# 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:** 983
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19642 "2015-02-28T22:07:18Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Maybe when you grade Republicans, you have to do it on a generous curve. I usually like generous curves… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19643 "2015-03-01T01:13:01Z")
[FactChecking CPAC.](http://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/factchecking-cpac/) Lot of the candidates are playing fast and loose with the truth. Granted, whether doing that in this venue is a stupid idea is debatable – but they’re saying it on-camera, giving the Dems material to use against the eventual nominee. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19644 "2015-03-01T02:18:41Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > [/INDENT][/INDENT] > How does B and B equals an overall of A- ? There’s some unskewing going on ! See, this why the GOP is fighting Common Core, because math is hard. ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19645 "2015-03-01T02:23:43Z")
As a teacher in Republican Texas, I now understand why the parents complain so much about their kids’ grades. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19646 "2015-03-02T12:06:10Z")
[http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-01/scott-walker-my-view-has-changed-on-amnesty](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-01/scott-walker-my-view-has-changed-on-amnesty) Scott Walker - on going over to the looney of what passes for the former republican party. pander, pander, pander, pander, pander, pander. Changed his mind??? What? That’s a LIBERAL thing! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19647 "2015-03-02T15:58:49Z")
No, Fox, Drudge, Breitbart, and Daily Caller. [Obama did not threaten to shoot down Israeli planes](http://www.mediaite.com/online/conservative-blogs-explode-over-report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down-israeli-planes/). 😃 Sorry to disappoint. > [@](#): > > Yes, a Kuwaiti newspaper (at least according to the translation from a Bethlehem based news service as reported by an Israeli website) with its anonymous and undefined sources deep inside the Israeli government scooped everyone for this world exclusive. One can understand why some conservatives jumped on the story but wouldn’t this also mean that President Obama isn’t such a weak-kneed international coward? Threatening to shoot down planes? ---
**Author:** ![withaK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@withaK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/withaK)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19648 "2015-03-02T18:56:01Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > But not death by other means, like when Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan won election to the Senate in 2000, 38 days after dying in a plane crash. To be fair, he was running against John Ashcroft. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19649 "2015-03-02T19:56:17Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > No, Fox, Drudge, Breitbart, and Daily Caller. [Obama did not threaten to shoot down Israeli planes](http://www.mediaite.com/online/conservative-blogs-explode-over-report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down-israeli-planes/). 😃 Sorry to disappoint. He totally should, though. Not out of any anti-Israel animus, mind you. Just to keep the international community on their toes. People respect ya more when they don’t know but are already wary of what the fuck you’re gonna do next. Kim Jung Il knew this. > [@dropzone](#): > > But not death by other means, like when Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan won election to the Senate in 2000, 38 days after dying in a plane crash. Wait, that’s not something they made up on _The West Wing_ ?! ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19650 "2015-03-02T20:08:37Z")
I’m not sure he’s a Republican, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Orange County Attorney [files papers](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/california-lawyer-files-papers-for-sodomite-suppression-act-to-save-state-from-gods-just-wrath/) with the California Attorney General’s Office (which, to me, should have been the Secretary of State’s office, but whatever) to begin the initiative process for “The Sodomite Suppression Act”. > [@](#): > > “The abominable crime against nature known as buggery, called also sodomy, is a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha.” > > … > > This law is effective immediately and shall not be rendered ineffective or invalidated by any court, state or federal, until heard by a quorum of the Supreme Court of California consisting only of judges who are neither sodomites nor subject to disqualification hereunder." ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19651 "2015-03-02T20:16:21Z")
