# 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:** 978
**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 25, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19542 "2015-02-25T22:21:31Z")
54% of Republicans believe that, [deep down](http://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8108005/obama-muslim-poll), Obama is Muslim. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19543 "2015-02-25T22:30:07Z")
> [@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. But Perry says of the parents, > > > [@](#): > > > > “They are comforted by the fact that they know their child is in heaven,” Perry said. “If I want to let my child be with God, why is that wrong?” > > So yeah. That’s a thing. This one needs more love. I mean, what \*is \*the big deal if I just want to kill my child ? Seriously, guys, you’re totally overreacting. I would just prefer my kid dead. I’d be more comfortable that way, and I should have that choice. NO ABORTIONS THOUGH ! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19544 "2015-02-25T23:57:38Z")
> [@](#): > > …I would just prefer my kid dead. I’d be more comfortable that way, and I should have that choice… Never crossed my mind. Not even once. Nope. You can’t prove it did. So it didn’t. Period. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19545 "2015-02-26T04:57:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Texas state Senator is worried that the UN is trying to steal the Alamo.](http://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8104087/texas-alamo-un) Better still, her idiotic proposal doesn’t even cover UN activity. From the (very brief) [text](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/84R/billtext/pdf/SB00191I.pdf#navpanes=0): > [@A moron](#): > > The land office may not enter into an agreement that vests any ownership, control, or management of the Alamo complex in an entity formed under the laws of another country. The UN was not formed under the laws of another country, and so is not an entity covered by this language. It’s both clear and unsurprising that she doesn’t even know what the UN is. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19546 "2015-02-26T16:14:04Z")
Is Sam Stone, the bloated-amygdala hyperlibertarian, considered a Republican? He certainly qualifies as stupid. > [@Take money out of politics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-money-out-of-politics/713419/60): > > Let’s think this through… :rolleyes: > [@Take money out of politics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-money-out-of-politics/713419/63): > > > [@Take money out of politics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-money-out-of-politics/713419/60): > > > > And let’s not forget labor unions, which as I recall are the largest funders of politicians. > > Not even close. This is just a talking-point bouncing around the conservative media. And it’s not true. > > They came up with this claim by not counting undisclosed donations, which are the main way that really large amounts of money are donated. The Koch brothers, to give a prominent example, paid $4,900,000 in disclosed donations in the 2012 election and $407,000,000 in undisclosed donations. Ignoring the undisclosed donations greatly distorts the amount of money they gave. > > If you add in all the money that was donated, the Koch brothers donated $412,670,666 (I’m assuming the 666 was just their little joke). The top ten union donations combined added up to $153,473,251. I’m glad Little Nemo debunked Stone’s hogwash. The divide is no longer between left and right, but between rational reality-based thinking and the GOP. Increasingly, it just seems best to ignore anything said by one of their ilk unless their claim is backed by a cite to a rational thinker or objective news source. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19547 "2015-02-26T16:16:27Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Is Sam Stone, the bloated-amygdala hyperlibertarian, considered a Republican? He certainly qualifies as stupid. No – he qualifies as stupid, but, as a Canuckistani, he does not qualify as American. Conservative Party, probably. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19548 "2015-02-26T17:22:00Z")
I keep getting Sam Stone and The Second Stone confused. One of them is a reasonable person, the other is a racist bag of rocks with a toupee ---
**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:** [February 26, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19549 "2015-02-26T18:03:06Z")
Well, we should be in for a real bumper crop of Republican stupidity over the next few days. CPAC was opened this morning by [none other than Ben Carson](http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article11219798.html). ---
**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 26, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19550 "2015-02-26T18:04:37Z")
Let the stoopid begin! ---
**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 26, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19551 "2015-02-26T22:51:51Z")
Congressman Barry Loudermilk [claims](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/goper-says-house-looked-arresting-eric-holder-fears-muslim-brotherhoods-white-house-access)that there was consideration of having Eric Holder arrested for contempt of Congress when he showed up at the House chamber for the State of the Union, but he claims that he was told “some other things were going on” in the case of Holder. He also says that he would love to investigate the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of the government, but the Obama administration is stonewalling the investigation. [Republicans in the West Virginia House of Delegates want to make it a crime for state and federal officials to enforce Obamacare within West Virginia.](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/west-virginia-gop-moves-nullify-obamacare?cid=sm_fb_maddow) ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19552 "2015-02-26T23:27:06Z")
