# Mostly dead Republicans playing poker makes a place at the table for Sarah Palin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612 "2012-04-22T18:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/41 "2012-04-23T22:02:24Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > That would explain why I don’t recognize him. 😉 Didn’t know he was a pipester, either. He picked up after his own dog, so he wasn’t a total ass. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/42 "2012-04-23T22:28:55Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Can anybody see what Palin’s hand is? I can’t get the thing to zoom in properly. [Zoidberg]Finally! I have a good claw…see: 3 human females, a number, and a king giving himself brain surgery.[/Zoidberg] Who would buy these? I mean, I guess a print would look good next to the velvet Elvis but that has to be a pretty limited market? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/43 "2012-04-23T22:33:37Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Who would buy these? [Disaffected college students.](http://www.despair.com) ---
**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:** [April 24, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/44 "2012-04-24T00:15:48Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > And where’s Cobain? I think he’s the guy in the yellow bandana to the left of Hendrix. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/45 "2012-04-24T00:17:14Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Teddy Roosevelt was also a member (and founder) of the… bum bum bum… Progressive Party! Is it just me, or does GWB look like Beavis in that picture? He has a prominent fivehead. And there’s no room at the table for Warren G. Harding? I don’t know about that, but Ike looks like his parents didn’t have enough branches in the family tree. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/46 "2012-04-24T00:28:44Z")
I have to say, in my own opinion, inviting Andrew Jackson to play pool is about a half-step above inviting the Joker. That wasn’t a political dig…I’d just be honestly afraid he’d kill someone. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/47 "2012-04-24T01:09:39Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Heck, they could have a table with Kennedy, Lincoln, McKinley, and Garfield playing cards. > > Call it _Tragic; the Gathering_. With Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan all standing behind them and openly mocking them for not being able to take a bullet like a man. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/48 "2012-04-24T01:13:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Nixon’s cheating. You can’t actually see any evidence of this in the painting. But come on, it’s Nixon. It looks like TR is taking an opportunity to look at Nixon’s hand, actually. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/49 "2012-04-24T01:23:45Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Teddy Roosevelt was also a member (and founder) of the… bum bum bum… Progressive Party! Is it just me, or does GWB look like Beavis in that picture? He has a prominent fivehead. And there’s no room at the table for Warren G. Harding? > > **Chronos** , [tineye.com](http://tineye.com) is my go-to site for that kind of question, but I’m not having any luck. I think you’re thinking of [McNaughton](http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/)? I can’t find it there with a few searches, either. And Palin’s God-given nomination was stolen by a socialist plot. Actually this guy’s paintings are a lot nicer than McNaughton’s, both thematically and artistically. I mean, yeah, they’re corny as heck. But they wouldn’t make me want to retch if I saw them hanging in someone’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/50 "2012-04-24T01:38:20Z")
What I want to know is, who invited _Nixon_? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/51 "2012-04-24T01:41:07Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Come to think of it though, why go to all the trouble of modifying a painting where Palin _isn’t_ at the table and have her sitting at the table, just to make the point that she doesn’t belong at the table? I think we’re missing a step here … a painting that includes Palin, but doesn’t have her holding her cards backwards. Ummm…off to the side, bringing in a tray of sandwiches? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/52 "2012-04-24T01:47:15Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I have to say, in my own opinion, inviting Andrew Jackson to play pool is about a half-step above inviting the Joker. > > That wasn’t a political dig…I’d just be honestly afraid he’d kill someone. Well, did you notice that in [the one where he’s joining a poker game](http://www.andythomas.com/detail.aspx?ID=42), there’s a pistol hanging from the back of his chair? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/53 "2012-04-24T02:42:48Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Actually this guy’s paintings are a lot nicer than McNaughton’s, both thematically and artistically. I mean, yeah, they’re corny as heck. But they wouldn’t make me want to retch if I saw them hanging in someone’s house. That and as far as I can tell Thomas is not a partisan hack/religious nutjob like McNaughton is. I mean, the Democrats version isn’t called “Demoncrats” and doesn’t have them personally aborting babies. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/54 "2012-04-24T03:25:17Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I have to say, in my own opinion, inviting Andrew Jackson to play pool is about a half-step above inviting the Joker. > > That wasn’t a political dig…I’d just be honestly afraid he’d kill someone. Y’know the way that one’s posed it looks like Jackson’s stunned to see who’s the new guy. (and like Thomas has trouble doing AJ’s face… both times he’s 3/4 from the back) And in the GOP pool game I get the odd vibe that Abe and Ron with those aw-shucks smiles are about to pull a major hustle. At least Dick got out of the suit (can anyone picture Nixon in their minds as anything other than all buttoned up?). ---
**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:** [April 24, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/55 "2012-04-24T04:03:26Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > And in the GOP pool game I get the odd vibe that Abe and Ron with those aw-shucks smiles are about to pull a major hustle. At least Dick got out of the suit (can anyone picture Nixon in their minds as anything other than all buttoned up?). [Yes](http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/02/03/business/0204-MAD_11.html) ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/56 "2012-04-24T15:34:21Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > . . . > > At least Dick got out of the suit (can anyone picture Nixon in their minds as anything other than all buttoned up?). Made me think of this one: [tnpv.net](http://us.tnpv.net/2006/NTA200602/NTA2006021563946_PV.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612/57 "2012-04-24T15:39:19Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos;14991949Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower were not the same party as Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes.[/QUOTE] Who was Eisenhower’s running mate and vice-president? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mostly-dead-republicans-playing-poker-makes-a-place-at-the-table-for-sarah-palin/619612.md?page=2)