# Louie Gohmert is a walking cliche. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 31, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679 "2011-03-31T20:16:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/1 "2011-03-31T20:16:43Z")
Honestly the guy’s last name sounds like a knockoff of Gomer. And he shares his first name with the orangutan from the Jungle Book. If you were writing a novel and needed a name for a character who was a rube southern politician, you’d reject Louie Gohmert outright as sounding way too cliche. Anyway here’s his latest episode of idiocy: [http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gohmert-libya-attacks-are-false-flag-for-obama-to-call-up-private-army-created-by-health-care-law.php#more](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gohmert-libya-attacks-are-false-flag-for-obama-to-call-up-private-army-created-by-health-care-law.php#more) From his floor speech Wednesday: > [@](#): > > But then when you find out we’re being sent to Libya to use our treasure and American lives there, maybe there’s intention to so deplete the military that we’re going to need that presidential reserve officer commissioned corps and non-commissioned corps that the president can call up on a moment’s notice involuntarily, according to the Obamacare bill. I should also add that I think it’s hilarious that his name is close to Gomer without actually being Gomer, as it makes it that much funnier when somebody slips up and calls him Gomer. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/2 "2011-03-31T20:36:08Z")
He also looks like a skinny Homer Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/3 "2011-03-31T22:56:42Z")
I’m always amazed at his antics. I also find it hard to believe he’s as stupid as he appears, as he’s in his fourth term. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/4 "2011-03-31T23:22:23Z")
Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/5 "2011-04-02T02:22:44Z")
He may be an idiot, but what do you call someone who makes fun of a name? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/6 "2011-04-02T04:12:09Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > He may be an idiot, but what do you call someone who makes fun of a name? Well, when you’re a proven dumbass and your name sounds like Gomer, it’s kind of hard not to make fun of it. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/7 "2011-04-02T11:43:07Z")
I’m just amazed he was smart enough to vote against HR 1255. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louie-gohmert-is-a-walking-cliche/576679/8 "2011-04-02T17:17:36Z")
That’s not the birth certificate one. That’s the Presidential privilege one.