# So tell me about John Bolton... **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 13, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967 "2015-05-13T20:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/21 "2015-05-15T01:27:32Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > We’d be better off with Ramsay Bolton. I’ll vote for him it if Cheney is Reek. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/22 "2015-05-15T01:37:47Z")
Including the scene of the junkectomy? Pics. Audio. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/23 "2015-05-15T02:26:04Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > That’s unfair to LeMay. You are absolutely correct. The same thought occurred to me today when I read that Bolton doesn’t have the balls to run. LeMay served in the U.S. military; Bolton is just another one of the Dubya-era War Wimps. My comparison was based on the one thing LeMay is remembered for, by the few of us who remember him for anything…the “Bomb 'em back to the Stone Age” quote. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/24 "2015-05-15T19:10:18Z")
But Ike, how would you compare their oral skills? ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/25 "2015-05-15T19:17:45Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > We’d be better off with Ramsay Bolton. We’d be better off with _Michael_ Bolton… ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/26 "2015-05-16T01:00:34Z")
I, for one, question the judgement of an adult male in 2015 who goes out in public looking like that. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/27 "2015-05-16T01:20:15Z")
You see a man walking down the street wearing that mustache? You know there’s a man’s not afraid of nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/28 "2015-05-16T03:02:04Z")
He forever ruined his chances of being President when he willingly associated himself with the UN. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/29 "2015-05-16T10:57:05Z")
It was my understanding that he went there with the intention of working toward its disbanding. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/30 "2015-05-19T18:36:17Z")
The man deserves some praise. I believe he chose not to run because he’s not delusional like most of the other right wing candidates. Ok, he IS delusional about some things, but not about how God wants him to run, or that he would stand even a miniscule chance of getting the nomination. My best guess is that he came to a rational decision – he didn’t run because he had no chance to win and he would be wasting his time. Good for him. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/31 "2015-05-19T19:36:22Z")
Even better for the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/32 "2015-05-19T19:40:31Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > He forever ruined his chances of being President when he willingly associated himself with the UN. I stayed in a hotel across from UNHQ. Does that mean I’m disqualified too? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/33 "2015-05-19T19:45:31Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > You see a man walking down the street wearing that mustache? You know there’s a man’s not afraid of nothing. I’m not afraid of nothing, but a lot of everything else makes me nervous. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/34 "2015-05-19T20:14:57Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Even better for the rest of us. I dunno, there was no danger of him winning and he might have been entertaining. Now my best hope for that is Ben Carson. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/35 "2015-05-20T00:16:46Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I stayed in a hotel across from UNHQ. Does that mean I’m disqualified too? Was it a Holiday Inn Express? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/36 "2015-05-21T02:19:27Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > **So tell me about John Bolton…** The Old Mustache of the Mountains is a figure from local legend. No one 'round these here parts is really sure if he’s still alive or died years ago or ever really existed. But every now and then, late at night, some guy comes into the tavern all panicky and demanding a stiff drink right away and swearing he’s seen John Bolton, just barely visible in the shadows, but big as life and twice as ugly, roaring obscenities and shredding a United Nations flag! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/37 "2015-05-21T23:34:32Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Was this the same aide who Bolton asked to dig up evidence of Cuban WMDs so Cuba could be added to the “Axis of Evil” nations? If so, Bolton’s screaming and pounding on the aide’s door was part of an epic temper tantrum that came about when the aide reported there was no evidence of any Cuban WMDs. Bull **shit** Cuba has no WMDs! You ever get a whiff of those cigars?! ---
**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, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/38 "2015-05-22T00:48:59Z")
> [@Stormcrow](#): > > We’d be better off with _Michael_ Bolton… Officially he’s still unsure and hasn’t started an exploratory committee. There’s some big GOP players trying to get him in the race because they think he’d do could in the middle age to older white female demographics. jk… I hope 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/39 "2015-05-22T08:42:38Z")
That Fabio guy, he’s Italian, right? So, not a citizen? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967/40 "2015-05-22T09:15:50Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Officially he’s still unsure and hasn’t started an exploratory committee. There’s some big GOP players trying to get him in the race because they think he’d do could in the middle age to older white female demographics.[/SIZE] That no-talent ass clown? He’d get us embroiled in unnecessary wars [fighting Somalian pirates](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY). > [@elucidator](#): > > That Fabio guy, he’s Italian, right? So, not a citizen? [He is a US citizen](http://www.fabioinc.com/Fabio_bio.html). But being naturalized, he can hold certain public offices but not President. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-tell-me-about-john-bolton/719967.md?page=3)