Let the 2008 SelectSmart.com Presidential Candidate Selector decide for you! (Via Reappropriate.)
My results:
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1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%) 2. Dennis Kucinich (92%) 3. Alan Augustson (88%) 4. Barack Obama (87%) 5. Joseph Biden (81%) 6. Hillary Clinton (77%) 7. Wesley Clark (76%) 8. John Edwards (74%) 9. Christopher Dodd (74%) 10. Al Gore (68%) 11. Bill Richardson (66%) 12. Mike Gravel (66%) 13. Elaine Brown (51%) 14. Kent McManigal (45%) |
15. Ron Paul (43%) 16. Mike Huckabee (32%) 17. Rudolph Giuliani (30%) 18. John McCain (25%) 19. Chuck Hagel (20%) 20. Mitt Romney (18%) 21. Tommy Thompson (17%) 22. Sam Brownback (16%) 23. Newt Gingrich (13%) 24. Fred Thompson (11%) 25. Tom Tancredo (7%) 26. Duncan Hunter (6%) 27. Jim Gilmore (4%) |
So that’s it, then. A write-in vote for Theoretical Ideal Candidate. It’s extremely weird to see Romney in at 18 percent; must’ve been that one question about whether I preferred a vertebrate over an invertebrate, I guess. But I left it blank, because, you know, the Big C …
My list looks similar to yours, except Theoretical has a much larger lead.
I’ve got Romney at 17 percent. It makes sense. As president, he can buy struggling countries using their own assets, annex them to the U.S., extract all of their capital straight to the White House, lay off most of their work force, artificially jack up their paper value, and then unload the worthless remains at an elevated price to some sucker like Britain for a huge tax-free profit — the same strategy he used to make himself rich — er, richer.
As a bonus, the entire executive branch will be dressed for success in conservative suits with red ties!
A very irritating quiz. I made it to the fourth question and got tired of the dumb dichotomies. The Social Security question was off the wall. The phony crisis is designed to provoke anxiety and make stupid policy easier to sell. The choice between security and civil liberties was a blatant false choice proposition. Civil liberties are well understood to be a precondition for security.
No wonder this country is doomed. Our own quiz writers hate us!
Interesting. I followed a linkback from J-Walk, and in the comments, someone has posted:
Set everything to neither or none of the above, and low priority and you get:
1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Chuck Hagel (66%)
3. Mitt Romney (66%)
4. Newt Gingrich (66%)
5. Rudolph Giuliani (66%)
6. Sam Brownback (66%)
7. Tommy Thompson (66%)
8. Alan Augustson (33%)
9. Dennis Kucinich (33%)
10. Elaine Brown (33%)
11. Kent McManigal (33%)
12. Mike Gravel (33%)
13. Ron Paul (33%)
14. Barack Obama (10%)
Oh, ho! The centrist perspective always defaults to a predominantly wingnut outcome, with token liberalism thrown in to make it semi-palatable. False moderation is killing us.
Cthulu is far from “theoretical,” people.
But is he electable? Oh, I know. Most people reach for a blunt instrument (of compassionate instruction) when they hear the word “electable”. But it’s valid question. I’ve parsed its platform carefully and it is indeed the greater of all available evils. Its actual record is, erm, exemplary in evil and evil related program activities. However I think we need one more DLC droid followed by another wingnut before the Overton Window has shifted enough for the tentacled agenda to seem reasonable.