# 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:** 976
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19502 "2015-02-24T20:41:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ron Paul: [Black Caucus is opposed to war because they want money for food stamps.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/ron-paul-congressional-black-caucus-opposes-war-because-they-want-food-stamps/) I get the impression that being untethered from Congress has allowed Ron Paul to enable his inner white supremacist (demonstrated by those [newsletters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters), but which seemed to be in hiding for decades afterwards) to bloom. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19503 "2015-02-24T21:03:57Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > [someone might come around and demand that they do something to prevent it going extinct](http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-salamander-bill-squashed-over-federal-overreach-fears-205038856.html). From that article: > [@](#): > > It was her fifth attempt in as many years to persuade lawmakers that students made a good choice for state amphibian. Wait, students are amphibians? ---
**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 24, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19504 "2015-02-24T21:50:03Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Wait, students are amphibians? I saw some in the water once. I think it was the dance scene in _It’s a Wonderful Life_. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19505 "2015-02-24T21:50:44Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Idaho is going for a bumper crop of crazy this year. > > A state representative (Christy Perry (R)) thinks that “a proposed ban on faith-healing could [violate the religious rights of her constituents](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/idaho-republican-backs-faith-healer-parents-if-i-want-to-let-my-child-be-with-god-why-is-that-wrong/)”. Mind you, this ban is for limiting a faith-based exemption for CHILD medical care. . > [@Punoqllads](#): > > Idaho Republican is unclear [how babby is formed](http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html). I’m guessing that February is batshit crazy medical month in the GOP According to Nevada Assemblywoman [Michele Fiore (R)](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/24/3626567/nevada-assemblywoman-cancer-fungus/) > [@](#): > > “If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing, let’s say, salt water, sodium cardonate [sic], through that line, and flushing out the fungus… These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective." ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19506 "2015-02-24T21:53:01Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I get the impression that being untethered from Congress has allowed Ron Paul to enable his inner white supremacist (demonstrated by those [newsletters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters), but which seemed to be in hiding for decades afterwards) to bloom. Ron Paul is just untethered, period, but he is still a Congressman. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19507 "2015-02-24T22:02:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tennessee State Rep Susan Lynn has introduced a bill before the state legislature that would [instruct the state attorney general to “report to the department of justice that a no-go zone exists within political subdivisions of the state” and to then “take all necessary steps to eliminate the no-go zone to enforce compliance with state and federal law.”](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-legislator-bravely-moves-eliminate-no-go-zones-tennessee) > Because no-go zones are such a major problem in Tennessee. I consider Tennessee to be a no-go zone. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19508 "2015-02-24T22:27:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Ron Paul is just untethered, period, but he is still a Congressman. No he’s not. He stepped down in 2013. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19509 "2015-02-24T22:30:58Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > No he’s not. He stepped down in 2013. Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. [Nevada State Assemblywoman thinks cancer, which is a fungus, can be cured by being flushed out by bicarbonate of soda water (though she calls it salt water)](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/nevada-republican-says-cancer-is-a-fungus-you-can-flush-out-with-salt-water/) ---
**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:** [February 24, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19510 "2015-02-24T22:34:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. > [Nevada State Assemblywoman thinks cancer, which is a fungus, can be cured by being flushed out by bicarbonate of soda water (though she calls it salt water)](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/nevada-republican-says-cancer-is-a-fungus-you-can-flush-out-with-salt-water/) [Man, it just isn’t your day, is it?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18160374&postcount=19498) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19511 "2015-02-24T23:05:54Z")
57% of Republicans support establishing Christianity as the [national religion](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/poll-57-percent-republicans-christianity-national-religion). ---
**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 24, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19512 "2015-02-24T23:06:36Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > I consider Tennessee to be a no-go zone. There is a really, really good barbecue joint on US 51 in south Memphis that is less than two and a half miles from the Mississippi state line. Not that Mississippi is necessarily better than Tennessee. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19513 "2015-02-24T23:08:33Z")
Shit, if I’m going to go all the way to Tennessee for good bar-b-q, might as well just drive to Texas for the genuine article. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19514 "2015-02-24T23:10:31Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > [someone might come around and demand that they do something to prevent it going extinct](http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-salamander-bill-squashed-over-federal-overreach-fears-205038856.html). I gotta give props to one of the people who voted against the bill, tho. Aye, he’s a Republican, too. But he had a solid reason for the way he voted, he was able to state it succinctly and it makes sense because it’s based on facts and personal experience, none of which can be said for anything any of the other Republicans said that was quoted in that article. > [@](#): > > But Rep. Ken Andrus, R-Lava Hot Springs, voted against the salamander after recalling being repulsed by them as a young boy. > > “They were ugly, they were slimy, and they were creepy,” he said. “And I’ve not gotten over that. So to elevate them to the status of being the state amphibian, I’m not there yet.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19515 "2015-02-24T23:15:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Shit, if I’m going to go all the way to Tennessee for good bar-b-q, might as well just drive to Texas for the genuine article. Yeah, but then you’d be in Texas. Is the BBQ worth it? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19516 "2015-02-25T00:01:01Z")
Actually, yes it is. But that doesn’t excuse the rest of the state. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19517 "2015-02-25T00:08:45Z")
Let’s be fair. I’d totally go to Texas if I were in the mood for meat. Good heavens, where else would you go? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19518 "2015-02-25T00:30:04Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Let’s be fair. I’d totally go to Texas if I were in the mood for meat. Good heavens, where else would you go? “Go west 'til you smell it, then go south 'til you step in it!” ---
**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 25, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19519 "2015-02-25T00:54:24Z")
We had a pretty good meal at a place by the river in Early, but it was just a pause on the way to GTHOT. The place in Memphis specialized in pork (watched them roll a cart stacked with pink flesh to the cooker, hope it was the _short_ pig), which is not what they burn in Texas. Though, maybe they ought to, if they are parnoid about them muzlems. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19520 "2015-02-25T02:22:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Shit, if I’m going to go all the way to Tennessee for good bar-b-q, might as well just drive to Texas for the genuine article. Sir? I’m going to have to ask you to step outside. Everyone knows the One True Barbecue can only be found in Down East North Carolina. Everything else makes Baby Jesus cry. Except for that heresy they do in South Carolina. Every time someone puts mustard on pork and calls it barbecue, God kills a kitten. I think it’s in Leviticus somewhere. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19521 "2015-02-25T04:19:02Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Sir? I’m going to have to ask you to step outside. Everyone knows the One True Barbecue can only be found in Down East North Carolina. Everything else makes Baby Jesus cry. > > Except for that heresy they do in South Carolina. Every time someone puts mustard on pork and calls it barbecue, God kills a kitten. I think it’s in Leviticus somewhere. You want heresy? The sauce in Alabama is made from … mayonnaise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=975) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=977)