# 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:** 962
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19222 "2015-02-12T16:41:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Has he eaten any babies lately? Depends on which news program you watch. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19223 "2015-02-12T16:45:51Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Who knows? Nowadays, ya gotta check his DNA. Could he be one of them human-dingo-jellyfish hybrids? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19224 "2015-02-12T17:13:27Z")
[Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul to appear in documentary featuring “ex-homosexuals”.](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/12/mike_huckabee_and_rand_paul_to_appear_in_documentary_featuring_ex_homosexuals/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19225 "2015-02-12T17:15:15Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Could he be one of them human-dingo-jellyfish hybrids? Could be, his Mom was always a whore. And a very eccentric one, too. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19226 "2015-02-12T17:38:09Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul to appear in **documentary** featuring “ex-homosexuals”.](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/12/mike_huckabee_and_rand_paul_to_appear_in_documentary_featuring_ex_homosexuals/) Are you sure that word is being used correctly? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19227 "2015-02-12T19:19:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Are you sure that word is being used correctly? I’m sure the scare-quotes are. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19228 "2015-02-12T19:48:19Z")
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19229 "2015-02-12T20:13:46Z")
[Rick Perry: Texans like being uninsured.](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/12/rick_perrys_cold_blooded_health_care_claim_texans_like_being_uninsured/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19230 "2015-02-12T20:17:51Z")
[Rush Limbaugh: Scott Walker should say he dropped out of college to avoid “being accused of rape”.](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/12/rush_limbaugh_scott_walker_should_say_he_dropped_out_of_college_to_avoid_being_accused_of_rape/) > [@](#): > > “If I were Scott Walker, you know what I would say about college?” Limbaugh asked, before embarking on a tangent about his own decision to withdraw college after “refusing to take ballroom dance taught by a lesbian drill sergeant.” > > Finally, Limbaugh answered, “”I left college because I didn’t want to be accused of rape someday.” > > “Now he can’t say that, of course,” Limbaugh admitted. “But, I mean, just ram it right down their throats. They’re trying to create this ‘rape culture’ on the campus. … It seems like any man that goes to college could randomly be accused of committing rape.” Yes! **Ram** it down their throats! That’ll show 'em all this rape-culture talk is bullshit! ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19231 "2015-02-12T20:52:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I’m sure the scare-quotes are. You used them wrong, it should be _“ex”-homosexuals_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19232 "2015-02-13T16:30:31Z")
[SC Pub state senator calls women “a lesser cut of meat.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/gop_lawmaker_calls_women_a_lesser_cut_of_meat/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19233 "2015-02-13T17:17:18Z")
Its a direct rip off of Archie Bunker, said the exact same thing. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19234 "2015-02-13T17:31:23Z")
[Arkansas State Senator Bart Hester](http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_singled_out_gop_lawmaker_to_end_all_lgbt_protections_because_i_am_married_to_one_woman) tries the old chestnut “Opposing bigotry is bigoted against us bigots!” argument: > [@](#): > > The 37-year old Senator, real estate businessman, and deacon at his Southern Baptist church, understands that LGBT people face discrimination, but they need to understand that so does he. > > “I am singled out as a politician. I am singled out because I am married to one woman,” Hester told Buzzfeed. “I want everyone in the LGBT community to have the same rights I do. I do not want them to have special rights that I do not have.” Poor guy, wallowing in his own victimhood. > [@](#): > > Hester, smartly, is calling his legislation the Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act, because that sounds so much better than, say, the Anti-LGBT Pro-Discrimination Act. > > It actually declares “an emergency” ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19235 "2015-02-13T18:44:13Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [SC Pub state senator calls women “a lesser cut of meat.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/gop_lawmaker_calls_women_a_lesser_cut_of_meat/) From the article: > [@](#): > > Corbin appears to have a penchant for offensive or downright bizarre statements. During a 2013 speech on the Common Core education standards, he reportedly embarked on a tangent about “gay man juice.” I have this funny feeling I know whence his crazy emanates. His disdain for women comes from resenting having to keep up the charade of wanting sex with them. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19236 "2015-02-13T18:56:21Z")
> [@bup](#): > > …resenting having to keep up the charade of wanting sex with them. Wait a second. If I act out book and movie titles in pantomime, I’ll get some? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19237 "2015-02-13T18:55:49Z")
> [@bup](#): > > From the article: > > I have this funny feeling I know whence his crazy emanates. His disdain for women comes from resenting having to keep up the charade of wanting sex with them. This is one of the exceedingly rare times when I feel like I speak for all women when I say, “No, no, Senator. We’ll be okay without you.” ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19238 "2015-02-13T18:59:42Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Arkansas State Senator Bart Hester](http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/_singled_out_gop_lawmaker_to_end_all_lgbt_protections_because_i_am_married_to_one_woman) tries the old chestnut “Opposing bigotry is bigoted against us bigots!” argument:Poor guy, wallowing in his own victimhood. I hate when these wackjobs are younger than I am. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19239 "2015-02-13T19:00:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Wait a second. If I act out book and movie titles in pantomime, I’ll get some? _tugs ear and hands elucidator a yo-yo_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19240 "2015-02-13T19:11:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Wait a second. If I act out book and movie titles in pantomime, I’ll get some? Only if they’re porn titles. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19241 "2015-02-13T20:21:25Z")
Rand Paul is [still trying](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/rand_paul_caught_lying_about_his_college_record/) to claim that he graduated from Baylor University, despite all evidence to the contrary. How did this guy get into medical school without an undergrad degree? Did he lie on his application? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=961) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=963)