# ALL the Presidential Candidates: I Report-You Decide! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 10, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491 "2016-05-10T15:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491/21 "2016-05-11T02:08:32Z")
Clinton. Relevant experience, realistic policies, two things the others don’t have. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491/22 "2016-05-11T03:16:26Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Zoltan!!](http://2016.presidential-candidates.org/Istvan/) Is this Zoltan the Magnificent, or his nephew with the Communications degree? 'Cuz I kinda like that kid. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491/23 "2016-05-11T04:36:31Z")
A FiveThirtyEight article mentioned Gary Johnson as a candidate, so I looked him up. He appears to have been very popular as Governor of New Mexico and was, at least once, an accepted member of the GOP. I wouldn’t say that he’s my favorite candidate. I’m sure that if I could be bothered to go through the whole list and really acquaint myself with the platform of each of them, I’d probably find someone that I liked more. But the strike against all of them is gaining support from one of the two parties. Only Clinton has that now, so she’s the only one who could actually get something done as President. But Johnson, if he could pitch himself to the GOP as the alternative to Trump…they just might back him. If his name starts coming up in the news, you can bet that it’s because the party has decided to sneak around behind the scenes and go for an unorthodox strategy. I don’t expect that to happen. But he’s probably more electable than Trump is, and more likely to get along with the party, so it would probably be a wise choice on their part to get him out there for all the people who really don’t want a Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton Presidential chain. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491/24 "2016-05-11T12:34:03Z")
How many of those candidates are running because God told them too? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491/25 "2016-05-11T12:57:02Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > When your campaign biography opens with _"John McAfee has a questionable legal past marked by a murder investigation_" you’re probably looking at an uphill battle for the Presidency. Murder I can forgive, but he deserves the death penalty for that freaking computer-eating anti-virus system he invented. > [@Gedd](#): > > How many of those candidates are running because God told them too? God is the King of Trolls too, apparently. I’m loving the descriptions. Someone had waaaay too much fun writing them. > [@](#): > > It’s easy to think of incidents in American history that may have turned out better had the President at the time enjoyed an IQ score of 185, and that’s just what David Sponheim brings to the table. > [@](#): > > On the surface, Andy Martin is a pretty straightforward conservative with little standing out about him. He’s got a colorful past, though, filled with vexatious litigation and accusations of being an anti-semite. > [@](#): > > Without going into details, Jeremiah Pent speaks at length about solving the nation’s problems > [@](#): > > “Skip” Andrews is a diverse candidate who probably has at least one opinion to please anyone. Few politicians are able to satisfy both a pro-legalization marijuana advocate and a staunch pro-lifer. Of course, this also means most would object to a majority of his platform. > [@](#): > > [Scott Smith’s] goals are dubious, but his confidence is unshakable. > [@](#): > > [Scott Copeland is] totally unambiguous, and it’s easy to see both the sort of people who will support him, and those by whom he will be opposed. That is some high quality snark right there. Kudos to whomever wrote all that. Also - what the hell is Derrick Michael Reid wearing in his photo? Is he a member of F-Troop? ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491/26 "2016-05-11T14:02:07Z")
I’m going with Morrison Bonpasse on the Bring Back Extravagant Latter-Half-Of-The Nineteenth-Century Presidential Beards platform. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-presidential-candidates-i-report-you-decide/754491.md?page=1)