Politics

[rowyn]

I am apparently a Republican, but not a very enthusiastic one.

69% Ron Paul
67% John McCain
65% Mike Huckabee
64% Rudy Giuliani
64% Mitt Romney
58% Fred Thompson
53% Mike Gravel
49% Tom Tancredo
49% Bill Richardson
46% Dennis Kucinich
43% Chris Dodd
38% Barack Obama
38% Hillary Clinton
37% John Edwards
33% Joe Biden

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

I don't know who Mike Gravel is either, nkcmike

In unrelated news: Happy Birthday, mister_wolf!

Comments

Re: I knew we were going to end up opposites on this one

[rowyn]

I'm in favor of Roe vs Wade, or at least, I'm not so legally outraged by it that I want to see it go away. It was terrible jurisprudence but it had good results. Thus proving I'm not as down on bad means as you think. :)

Opposed to the minimum wage 'cause I'm a libertarian and I believe it harms more people than it helps.

Still opposed to withdrawal from Iraq, yep.

Opposed to gun-control; libertarian and I strongly disagree that disarming people saves lives; quite the opposite. Taking guns away from Americans is totally unfeasible overall and trying to disarm them just makes life harder on legal citizens. You can make a different case for countries that don't already have tens (if not hundreds) of millions of guns in circulation, but in this country, guns are not going away and the balkanized attempts to disarm law-abiding citizens do no one good.

You pegged me on foreign policy. I would be pro-interventionist if I thought there was a chance in Hell we would do any good at it, but we totally suck at it, everyone hates us when we do it, and no good comes of it. So yeah, feeling pretty cynical about that one.

I can't remember what I picked on the death penalty. I'm ambivalent about it. I think I picked "opposed". One reason: it's massively unevenly enforced. But I generally agree with you about the death penalty.

I oppose government-sponsored environmental intiatives. I think we're going to invent our way into a cleaner and better habitat (working so far, pollution in the US today is SO MUCH less than it was a hundred years ago). Most (but not all!) of the regulatory measures that Congress proposes to "protect" the environment will do, IMAO, more harm than good. No, I'm not willing to give up my computer to protect the environment, nor do I think it's necessary.

And yes, sounds like we agreed on the others you mentioned. :)