# Any Congresspeople genuinely give you the creeps? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 24, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641 "2023-09-24T19:40:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/1 "2023-09-24T19:40:33Z")
None of them give me the creeps quite like Clay Higgins, R-La. There’s something about the intensity of his belligerence and MAGAtude combined with his smooth talking that sends shivers up my spine. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/2 "2023-09-24T19:51:56Z")
Yes. I’m very unfortunate in having George Santos as my Congressperson. Creeps, disgust, shame, any negative feeling you can name, that’s my response to him. > **[About](https://santos.house.gov/about)** > > Image ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/3 "2023-09-24T20:00:02Z")
So many do! And they aren’t all Republicans (although all the ones I can think of right now are men). The one who springs to mind first as someone I wouldn’t want near a teenager is Matt Gaetz. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/4 "2023-09-24T20:01:35Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > And they aren’t all Republicans (although all the ones I can think of right now are men). So Greene and Boebert don’t make your list? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/5 "2023-09-24T20:14:52Z")
They’re loathsome, but neither of them gives the vibe that they might have a basement freezer full of pelts harvested from neighborhood pets. They trigger dislike, not … a sense of recoiling from the uncanny, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/6 "2023-09-24T20:24:26Z")
Exactly! To me, “creepy” includes the feeling that someone is an immediate physical, often sexual, threat. I’ve met creepy women, but creeps are much more often men. I feel that Boebert and, more especially, Greene pose a threat to our government and society, but that doesn’t make them creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/7 "2023-09-24T20:31:08Z")
Yeah. I would guess the most unpleasant skeleton in MTG’s closet is something like she used to shoplift cigarettes from the corner gas mart in high school. Otherwise all her terribleness is out in the open on full display. Edit to add: The above is not to suggest I don’t believe MTG made liberal use of racial slurs in her youth (and probably now in private), and similar nastiness. I take stuff like that as a given, not as a “skeleton.” ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/8 "2023-09-24T20:35:08Z")
Gaetz has always struck me as just a little too far down the slope of the Uncanny Valley for comfort. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/9 "2023-09-24T20:37:25Z")
Yeah, Gaetz 100% has a huge folder on his computer he really, really doesn’t want anyone to know about. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/10 "2023-09-24T20:37:55Z")
Gaetz is literally a trafficker, so yeah. Paul Gosar probably has an SS uniform in his closet. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/11 "2023-09-24T20:41:40Z")
Matt Gaetz looks like a cross between a tv evangelist, used car salesman, 1970s porn star, and undertaker. He exudes sleaze from every fiber of his being. If his appearance isn’t enough, his attempts to wreck the government and economy just to own the libs on its own makes him a creep. Then there’s the fact that he got his first high school girlfriend while in his 30s. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/12 "2023-09-24T20:51:41Z")
I consider both House members and Senators to be “Congresspeople.” With that in mind, here is a quick 'n dirty list off the top of my head of those who inspire physical revulsion in me. Senate: Mitch McConnell Lindsey Graham Chuck Grassley Mike Crapo Mike Lee Ted Cruz Tommy Tuberville Tom Cotton Marco Rubio Rick Scott J. D. Vance Rand Paul Josh Hawley Tim Scott Ron Johnson Kevin McCarthy House: Paul Gosar Andy Biggs Matt Gaetz George Santos Steve Scalise Mike Rogers Darrell Issa Mike Collins Greg Pence James Comer Ryan Zinke Patrick McHenry Jim Jordan Cliff Bentz Scott Perry Ronny Jackson Chip Roy I’m sure there are more, but I haven’t had sufficient experience with them to get a vibe one way or another. Every person on this list is of no value in government and in fact imposes more harm on the country every day. I won’t get my wish, but we’d be immensely better off if they were all gone. And yes, they all give me the creeps. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/13 "2023-09-24T20:56:05Z")
please delete ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/14 "2023-09-24T21:00:23Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > They’re loathsome, but neither of them gives the vibe that they might have a basement freezer full of pelts harvested from neighborhood pets. They trigger dislike, not … a sense of recoiling from the uncanny, I suppose. Greene just seems garden variety awful, but Boebert strikes me as the sort of person who breaks into their ex’s home and cooks their pet. Nobody comes close to Gaetz for pure creep factor, though. He has resting “Vincent-D’Onofrio-right-before-he-shoots-the-drill-sergeant-in-_Full Metal Jacket_” face. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/15 "2023-09-24T21:27:39Z")
McConnell nothings me. He’s just an empty shell of ambition. I only have reactions to humans. Gosar? Uuuurg. When your own family campaigns against you, that says something. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/16 "2023-09-24T21:33:24Z")
Wasn’t Gosar the one whose own siblings made a commercial telling people not to vote for him? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/17 "2023-09-24T22:25:50Z")
Any Congresspeople who don’t? I haven’t met that many of them, but most of the ones I have could inhabit a creepy Halloween thriller without having to assume a different persona. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/18 "2023-09-24T22:52:42Z")
Many are somewhere on the spectrum between annoying and loathsome, but I find that few are truly creepy. I starting thinking that Rand Paul gave off such vibes, ever since he made that comment about “parents own the children” (in reference to vaccination). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/19 "2023-09-24T23:07:40Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Matt Gaetz looks like a cross between a tv evangelist, used car salesman, 1970s porn star, and undertaker. [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53211170556_a7a8a21b1f_c.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53211170556_a7a8a21b1f_c.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-congresspeople-genuinely-give-you-the-creeps/990641/20 "2023-09-24T23:32:39Z")
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