# Thaddeus McCotter for POTUS... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 2, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665 "2011-07-02T22:50:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/1 "2011-07-02T22:50:58Z")
Really?!!?? I mean, REALLY!?!? :dubious: C’mon…C’MON. It makes “Santorum for President” seem downright lucid in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Al\_Bundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Al\_Bundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al_Bundy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/2 "2011-07-02T23:16:11Z")
He lost me when he sponsored the pet bill to give pet owners up to $3,500 deductions like they were kids. His thinking is just screwy. My sense is that he is padding his resume to show off to the grand kids someday. He has zero chance of winning a nomination. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/3 "2011-07-03T00:16:20Z")
Well, he is the maddest man to wear a skirt in Europe…oh, McCotter…never-mind. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/4 "2011-07-03T00:36:25Z")
Who???😕 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/5 "2011-07-03T00:40:32Z")
I’ve never heard of him either. Of course I was making a joke about [MacAdder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Blackadder#MacAdder_.28Regency_Scotland.29) ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/6 "2011-07-03T00:42:06Z")
[Thaddeus George “Thad” McCotter (born August 22, 1965) is the U.S. Representative to Michigan’s 11th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. On July 2, 2011, he announced he would run for the Republican nomination for president in the 2012 election.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_McCotter) …meh… never heard of him before. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/7 "2011-07-03T00:53:03Z")
He sounds like the antagonist from a Charles Dickens novel. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/8 "2011-07-03T01:28:06Z")
> [@Al\_Bundy](#): > > He lost me when he sponsored the pet bill to give pet owners up to $3,500 deductions like they were kids. His thinking is just screwy. My sense is that he is padding his resume to show off to the grand kids someday. He has zero chance of winning a nomination. Yes, exactly. There should be some way of preventing such “candidates” from running in the first place. They aren’t running to become President, they have purely selfish, often financial-minded motives behind their candidacies. Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/9 "2011-07-03T02:58:42Z")
How about Thaddeus Stevens? ---
**Author:** ![Tracyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/10 "2011-07-03T04:12:28Z")
I’ve never been a fan of McCotter, but [this](http://forbes.house.gov/UploadedFiles/National_Motto_Letter_to_President.pdf) letter pushed me over the edge. The amount of disrespect that it shows to atheists blows my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thaddeus-mccotter-for-potus/587665/11 "2011-07-04T20:10:26Z")
I live about 20 minutes from his district, and _I’d_ never heard of him either (until his announcement).