# Who's the nuttiest GOP candidate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 21, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772 "2016-03-21T15:18:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/21 "2016-03-22T04:56:07Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > > [@Drunky Smurf](#): > > > > Sarah Palin, obviously. Thank God she isn’t running this term but lets hopes she doesn’t in the future as well. > > You are aware that she is endorsing Trump, huh? With a good chunk of Republicans that is music to their ears, for everyone else it is Airhead Vocaloid singing in English. > > [http://www.thestreet.com/story/13428960/1/sarah-palin-s-endorsement-of-donald-trump-might-hurt-him-in-the-end.html](http://www.thestreet.com/story/13428960/1/sarah-palin-s-endorsement-of-donald-trump-might-hurt-him-in-the-end.html) > > Among all Americans that actually hurts Trump more than it helps him. That [“I’m with Stupid”](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nydn-front-pages-2016-gallery-1.2482879?pmSlide=1.2502678) Daily News cover is already a classic for the ages. For some reason I’m thinking of the charming Denise Richards lampooning herself on **30 Rock** , standing beside Tracy in '_ **Idiots Are People Two !'** _. However I doubt Mr. Trump sought or was pleased with her endorsement. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/22 "2016-03-22T05:02:24Z")
> [@Hank\_Beecher](#): > > Probably Cruz, he is just about as loony as Bernie. Social democracy is loony in no sense whatsoever. When it comes to loony, Cruz is considerably more so – [or worse](http://www.alternet.org/comments/news-amp-politics/ted-cruz-isnt-idiot-hes-delusional-and-thats-far-more-dangerous). **Much** worse. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/23 "2016-03-22T05:09:12Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I think it’s more about their wild and carefree exuberance and the passionate abandon with which they live their lives. Or reindeer. There is no contradiction. Reindeer will do anything for lutefisk, and I do mean **anything.** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/24 "2016-03-22T05:12:46Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > For some reason I’m thinking of the charming Denise Richards lampooning herself on **30 Rock** , standing beside Tracy in '_ **Idiots Are People Two !'** _. > > However I doubt Mr. Trump sought or was pleased with her endorsement. You need to follow the news. Cruz was growing in popularity in a few states and her endorsement was very important to undermine Cruz, Cruz had pointed at the support of Pallin for his successful run to become a senator, Palin then actually did back stab him by supporting Trump and if Trump was not pleased he hides it really well by inviting her to speak at several rallies. > **[Sarah Palin's Surprising Donald Trump Rally Appearance Jabbed At Anti-Trump...](https://www.bustle.com/articles/147834-sarah-palins-surprising-donald-trump-rally-appearance-jabbed-at-anti-trump-protesters)** > > Republican frontrunner Donald Trump made a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida on Monday ahead of Tuesday's primaries. And who better to make an appearance at the event than Sarah Palin, who spoke to Trump supporters before the candidate took the stage.… [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-sarah-palin-20160120-story.html](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-sarah-palin-20160120-story.html) ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/25 "2016-03-22T05:53:18Z")
As a gentleman, Mr. Trump was bound to put the best face on it and in no way discommodate a lady. Even a mad lady. A mad lady whose running-mate he had publicly and successfully disparaged along with his war record. A mad lady who makes Hillary look like a good idea. He would have to internalize any distaste and keep quiet on his thoughts. Good form is all. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/26 "2016-03-22T06:15:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You’re kidding, right? No. All the other candidates still think it’s 2005 and that middle and lower-class whites will fall in line to vote for cosmopolitan neoliberalism, gutting the New Deal, and endless foreign wars as long as they utter the right sibboleths about abortion and guns. TRUMP doesn’t, so regardless of anything else, he’s operating in the America of the present not some glorified Reagan-Bushite exurban fantasy. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > Ok, here is a simple test, watch this Trump Clip. > > [As Election Year Unfolds, Climate Concern Rises – This is Not Cool](http://climatecrocks.com/2016/03/17/as-election-year-unfolds-climate-concern-rises/#comment-81896) > > Read then what science and even most of the public thinks about the issue: > > [As Election Year Unfolds, Climate Concern Rises – This is Not Cool](http://climatecrocks.com/2016/03/17/as-election-year-unfolds-climate-concern-rises/) > > Who is living in fantasy land? I think my post is being misread as me seeing TRUMP as somehow never wrong or at least seeing him as right most of the time. That isn’t the case-I’d happily vote for either Clinton or Sanders over TRUMP any day but that doesn’t change the fact that among Republican candidates TRUMP’s policies and more importantly, his sense of what the voters want and need are vastly superior to that of any other individual. To take the example of Climate Change, virtually every other Republican either denies it or effectively poo-poohs it by suggesting we do nothing about it. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/27 "2016-03-22T06:40:36Z")
