# Which Republican, other than Trump, do you want to lose next year? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099 "2019-11-06T23:35:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/41 "2019-11-08T20:35:02Z")
Louie Gohmert. Because he’s a drooling idiot. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/42 "2019-11-08T21:22:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > So it’s all good. > So yes. Graham should go. Moscow Mitch as well. I"d like to see them lose bigly. Hey, if we can name more than one, it’s all. 🙂 I’m torn between Mitch and my own Tom Cotton, but wanting Cotton is personal, so I’ll go for Mitch. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/43 "2019-11-08T21:52:21Z")
Channeling my inner Mike Tyson, if we don’t defeat Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham, it doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/44 "2019-11-09T18:57:58Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Which one should lose??? ALL of them. Every last Trump enabling toadying lying traitor one of them. This. _GOP delenda est_. This nation will not be healthy until the Republican Party is destroyed and the earth salted where it once stood. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/45 "2019-11-09T19:53:43Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > This. _GOP delenda est_. This nation will not be healthy until the Republican Party is destroyed and the earth salted where it once stood. Or just get some folks running it who are familiar with the term, “Party of Lincoln”. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/46 "2019-11-09T23:21:55Z")
All the above are great choices and bigger hopes for me but one annoying one not mentioned is Marco Rubio (not sure if he’s up in 2020, but I’ll put him in contention for his next election). He’s not horrifically bad, but just so cowardly and weak. He’s embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/47 "2019-11-10T01:52:09Z")
Jordan, OH ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/48 "2019-11-10T01:59:47Z")
Strtaegically - McConnell. Personally - close between McConnell and Graham, but I edge toward the latter. McConnell never had a soul. Graham sold his. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/49 "2019-11-10T02:00:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Or just get some folks running it who are familiar with the term, “Party of Lincoln”. A bit late for that. They made their choice back in 1968 (Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”), and have stuck with it for the half-century since. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/50 "2019-11-10T02:17:59Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > The #1 choice has got to be Moscow Mitch. I’d like to see all the idiots who “believe in Trump” gone, but especially the guy in the quote. What are the chances the Democrats get the Senate, though? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/51 "2019-11-10T02:55:10Z")
If my congressman, Tim Burchett, got knocked off I would be thrilled. Lamar Alexander isn’t running for his seat and the R frontrunner right now seems to be Bill Hagerty. Hagerty is super Trumpy and currently enjoys the ambassadorship to Japan as a result. I’m waiting for someone worse like Diane Black or Scott Desjarlais to go for it. Unfortunately we don’t have a lot of strong Dem candidates for statewide office and, even when we do like Bredesen in 2018, they get stomped. Sigh. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/52 "2019-11-10T03:27:01Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Besides the above mentioned, Jim Jordan and Thom Tillis. Mark Meadows would be nice too. AFAIK, though, Tillis is the only real possibility. Meadows represents the district I was gerrymandered into. This district used to be fairly competitive, and we were represented by a moderate/conservative Democrat as recently as 2013. With the court’s ruling that NC should probably maybe de-gerrymander its congressional districts, the district could become competitive again, and that could endanger Meadows. Make no mistake: it’s a long shot. But in 2020 we shoot for the moon. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/53 "2019-11-10T03:32:05Z")
If both Trump and Mitch McConnell got deposed next year, my earthly prayers would be answered and I would have no remaining task but to prepare my body for oblivion. That seems pretty obvious, so I’d like to add that I would enjoy seeing Matt Gaetz get eaten by a giant sandworm. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/54 "2019-11-10T03:36:19Z")
I don’t think elections alone matter anymore. We’re in a battle for the soul and the identity of the nation. I’ve tried to explain and educate, but I understand that this is too complex. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/55 "2019-11-10T03:54:26Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I don’t think elections alone matter anymore. We’re in a battle for the soul and the identity of the nation. > > I’ve tried to explain and educate, but I understand that this is too complex. Yes: when everyone disagrees with you, the problem is almost certainly that you’re too brilliant for everyone. Your pearls are wasted before us swine. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/56 "2019-11-10T05:21:44Z")
> [@Kimera757](#): > > I’d like to see all the idiots who “believe in Trump” gone, but especially the guy in the quote. > > What are the chances the Democrats get the Senate, though? 32%. [https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/4353/What-will-be-the-balance-of-power-in-Congress-after-the-2020-election](https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/4353/What-will-be-the-balance-of-power-in-Congress-after-the-2020-election) ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/57 "2019-11-10T05:24:40Z")
_oink_ ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/58 "2019-11-10T05:58:12Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Louie Gohmert. Because he’s a drooling idiot. “How’s somebody get a REBATE when they didnt put no BAIT in?” 😆 > [@asahi](#): > > I don’t think elections alone matter anymore. We’re in a battle for the soul and the identity of the nation… Juuust whateryou sugesstin mister? 👮 ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/59 "2019-11-11T18:13:45Z")
Since no one has mention ed him yet… Colorado Senator Cory Gardner. He is, I think, the easiest D senate pick up. If we don’t knock him off, we’re fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099/60 "2019-11-19T16:43:46Z")
Mitch is obviously first in line behind Trump, but after listening to today’s testimony, Nunes is a very close third. If anyone ever deserved a swift kick in the nuts its him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-republican-other-than-trump-do-you-want-to-lose-next-year/843099.md?page=4)