# Could a midget with no limbs get elected POTUS? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 21, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350 "2006-03-21T22:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/1 "2006-03-21T22:02:21Z")
Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/2 "2006-03-21T22:06:36Z")
> [@](#): > > …with no limbs Well, he’d probably give a hell of a stump speech. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/3 "2006-03-21T22:10:28Z")
Would an aide carry him/her around like the [Football?](http://www.answers.com/topic/nuclear-football) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/4 "2006-03-21T22:12:25Z")
No. He’d get almost enough votes, but would come up short. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/5 "2006-03-21T22:13:52Z")
I assume this is about [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363126), but I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/6 "2006-03-21T22:22:11Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > I assume this is about [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363126), but I could be wrong. Or one of the other six asking about jews, mormons, african americans, dopers who ask inane questions I forget the others but I am starting to get the picture of what ad nauseum means… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/7 "2006-03-21T22:27:14Z")
Jeez, I hate to be indelicate but before I answer, are you renewing? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/8 "2006-03-21T22:30:52Z")
If a chimp with no brain can. . . ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/9 "2006-03-21T22:31:25Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Or one of the other six asking about jews, mormons, african americans, dopers who ask inane questions I forget the others but I am starting to get the picture of what ad nauseum means… Other than the one about a gay candidate, those threads were relavent to people who might very well be candidates in '08. Nothing inane about them, except for those of us too young to remember what a to-do was made about Kennedy be Catholic during his campaign. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/10 "2006-03-21T22:36:39Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Other than the one about a gay candidate, those threads were relavent to people who might very well be candidates in '08. Nothing inane about them, except for those of us too young to remember what a to-do was made about Kennedy be Catholic during his campaign. I think you missunderstood my post. I did not refer to them as inane, but was referring to the actual thread titled “Could a doper who asks to many inane questions be elected POTUS” or something like it. Oh yeah, I wasn’t born when Kenedy was shot, and I don’t care where you were… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/11 "2006-03-21T22:40:15Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Well, he’d probably give a hell of a stump speech. You’re going to hell for that. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/12 "2006-03-21T22:47:18Z")
Why is this in the Pit? Nobody’s said anything unkind about limbless midgets yet. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/13 "2006-03-21T22:49:51Z")
Point of clarification! Will the limbless midget appear in bondage porn videos, distributed over the internets in leiu of or in addition to campaign commercials? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/14 "2006-03-21T22:50:06Z")
Is the midget named Matt? Or Bob? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/15 "2006-03-21T22:54:47Z")
Or Jack? Or Herb? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/16 "2006-03-21T22:54:48Z")
Or Art, or Bill, or Sandy, or Russel, or… ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/17 "2006-03-21T23:12:40Z")
He might win the election, but he could never become president. “Raise your right hand and…oops.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-midget-with-no-limbs-get-elected-potus/349350/18 "2006-03-21T23:22:12Z")
Too mundane and pointless to move. Closed.