# 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:** 908
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18142 "2014-12-18T20:44:12Z")
Please donate generously to the American Dunning-Kruger Effect Foundation, so there will never again have to be another sufferer like little [Michele](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/michele-bachmann-i-destroyed-liberal-arguments-with-my-superior-logic/): > [@](#): > > Bachmann told World Net Daily, which referred to her as a “GOP legend” in the headline, that she had become a media target because she had basically outsmarted her liberal foes. > > “That’s the best way to defeat them, by the way — defeat them with evidence and defeat them with their false premises, and I did that,” she said. > … > “I took them on, and their agenda, and I went to the heart of whatever it was they wanted to advance, and tried to take it apart through evidence-based arguments, and they don’t like that,” Bachmann said. “When the left argues, they argue from emotionalism.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18143 "2014-12-18T21:01:34Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > This is great. I’m borrowing it from you. Talent borrows, genius steals. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18144 "2014-12-18T21:02:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Missouri Republican introduces bill banning abortion without the written, notarized consent of the father.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/17/your_body_his_choice_missouri_gop_bill_requires_men_to_give_written_permission_for_abortion/) The only exceptions are for life endangerment and “legitimate rape.” Fun addendum to this fact: When session starts in January, both the House and Senate will be veto-proof. So get ready to see some AMAZING things out of Missouri’s Legislature this session. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18145 "2014-12-18T22:05:40Z")
Pat Robertson: “[I approve of the opening of relations with Cuba, but not if Obama does it](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-supports-cuba-opening-principle-opposes-it-because-obama).” ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18146 "2014-12-19T18:32:10Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Missouri Republican introduces bill banning abortion without the written, notarized consent of the father.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/17/your_body_his_choice_missouri_gop_bill_requires_men_to_give_written_permission_for_abortion/) The only exceptions are for life endangerment and “legitimate rape.” Which immediately reminded me of this essay from a couple of years back: [A Fan Letter to Certain Conservative Politicians](http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/25/a-fan-letter-to-certain-conservative-politicians/) > [@elucidator](#): > > Talent borrows, genius steals. I am _so_ stealing this. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18147 "2014-12-19T19:45:21Z")
Thanks for posting this! I was thinking of the “letter from a rapist” the other day and wanted to RT it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18148 "2014-12-19T19:56:33Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > …I am _so_ stealing this. I may have as well, dunno. My memory is not what it used to be. Or maybe it is, and I just don’t remember… ---
**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:** [December 19, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18149 "2014-12-19T20:03:06Z")
I know that Michael Caine says he had stolen it from Roger Moore. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18150 "2014-12-19T20:40:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Missouri Republican introduces bill banning abortion without the written, notarized consent of the father.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/17/your_body_his_choice_missouri_gop_bill_requires_men_to_give_written_permission_for_abortion/) The only exceptions are for life endangerment and “legitimate rape.” [Brattin doubles down.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/19/sponsor_of_missouri%e2%80%99s_%e2%80%9cfather_knows_best%e2%80%9d_bill_%e2%80%9cits_not_a_womans_body_with_an_abortion_its_a_childs_body%e2%80%9d/) ---
**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 19, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18151 "2014-12-19T21:23:22Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Brattin doubles down.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/19/sponsor_of_missouri%e2%80%99s_%e2%80%9cfather_knows_best%e2%80%9d_bill_%e2%80%9cits_not_a_womans_body_with_an_abortion_its_a_childs_body%e2%80%9d/) Well, of course. A pregnancy is a baby with some sort of host-thing wrapped around it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18152 "2014-12-20T21:11:13Z")
[Ann Coulter on rape.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/18/ann_coulter_women_who_say_they_are_raped_are_just_girls_trying_to_get_attention/) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18153 "2014-12-20T21:21:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Ann Coulter on rape.](http://www.salon.com/2014/12/18/ann_coulter_women_who_say_they_are_raped_are_just_girls_trying_to_get_attention/) Says the creature who looks like a bridge troll raped a horse. ---
**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 20, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18154 "2014-12-20T21:24:29Z")
Ann is just attention whoring as usual. I don’t believe for a minute she means half the stuff she says. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18155 "2014-12-20T21:55:59Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Thanks for posting this! I was thinking of the “letter from a rapist” the other day and wanted to RT it. You’re welcome. Brattain apparently has three kids, I don’t know if he has any daughters. But hypothetically, if one was female and was violently raped and resulted in a pregnancy, how he would feel if the guy kept coming over to see his “kid,” after being let out of prison? Presuming, of course, the rapist even does the time. ---
**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 20, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18156 "2014-12-20T22:26:07Z")
Bratten seems like the kind of guy who would punish his daughter for dishonoring the family by getting raped. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18157 "2014-12-20T23:19:29Z")
Yes, but he would be doing it in Jebus’s name, which makes it ok, as opposed to those who do it for some other religion/batshit reason. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18158 "2014-12-21T05:05:22Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Bratten seems like the kind of guy who would punish his daughter for dishonoring the family by getting raped. Well it probably wouldn’t be a legitimate rape in Dad Bratten’s eyes. She was asking for it and needs to marry the guy to make it all better in the eyes of God. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18159 "2014-12-22T01:49:30Z")
Unless the guy is black. But that’s what makes it a legitimate rape, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18160 "2014-12-22T08:01:26Z")
It would be _wholesome_. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/18161 "2014-12-23T04:41:31Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > It would be _wholesome_. Three-fifthsome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=907) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=909)