# Who do you most want to lose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 25, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483 "2018-10-25T04:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/61 "2018-10-31T04:15:42Z")
I have nothing too original to contribute here. Lots of loathsome Pubbies out there, but if I had to pick one, it’s Ted Cruz. ---
**Author:** ![Theodore\_Striker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/62 "2018-10-31T13:56:54Z")
There are a few I would love to see lose here locally in Ohio: Mike Dewine is a toady troll, and generally despicable shitbag of a person. I don’t love Cordray, but Dewine is vile. Would love to see longtime combover king Steve Chabot lose. The guy has been a useless piece of Congress for as long as I can remember, and is basically a do nothing. Finally, the biggest longshot… Vanessa Enoch beating out Warren Davidson. Not that I have much against Davidson personally, but this is Boehner’s old house seat, has been bloody red forever and a day, and it would just be a huge unexpected upset. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/63 "2018-10-31T14:47:58Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > What’s this “Zodiac Killer” crap? Cruz actually looks like a cross between Eddie Munster and Joe McCarthy. I am pretty sure you meant Grandpa Munster. Apologies to the OP but I can’t do just 1. My choices, in order of preference: 1. Cruz; if anyone ever needed a punch in the face… 2. Kobach 3. DeSantis 4. King 5. Kemp 6. Walker 7. Scott ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/64 "2018-10-31T15:07:49Z")
Of course, Ted Cruz goes without saying. Also Scott Walker. But for a candidate in my state, I gotta go with Peter Roskam. We used to be in his district before the last redistricting. Has voted with Trump about as often as possible. Refuses to hold town halls, and has stated that the one he held had people coming in angry and leaving angrier. (Altho I think I heard he held one fairly recently – but deliberately had it outside his district.) Anyway, go Sean Casten! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/65 "2018-10-31T15:19:15Z")
On the my own state level, Bill Schutte, (R-Dow Chemical) candidate for Governor. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/66 "2018-10-31T16:50:26Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Steve King is the one Republican I would be perfectly fine with ANYONE displacing. If someone dug up Nixon’s corpse and put it on a ballot, I’d not only donate, I’d actively campaign for it. He’s a shit person who hasn’t done shit for his district and talks about racist shit with foreign shitbags instead of trying to get shit done. Fortunately, as of the last polling, weeks ago, J.D. Scholten was less than 10 points behind. While Steve King has been doing interviews discussing the Great Replacement and The Camp of the Saints with Austrian white supremacists, Scholten has been crisscrossing Iowa’s 4th actually getting to know people. > > Granted, my hometown is in his district, so it’s somewhat personal, but I don’t think I’d shed a single tear if I heard he keeled over from a heart attack. It was all I could not to spit when he was glad-handing down a parade route a few weeks ago. It looks like the tide has turned against King at last. I’m not sure if this is too little, too late but, not only has he lost the endorsement of the Sioux City Journal (for the first time in his career) and has had Land O’Lakes and Purina publicly state they will no longer donate to his campaign,[now he has been denounced](https://twitter.com/RepSteveStivers/status/1057327397685653510) by the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Ohio. No telling how this will play out in the end but it would be a delight to see this low-life racist piece of crap shown the door. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/67 "2018-10-31T18:33:00Z")
I’ve been mulling over this question for several days now. My gut reaction was to say Menendez in NJ, because he’s corrupt. Feinstein was an early contender too, for her shennanigans during the Kavanaugh hearing. McCaskill, Donnelly, and Tester would be sweet because I’d love to see them really feel the pain of their Kavanaugh “no” votes (and I’m guessing Heitkamp already is going to). But, I’ve finally settled on my answer: [Ben McAdams, the Dem challenger in Utah’s 4th Congressional District](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/house/ut/utah_4th_district_love_vs_mcadams-6285.html) (my district). If he wins he’ll be a stain (admittedly, probably a blue-colored and dog-shaped one) on Utah’s congressional delegation, a fly in the ointment, a black mark, a consistent disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/68 "2018-10-31T18:41:12Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’ve been mulling over this question for several days now. My gut reaction was to say Menendez in NJ, because he’s corrupt. Feinstein was an early contender too, for her shennanigans during the Kavanaugh hearing. McCaskill, Donnelly, and Tester would be sweet because I’d love to see them really feel the pain of their Kavanaugh “no” votes (and I’m guessing Heitkamp already is going to). But, I’ve finally settled on my answer: [Ben McAdams, the Dem challenger in Utah’s 4th Congressional District](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/house/ut/utah_4th_district_love_vs_mcadams-6285.html) (my district). If he wins he’ll be a stain (admittedly, probably a blue-colored and dog-shaped one) on Utah’s congressional delegation, a fly in the ointment, a black mark, a consistent disappointment. I checked out his platform on his website, and you’re right… he wants the government to work together to find bipartisan solutions rather than just bickering all the time, he wants a balanced budget and tax reform, and he wants to fix the Affordable Care Act rather than just scrapping it without a replacement. We can only pray that a madman like that never gets anywhere near the levers of power in your state or anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/69 "2018-10-31T18:48:12Z")
