Detractors have suggested these items as deterrents to Gerald Wayne Perttula's candidacy:

1. He is 52 years old.
2. He should lose 10 pounds.
3. He is a male heterosexual.
4. He believes in a competitive free market for merchants and thinkers.
5. He has been married 27 years to Barbara.
6. Radical feminists make him nervous, but he loves to debate the issues with them.
7. He thinks that if society really wanted to stress the importance of education, the minimum wage would be set to " zero" dollars.
8. He thinks a sedentary society that eats fats and sugars will die of health-care poisoning.
9. He plans to embrace today's truth to prevent tomorrow's lie.
10. He thinks that things that are provably alive should be allowed to stay alive, and we must face the unintended consequences of this decision as a community.
11. He believes the "rights" granted to citizens in the American Constitution are derived from "natural law" (i.e., "God") and we "loan" the use of these rights to the government. (This loan is revocable.)
12. He values competition, initiative, risk, incentive-systems, intellectual capital and innovation.
13. He believes government-sponsored dependency leads to lassitude that rots the human spirit.
14. He wants the market place to perform its magic unfettered.
15. He thinks The Second Amendment is the key to despot management.
16. His cholesterol is in a race against his prostate.
17. He believes the biggest threats to America's national security are Zoroastrian zealots and the lack of quality math and science teachers.