Tell that to Ford and Eisenhower.
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Did Gohmert just cast aspersions on his own asparagus?
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To be fair to Gohmert (I know, it kills me just typing that), he said no more bald presidents would be elected since the Kennedy-Nixon debates were televised and forever changed how the population views its candidates. Ike was prior to that, and Ford wasn’t actually elected; Nixon appointed him after Agnew resigned. So Gohmert has a point. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so I guess Gohmert must get one free pass a year. He’s now used his up for 2015.
Or a stupid one!
It is not your baldness that will shutdown any presidential campaign, clown!
It is your general bible-thumping-asshole-ness, that will.
Yes, Louie, it would be only your baldness that keeps you from the Oval Office. AND, this is really bad news for Baldy Dumbass, Governor of Wisconsin.
I’m more concerned about a bald-faced liar becoming President, i.e. any Republican.
I love to see Gohmert just joking around with reporters and showing the for-shits-and-giggles side of himself.
I mean, what can be more hilarious than this guy being a member of Congress and tasked with the most important issues facing our country in 2015?
Oh my, (wipes tear) what a knee-slapper!
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Yeah, the baldness. That’s what would be the problem.
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Bald is not the problem. It’s what is not inside that empty chamber that matters.
In fairness to howling monkey Gohmert, he did establish that the Kennedy-Nixon debate set the line where bald men could no longer be president, and that did happen after Eisenhower. So Ike is not a good refutation of that statement.
And in a way, Gohmert is right, the Kennedy-Nixon debate did got to show that how a politician looks plays a big factor in whether or not they get elected. A big portion of Nixon’s run in 1968 was trying to humanize him, show him laughing and joking. It is one of the reasons the Ted Cruz will never be president. His first appearance on a national debate will make half the nation feel the need to take a shower because of how slimy he is.
That being said, it is still possible to be an attractive bald man. Vin Diesel has pulled it off for some time (he would also be a better president than Gohmert). What I am waiting for though is our next president to have a handle bar mustache. There hasn’t been facial hair in the White House since Taft (also the last fat guy), and the last candidate was Thomas Dewey. That was why I got excited for Bob Barr in 2008 (not really): A) because he reminds me of my childhood pachyderm Babar, and B) because that mustache is great.
My son actually went out with Gohmert’s daughter a couple of times (who, wisely, did not use his last name to advance her singing career in LA). I met her under the condition (my son’s) that I not discuss politics or her father. I did not, and discovered she is a wonderful girl, breathtakingly beautiful, making me wonder if Gohmert’s wife was visited by the mailman one too many times. I actually felt sorry for her, because one can not pick their parents, unfortunately.
Nice reminiscence.
Let’s hope many more 8-year-olds to come will be awed and honored to shake many present and future presidents’ hands!
(And let’s also hope the kids’ respect is well deserved, because we grownups have elected only truly exceptional people to that high office…)
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Gohmert Floats 2016 Run, Then Takes It Back: There Can Be No 'Bald Presidents'
There can be no bald stupid presidents.
One was quite enough, thank you.
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Sorry, Louis, but when it comes to presidential eligibility, a candidate’s age and IQ points must be 35 or over.
There are a few million reasons he will never be President, but the number of his missing hairs is not among them.
bald OK – hare-brained not
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He should have said bald morons, which is a much more complete description of him.
Aw c’mon Louie, we’ll subscribe you to Hair Club For Men.