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In reply to the discussion: An online presidential 2012 test - who is your candidate? [View all]quakerboy
(14,856 posts)Apparently I agree with Paul when it comes to national security, Romney on education, and Obama on everything else.
However, the options on about half of the questions were almost offensively limited. Instead of finding an answer that I agreed with, I had to look for the least offensively wrong answer. That's how I ended up with Romney on one question. There was no good answer, but Romney's was the most vague. I am sure he did not mean it the way that I would mean the same phrase. There were a handfull of other answers where the choices came out "I agree with this 0%, this 0%, and this 10%, so I guess thats the one i pick, even though I dont really agree with it...". That a sad state of affairs. You would think that with as big a country as we have, there would be different candidates with different stances on various issues, but there is not. On several important issues, only slight shadings of 1 viewpoint are shared by every candidate available.
As to Paul, what can I say? When he agrees with me, he is right, no matter how wrong he is on virtually everything else. Of the current "major" candidates he is the closest to correct on foreign policy. Get our nose and our troops out of other peoples business and do it now, no more mucking about. That's just about the only thing he is correct on, but in that one arena, his proposed policy is better than Obama's.