The Unique Candidates of the New Hampshire Primary

30 Republicans and 14 Democrats are running for president in the New Hampshire primary this year, the largest number since 1992 when 62 candidates ran. Among other factors, the meager $1,000 fee to get one's name on the ballot makes New Hampshire an attractive place for unusual candidates. This year we have home-builder John Davis who "has budgeted $500,000 to visit all 3,143 counties in the U.S. in a 43-foot live-on bus emblazoned with a photo of himself brandishing a femur-size wrench and the slogan 'Let's Fix America.'" The oddly hatted Vermin Supreme of Rockport, Mass. is a perennial candidate who plans to run on a platform of mandatory tooth brushing and zombie preparedness. Vermin also promises a pony for every American. From the article: "If ever there were a year for has-beens, wannabes and neverwillbes pushing oddball solutions to serious problems and serious palliatives for problems no one has yet postulated, this may be it."

Comments

Let see one implement their motto...

[damn_registrars]

I want to see a New Hampshire candidate run solely on "Live Free Or Die". Extra points if he (or she) can get away with appending it to "Live Free Or Die, Bitches"

Re:Let see one implement their motto...

[stms]

Isn't that essentially what Libertarian Party members are running on? I'm not a Libertarian, and I'm not pimping for them here, but doesn't that essentially boil down to their whole party platform?

Yes that's what the Libertarian Party stands for when you boil it down. When you boil down the Republican party it stands for "vote for us if you hate poor people". If you boil down the Democratic Party platform it's "If you vote for us we'll give you free money". Isn't it fun to over simplify complex political ideas even though it's ultimately what's destroying this country.

Re:Let see one implement their motto...

[Fned]

Citizen

You are hereby declared to be not Living Free Enough

As per NH criminal code LFOD2012 this is a summary captial offense

Prepare for immediate execution

Re:Let see one implement their motto...

[stinerman]

You must not know the joke.

A Libertarian is a Republican with a conviction for possession of weed.

Vermin Supreme?

[DesScorp]

Vermin Supreme sounds like a pizza in some dystopian future. "Includes all toppings, with rats, cockroaches, and maggots. Dung Beetles are extra".

And he should be at the Donald Trump debate

[0xdeadbeef]

The oddly hatted Vermin Supreme of Rockport, Mass. is a perennial candidate who plans to run on a platform of mandatory tooth brushing and zombie preparedness. Vermin also promises a pony for every American.

Still saner than Michele Bachmann.

Please oh great fsm...

[jcwayne]

Please, tell me that The Rent Is Too Damn High Party will be represented. I've missed that guy.

Fighting zombies? Start with slashdot!

[damn_registrars]

This place is overrun by Ron Paul zombies. If a potential candidate can find a way to control them, they'd certainly win my vote.