# Why do Republicans think a convicted felon, and a rapist should be President? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [July 11, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-think-a-convicted-felon-and-a-rapist-should-be-president/1004035 "2024-07-11T05:25:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-think-a-convicted-felon-and-a-rapist-should-be-president/1004035/28 "2024-07-11T16:21:49Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#): > > I can’t remember the writer who made the observation and I seem to recall it was about minorities, but to paraphrase: > > A MAGA would be satisfied living in a cardboard box under a bridge down by the river cooking pigeons on a curtain rod spit as long as the lib next to him didn’t have a curtain rod of his own to use. > Or, as commenter Davis X. Machina phrased it: > > “The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.” > **[Balloon Juice - Open Thread: Lagging Lexicon Indicators](https://balloon-juice.com/2009/10/07/open-thread-lagging-lexicon-indicators/)** > > WordPress still won’t let me change so much as a misplaced comma in the Lexicon. Actually, WordPress is only allowing me to read the site about 60% of the time this week, just in case anybody thought the secondary front-pagers got some kind of... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-republicans-think-a-convicted-felon-and-a-rapist-should-be-president/1004035)._