# Please explain Lauren Boebert **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 15, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163 "2023-09-15T14:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/281 "2024-02-07T02:53:36Z")
Recent colorado sun editorial cartoon. BURN! > **[Jim Morrissey: How to explain Lauren Boebert's straw poll finish?](https://coloradosun.com/2024/02/02/jim-morrissey-lauren-boebert-straw-poll-finish/)** > > The cartoonist imagines one possible explanation that mirrors her beliefs about the 2020 presidential election. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/282 "2024-02-07T03:21:31Z")
There would be no point in eliding “jock”. It implies the missing word is NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/283 "2024-02-07T04:23:30Z")
I too would vote for a dead raccoon or a pile of bricks ahead of Lauren Boebert. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/284 "2024-02-07T11:30:39Z")
But is it a progressive dead raccoon? ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/285 "2024-02-07T14:35:12Z")
I would vote for a pile of dead racoons first. Stacked on bricks. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/286 "2024-02-07T14:39:35Z")
It’s dead. It no longer has any political views of any sort. It will not cast any votes, or, being dead, do anything whatsoever. As such, it would represent a vast improvement over Lauren Boebert. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/287 "2024-02-07T15:15:03Z")
How big a problem can Jayson be? Doesn’t she have the right to protect herself? Isn’t that why she so proudly carries 24/7? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/288 "2024-02-07T15:26:29Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Isn’t that why she so proudly carries 24/7? But what about him. Laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers are ineffective at the federal level and inconsistent at the state level. And I am 100% certain which way Boebert would have voted on any legislation designed to restrict gun ownership in any way. > **[Domestic Violence Offenders Abusers Frequently Get to Keep Their Guns. Here...](https://www.thetrace.org/2015/10/domestic-abuse-guns-boyfriend-loophole/)** > > Federal law bars convicted batterers from buying firearms, but often little is done to separate them from any they already own. > Ten states mandate domestic violence misdemeanants hand over their guns, while 15 states require subjects of domestic violence restraining orders to do so. (Similar [federal legislation](https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2676) was introduced in 2014 but did not pass.) So I’m going to reserve most of the concern I have in her situation for her kids. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/289 "2024-02-07T15:36:52Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers are ineffective at the federal level and inconsistent at the state level. Of note: there is a [red flag law](https://www.cpr.org/2022/11/22/how-colorados-red-flag-law-works-and-how-it-compares-to-other-states/) in Colorado. Question I gotta ask. Boebert is a victim of domestic violence and is moving to a different region of the state (away from that abusive environment?) Is the timing of all of this now a coincidence or political strategy? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/290 "2024-02-07T16:29:01Z")
I’m kinda curious what Bobo will do once she’s voted out. She’s not blonde, or glib, enough to be on Fox. It’s been half jokingly suggested she could go back to being an escort, but she is rapidly reaching the end of her shelf life. Restaurateur it is! ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/291 "2024-02-07T16:34:44Z")
Real estate broker for properties with less than 3 bathrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/292 "2024-02-07T16:47:29Z")
You make a good point. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/293 "2024-02-07T16:54:09Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > So I’m going to reserve most of the concern I have in her situation for her kids. Somehow, I don’t see either one of them being a good parent. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/294 "2024-02-07T17:09:53Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Boebert is a victim of domestic violence and is moving to a different region of the state (away from that abusive environment?) Is she moving? She doesn’t have to change her place of residence to the new district she’s running in, though she’d probably lose a few anit-carpetbagger votes without moving. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/295 "2024-02-07T17:13:47Z")
She should just drag a shitty broken down trailer to an empty lot in her new district and squat in that for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/296 "2024-02-07T17:57:47Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Is she moving? She doesn’t have to change her place of residence to the new district she’s running in, I heard she was but maybe they meant moving districts for election which would be a weird way of phrasing it. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/297 "2024-02-07T18:46:14Z")
What’s Sarah Palin doing these days? Boebert seems to be cut from more or less the same mold. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/298 "2024-02-07T18:57:52Z")
Has anyone ever actually seen them in the same place? Hmmm … ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/299 "2024-02-07T19:33:59Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > cut from more or less the same mold. Nitpick: Mould. I know, I know, but in _this case_ it seems more correct. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/300 "2024-02-07T19:50:30Z")
Unless it’s mold (and maggots) growing on and in a dead raccoon! Okay, that was childish, but had to get it out of my system. Personally, and back to our topic, is that Boebert’s appeal to her MAGA constituents is that she’s one of THEM. Rough, ready, violent, unwilling to censor herself. See our thread about “pick-me” girls for additional examples of a similar profile. So “petty” crimes that are just “boys having fun”? Check. Carrying so she can threaten others, because she’s “just standing up for herself?” Having baudy relations with her man at a public event? All part of the same phenomenon. I can -understand- it, barely, but not appreciate it in any way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163.md?page=16)