# How would revealing your SDMB posts affect your election to public office? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 18, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922 "2004-10-18T22:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [October 20, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/41 "2004-10-20T05:20:56Z")
I have enough skeletons in my closet that I wouldn’t dream of running for public office anyway. My SDMB posts are the least of it. Hell, forget the skeletons. It’s the fresh bodies I’d be concerned with hiding. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/42 "2004-10-20T05:29:29Z")
Since I intend to be forcibly taking control of this country (some time 'round 2038, maybe '39 if my schedule gets crammed), I doubt my posts here will do little to make me look “bad”, per se. My massive death camps and vile, torturous ways will do that for me. My first act as Supreme Emperor: National video clip of me wiping my ass with the Constitution! Eat that, ya freedom-loving hippies! Bwahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/43 "2004-10-20T17:58:10Z")
Some of the things I’ve posted in the past would probably get me shot if I ran for office in, say, Dallas. Here in Bubbaville, I’d probably pick up a few votes. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/44 "2004-10-20T17:59:55Z")
I expect most of the Moderators would be pretty safe. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/45 "2004-10-20T18:12:41Z")
I think my running naked thread would kill me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/46 "2004-10-20T18:17:05Z")
Every one of us is a paid member of an organization whose stated purpose is to fight ignorance. We’ve lost the southern states already. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/47 "2004-10-20T18:46:10Z")
~sings~ Doom doom doom doom doom ~sings~ ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/48 "2004-10-21T00:59:51Z")
The sexuality posts alone would doom me. Then again, anyone who would vote for me deserves what they get. I do have political ambitions of nebulous kind, but I’m not stupid enough to think that I’d actually ever be elected. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922/49 "2004-10-21T01:10:13Z")
All the times I called Dodger fans inbred morons who are easily distracted by shiny objects would probably enough to kill me. I regret nothing! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-revealing-your-sdmb-posts-affect-your-election-to-public-office/269922.md?page=2)