# Todd Young running for Senate "Queer politicians have to go." **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019 "2016-04-03T02:17:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/21 "2016-04-04T03:20:56Z")
If you turn on closed captions on that YouTube video it says “career”. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/22 "2016-04-04T13:33:27Z")
The spirit of Emily Litella lives on. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/23 "2016-04-04T13:43:47Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > The spirit of Emily Litella lives on. 😃 Normally I’d automatically assume he was saying “career” but after Rob Morrow we can’t really be blamed for thinking otherwise… ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/24 "2016-04-04T15:26:02Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Now, you can smear him for being homophobic, even if he isn’t. Yay 21st century! The OP was hilariously wrong. However, it looks like [Young was rated 30% by the Human Rights Campaign, and 0% by HRC on marriage issues](https://votesmart.org/candidate/120345/todd-young?categoryId=76&type=V,S,R,E,F,P#.VwKHNZwrKCg). I don’t know that’s enough to call him homophobic, but what little I could find suggests he’s not flying the rainbow flag high, either. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/25 "2016-04-04T16:00:29Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > [url=[Vote Smart - Facts For All](https://votesmart.org/candidate/120345/todd-young?categoryId=76&type=V,S,R,E,F,P#.VwKHNZwrKCg)] This site is retarded. “Todd Young was rated 30% by Human Rights Campaign (Positions)” “Todd Young was rated 0% by Human Rights Campaign (Positions)” Well, which is it retard? Make up your mind. Get your shit together liberals. Get it all together and put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it’s together. And if you got to take it somewhere, take it somewhere, you know? Take it to the shit store and sell it, or put it in a shit museum, I don’t care what you do. You just got to get it together. Get your shit together liberals. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/26 "2016-04-04T16:43:57Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > This site is retarded. > > “Todd Young was rated 30% by Human Rights Campaign (Positions)” > > “Todd Young was rated 0% by Human Rights Campaign (Positions)” > > Well, which is it retard? Make up your mind. > > Get your shit together liberals. Get it all together and put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it’s together. And if you got to take it somewhere, take it somewhere, you know? Take it to the shit store and sell it, or put it in a shit museum, I don’t care what you do. You just got to get it together. Get your shit together liberals. It’s so hard to tell when you think you’re making a point, and when you think you’re being a satirist. Are you serious in your complaint? Do you understand that blue text on a website is usually clickable? Did you try clicking on those two statements to see if, say, one of them was a ranking from 2011-2012, and the other was a ranking from 2013-2014? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/27 "2016-04-04T17:20:33Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It’s so hard to tell when you think you’re making a point, and when you think you’re being a satirist. Are you serious in your complaint? Do you understand that blue text on a website is usually clickable? Did you try clicking on those two statements to see if, say, one of them was a ranking from 2011-2012, and the other was a ranking from 2013-2014? You’re wasting your time. He’s drunk most of the time. It’s right there in his name. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/28 "2016-04-04T18:26:12Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Did you try clicking on those two statements I don’t have a mouse, so, no. [You gotta get schwifty.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ctK1aoWuqY) ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/29 "2016-04-04T21:28:52Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > “Career politicians have to go” isn’t much better. Crafting the nation’s (or the state’s) laws is really not a job for amateurs. Especially when the lobbying groups get to use career schmoozers. Yeah, because the ‘experts’ have done such a great job. Slee ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/30 "2016-04-04T22:17:40Z")
I hear “queer policemen” … ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/31 "2016-04-04T23:43:59Z")
> [@sleestak](#): > > Yeah, because the ‘experts’ have done such a great job. Here are some [highlights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Young) from the career of Todd Young, who opposes career politicians. He attended the Naval Academy “where his classmates elected him a class officer. … He graduated cum laude in 1995, earning a B.S. in Political Science.” While studying in the United Kingdom, “As class president, Young regularly advised IUSS’s Chairman, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on student concerns. … in 2001 Young received his MA in American politics.” After becoming a lawyer, “… helping state and local government clients improve service delivery to Indiana citizens.” “Young was a Delegate to the Indiana Republican State Convention and as a Vice Precinct Committeeman. In 2007, Indiana’s Young Republicans named Young the “Southern Man of the Year” for his leadership on behalf of the Republican Party in southern Indiana.” In 2010, 2012, and 2014, he has been elected to the House of Representatives. Tell me, please, what makes you think that this man who is running against career politicians is not one himself? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/32 "2016-04-05T02:53:20Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Maybe he’s incapable of pronouncing the letter “R”, like Elmer Fudd. “People say rape isn’t funny! Fuck that, I think it’s hilarious! I’ll prove it! Imagine Elmer Fudd raping Porky Pig!” – George Carlin Rather picture that than anything involving Todd Young, anyway. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/33 "2016-04-05T15:04:16Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Here are some [highlights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Young) from the career of Todd Young, who opposes career politicians. Weirdly, not a single thing in his pre-house career is cited. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/34 "2016-04-05T22:36:29Z")
I know two people who graduated from Annapolis. Sadly BOTH are the kind who’d slur words to sound like one thing while having back-up cover to “prove” they said something else. Get rid of career politicians? I’d rather see us get ALL Military Academy Graduates out of civilian political government first. > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > So do we all. But the Republicans have helpful opinions on which restroom they should use. True, and they’re also the ones who test the maximum tensile strength of modern ceramic engineering without ever lighting a single match. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/35 "2016-04-06T07:16:43Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > It sounds like he’s probably nuts > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > He’s definitely nuts. What exactly did he say that makes him “nuts”? The best the left can do when they disagree with someones positions on issues is resort to name calling? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/36 "2016-04-06T08:44:38Z")
How many out politicians are there in America anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/37 "2016-04-06T09:02:00Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > What exactly did he say that makes him “nuts”? > > The best the left can do when they disagree with someones positions on issues is resort to name calling? Well, we don’t have multiple media outlets to do it for us. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/38 "2016-04-08T17:11:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Maybe he’s incapable of pronouncing the letter “R”, like Elmer Fudd. Next he’ll be trying to rid of us of all the cwazy wabbits 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019/39 "2016-04-08T17:14:47Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > How many out politicians are there in America anyway? … misread the question. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todd-young-running-for-senate-queer-politicians-have-to-go/751019.md?page=1)