> [@withaK](#): > > To be fair, he was running against John Ashcroft. That was exactly my thought process when voting in that election: “Let’s see, Dead Guy or Ashcroft? _Dead Guy_, for sure.” Admit it, we’d be better off now if we’d _all_ elected dead Democrats instead of the current crop of Republicans. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19652 "2015-03-02T20:58:42Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m not sure he’s a Republican, but I wouldn’t be surprised. > > Orange County Attorney [files papers](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/california-lawyer-files-papers-for-sodomite-suppression-act-to-save-state-from-gods-just-wrath/) with the California Attorney General’s Office (which, to me, should have been the Secretary of State’s office, but whatever) to begin the initiative process for “The Sodomite Suppression Act”. [Did you see the part where it calls for the mandatory death of all offenders? > [@](#): > > b) Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of tolerating wickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method. ]([http://sdgln.com/news/2015/03/02/oc-lawyer-wants-kill-all-gays-california-according-initaitive-goal#sthash.fVhnmo1o.dpbs](http://sdgln.com/news/2015/03/02/oc-lawyer-wants-kill-all-gays-california-according-initaitive-goal#sthash.fVhnmo1o.dpbs)) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19653 "2015-03-02T21:19:28Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Did you see the part where it calls for the mandatory death of all offenders?](http://sdgln.com/news/2015/03/02/oc-lawyer-wants-kill-all-gays-california-according-initaitive-goal#sthash.fVhnmo1o.dpbs) Yes, I saw that in Leviticus. The only new thing here is the “bullets to the head” part. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t in Leviticus. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19654 "2015-03-02T21:27:32Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Yes, I saw that in Leviticus. The only new thing here is the “bullets to the head” part. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t in Leviticus. How dare they use a method not mentioned in the Bible. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19655 "2015-03-02T21:31:33Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > How dare they use a method not mentioned in the Bible. [62 Bible Verses About Guns](http://www.openbible.info/topics/guns) ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19656 "2015-03-02T22:54:49Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Wait, that’s not something they made up on _The West Wing_ ?! I never watched _The West Wing_. Did they reference the real election, or did they have a fictionalized story line that went the same way? Anyway, I also voted for the dead guy. Carnahan was the governor of Missouri during the campaign. When he died, Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson (a Democrat) succeeded him. This gave Wilson the power to appoint Senators to replace those who have died. Wilson announced that if Carnahan won, he’d appoint Carnahan’s widow Jean Carnahan to his seat. So, while it’s fun to say that I voted for the dead guy, I effectively voted for his widow. Jean Carnahan went on to lose to Jim Talent (R) in November 2002 special election. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19657 "2015-03-03T00:08:56Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m not sure he’s a Republican, but I wouldn’t be surprised. > > Orange County Attorney [files papers](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/california-lawyer-files-papers-for-sodomite-suppression-act-to-save-state-from-gods-just-wrath/) with the California Attorney General’s Office (which, to me, should have been the Secretary of State’s office, but whatever) to begin the initiative process for “The Sodomite Suppression Act”. > > > [@](#): > > > > “The abominable crime against nature known as buggery, called also sodomy, is a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha.” > > > > … > > > > This law is effective immediately and shall not be rendered ineffective or invalidated by any court, state or federal, until heard by a quorum of the Supreme Court of California consisting only of judges who are neither sodomites nor subject to disqualification hereunder." I’m honestly surprised that he didn’t include a clause to the effect that _“the California Secretary of State, and all other election-certifying authorities, shall be directed to disqualify all votes cast in opposition to this measure.”_ ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19658 "2015-03-03T00:28:52Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > He totally should, though. Not out of any anti-Israel animus, mind you. Just to keep the international community on their toes. People respect ya more when they don’t know but are already wary of what the fuck you’re gonna do next. Kim Jung Il knew this. Fuckin’ A. Obama lived and worked [del]in the hood[/del] [del]on the South Side[/del] in Chicago, dammit, and understands the value of _respect._ Nobody fuck with us after that. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19659 "2015-03-03T00:30:40Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I never watched _The West Wing_. Did they reference the real election, or did they have a fictionalized story line that went the same way? The latter - in the show the dead guy racing was in Orange County, California IIRC. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19660 "2015-03-03T00:39:25Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > The latter - in the show the dead guy racing was in Orange County, California IIRC. Oh right was that when they brought in Joshua Malina? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19661 "2015-03-03T01:14:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m not sure he’s a Republican, but I wouldn’t be surprised. > > Orange County Attorney [files papers](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/california-lawyer-files-papers-for-sodomite-suppression-act-to-save-state-from-gods-just-wrath/) with the California Attorney General’s Office (which, to me, should have been the Secretary of State’s office, but whatever) to begin the initiative process for “The Sodomite Suppression Act”. At least it’s only an individual attorney, rather than an attorney for the county. \ When I first read this, I hoped that it was a hoax or a story from the Onion, because I found it all too plausible. And there it is. It’s not Poe, it’s real. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=982) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=984)