# Some people will vote for anything as long as it calls itself Republican **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-will-vote-for-anything-as-long-as-it-calls-itself-republican/924864 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Created:** [November 5, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-will-vote-for-anything-as-long-as-it-calls-itself-republican/924864 "2020-11-05T22:54:13Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 11
### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy) #### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-will-vote-for-anything-as-long-as-it-calls-itself-republican/924864/11 "2020-11-06T14:42:13Z")
Cawthorn has been brought up in several recent threads: > [@U.S. Senate races 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-senate-races-2020/852876/580): > > “Run Forest Run” is one of the dumber campaign slogans I’ve ever encountered. Meanwhile, Madison Cawthorn, the candidate for my district, is very likely to win, even though he’s been publicly disavowed by over 150 of his fellow students at a conservative Christian college, because he was sexually aggressive (possibly criminally so), and a complete fraud. Goddamn, rural WNC! > [@I don't understand what voters Trump could've picked up between 2016 and 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-what-voters-trump-couldve-picked-up-between-2016-and-2020/924722/106): > > I think you’re missing a “not” in there. But I see what you’re getting at and I’m glad you responded. As fellow Canadians with more than a mere passing interest in American elections, perhaps we can show these people how to achieve comity to become a kinder nation, like Canada. wink So the left stops calling the right “garbage”. What advice shall we give the right given this recent instance?: I’m not using this as gotcha. I’m using this to illustrate that neutral ground is hard to fin… > [@NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/911140/681): > > Up and coming young Republican candidate Madison Cawthorn made a speech at the convention where he said, “George Washington was 21 when he received his first military commission. Abe Lincoln — 22 when he first ran for office. And my personal favorite, James Madison was just 25 years old when he signed the Declaration of Independence.”. Wahshington was 20. Lincoln was 23. Madison didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence. Cawthorn also had to remove a photo from his social media of his visi… > [@Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/43): > > So, an interesting experience today: I was working the polls with my teacher endorsement cards, and next to me were two college classmates of our Republican Congressional candidate, passing out flyers against him. Madison Cawthorn went to a small, conservative Christian college for a semester, where he was [loathed](https://www.thewrap.com/johnny-depp-loses-uk-libel-suit-wife-beater-claim-called-substantially-true/). One of his classmates told me that her friend was sexually assaulted by Cawthorn in his truck, and that in a history class, he declared, “If I had been a slave-owner and my slaves ha… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-will-vote-for-anything-as-long-as-it-calls-itself-republican/924864)._