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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe have a winner: The stupidest repub in Congress is: **drumroll**
Louis Gohmert. I defy anyone to contest his claim to the Iron(clad) Throne (of Idiocy). Sure there are lots of bigot republicans and a fair share of idiot republicans, but the ease with which Gohmert combines these two oh-so-adorable traits, is unsurpassed. We're talking titanically stupid.
Rep. Louie Gohmert Opposes Gun Control Because Gay Marriage Leads to Polygamy, Sex with Animals
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In fact, I had this discussion with some wonderful, caring Democrats earlier this week on the issue of, well, they said "surely you could agree to limit the number of rounds in a magazine, couldn't you? How would that be problematic?"
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And I pointed out, well, once you make it ten, then why would you draw the line at ten? What's wrong with nine? Or eleven? And the problem is once you draw that limit ; it's kind of like marriage when you say it's not a man and a woman any more, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.
Earlier in the discussion, Gohmert called on Christians to take a more active role in politics ... because otherwise their churches are going to be forced to hire cross-dressing Satan-worshipers.
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2013/04/rep-louie-gohmert-opposes-gun-control-because-gay-marriage-leads-to-polygamy-sex-with-animals.html#ixzz2PQoD59hs
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)I suspect many will score.
cali
(114,904 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,094 posts)lastlib
(23,204 posts)Paul Broun might be a second runner-up.........
Duh.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)...to whichever Republican you were going to name. But I see you got the answer right, so nevermind.
olddots
(10,237 posts)chemenger
(1,593 posts)and that is an insult to minerals!
My husband and I laughed our asses off at that.
Marr
(20,317 posts)Genius.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I bet they're besties!
cali
(114,904 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)are the only thing preventing us from keeping litters of puppies as concubines, although the Old Testament could give us a loophole on this one. I'm still researching.
libodem
(19,288 posts)At least he is no longer dispensing justice. Can you imagine?
TygrBright
(20,756 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Somewhere though Michele Bachmann is eating a corn dog and sobbing about how she could have had it all.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)<snip>
Im quite sure that Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert is the benchmark by which stupid is measured. If he isnt, then someone should make it so. We can start by declaring LG as a unit measurement of stupid. Members of congress could then be assigned an LG value. Michele Bachmann : .96 LG, Sarah Palin : 2.6 LGs, etc.
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http://www.zimbio.com/Congressman+Louie+Gohmert/articles/gyuuxAUMI1J/Crazy+Louie+Gohmert+Again
chemenger
(1,593 posts)The standard unit measurement for mass weight of feces, as noted on the 2007 South Park episode "More Crap". The European Fecal Standards & Measurements Board in Zürich keeps track of the authenticity of its records. It is mentioned in the episode that "one Katie Couric is about two and a half pounds of excrement".
Mopar151
(9,978 posts)How many dimensions of stupid is Looey the benchmark in? Is there a frequency component, i.e. How many LooeyHertz is that? What kind of scale - linear/inverse/exponential?
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)n/t
Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)But you know who's even stupider?
The people who voted for him.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)50 way tie for a very close second.
Floyd_Gondolli
(1,277 posts)I give you.....
James Mountain Inhofe (and yes Mountain is his given middle name)
progressoid
(49,969 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)He's said a lot of stupid things but Louis beats him in quantity and quality.
Floyd_Gondolli
(1,277 posts)And leave it at that.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)Roman was king of stupid in the Nixon Era. On the nomination of Carswell to SCOTUS:
"Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos."
--imm
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Yes, Gohmert is breathtakingly stupid.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)the internet today, IMO.
I am not much in the mood for laughing these days, but that had me
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Three American EMBARRASSMENTS.
These people were elected by thousands. THOUSANDS.
Is THIS how STUPID American voters have become? IS IT??
mercymechap
(579 posts)although Sanford winning in South Carolina makes you wonder how many dumb people there are in the GOP - his claim to fame is that he is super conservative who hates government spending, but it appears by his past that he doesn't mind spending government money to take trips to Argentina to visit his mistress! Now that's dumb, too.
malaise
(268,898 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)right mind would want to have three or four????
librechik
(30,674 posts)come on...
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)He believes that there's a muzzy (RW terminology) under every bed ("A red under every bed" , that there is a list of muslims in the State Department that Ted Cruz has (just like Joseph McCarthy), that the only good muslim is a self-deported muslim, that the nominee for Sec. of State was a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (or equivalently had some vague third order connection), etc.
His hating and hatred is part and parcel of his stupidity.
UBEEDelusional
(54 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)UBEEDelusional
(54 posts)Festivito
(13,452 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)would you take a silver one?
treestar
(82,383 posts)Usually of history. When societies were polygamous, and they started to draw the line, and then limit a man to one wife, was there a Gohmert around to argue it was a slippery slope to no wives and homosexuality?
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)I've thought of writing a letter to newspapers in his district, asking the people what the hell they were thinking when they voted for him. He's an embarrassment to the country.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Mopar151
(9,978 posts)A menage 'a mutt, where the bride is groomed.....
JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)he is the unchallenged champion
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...is by definition the best Republican leader.
Gohmert for Speaker!
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I was busy taking a beefy Gohmert, but ran out of toilet paper.
Initech
(100,060 posts)jmowreader
(50,552 posts)Gohmert falls back on "sex with animals" so often I need to know how many times he's picked wool off his overalls. Not if he did it - he's clearly got a history with sheep.
He wouldn't be the first...Neal Horsley admits he lost his virginity to the family mule.