# I would vote for Trump if the other candidate were ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 1, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348 "2019-07-01T15:25:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/21 "2019-07-01T18:28:19Z")
Supported by the Republican party. They’re the long term danger. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/22 "2019-07-01T18:33:41Z")
n/m ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/23 "2019-07-01T18:50:19Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > In your “not be a politician” clause, is that limited to “have held elected office ever”, or does it include “has ever been employed in a government role at some level”? It was elected. So like, Condoleeza Rice was mentioned and everyone would take her over Trump. Kanye came up too :). Most people picked Kanye in that matchup ---
**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:** [July 1, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/24 "2019-07-01T19:01:13Z")
Hm, you said no _convicted_ felons… How about OJ Simpson? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/25 "2019-07-01T19:04:06Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Hm, you said no _convicted_ felons… How about OJ Simpson? I’d probably take Trump over O.J. Simpson OR the Zodiac Killer :). ETA: Of course O.J. _was_ convicted. Just not of murder. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/26 "2019-07-01T19:04:54Z")
Al Sharpton. He’s the only person I can see as a possible candidate who I would find as unacceptable as Trump. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/27 "2019-07-01T19:05:43Z")
I’d say choices like Kenneth Copeland and Jerry Falwell, Jr. would be interesting tests of the GOP’s willingness to fall in line behind a genuinely awful President of their own party, but Trump’s already done the stress test on that. It’s hard to imagine that they wouldn’t fall in line. The one, erm, _saving grace_ of those evangelical nutcases is that their fanbase, while intense, would be a bit more narrow than Trump’s. While white evangelicals form a large part of Trump’s base, that consistent 40-42% support is a good bit bigger than white evangelicalism. I think the GOP with one of those guys in the White House would get totally crushed in the next election, well beyond what happened last November. So I’d say Trump is worse than them on that account. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/28 "2019-07-01T19:18:13Z")
Even if I could vote, [Kris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kobach)[Kobach](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/kris-kobach-trump-administration-immigration-czar-demands) would never get mine. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/29 "2019-07-01T19:29:08Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > For some reason the OP stipulated that the choice be “not a politician.” If he or she is running for President then by definition they are a politician, so there’s no valid answer. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/30 "2019-07-01T19:31:26Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Al Sharpton. He’s the only person I can see as a possible candidate who I would find as unacceptable as Trump. I’d consider Al Sharpton to be a politician. He’s [run for office a number of times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton#Political_campaigns). That aside, I’d say that, short of starting a war (which Trump came within an ace of doing just days ago) any left-of-center figure would be far less dangerous than Trump, for the simple reason that not only would Republicans be united against him, but Congressional Democrats would also keep him in check. I’ll leave alone the question of whether Trump or Sharpton would be a worse _dictator_, but as President, our small-d democratic processes would keep a Sharpton in check to a much greater degree than they do for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/31 "2019-07-01T19:46:19Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > If he or she is running for President then by definition they are a politician, so there’s no valid answer. That is kind of a catch-22 that you don’t notice when there is alcohol involved. You just gotta go with it 🙂 Not a politician - current hypothetical run excluded. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/32 "2019-07-01T19:57:58Z")
It’s so easy to be flippant about the question, but it’s very possible that I’d vote for Donald Trump over Donald Trump Jr. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/33 "2019-07-01T20:27:14Z")
Curt Schilling Ted Nugent Dana Loesch Alex Jones There’s probably a lot of people. I don’t like this game. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/34 "2019-07-01T22:22:23Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > It’s so easy to be flippant about the question, but it’s very possible that I’d vote for Donald Trump over Donald Trump Jr. I’m curious as to why that is? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/35 "2019-07-01T22:26:34Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > It would have to be someone like Jerry Falwell, Jr. or Franklin Graham. > > Trump panders to the religious right, but he doesn’t believe any of it. AFAIK, neither of them are interested in running for public office. My answer would be “under no circumstances.” ---
**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:** [July 1, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/36 "2019-07-01T23:28:29Z")
Rick Santorum Mike Pence David Duke Dick Cheney Roy Moore ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/37 "2019-07-01T23:39:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Rick Santorum > Mike Pence > David Duke > Dick Cheney > Roy Moore I think that’s why there was the no politicians rule. Because without that, it’s too easy and that is sadface. It was a fun game, like Oprah Winfrey and Dennis Rodman. Both of whom got a majority over Trump in the group I was with 🙂 We were on the fence with Vince McMahon. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/38 "2019-07-02T01:54:06Z")
Alex Jones I was going to add Boris Johnson (natural born citizen), but I guess he is a politician. Any Fox announcer ---
**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:** [July 2, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/39 "2019-07-02T02:18:10Z")
> [@Bone](#): > > I think that’s why there was the no politicians rule. Because without that, it’s too easy and that is sadface. It was a fun game, like Oprah Winfrey and Dennis Rodman. Both of whom got a majority over Trump in the group I was with 🙂 We were on the fence with Vince McMahon. :smack: Shit, I read it backwards - I thought it said no NON-politicians! Okay, then: Any one of the Phelps family Courtney Love Jack Dean Tyler Mama June David Miscavige Bob Nutting Does David Duke count as a politician or not? He’s run for office a number of times. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-vote-for-trump-if-the-other-candidate-were/836348/40 "2019-07-02T03:40:05Z")
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