Why wouldn't you run for President?

[robertpaulsen]

I had a bizarre dream that I was being interviewed on a talk show. Scary part was William F. Buckley was the interviewer. He asked me, "Why wouldn't you run for President?" It seemed like the audience was pretty friendly and wanted an honest response, so I said, "I've smoked too much pot, I've had sex with too many strangers, and I'm short".

I told this to a friend who said that should be the title of my autobiography. I said maybe I'll put it on my tombstone. But what would your response to the question be? Or would you run for President?

[sniffa]

1. way too many skeLetons

i've aLready said too much.

[Failure]

7. ditto...n/t

[terrya]

2. I don't think this country is ready for an openly gay President...

with a Canadian boyfriend who would wield an enormous amount of power in my administration. Think a male Hillary Rodham Clinton.

[Misunderestimator]

24. LOL

Comparing your partner to Hillary makes me question my own homosexuality! :) I mean... Hillary is just hot!!!

[LynzM]

3. Got pregnant before I got married,

And cheated on one of my exes. Unless we come a long way, those two things would be quite useful for media character-bashing. Never mind that I learned the value of honesty from the second, and took complete responsiblity for the first, am holding a job, providing for our family, my husband is finishing school, and I love my daughter. It's a double-edged sword. I'd get a lot of "I can identify with that" and a lot of "how irresponsible". Plus, I like to wear jeans. So there's a little more "like the average person". I do have 4 people at work who told me they'd vote for me :bounce: Oh, and I have no patience for people who are proud of their stupidity, which tends to make me a bit impatient at times. But I love teaching people! Whatd'ya think, all I need is half a billion dollars, and I'd give it a shot ;)


Hrm. Lindsay for President, 2020 :D

[regnaD kciN]

48. So did Ronnie Raygun...

Well, I don't mean he got pregnant, since that's slightly impossible from a biological standpoint, but Nancy was pregnant when they took the trip down the aisle. And, of course, it was his second marriage, and he'd admittedly "slept around" between the two.

So, you see, what would really disqualify you would be the combination of events in your past, plus the fact that you're a liberal Democrat. With us, such "skeletons in the closet" are proof of our moral turpitude. With conservative Republicans, such things are either simply glossed over by the media, or held up as "backstory" of how the candidate repented, "found Jesus," or otherwise straightened out his or her life, which now makes them eminently qualified to pass judgement on the behavior of the rest of us...

:argh:

[Mr. McD]

4. Baggage

To much Baggage.:)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. I've smoked too much pot, I've had sex with too many strangers

i am brown, short, completely lack tact, pansexual, not american citizen

[LDS Jock]

8. Where are you from?

Didn't know you weren't a citizen.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. i am from india

and i live in nyc

[LDS Jock]

17. I knew the NYC part

Just didn't know the India one. You come here and corporations ship our jobs there. I think we got the better end of the deal. :)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. thats sweet!

[neverborn]

26. /agree~

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. I'm 25

Other than that, not much. I already have the Magic Rat: 2012 signs up and ready to go.

:D

[LDS Jock]

9. gay

I don't think that would go over too well. OK, I know it wouldn't go over at all.

[zbdent]

11. The fear that somebody had a camera while I was visiting

that nude beach in the caribbean . . .

[amazona]

12. maybe the same as yours

Plus I don't care to be in the public eye. You have to like being around people, and I find it too disturbing to be around a lot of people's auras for very many hours of the day. Everybody doesn't have to be a politician, we have a lot of good people out there who do like the glad-handling and the people aspect of it all.

I think if your friends and family already know you've done drugs and had kinky sex and that you're short, it doesn't much matter if the rest of the world knows. What would bother me more is all the people trying to get stuff from me. I've never liked people pretending to be my buddy to get money or a phone number or a connection from me -- and this exchange of goodies is a large part of what politics is all about.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. also female...

and more than just pot...reallly i am not a suitable candidate at all

[Commendatori]

14. Don't want the scrutiny

for me or my family. None of my loved ones deserve paparazzi-like press coverage.

[MuseRider]

15. HA!

I would have to answer the same way you did!

I can't imagine ever wanting to hold an office that would put me up for so much investigation. Not a happy thought.

[m-jean03]

16. I might run for President.

I just might.:)

[belladonna]

18. I'm way too blunt about the way I feel

No way I could stand up there and play nice, especially if I were running against Smirk. I'd be in jail for assault and battery five minutes after he opened his smarmy mouth.

