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In reply to the discussion: ACLU candidate scorecard: Gary Johnson 1st, Obama 3rd, and conservatives hostile to liberty [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)And aren't a good barometer to use for choosing anything--unless you combine them with other scorecards: on reproductive rights, on environmental issues, on foreign policy issues, on immigration, on race, on economic issues, and on and on and on. Gary Johnson and Ron Paul get very, very bad grades on a bunch of those things.
But even at that, one wonders how they could give low scores to one candidate (Obama) on things that none of the other candidates even has had to do (e.g., closing Gitmo). Obama is the only one of them who actually signed an Executive Order to close it. The fact that he was blocked from doing so by Republicans (and some Democrats) makes him worse than a bunch of never-been-testeds? Stupid. It's like passing out wildly different tests to students in a class and then ranking them on one scale.