# Is There Anybody You Wouldn't Vote For Just Because of What They Are **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120 "2011-06-11T16:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/1 "2011-06-11T16:12:00Z")
Inspired by the Romney thread. Is there any group or faction or sect or religion or race who you wouldn’t vote for just because of what they are? ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/2 "2011-06-11T16:23:51Z")
Scientologist. While most of the members seem nice enough, it’s really a cult and one that wants a lot of money from its members. So, I would think they would make poor choices and should not be allowed near the state’s/nation’s money. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/3 "2011-06-11T16:35:29Z")
Sure - Ralph Reed, David Duke, Mohammed Omar. Pretty much any religious politician. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/4 "2011-06-11T16:40:11Z")
Scientologist. Radical Islam. Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/5 "2011-06-11T16:49:14Z")
I don’t think I’d vote for a cannibal, regardless of what he/she had going for their platform. Likewise a convicted child-molestor or rapist. I can’t think of anything else that someone could do or be that would make them automatically someone I wouldn’t vote into office. I would be highly \*unlikely \*to vote for a Scientologist, but I can’t say that I would not vote for one based solely on that - if they could prove to satisfaction (past record) that it didn’t impact their decisions, then I would consider them. I do imagine that anyone who is a Scientologist would end up not meeting my desires for an elected offical for any number of reasons other than their religion. ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/6 "2011-06-11T17:07:39Z")
I wouldn’t vote for gays, fundies, Muslims, Catholics, Mormons, Presbyterians, former Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, Democrats, Rotary members, red heads, fat people, really skinny people, people with bad teeth, John Birch members, NRA members, Sierra Club members, people with tortoise shell glasses, women who wear leggings over their pants, PETA members, SDMB Charter Members, Ed Zotti, people who support Sarah Palin, Tea Party members, anyone who knows what “beltway” means, Wiccans, people with facial piercings, anyone driving a Subaru, anyone who has ever used the terms, _'google-fu_’ or _‘good on you’_, anyone taller than me, anyone who doesn’t think Mensa members are amazingly self-absorbed, anyone who wears a helmet and spandex for bicycle riding, anyone smarmy, anyone who watches the Lawrence O’Donnell show, anyone with a tattoo, emo people, former emo people, future emo people, Republicans, most cat owners, anyone who thought Hangover 1 was funny, smokers, blacks, women, Asians, bad drivers, anyone shorter than me, men who dye their hair, anyone who goes to Iowa or New Hampshire to whore for votes, anyone too “ethnic”, suicide bombers, Communists, Buddhists, and the clinically insane. That’s the short list. There may be more. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/7 "2011-06-11T17:26:07Z")
> [@raindog](#): > > I wouldn’t vote for gays, fundies, Muslims, Catholics, Mormons, Presbyterians, former Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, Democrats, Rotary members, red heads, fat people, really skinny people, people with bad teeth, John Birch members, NRA members, Sierra Club members, people with tortoise shell glasses, women who wear leggings over their pants, PETA members, SDMB Charter Members, Ed Zotti, people who support Sarah Palin, Tea Party members, anyone who knows what “beltway” means, Wiccans, people with facial piercings, anyone driving a Subaru, anyone who has ever used the terms, _'google-fu_’ or _‘good on you’_, anyone taller than me, anyone who doesn’t think Mensa members are amazingly self-absorbed, anyone who wears a helmet and spandex for bicycle riding, anyone smarmy, anyone who watches the Lawrence O’Donnell show, anyone with a tattoo, emo people, former emo people, future emo people, Republicans, most cat owners, anyone who thought Hangover 1 was funny, smokers, blacks, women, Asians, bad drivers, anyone shorter than me, men who dye their hair, anyone who goes to Iowa or New Hampshire to whore for votes, anyone too “ethnic”, suicide bombers, Communists, Buddhists, and the clinically insane. > > That’s the short list. There may be more. I guess you’re voting for _ **me** _! ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/8 "2011-06-11T17:35:38Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I guess you’re voting for _ **me** _! How sure can we be about the whole sanity issue? I mean, we’ve read your posts…😉 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/9 "2011-06-11T17:54:42Z")
> [@raindog](#): > > I wouldn’t vote for gays, fundies, Muslims, Catholics, Mormons, Presbyterians, former Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, Democrats, Rotary members, red heads, fat people, really skinny people, people with bad teeth, John Birch members, NRA members, Sierra Club members, people with tortoise shell glasses, women who wear leggings over their pants, PETA members, SDMB Charter Members, Ed Zotti, people who support Sarah Palin, Tea Party members, anyone who knows what “beltway” means, Wiccans, people with facial piercings, anyone driving a Subaru, anyone who has ever used the terms, _'google-fu_’ or _‘good on you’_, anyone taller than me, anyone who doesn’t think Mensa members are amazingly self-absorbed, anyone who wears a helmet and spandex for bicycle riding, anyone smarmy, anyone who watches the Lawrence O’Donnell show, anyone with a tattoo, emo people, former emo people, future emo people, Republicans, most cat owners, anyone who thought Hangover 1 was funny, smokers, blacks, women, Asians, bad drivers, anyone shorter than me, men who dye their hair, anyone who goes to Iowa or New Hampshire to whore for votes, anyone too “ethnic”, suicide bombers, Communists, Buddhists, and the clinically insane. > > That’s the short list. There may be more. HEY! :mad: I like _The Hangover._ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/10 "2011-06-11T18:40:29Z")
I would not vote for any member of the human race. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/11 "2011-06-11T18:46:24Z")
All I care about is policy positions. Resolve to stand by them and defend them also helps. As to private belief systems - eh - I don’t think you really want to look to deeply into anybody’s head. Nothing good can ever come from that. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/12 "2011-06-11T19:21:04Z")
Even if I agreed with her political views, I could not vote for a stupid bint who celebrates the fact that she’s aggressively ignorant of the world around her, and, gosh darn it, she’s just plain folks! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/13 "2011-06-11T19:31:32Z")
I won’t vote for anyone who’s devoutly religious. Regardless of religion, dogma has no place in politics. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/14 "2011-06-11T19:33:15Z")
I wouldn’t vote for either Kang _or_ Kodos. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/15 "2011-06-11T19:44:48Z")
A member of the KKK or any other hate group. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/16 "2011-06-11T20:08:10Z")
Politicians. Alas, irony wins again. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/17 "2011-06-11T20:49:54Z")
I wouldn’t vote for any politician that actually wants the job. Desiring to do, or actually doing, what it takes to be successful in politics should automatically disqualify any candidate for office. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/18 "2011-06-11T20:58:54Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I won’t vote for anyone who’s devoutly religious. Regardless of religion, dogma has no place in politics. This. Anyone who is any kind of “fundamentalist,” regardless of creed. I wouldn’t expect them to be able to think outside the box when necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/19 "2011-06-11T21:05:39Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > This. Anyone who is any kind of “fundamentalist,” regardless of creed. I wouldn’t expect them to be able to think outside the box when necessary. I would draw the line well short of fundamentalism. Even somewhat moderate religious folks seem to lack the ability to be pragmatic and tend to put the preaching of their “book” ahead of what’s right for their constituency. In most cases an adulterer or a tax cheat is apt to govern more practically than a “true believer”. ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120/20 "2011-06-11T23:16:59Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > I wouldn’t vote for either Kang _or_ Kodos. It’s a two party system! You _have_ to vote for one of them!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anybody-you-wouldnt-vote-for-just-because-of-what-they-are/585120.md?page=2)