[OneBlueSky]

19. because if dealing with a crisis conflicted with "Iron Chef" . . .

I'd choose "Iron Chef" . . .

[ronnykmarshall]

20. You don't wanna go there

1. Gay as a birthday table cloth.

2. Ex-boyfriend has nude pictures of me.

3. Did drugs.

4. Had sex with more men than the population of a small city.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. Had sex with more men than the population of a small city.

tee hee hee

[Donkeyboy75]

33. I personally like #1

I've always heard "Gay as a picnic basket" myself.

[VOX]

22. I'd have to run on the panic-disorder platform...

Which would require no flying, no crowds, no public speaking.

So I humbly withdraw my candidacy. :)

[SarahB]

25. I'm too thin-skinned to hack it

1. I'm female (hasn't worked so far for any others)
2. I'm 3 years too young.
3. I've been in therapy before.
4. I'm too honest.

No naked photos though, haven't slept with many people, and I'm overall without much scandal (not without efforts to the contrary once in a great while) so maybe I'd change my mind if campaign finance reform ever takes place.

[AlienGirl]

27. Many good reasons not to vote for me!

I have more one-degee-of-separation connections to dubious political characters than is comfortable.

Plus, I'm female, short, and vegetarian, with a history of cancer, depression, and anxiety disorders. I am unelectable!

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

45. I would vote for you!!

As long as I got to be your first-lady.. errm; uh.. first-gentleman?

[Laszlo_Hollyfeld]

28. Because I really like being Joe Privatecitizen

I like that my hemorhoid problems aren't page one news.

I enjoy engaging in brief, seedy relationships purely for my own amusement.

I like rollin' a doobie and -here's the clencher,- I inhale.

It would bother me on too many levels to be pleasant to an unmittigated asshole just because his country and ours have treaties and a long history, and a cold-ass bastard to an alright guy just because our countries have problems.

And possibly the number one reason: Because I'd have to socialize with and surround myself with political fuckwits and asskissers.

[LibInternationalist]

29. well, I'm an atheist

other than that, I'm not much of a people person, but I could work through everything else

[Tom_Foolery]

31. Ditto the atheist part...

plus I'm not full of enough bullshit.

[robertpaulsen]

30. Michael Moore has a great reason for not running.

"I WANT TO LIVE!!!"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. I don't like wearing suits.

That and the whole amoral socialist thing.

[camero]

34. I would be shot

I would rattle the establishment way too much.

[BiggJawn]

35. Same as yours.

but instead of smoking too much pot, I drank too much, bedded down WAY too many women (even a few strangers!) and I don't believe in "God"...

I'm tall, but I'm fat, too.

[Burma Jones]

36. I'm a lousy fundraiser

Not much of a whore. And apparently, that's what it takes.

[bhunt70]

37. skeletons, skeletons, skeletons.

[felonious thunk]

38. It would just be too much

I don't have anything that would preclude me, nothing in my past that would be a big scandal or anything. But I just wouldn't want to go through the process of having every decision I've ever made look at under a microscope. I wouldn't want my life to be that public.

[Blue-Jay]

39. I wouldn't want the damn job.

Which makes ME the perfect candidate! You don't think they'd look up the time I arrested for being in a bar fight, do you? (I was only defending my drunk, stupid friend, BTW...)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. I couldn't deal with my children being judged

by the general public.

And I can't stand crowds. And I need my privacy. And my past has been quite colorful.

Not to mention the fact that politics stinks. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

41. I'm with sniffa....

OD, abortion, miscarriage (both outside of marriage), that complete prick I used to date in Houston would give them a full report; the press would rip me to shreds.

Plus, I'm agnostic and unphotogenic.

If only I'd known what was coming for this country, I would have stayed pristine, gotten better grades and stayed a virgin until marriage instead of having all that fun.

[Arger68]

42. Not enough of a "pretty boy" (for lack of a better term), like they

all seem to be these days. Also, never been to college and I think it'd be damn tough to get elected without a degree. Plus, I'm waaaaaayyyyyy too honest!!!

[matcom]

43. thought about it but.....

there was that whole naked, drunken decade of my life that somebody (certainly not me) would remember

[geniph]

44. Maybe I will

I mean, to hell with 'em. So I have a few skeletons in my closet, so what? Anyone my age (I'm 44) who doesn't has been living a very sheltered life, or has paid a great deal to keep the bodies buried.

[Crowdance]

46. I won't eat chicken.

[regnaD kciN]

47. The Trenton Post Office Bomb incident...

...would probably disqualify me.