Political blather
Interesting. Following a link from Cogicophony, I took the Presidential candidate selection quiz to see who my perfect candidate is. Short answer? I don’t have one. If there were a true Libertarian candidate out there, that’s who I would agree most closely with – on the par of 100% agreement. Here are my top ten:
1. Libertarian Candidate (100%)
2. Buchanan, Patrick J. – Reform/Republican (64%)
3. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT – Democrat (56%)
4. Bush, George W. – US President (53%)
5. Phillips, Howard – Constitution (53%)
6. Edwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat (52%)
7. Sharpton, Reverend Al – Democrat (46%)
8. Biden, Senator Joe, DE – Democrat (43%)
9. Feingold, Senator Russ, WI – Democrat (41%)
10. Kerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat (41%)
No wonder I hate all politicians. None of them agree with me. Which of course means that none of them are reasonable.
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July 5th, 2003 at 5:32 pm
Kinda scary that Pat Buchanan and you agree on 64% of issues — but even more telling is that Dean appears to agree with you on slightly more issues than Bush! How totally weird is that? 🙂
July 5th, 2003 at 5:36 pm
It’s not that weird. I’m not really a Republican or a Democrat. You could probably call me a rational anarchist (a la Ayn Rand), but I most closely identify with the Libertarians.
July 5th, 2003 at 7:24 pm
I think that were I not an Evil Librul, I’d be a libertarian. I think the basic premise of libertarianism is “Left to themselves, people will by nature choose the right thing out of self-preservation.” I’m way too much of a cynic to believe that’s the case. 😉
I’m about as libertarian as you can get when it comes to civil matters, though.