# Who are the least plausible fictional Presidents? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858 "2013-12-08T23:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/81 "2013-12-11T22:24:00Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I didn’t know she won any primaries. Thanks for the info. Jeez, how does Herman Cain fit in as a “serious” candidate? Well, she never had a realistic chance of winning the nomination, and I’m sure she KNEW that. But she was running to make history and to make a point, and in that regard, she succeeded. In a fairly crowded field (George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, John Lindsay, George Wallace, and that’s just off the top of my head), she won 3 states with large black populations. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/82 "2013-12-12T00:13:32Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > If you don’t count comedies, then I can’t mention Chris Rock. His run at the presidency was so awful that most people have forgotten it ever happened. I didn’t. I was permanently scarred because I was working for a mystery shopping company that made me count audience members in movies and I had to go to _every single screening for an entire weekend._ It was horrible. The flashbacks . . . _shudder._ How about Vermin Supreme? > **[Vermin Supreme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme)** > > Vermin Love Supreme (born June 1, 1961) is an American performance artist and activist who has run as a novelty candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. He served as a member of the Libertarian Party's judicial committee.\[excessive citations\] Supreme is known for wearing a boot as a hat and carrying a comically large toothbrush, and has said that if elected President of the United States, he will pass a law requiring people to brush their In 2011, he par... ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/83 "2013-12-12T01:17:30Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > I never liked the basic premise of **Commander in Chief** ; not that a woman became president, but that any major party candidate would choose an Independent as a running mate. Why didn’t just make Mackenzie Allen a liberal Republican and have her resign from the party after (or shortly before) becoming President? In fairness, IIRC she’d won the Nobel Prize when getting tapped as a running mate; by contrast, wasn’t the idea in **The Dead Zone** that third-party candidate Greg Stillson would get elected President with a job history ranging from “traveling salesman” over to “old-timey rainmaker” before he ineptly sparks nuclear apocalypse? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/84 "2013-12-12T02:23:47Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Holy crap! If that had happened in real life, probably 90% of the public would assume it was a conspiracy. Meh. That’s half an episode of _Scandal_. Which reminds me: Fitz Grant is all too plausible. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/85 "2013-12-12T05:02:59Z")
I guess nobody saw _Machete Kills_. Stuff launched out the nose at the phone call… ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/86 "2013-12-12T05:44:38Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > **If you leave out comedies, though** , wherein it’s acceptable for the President to be a joke, and just go with Presidents who are seriously but ill cast, who would it be? Well, to repeat: > [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > That reminds me of the talking gorilla who was President in _The Probability Broach_. _The Probability Broach_ isn’t a comedy. Well, it isn’t _intentionally_ a comedy; it’s basically a sci-fi political tract about how wonderful a society run along libertarian lines would be. Including how libertarianism leads to gorillas and chimps being given equal rights, gadgets that let them talk, and eventually a gorilla President. And electrically heated highways, I don’t know why that detail has stuck in my head all these years… [Looking it up](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Confederacy#References) I see that the gorilla was named Olongo Featherstone-Haugh. > [@Diceman](#): > > Holy crap! If that had happened in real life, probably 90% of the public would assume it was a conspiracy. Jack Ryan would be impeached the next day (if not later that same day) just because the idea that he _didn’t_ arrange it all would be so absurdly implausable. It’s hard to impeach someone when the people who have the authority to do so are all dead. Of course that only adds fuel to the conspiracy theory fire… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/87 "2013-12-12T06:27:57Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I didn’t know she won any primaries. Thanks for the info. Jeez, how does Herman Cain fit in as a “serious” candidate? That year, _everyone_ was a serious candidate for two or three news cycles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858.md?page=4)