# How was George Santos' resume not an election issue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 27, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188 "2022-12-27T23:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [January 8, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/201 "2023-01-08T13:51:37Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > He’s just a boy from Brazil. This is pretty darned good, too. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/202 "2023-01-08T15:40:50Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > Right, the only defining characteristic he needs to have is “owning the libs”. All else is 100% irrelevant. As others have pointed out, George Santos is not representing a district full of rednecks. New York’s 3rd District is a wealthy suburban enclave which was represented by a Democrat for the five elections prior to 2022. It’s a district where a Republican talks about cutting tax rates not owning the libs. These people are the libs. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/203 "2023-01-08T16:39:38Z")
Right. And owning them is his only ticket to a continued career within the modern GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/204 "2023-01-08T16:44:50Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > owning them is his only ticket to a continued career within the modern GOP. This. I am wondering where the people objecting to this have been for the last 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/205 "2023-01-08T17:01:11Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > Right. And owning them is his only ticket to a continued career within the modern GOP. You’re wrong. The ticket to a continued career within the modern GOP is attacking people who live in other parts of the world. You don’t attack the voters in your own district. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/206 "2023-01-08T17:02:24Z")
You seem to be under the impression that getting reelected in that particular district means something to him. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/207 "2023-01-08T17:06:41Z")
It shouldn’t. The local (Nassau County) GOP has already said it won’t support him if he runs for reelection in 2024. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/208 "2023-01-08T17:15:02Z")
He’s not going to be re-elected in this district or any other district. Because he will have the same problems that any other Republican from the NYC area will have if he tries to run anywhere outside of that area - which is basically that the Republicans in the rest of the country don’t see them as Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/209 "2023-01-08T17:21:24Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > You seem to be under the impression that getting reelected in that particular district means something to him. I don’t feel it’s unreasonable to think that a person who ran for the Congressional seat in New York’s 3rd District has a desire to be the Congressman from New York’s 3rd District. I realize there are some people who feel the primary goal of the Republican party is to attack liberals. These people need to get over themselves. Other people are not making you the center of their world. Republicans are looking out for what’s in their own best self-interests. They attack liberals when it’s a useful tactic in getting elected. But when it’s not a useful tactic - for example, if they’re running in a district that fits the liberal stereotype - then they won’t use that tactic. Unless they’re an idiot. So George Santos makes a dog whistle appeal to right wing racists. There are two possibilities. The first is that Santos is playing fourth dimensional chess and has a plan that involves attacking the voters in his own district. The second is that Santos is an idiot. This is what we learned from Donald Trump’s presidency. When a right winger does something that seems to be stupid, don’t look for some secret plan that would make it not stupid. The likeliest explanation is that what they did was as stupid as it appeared. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/210 "2023-01-08T17:41:12Z")
You don’t need four-dimensional chess to turn “former Congressman” into some other lucrative line of business, most of which don’t care about any particular constituency. He could become a radio-show host, or write a book, or go on the speaking circuit, or join a think tank, or any combination of those. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/211 "2023-01-08T17:52:40Z")
Or being a very insecure person his new bestie, MTG, one of the few in the House willing to be seen with him, may have just dared him to it, nay double dog dared him! I’ll accept that he may have accepted that endearing himself to the nut jobs may be his best path after this gig, be it two years or kicked out sooner. Especially given who his new PR person is. > **[Lying George Santos hires MAGA ‘fixer’ over calls he resign House seat](https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/rep-george-santos-hires-staff-to-beat-calls-to-resign-over-long-list-of-lies-to-voters/amp/)** > > Rep. George Santos is staffing up on Capitol Hill even as he’s gotten the cold shoulder from many Republicans colleagues who want nothing to do with him considering his litany of lies about h… > [@](#): > > bringing on Viswanag “Vish” Burra, a MAGA world political operative tied to [ex-White House strategist Steve Bannon](https://nypost.com/2022/10/21/steve-bannon-sentenced-for-contempt-of-congress-after-defying-subpoena/), and businessman Carl Paladino, who attracted fire on the 2022 congressional campaign trail after [speaking favorably about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.](https://nypost.com/2022/06/09/congressional-candidate-carl-paladino-faces-controversy-with-past-hitler-praise-and-fb-post-on-buffalo-massacre/) ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/212 "2023-01-08T18:02:15Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > and businessman Carl Paladino, who attracted fire on the 2022 congressional campaign trail after [speaking favorably about Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.](https://nypost.com/2022/06/09/congressional-candidate-carl-paladino-faces-controversy-with-past-hitler-praise-and-fb-post-on-buffalo-massacre/) That would be Carl “Horse Porn” Palladino. Get the name right, NY Post. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/213 "2023-01-08T18:13:14Z")
Serious about the MJT line though. > **[Marjorie Taylor Greene gets laughs out of George Santos](https://www.fox5ny.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-gets-laughs-out-of-george-santos.amp)** > > Rep.-elect George Santos has apparently found a new friend in Congress as he sat with and shared a laugh with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/214 "2023-01-08T18:14:17Z")
Can’t he be both? I mean, if we’re talking about Santos, dude is obviously a pathological liar, and possibly a narcissist. Doesn’t mean he’s not a racist shithead, of course. (Besides, not everyone who’s mentally ill is necessarily legally insane) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/215 "2023-01-08T18:48:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > then they won’t use that tactic. Unless they’re an idiot. I think I see the problem here, at least regarding Santos. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/216 "2023-01-08T18:50:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > He could become a radio-show host, or write a book, or go on the speaking circuit, or join a think tank, or any combination of those. I can’t wait to see him as a talking head on Fox, where he’ll be billed as a “three time successful Senator, and Senate Majority Leader” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/217 "2023-01-08T18:51:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > He could become a radio-show host, or write a book, or go on the speaking circuit, or join a think tank, or any combination of those. Actually, he has experience as all of these. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/218 "2023-01-09T01:25:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Chronos](#): > > > > He could become a radio-show host, or write a book, or go on the speaking circuit, or join a think tank, or any combination of those. > > I can’t wait to see him as a talking head on Fox, where he’ll be billed as a “three time successful Senator, and Senate Majority Leader” Don’t forget astronaut and lion tamer! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/219 "2023-01-09T02:19:01Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > > then they won’t use that tactic. Unless they’re an idiot. > > I think I see the problem here, at least regarding Santos. Exactly. The likeliest explanation for Santos doing things that appear to be stupid is that Santos is a stupid person doing stupid things. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/220 "2023-01-09T02:21:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > > [@Chronos](#): > > > > > > He could become a radio-show host, or write a book, or go on the speaking circuit, or join a think tank, or any combination of those. > > > > I can’t wait to see him as a talking head on Fox, where he’ll be billed as a “three time successful Senator, and Senate Majority Leader” > > Don’t forget astronaut and lion tamer! What’s going to be hilarious will be a few years from now when Santos tells people he was elected to Congress and everyone that knows him will be saying “Sure you were, George. Was that before or after you defeated Thanos?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188.md?page=12)