<p>I could live with Paul if all the states were blue, but I don’t know how he plans to deal with some of the nutty red states.</p>
<p>I’d vote for Kucinich in a heartbeat, but wouldn’t go near Paul with a 4,000 foot pole. Don’t even joke about them running together. Ptui.</p>
<p>I happen to know a lot of people whose 1st 2 choices are Paul and Kucinich. A LOT of people.</p>
<p>Are they single issue (ie Iraq War) voters?</p>
<p>I purposely retook the quiz and answered opposite of everything I really believed in. Along with ranking every question as super important. And the winner is; Kucinich. So, at least I know that I’m not voting for him. Billary and O-ramalamadingdong were the next two.</p>
<p>But in all fairness, there have been a few people really preaching Ron Paul as a viable candidate. So, I did a bit of basic research to see where he really stands. I think my biggest problem with him is that he’s a libertarian. I do not like fence sitters. I don’t like people who think that they can play in the center and try to please all people. You can tell by many of his positions that they contradict each other. While I could never vote for Hillary or Obama, I can totally and without question RESPECT their positions. I don’t have to agree with someone to respect them. Hillary and Obama do believe in what they preach. They are consistent. I respect that. I respect them. Ron Paul seems way too flip flop to me. I can’t respect that. </p>
<p>He seems to be against the Iraq war, against universal health care, against women’s right for an abortion, and against the department of education and believes it should be abolished. Now, forget what I agree with or not. It doesn’t matter. What Ron Paul is for however is; For Personal Privacy and Liberty, for legalizing marijuana and ending the war on drugs, for total free market which includes no government oversight on many environmental issues, etc… Now, as I said, it doesn’t matter what I think of Ron Paul. But I can’t respect him because many of the things he’s for contradicts the things he’s against. Hell, the only thing he was really for that I agreed with is having the USA get out of the United Nations. The rest of his positions are too wishy washy middle of the road, try and please everyone, and have no real opinion on anything, for my likes.</p>
<p>Of course, it doesn’t help when I read articles where they quote him saying some extremely racist and white separatist comments. Granted, that was a few years ago, but I don’t have much room for such ignorance. We’re talking about someone who wants to be president of the United States, in charge of the most powerful and influential country on the planet. Damn; he’s got to be at least smarter, more intelligent, less hypocritical, more consistent, than I am. If not, then I might as well run for president. I’m a lot more consistent in my politics than Ron Paul is.</p>
<p>Anyway, this wasn’t really about him. It was about the quiz and the results. If you think that Kucinich and Thompson are 100% opposite, then I guess the quiz is somewhat accurate. I personally don’t think they are that good. They may be accurate in what you and a candidate see similarly, but they don’t do anything for the voting factor. People will vote for, especially in the democratic primaries, for the person they think can win. It doesn’t matter if they like them or not. The democrats are so ***<em>ed off because they think poor baby Al Gore was robbed; forget the fact that Bush got re-elected, that they are going to find whoever it takes to win back the presidency. So, you might believe in Kucinich, but there’s a good chance that when $h</em>t hits the fan, you won’t vote for him.</p>
<p>Ya, Christcorp you’re full of it. You have no taste for racist statements so you hate Paul, but probably worship Reagan like the apostle. Want to hear something neat about him? </p>
<p>"In August, after the Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan gave a campaign speech at an annual county fair on the outskirts of Philadelphia, Mississippi, which civil rights leaders said was an insensitive reminder of the Mississippi civil rights worker murders of 1964.</p>
<p>Reagan announced, “I believe in states’ rights.” He also said, “I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment.” He went on to promise to “restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them.” [3] Critics claimed that the speech signaled Reagan’s opposition to the civil rights reforms of the 1960s. "
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<p>What about Tom DeLay praising Strom Thurmond, the famous segregationist?</p>
<p>Regan says he wants to take rights and power away from the federal government and give them back to the states, and you believe this means he opposes civil rights. Talk about full of it.</p>