[Kansas state Senator wants to throw teachers in jail for using the “wrong” books.](http://aattp.org/a-kansas-gop-senator-wants-to-throw-teachers-in-jail-for-using-harmful-books/) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19553 "2015-02-26T23:33:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Congressman Barry Loudermilk Every time I read his name I get a mental flash of Henry Winkler as Barry Zuckerkorn on Arrested Development… ---
**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 27, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19554 "2015-02-27T00:46:50Z")
You can’t run as a Republican in [Laurens County, SC](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/sc-county-gop-if-you-ve-had-pre-marital-sex-you-can-t-be-a-republican) if you have had premarital sex, or if you look at porn, or if you support gay marriage OR gay civil unions. And a bunch of other stuff. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19555 "2015-02-27T00:58:44Z")
Scott Walker [compares union protesters to ISIS](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scott-walker-compares-union-protesters-isis) in his comments on how he would deal with ISIS if he were commander-in-chief: "If I can take on a hundred thousand protesters, I can do the same across the world.” ---
**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 27, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19556 "2015-02-27T01:39:31Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > You can’t run as a Republican in [Laurens County, SC](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/sc-county-gop-if-you-ve-had-pre-marital-sex-you-can-t-be-a-republican) if you have had premarital sex, or if you look at porn, or if you support gay marriage OR gay civil unions. And a bunch of other stuff. Shit. I’m probably tangentially related to 90% of those ignorant fuckers. So glad my direct antecedents had the notion to move elsewhere. ---
**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 27, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19557 "2015-02-27T01:44:15Z")
Marsha Blackburn (TN) and Tillis (NC) are already jumping on the FCC because it is [overriding state laws](http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/republicans-in-congress-already-trying-to-overturn-fccs-latest-votes/) that prevent municipal internet service providers from expanding outside their areas. Because, you know, the major providers who refuse to serve those outlying areas should not be faced with competition for service they do not want to provide, and the state should have the final say over its counties and cities, not the Feds. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19558 "2015-02-27T02:26:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > You can’t run as a Republican in [Laurens County, SC](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/sc-county-gop-if-you-ve-had-pre-marital-sex-you-can-t-be-a-republican) if you have had premarital sex, or if you look at porn, or if you support gay marriage OR gay civil unions. And a bunch of other stuff. That’s from 2012. Still incredibly stupid, just old stupid. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19559 "2015-02-27T02:51:21Z")
A twofer: [Mentally challenged](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/jim-inhofe-climate-snow_n_6763868.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592)Senator Jim Inhofe brings snowball to Congressional floor to prove climate change is a hoax. As much as I would like to be mad, I can’t, because you don’t hold the mentally challenged to the same standards as normal people. Tennessee House majority leader Sheila Butt states that there should be an [NAAWP](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/tennessee-gop-naawp_n_6761486.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592). When called out on it, she said the “W” stood for “Western” people, not white people, honest! There’s a joke about being butthurt in there, but being part of the oppressed minority western people already, I’m guessing Sheila Butt has suffered enough mocking ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19560 "2015-02-27T03:30:48Z")
> [@saje](#): > > That’s from 2012. Still incredibly stupid, just old stupid. I do wonder, how has it worked out for them since? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19561 "2015-02-27T03:44:22Z")
Not really a SRIOTD, but I’m not sure where else to put it. Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich, who had recently announced his candidacy for governor, committed suicide this morning in his home near St. Louis. Schweich, a Republican, had butted heads with party leaders and was considered a long shot to get the nomination. Probably no one knows why Schweich took his own life. However, a member of the _Post-Dispatch_ editorial board writes about his friendship with Schweich, saying that Schweich had recently confided in him that Missouri Republican Party leaders were engaged in a whisper campaign designed to discredit Schweich with donors by convincing them that Schweich was Jewish. He was actually Episcopalian with Jewish ancestry. Maybe Schweich was paranoid, deluded, and mentally ill. Or maybe he was right, and the Republican machine was trying to destroy him personally by calling his faith and ethnicity into question. It would not be the first time for that, although perhaps the first time the tactic succeeded so thoroughly. Here is the article: [http://m.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-from-voicemail-to-voicemail-the-short-political-life-and/article\_d287e178-0463-53d8-9393-595c9b40dcf5.html?mobile\_touch=true](http://m.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-from-voicemail-to-voicemail-the-short-political-life-and/article_d287e178-0463-53d8-9393-595c9b40dcf5.html?mobile_touch=true) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=977) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=979)