Martha McSally, R-AZ. She represents my district in Congress. She’s running for the US Senate. She’s a huge Trump supporter. I favor her opponent, Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat. She wants to work across party lines. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/70 "2018-10-31T18:49:32Z")
Oh god, just one? Do I pick the representative who assaulted a reporter and continues to lie about it (Gianforte)? One of the two reprehensible candidates for governor (Kobach and Kemp) using their official positions to cheat? The smuggest asshole on the planet (Cruz)? The one that would make the biggest political impact (Cramer)? The most ideologically toxic (King)? I think I’d choose Kemp. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/71 "2018-10-31T18:53:35Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Martha McSally, R-AZ. She represents my district in Congress. She’s running for the US Senate. She’s a huge Trump supporter. I favor her opponent, Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat. She wants to work across party lines. The lady that called Arizona “the meth lab of democracy” wants to work across party lines? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/72 "2018-10-31T18:57:55Z")
Ted Cruz, no question. And it’s down to a 3% race at this point, so there’s a chance that he’ll have his ass handed to him. Couldn’t happen to a nastier person. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/73 "2018-10-31T19:02:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Ted Cruz, no question. And it’s down to a 3% race at this point, so there’s a chance that he’ll have his ass handed to him. Couldn’t happen to a nastier person. Where are you seeing 3%? [I see it as 7%](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/tx/texas_senate_cruz_vs_orourke-6310.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/74 "2018-10-31T19:09:42Z")
Ted Cruz gets no love 🙂 > [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Oh god, just one? Well yeah, that’s what makes the whole thing fun! ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/75 "2018-10-31T19:09:56Z")
I mentioned Marsha Blackburn upthread. She has a [new ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pm4XcREY0E) that is absolutely sickening and illustrates why I am praying for her loss. She berates her opponent for calling the caravan “no threat” and states that the caravan is made up of “Gang members, known criminals, people from the Middle East - possibly even terrorists!” The race baiting is less than subtle. She is such a horrible person. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/76 "2018-10-31T19:22:02Z")
I want to change my pick of Cathy McMorris Rodgers to my local state rep, Matt Shea, thanks to becoming aware of his [manifesto](http://www.khq.com/story/39387853/spokane-valley-representative-under-scrutiny-for-leaked-manifesto) outlining the “Biblical Basis for War” which are 14 steps for seizing power and instituting Christian law. > [@](#): > > It calls for an end to abortions, an end to same-sex marriage, and if enemies do not yield and everyone obey biblical law, all males will be killed. God willing (heh), he will not be re-elected. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/77 "2018-10-31T19:32:03Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > I want to change my pick of Cathy McMorris Rodgers to my local state rep, Matt Shea, thanks to becoming aware of his [manifesto](http://www.khq.com/story/39387853/spokane-valley-representative-under-scrutiny-for-leaked-manifesto) outlining the “Biblical Basis for War” which are 14 steps for seizing power and instituting Christian law. > > God willing (heh), he will not be re-elected. Do you know anything about the context? For example, was this passed out during a Sunday School lesson at church, or at a campaign rally, or somewhere else? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/78 "2018-10-31T19:34:55Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Do you know anything about the context? For example, was this passed out during a Sunday School lesson at church, or at a campaign rally, or somewhere else? Yeah, I mean, calling for the slaughter of all dissident men would be fine if this was just a church document. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/79 "2018-10-31T19:38:03Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > Yeah, I mean, calling for the slaughter of all dissident men would be fine if this was just a church document. You’re not the least bit curious about the context? About whether this is getting played up by the media or is an actual call for exterminating atheists? ---
**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:** [October 31, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483/80 "2018-10-31T19:42:34Z")
It’s a tough call. So many are worthy of taking the #1 slot on the list. A good case can be made for most of the ones already named. I will choose Devin Nunes, however, because I think that corrupt, sleazeball creep did more to damage democracy in this country than anyone else over the past 2 years. Except his leash master, that is. I want to see him go down hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-most-want-to-lose/823483.md?page=5)