# Which Dopers Would You Like To See Run For President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 18, 2013, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129 "2013-09-18T07:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/21 "2013-09-18T14:26:31Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > We should really have a Doper Cabinet thread. Secretary of Dinosaurs: **Colibri** ---
**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:** [September 18, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/22 "2013-09-18T15:04:29Z")
I meant \*actual \*cabinet posts. He could be Secretary of the Interior. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/23 "2013-09-18T15:07:41Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I vehemently categorically deny your implications and defer further questions to my staff. Thank you. So where do I send my check? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/24 "2013-09-18T16:16:52Z")
> [@Debaser](#): > > So where do I send my check? A staffer will contact you with a street-team member packet. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/25 "2013-09-18T16:59:53Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I meant \*actual \*cabinet posts. He could be Secretary of the Interior. Secretary of Dinosaurs is a much bigger position, responsible for everything from museum pieces to oil policy to wetland management (for birds). But if we only get current positions, then Interior it is. Who gets Ambassador to Sweden? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/26 "2013-09-18T18:27:44Z")
Can’t believe I left out kayaker and elucidator! Dammit! Probably a bunch of other good’ns too! I too am surprised to see the OP picking a bunch of liberal posters. Makes sense though since we have so few decent conservative posters around these parts. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/27 "2013-09-18T19:29:33Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > No votes for me? Sigh. You’d think a chocolate bar that could post messages would be highly praised. I’m afraid only natural-born United States citizens may serve as President. You, sir, are a German candy bar. I shall respectfully refrain from discussing certain well-known photographs showing you protruding from the jacket pockets of high-ranking Nazi and East German officials, of course. In any event, when the Constitution is amended to permit foreign-born candy bars to run for and serve as President, I shall be giving my support to **Toblerone**. That thing with the bear in the logo is so clever. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/28 "2013-09-18T19:48:59Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > In any event, when the Constitution is amended to permit foreign-born candy bars to run for and serve as President, I shall be giving my support to **Toblerone**. That thing with the bear in the logo is so clever. Whoa, I never saw that bear before. I wonder if it’s a female bear, and the logo is meant to attract male bears. Anyway, since I’m back in the thread, I’d also nominate **Ravenman**. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/29 "2013-09-18T22:17:32Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > snowboarder bo. > > Fuck yea! stupid smiley won’t work right so I’m putting in this secret decoder text! 😃 > [@ludovic](#): > > he could be a secretary. In charge of a very specialized niche of american activities. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/30 "2013-09-18T22:20:32Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > What about **elucidator**? Or should he just be a commentator? **'luci** could be the debate mod! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/31 "2013-09-18T23:46:35Z")
I nominate Curtis LeMay. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/32 "2013-09-19T00:38:29Z")
Not for President, but I could totally get behind Bricker as AG. Yeah, I don’t agree with him a lot of the time, but I think he’d be a stand-up guy in the spot and I’d trust him with our national law enforcement. ---
**Author:** ![SuperAbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@SuperAbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperAbe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/33 "2013-09-19T00:57:55Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > He could be a Secretary. In charge of a very specialized niche of American activities. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > stupid smiley won’t work right so I’m putting in this secret decoder text! > 😃 > > 😉 [Secretary of Keeping It Real](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Bart_to_the_Future/Quotes)? 😉 ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/34 "2013-09-19T01:05:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Aren’t they (except XT) all a bit liberal for you? I’ve noticed that your views have skewed way left of where they did when you arrived - which is perhaps unsurprising - but I didn’t realized you’d moved that far left. Or are you just saying you’d like to see them campaign? Its a bit of both-I’m quite liberal on certain issues (my views on economics are more or less identical with Dr. Krugman these days and I support a total end to the “War on Drugs”) but at the same time **BrainGlutton** and **Wesley Clark** remain to the left of me (isn’t **Little Nemo** a Rockefeller Republican tho’?). However as you said I’d still like to see them campaign for President, in order to bring issues and policy proposals to the fore that aren’t on the table right now. Even if they’re elected, I’d rather have a President to the left of me than to the right of me since the numerous checks and balances in the American government tend to encoruage the status quo. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/35 "2013-09-19T01:11:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Best presidential debate ever. They’d make a good anti-theist ticket. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/36 "2013-09-19T01:42:52Z")
I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve. (apologies to Will Sherman) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/37 "2013-09-19T02:24:09Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > (isn’t **Little Nemo** a Rockefeller Republican tho’?) Rocky was more pro-government spending than I am. And his drug policies were just wrong. But overall I can live with being called a Rockefeller Republican. Here’s my political platform: 1. Politics should be based on reality. I don’t care what works in theory if it turns out it doesn’t work in the real world. And politics shouldn’t be based on “spin” - say what you believe and explain why you believe it. 2. We should reduce the deficit. That means raising taxes and cutting spending - and at the moment I consider our tax level to be the greater problem. After we get the deficit down to a reasonable level (I personally would favor zero but I’m open to discussion) we can put tax reductions and increased spending back on the table. 3. I do not believe that the government is evil or incompetent. It’s a tool we use and when we use it right it’s a good tool for getting things down. Sometimes it’s the best tool for a job. 4. I have a hands-off attitude on social issues. Regardless of my personal opinions on things like drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling, pornography, birth control, abortion, gay marriage, and other issues like this I feel that individuals should be allowed to make up their own minds and live their own lives. People should not expect the government to impose their moral standards on others. 5. I believe in a social safety net. I think we should make sure that every person in this country has adequate food, clothing, shelter, education, and health care. I’m open on suggestions of how we achieve this but if it comes down to it, the government should pay for it if that’s what’s needed. 6. I believe America can and should be a force for good in the world. We can’t do everything but we shouldn’t do nothing. That includes the possible use of both foreign aid and military force. And I feel if we’re generally doing the right thing then other countries will follow our lead and join in our efforts. 7. I would increase avenues of legal immigration. This country has been build by welcoming people from other countries to become Americans. I see no reason to change what’s worked in the past. 8. I feel the government should take an active role in ensuring that all American enjoy equal rights and equal opportunities, not just in theory but in practice. 9. I feel that government regulation of businesses is needed both for a sound economy and for the good of society. Too much deregulation just encourages bad business practices. 10. I’d have the FCC open investigations on why Fox cancelled _Firefly_. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/38 "2013-09-19T03:14:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 1. I’d have the FCC open investigations on why Fox cancelled _Firefly_. If I’m elected, I will nominate you for head of the FCC so you can get to the bottom of this issue; I know you will leave no tern unstoned. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/39 "2013-09-19T04:06:13Z")
**Hellestal** , because I want to see a candidate call certain economists who sell their reputation for money “whores.” That was Hellestal, right? (Granted, this is a major, major selling point of a\*\* foolsguinea\*\* candidacy as well.) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129/40 "2013-09-19T04:13:53Z")
I would\* campaign\* for **Little Nemo.** Maybe we need a Dope campaign committee. Crap, board rules say no, I think. An unofficial Dope campaign advocacy cartel? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-would-you-like-to-see-run-for-president/669129.md?page=3)