-12-02T19:15:29Z")
[Chris Christie vetoes an overwhelmingly popular (in New Jersey) bill banning gestational crates for pigs – apparently in a sad, hopeless bid to improve his Iowa Caucus prospects in 2016.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/02/chris_christies_pig_play_why_his_iowa_hopes_are_officially_a_fantasy/) ---
**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:** [December 2, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18033 "2014-12-02T19:35:50Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I don’t even understand Florida’s reasoning. 😕 Driving while gay is legal, changing your name is legal. Maybe its different in Florida but my license in California doesn’t have my marital status. In what strange universe is a hyphenated name change on a license rejected? I would love to hear the arguments in this case, I feel they would be hilarious Reasoning? Iowa elected Joni Ernst. Missouri had Ferguson and the World’s Worst Grand Jury. Kansas and Arizona … are Kansas and Arizona. Florida was falling way behind in the Crazy. Its weak, but they are trying. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18034 "2014-12-03T03:31:04Z")
> **[Laura Ingraham: 'How About We Put A Body Camera On The President?'](https://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/laura-ingraham-how-about-we-put-body)** > > Laura Ingraham ups the ante once again on the amount of disrespect and open disdain the right has for President Obama. By way of the scandalous louts over at _Crooks and Liars_, the latest adventures of Laura Ingroan, B-list Republican pundette. \*\* Laura Ingraham: ‘How About We Put A Body Camera On The President?’\*\* It writes itself. The Prez wears his camera right over his flag lapel, it gets jostled and points downward, then the President goes to take a quick whizz, a hacker gets it and posts… “The Hugee from Hawaii, the President Packs _Serious_ Heat” - \*NY Post \* “Presidential Timber, Executive Branch? Giant Redwood!” - \*Sierra Club \* “Once You Go Barrack, You Never Go Back, and Now We Know _Why_!!” - \*Cosmopolitan \* Thanks, Laura, made my day… ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18035 "2014-12-03T15:37:07Z")
[This is some weapons grade irony.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/gun-nut-yells-at-cops-conducting-dui-checkpoint-later-hit-by-drunk-driver-on-way-home/) > [@](#): > > Kory Watkins, a “cop watcher” and president of the Open Carry Tarrant County group, said he was on his way home from a protest at a traffic safety checkpoint set up by Arlington police when he was struck from behind by another vehicle. > > “A drunk driver was going around 100 mph and smashed into the back of me,” Watkins said on his Facebook page. He was hit by a drunk driver after protesting at a police drunk driving checkpoint. > [@](#): > > “Any sick f\*ck that thinks this is the time to crack irony jokes can go the hell away,” Call me a sick f\*ck, I’m going the hell away. To laugh. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18036 "2014-12-03T15:49:50Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > [This is some weapons grade irony.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/gun-nut-yells-at-cops-conducting-dui-checkpoint-later-hit-by-drunk-driver-on-way-home/) > > He was hit by a drunk driver after protesting at a police drunk driving checkpoint. > > Call me a sick f\*ck, I’m going the hell away. To laugh. And the icing on the cake? > [@](#): > > He later thanked officers for checking on his well-being after the crash, although he was ticketed for driving without a valid license. > > “I don’t ask for permission to drive a car I paid for on a road I paid for,” Watkins said. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18037 "2014-12-03T17:25:12Z")
[Randy is the paragon of self-confidence](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/03/1348917/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest-Rand-Paul-s-cockamamie-Houdini-act-to-get-on-the-ballot-twice?detail=hide): he is trying to find a way that he can skirt Kentucky law, run for Senate _and_ President on the same ballot. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18038 "2014-12-03T17:44:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And the icing on the cake? Oh _he_ paid for it? Nobody else did I guess, ---
**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:** [December 4, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18039 "2014-12-04T19:38:03Z")
a new and original thought from Mr. Paul [quote=“[Randy (via Politico)] ([http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/rand-paul-eric-garner-death-reaction-113318.html?hp=l3\_4](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/rand-paul-eric-garner-death-reaction-113318.html?hp=l3_4))”] Obviously, the individual circumstances are important, but I think it’s also important to know that some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes, so they’ve driven cigarettes underground by making them so expensive. But then some politician also had to direct the police to say, “Hey, we want you arresting people for selling a loose cigarette.” [/quote] because, you know, there are no tobacco interests in Kentucky … ---
**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:** [December 4, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18040 "2014-12-04T20:23:46Z")
And as I suspected, > [@](#): > > {…} The sale of loosies had been on Chief of Department Philip Banks’ radar since at least March, when it was discussed at a meeting at Police Headquarters about quality-of-life issues, a police source said. > > Banks’ office also conducted surveillance on Bay St. and took pictures, one of which shows three men believed to be involved in an illegal cigarette sale. The News reviewed the photograph and Garner is not in it. > > At around the same time, on March 27, a caller to the city’s 311 hotline complained about the issue, saying a group of men had been selling untaxed cigarettes, and sometimes marijuana, on Bay St. every day for the past three years, a second source said. > > The caller identified one of the sellers as “a man named Eric.” {…}[RIGHT][CITE](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/wife-man-filmed-chokehold-arrested-article-1.1893790)[/RIGHT] Now someone remind me, which NYC mayor’s idea was it to crack down on “quality-of-life” crimes with a vengeance? CMC fnord! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=901) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=903)