# Rosie O'Donnell for President **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 14, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362 "2016-06-14T18:21:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/1 "2016-06-14T18:21:46Z")
I was musing, for fun’s sake, about who or what a liberal counterpart to Trump would be like, and the only person I could think of was: Rosie O’Donnell for President. Big, loudmouthed white Caucasian person who is outspoken in left-wing views and is considered a joke; only thing she is missing is a billion dollars. Yes, she’s wealthy but not Trump wealthy, IIRC. Oprah Winfrey for President didn’t seem the same, she’s not considered extreme although the idea of her being president would be considered a celebrity stunt just like how Trump was considered to be running for president as a publicity stunt. Michael Moore for President wasn’t the same thing. He’s more of a pundit than a celebrity type. It would be akin to Ann Coulter running for President. Any other hypothetical candidates? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/2 "2016-06-14T18:52:00Z")
Keith Olberman – a blast from the past. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/3 "2016-06-14T18:54:06Z")
Oh yeah, and Sean Penn, with Alec Baldwin as a running mate. Actually, any of the liberal puppets in _Team America, World Police_ would be pretty good. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/4 "2016-06-14T19:08:27Z")
Al Sharpton Barbra Streisand ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/5 "2016-06-14T19:16:18Z")
Trouble is, all these libs can talk intelligently about issues. You need to find a loudmouthed lib with zero intelligence. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/6 "2016-06-14T19:39:10Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Trouble is, all these libs can talk intelligently about issues. You need to find a loudmouthed lib with zero intelligence. You think Rosie O’Donnell can? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/7 "2016-06-14T19:46:34Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I was musing, for fun’s sake, about who or what a liberal counterpart to Trump would be like, and the only person I could think of was: > > Rosie O’Donnell for President. > Big, loudmouthed white Caucasian person who is outspoken in left-wing views and is considered a joke; only thing she is missing is a billion dollars. Yes, she’s wealthy but not Trump wealthy, IIRC. Except that even Donald Trump isn’t Trump wealthy. (IOW, he exaggerates his net worth by orders of magnitude.) ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/8 "2016-06-14T20:02:32Z")
I misread the title and thought “I thought Roseanne already ran for President”. > **[Peace and Freedom Party](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_and_Freedom_Party)** > > The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a left-wing political party with affiliates and former members in more than a dozen American states, including California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana and Utah, but none now have ballot status besides California. Its first candidates appeared on the 1966 New York ballot. The Peace and Freedom Party of California was organized in early 1967, gathering over 103,000 registrants which qualified its ballot status in January 1968 under the California Secre Th... ---
**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:** [June 14, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/9 "2016-06-14T21:09:30Z")
Rosie O’Donnell is one of the few Democratic candidates who would cause me to look seriously at the Republican. She’s actively hostile to education, and that’s something I cannot forgive. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/10 "2016-06-15T00:55:01Z")
Yeah, but how about Rosie vs the Donald? Now that would make me look seriously at the Libertarians… ---
**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:** [June 15, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/11 "2016-06-15T02:01:16Z")
Would a Trapper-Keeper be her VP? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rosie-odonnell-for-president/757362/12 "2016-06-15T18:40:32Z")
Alan Grayson already exists. Ultra rich, obnoxious, an extremist, ethical issues galore, says whatever pops into his head. And his own party would just as soon get rid of him.