# Republican presidential candidate for 2008 announced! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811 "2005-10-05T00:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/1 "2005-10-05T00:41:52Z")
Hail to the [chief](http://www.cthulhu.org/)! ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/2 "2005-10-05T00:44:16Z")
If we vote for him, does that mean we get eaten first? Robin ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/3 "2005-10-05T00:56:21Z")
I do wish you’d read more carefully. The candidate states quite clearly that Cthulhu cultists will be eaten\* last\*. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/4 "2005-10-05T02:52:41Z")
He’s been running for years, but, even with the support of the _real_ fundamentalists, he’s always performed poorly in debates. However, the republican establishment doesn’t try to discourage him, since he can eat any candidate they’d rather not see get in. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/5 "2005-10-05T03:12:02Z")
I’ve seen Cthulhu sites before, but I doubt there’s ever been a better political slogan than “Why vote for the lesser of two evils?” Although I think I actually like the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu’s slogan better - they made Campus Crusade for Christ’s “I found it!” into “IT found me!” ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/6 "2005-10-05T06:27:48Z")
I hardly think Great Cthulhu is going to be a Republican. Yes, he’s evil, but there _are_ forms of evil that aren’t Republican. I’d guess Cthulhu’s attitudes towards most laws are fairly Libertarian; he doesn’t care to legislate anything. He’d rather just devour you. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/7 "2005-10-05T06:30:50Z")
> [@Sengkelat](#): > > I’d guess Cthulhu’s attitudes towards most laws are fairly Libertarian; he doesn’t care to legislate anything. He’d rather just devour you. So you’re saying he thinks of our flesh as a free market? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/8 "2005-10-05T20:00:19Z")
> [@Sengkelat](#): > > I hardly think Great Cthulhu is going to be a Republican. My Ouiji Board tells me that it had considered taking the Libertarian ticket initially, then impulsively decided against that in favor of randomly assailing all voters with nightmarishly chaotic distortions of local reality. At the last minute it decided to associate itself with a legitemate political party, the obvious choice being the Republican party so as to appoint Dick Cheney as a running mate. Irrespective of the actual election I expect it will just accept victory and continue the campaign of agonizingly random acts of violence which was the hallmark of the previous administration. It has some pretty big boots to fill. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008-announced/324811/9 "2005-10-05T20:05:15Z")
Aw, crap, we’re the country that gets screwed first. Should I, for one, start welcoming our new tentacled overlords?