Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Svarte Troner]

I got Obama-Paul-Perry.

Me too. I could never imagine myself agreeing with anything Rick Perry says though.

[Eagle_eye]

I'd love to run for President someday, but the fact that I am a socialist (and wed this with Christianity no less), as well as my very open rejection of patriotism outright, make victory unlikely.

well, most Americans support socialist ideas, but are just afraid of the word socialism, because of the enormous effort conservatives have made in the last 70 years or so to associate it with the USSR. I think it's only a matter of time before people wake up.

That's a gross oversimplification at the best. Accurate saying would be that most Americans believe that a completely unregulated capitalism isn't a good thing.

Medicare/Medicaid are supported by a majority. The interstate highway system is socialist in nature. Unemployment benefits and social security are socialist. Foodstamps are socialist. Hence why I said most Americans support socialist ideas, not necessarily full blown socialism.

[MaximumZero]

I'd love to run for President someday, but the fact that I am a socialist (and wed this with Christianity no less), as well as my very open rejection of patriotism outright, make victory unlikely.

well, most Americans support socialist ideas, but are just afraid of the word socialism, because of the enormous effort conservatives have made in the last 70 years or so to associate it with the USSR. I think it's only a matter of time before people wake up.

That's a gross oversimplification at the best. Accurate saying would be that most Americans believe that a completely unregulated capitalism isn't a good thing.

Medicare/Medicaid are supported by a majority. The interstate highway system is socialist in nature. Unemployment benefits and social security are socialist. Foodstamps are socialist. Hence why I said most Americans support socialist ideas, not necessarily full blown socialism.

I use public parks as an example. Who doesn't like parks? But they're socialist.

[MaximumZero]

Well, I would be polyamorous if my wife would let me.

Even if it went toward polyandry? You'd probably have better luck convincing her of that

That'd be fine with me, too. She wasn't interested either way, though.

Apologies for the doublepost, but it was just moving pretty quickly in here.

[freeformschooler]

Bachmann-Gingrich-Perry.

Really?

REALLY?

WHAT DID I DO WRONG!?

Perhaps it was how I took the "none of the above" option a few times. And my answer to Afghanistan wasn't "GET EVERYONE OUT RIGHT NOW." Either way, those guys are nowhere near as liberal as I.

[Capntastic]

For some reason, taking an online survey like this makes me think of those horrid "WHICH CHARACTER ARE YOU" surveys, and the frightening truth that a completely apolitical character that I dislike would have supremely more agreeable stances on issues than many of the candidates.  I would vote for Goku over Rick Perry.

Edit:  Let me clarify, I'm not even talking about if Goku were real.

[Dr.Feelgood]

(trolling removed)

[nenjin]

If Goku were a real candidate, presidential elections would take 4 years to get through all the dialog and the country would be a smoking wreck by the end regardless of who wins.

Actually, that's getting pretty close to the way it is now.

[MaximumZero]

I got Michele Bachmann (66.7%), Rick Santorum (66.7%), and Rick Perry (60.1%).

* MaximumZero runs screaming from Dr. Feelgood.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I got Obama-Paul-Gingrich. That said, I had to "none of the above" a lot of issues. Not a single candidate that supports same-sex marriage in 2012, when a majority of the public polls in support of it...

[Capntastic]

I'd imagine no one's going to be openly pro-rights in that regard until someone else steps up to do so.   It's easier to hide that sort of ignorant stance when everyone else has the same one- voters won't feel split on the issue until someone makes a stand.

[Aqizzar]

There's also that while a majority of the country may support the idea of making gay-marriage legally recognized nationwide, most people in "support" of it do not consider it important.  Whereas people opposed to it often consider it vitally important.  Ergo, this is little real electoral, monetary, or (in the Congress) legislative support to be gained by being in favor of genuine legal gay marriage, but there's a lot to loose in it.

[Strife26]

Huntsman is kinda openish in that regard. Legal civil unions, anyway. In my mind, marriage as a word should be a mostly religious type thing.

[Frumple]

In my mind, marriage as a word should be a mostly religious type thing.

So freaking much would be fixed if marriage was nixed as a legal entity and it was (the exact same sort of) civil unions for everyone. So very, very much.

[Capntastic]

Yeah, until that happens, we're fall back on the whole "seperate but equal" fallacy.