American politics?

Him: What's with the US Republicans?
Me: What do you mean?
Him: Well what is with the names? Mitt. Newt. Sounds like comic strip characters.
Me: haha. Yeah I guess.
Him: What happened to having a normal name. Like John or Paul.
Me: Are you saying they should be more like the Beatles or the Pope?
Him: Either would work. Anything would be better than comic strip characters.