# What is "the Star Wars cantina"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618 "2015-04-14T04:43:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/21 "2015-04-14T20:28:54Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I am altering my campaign promises, pray I don’t alter them any further. I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/22 "2015-04-14T20:58:36Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > I’ve come across “clown car” more often than “Star Wars cantina”, but they both fit. They changed it because the clowns were insulted at being compared to Republican candidates. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/23 "2015-04-14T21:05:20Z")
I can feel your political ambitions **swelling** within you… ---
**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:** [April 14, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/24 "2015-04-14T21:57:46Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > I love you. I know. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/25 "2015-04-14T22:29:32Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I feel a disturbance in the Gallop Polls. Polls? Never tell me the odds! ---
**Author:** ![BenOliver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BenOliver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenOliver)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/26 "2015-04-14T22:42:40Z")
Kind of sad that Hillary will likely run, basically, uncontested. Though, I hear Bernie may throw his hat in the ring just for giggles. Just imagine for a second…Sanders vs Paul. There’s a presidential election to get excited about. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/27 "2015-04-14T22:55:03Z")
Bernie Sanders spoke in my town a few months ago. No way can he be POTUS; he’s too reasonable. At 74, I really think he’s too old to be elected for a first term as well. I kept a page from a Dave Barry calendar I had a couple years ago, and it’s tacked up on my bulletin board. It says: “The biggest problem I have with both major political parties is that they seem to be competing in some kind of giant national scavenger hunt every four years to see who can find the biggest goober to run for president.” :o ---
**Author:** ![BenOliver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BenOliver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenOliver)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618/28 "2015-04-14T23:04:18Z")
I think a case can be made that the thing is rigged by the DNC and RNC feilding candidates long before any primary ever takes place. By funding only those milquetoast politicians that toe the line when they’re senators and representatives… Remember when Rubio disappeared for a few months, then came back with a (mostly) full head if hair? Someone groomed him. Anyways, what a rat-race, huh? I do kind of like the conservative idea of less federal control over states …of letting states, and the politicians, locally selected, experiment to see what works for them. Of course, I say ‘conservative’ idea, but who were the politicians fighting to block DC from implementing their passed marijuana program?😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-star-wars-cantina/717618.md?page=1)