If you never respond to another of my posts, please answer me this, **Qin** : You capitalize Trump’s entire name because that’s that way it appears on all his properties, right? (Doesn’t bother me, btw, I think it’s rather attention-grabbing. Just curious.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/28 "2016-03-22T06:41:29Z")
Not highly involved this election cycle, but Rick Perry was/is certainly a contender for the nutty. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/29 "2016-03-22T08:02:04Z")
No, he’s not smart enough to be crazy. A guitar without strings is never out of tune. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/30 "2016-03-22T14:47:33Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Not highly involved this election cycle, but Rick Perry was/is certainly a contender for the nutty. And now he’s at the top of the list of Those Being Spoken Of as the GOP Establishment’s non-Trump candidate at the contested convention. Yes, he’s the best they can do. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/31 "2016-03-22T14:53:22Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Obviously I hope you’re right. But enlighten me: do you think he’s short-tempered? Impulsive? When he yells to rough someone up as it happens, is he following a script or making it up as he goes along? When he loudly interrupts people trying to bring stuff to his attention, does that reflect a reasoned plan or reflexive hostility? I think he’s basically an asshole at heart, as well as full of himself. So he’s winging it with what he thinks his crowd wants to hear, which is for the security to thump some protesters and/or for him to harangue someone who’s not following the script (so to speak). But that’s neither crazy nor stupid, just jerkish. Rick Perry isn’t crazy, but he’s an opportunist. There was a fairly noticeable shift right during Perry’s tenure as governor- he and John Cornyn in particular shifted farther right than they’d ever publicly been starting in about 2009-ish, right about the time the Tea Party came around. And earlier in Perry’s career, he was a Democrat(!) from 1984-1990. So he’s going to say and do whatever he thinks will get him votes- if that’s to act like a right-wing looney, then he’ll do that. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/32 "2016-03-22T15:32:14Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Trump’s a busy guy. He commissioned someone else to devise his fantasyland. And it just got 10 feet higher when you said that. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/33 "2016-03-22T15:55:55Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > If you never respond to another of my posts, please answer me this, **Qin** : You capitalize Trump’s entire name because that’s that way it appears on all his properties, right? (Doesn’t bother me, btw, I think it’s rather attention-grabbing. Just curious.) It’s because TRUMP decimates the traditional rules of capitalization the way he decimates all the other rules, or something, because he’s TRUMP and nobody’s gonna hold him back or keep him down. Go TRUM_ **P** _! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/34 "2016-03-22T16:27:54Z")
[Dubya] You forgot T **RUMP**! [Dubya] ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/35 "2016-03-22T16:57:39Z")
Trump, Trump, Trump, the boys are marching … ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/36 "2016-03-22T17:56:27Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > And now he’s [Rick Perry] at the top of the list of Those Being Spoken Of as the GOP Establishment’s non-Trump candidate at the contested convention. > > Yes, he’s the best they can do. Srsly? :eek: I hadn’t noticed that yet. You got a cite I can read up on? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/37 "2016-03-22T17:57:45Z")
[One from his home state.](http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article67434367.html) ---
**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:** [March 22, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/38 "2016-03-22T19:44:43Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Huckabee, by a mile. > T No, he was Governor here. He just wants to be Tomas de Torquemada. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/39 "2016-03-26T01:35:05Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > No, he was Governor here. He just wants to be Tomas de Torquemada. Let’s face it - you can’t Talkemada anything! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772/40 "2016-03-26T01:53:34Z")
I was gonna say that Deez Nuts had to win this, but then I noticed he’s running as an Independent, so never mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-nuttiest-gop-candidate/749772.md?page=3)