# Michael Moore **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 21, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181 "2017-05-21T23:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CHealy7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CHealy7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CHealy7)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/1 "2017-05-21T23:25:49Z")
Am I alone in thinking this man is in the catbird seat for the 2020 Democratic nomination? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/2 "2017-05-21T23:27:49Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > Am I alone in thinking this man is in the catbird seat for the 2020 Democratic nomination? Yes. That would be Corey Booker, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/3 "2017-05-21T23:40:38Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > Am I alone in thinking this man is in the catbird seat for the 2020 Democratic nomination? I certainly hope so. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/4 "2017-05-22T00:09:16Z")
I’d like to think the electorate has learned a lesson about electing someone who is wildly inexperienced and completely unprepared for the duties of the office. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/5 "2017-05-22T00:18:05Z")
Yes, I believe you are. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/6 "2017-05-22T00:24:12Z")
The Republicans believe it’s going to be Booker. I’m already hearing “queer smear” talk about him. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/7 "2017-05-22T00:28:40Z")
While I do like the overall message from movies like Sicko, I do not keep him in high regard. I had use him however as an example of how gone the right wing is when I noticed that on FOX when guys like Hannity or O’Reilly got sick they were replaced for a few days with guys like Newt Gingrich, Huckabee or even freaking Chuck Norris. Nothing balanced at all, Fox was/is indeed a place where right wing ideas are the norm. And even more conservative when substitutes were needed. In the so called liberal media when replacements were needed we got… Some upcoming reporter that no one has any idea of what he or she believes. If the idea the right has of what the left wing media was correct then a sight like this would had taken place already: “Substituting Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room on CNN tonight: Michael Moore!!..” But that ain’t gonna happen, even if I would think that would be actually fair and the sight of many right wingers crapping in their pants would make that trolling worthy. Nah, I still think that most of the media is centrist or left of center. And so it goes for Michael Moore in Relation to the Democrats, not gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/8 "2017-05-22T00:39:09Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > The Republicans believe it’s going to be Booker. I’m already hearing “queer smear” talk about him. They have good reason to attempt to smear him. Dude is seriously a legit modern American hero in every way. I could think of no job easier than being his PR person. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/9 "2017-05-22T00:45:24Z")
Republicans think about Moore a heck of a lot more than Democrats do. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/10 "2017-05-22T00:49:15Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > They have good reason to attempt to smear him. Dude is seriously a legit modern American hero in every way. I could think of no job easier than being his PR person. I know very little about Booker. I just skimmed his Wikipedia page. Guy lived in a troubled housing project while he was mayor of Newark. Holy cow. Also he’s a vegan. And he refuses to answer questions about his sexual orientation on principle. Seems like a cool dude. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/11 "2017-05-22T00:53:53Z")
I brought up Booker in a thread about the last election long before the candidate list was “set”. I was a little surprised nobody bit at that…maybe it was one election early for anyone to think he was interesting. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/12 "2017-05-22T00:58:44Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I know very little about Booker. I just skimmed his Wikipedia page. Guy lived in a troubled housing project while he was mayor of Newark. Holy cow. Also he’s a vegan. And he refuses to answer questions about his sexual orientation on principle. Seems like a cool dude. Yup, Rhodes Scholar who lived in the ghetto while fighting the gangs and survived an assassination plot by the Bloods for his efforts. And that’s just the beginning of a long list of such deeds. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/13 "2017-05-22T01:14:00Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Yup, Rhodes Scholar who lived in the ghetto while fighting the gangs and survived an assassination plot by the Bloods for his efforts. And that’s just the beginning of a long list of such deeds. In other words, “he thinks he’s better than us!!” Seriously, I’ll have to read about him. Highly educated, youngish guy who has spent his life in public service. That worked out pretty well last time we tried it. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/14 "2017-05-22T01:27:23Z")
Michael Moore would be even less electable than Trump, and that’s saying something. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/15 "2017-05-22T01:45:10Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Michael Moore would be even less electable than Trump, and that’s saying something. Has Moore ever even expressed the slightest interest in the position? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/16 "2017-05-22T01:56:45Z")
For as long as this thread remains active and in _Elections_, in an effort to actually keep the thread forum-relevant, I intend to continually change the subject to Cory Booker. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/17 "2017-05-22T02:02:05Z")
I dislike Michael Moore for a variety of reasons, but I think he has pretty decent political instincts. He’s worth paying attention to, if not worth respecting for his virtues. No way he runs. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/18 "2017-05-22T02:47:56Z")
With the exception of Al Sharpton, I can’t imagine any possible Democratic candidate who would be worse than Moore. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/19 "2017-05-22T03:00:54Z")
I think Zach Galifianakis said it best when he he asked Obama: “What is it like to be the last black president?” ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181/20 "2017-05-22T03:30:52Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > The Republicans believe it’s going to be Booker. I’m already hearing “queer smear” talk about him. Booker lost some credibility from progressives due to his vote against allowing importation of pharmaceuticals from Canada. Seeing how progressives are a major force in the democratic primary (probably 1/3-1/2 of voters) that will cause him some problems. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore/787181.md?page=2)