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How do the candidates match up with The Crawfish?

There are a couple of websites that have “candidate calculators” that allow the user to input their opinion on a number of issues, and then see how the candidates match up with their beliefs.

The Crawfish has taken the tests and will now show how he matches up with them. A word of caution on the questions, though. Some issues require the user to click on the link to really understand how to vote on them, such as “Replace US troops with the UN in Iraq”. I initially put Strongly Oppose, until I looked at what each answer stood for, and had to change to Neutral.

The first site is On The Issues.Org. I am not going to bother with useless candidates such as Nader, McKinney, LaRiva, and Moore. My next post will be the “Candidate Calculator” at www.vajoe.com, where The Crawfish is a Moderator and weekly columnist.

Overall, I am listed as a Hard-Core Conservative (surprise, surprise). I matched Bob Barr (Hard-Core Conservative) 68% (75% social and 63% economic), Chuck Baldwin (Libertarian Conservative) 63% (56% social and 67% economic), McCain (Populist Leaning conservative) 43% (50% social and 38% economic), Obama (Hard-Core Liberal) 15% (19% social and 13% economic), and Clinton (Hard-Core Liberal) 8% (0% social and 13% economic).

Here are the questions with my answers and those of the candidates (SS= strongly support, S= support, N= neutral, O= oppose, SO= strongly oppose, check the website and links for explanations):

Abortion is a woman’s right
Crawfish- SO, Barr- SO, Baldwin- SO, McCain- O, Obama- SS, Clinton- SS (state issue according to the Constitution, only federal issue because of the most flawed Supreme Court decision in history)

Require companies to hire more women and minorities (support racism)
Crawfish- SO, Barr- O, Baldwin- N, McCain- S, Obama- SS, Clinton- S (McCain supports racism)

Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws
Crawfish- O, Barr- O, Baldwin- N, McCain- S, Obama- S, Clinton- SS

Teach family values in public schools
Crawfish- S, Barr- SS, Baldwin- S, McCain- S, Obama- O, Clinton- O (completely local/state issue according to the Constitution)

Death Penalty
Crawfish- SS, Barr- SS, Baldwin- N, McCain- SS, Obama- O, Clinton- O

Mandatory 3 strikes sentencing laws
Crawfish- S, Barr- SS, Baldwin- N, McCain- SS, Obama- O, Clinton- O

Absolute right to gun ownership
Crawfish- SS, Bar- SS, Baldwin- SS, McCain- SS, Obama- O, Clinton- SO (obviously Dims oppose the Constitution)

More federal funding for health coverage
Crawfish- SO, Barr- O, Baldwin- SO, McCain- O, Obama-SS, Clinton- S

Privatize Social Insecurity
Crawfish- SS, Bar- SS, Baldwin- SS, McCain- SS, Obama- SO, Clinton- SO (not something the feds are authorized to be involved in)

Parents choose schools via vouchers
Crawfish- S, Barr- SS, Baldwin- SS, McCain- SS, Obama-N, Clinton- SO (of course, this is not a national issue, since education is a state and local issue according to the Constitution)

Replace coal and oil with alternatives (click the link on this one for sure!)
Crawfish- SO, Barr- SO, Baldwin- SO, McCain- S, Obama- SS, Clinton- SS (Crawfish wants to eventually do so when the technology allows it, especially for cars, aircraft, ships, etc, but no way on cap& trade or Kyoto!)

Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it
Crawfish- S, Barr- SS, Baldwin- N, McCain- SS, Obama- O, Clinton- O (Democrats like drug users…altered brains believe their tripe!)

Allow churches to provide welfare services
Crawfish- S, Barr- S, Baldwin-N, McCain- SS, Obama- S, Clinton- S

Make taxes more progressive (Class warfare)
Crawfish- SO, Barr- SO, Baldwin- SO, McCain- O, BO- SS, Clinton- SS (imagine that, the Left wants more class warfare. Crawfish supports the Fair Tax)

Illegal Invaders earn citizenship
Crawfish- SO, Barr- SO, Baldwin- SO, McCain- S, Obama- SS, Clinton- SS (how can any AMERICAN support this?)

Support & expand free trade
Crawfish- SO, Barr- SO, Baldwin- SO, McCain- SS, Obama- O, Clinton- N (McCain wants more of the NAFTA failures)

More spending on the Armed Forces
Crawfish- SS. Barr- S, Baldwin- O, McCain- S, Obama- N, Clinton- O (this answer alone rules out Baldwin)

Stricter limits on political campaign funds (again, it is important to click the link on this issue)
Crawfish- SO, Barr- SS, Baldwin- SS, McCain- SO, Obama- SS, Clinton- SS

The Patriot Act harms civil liberties
Crawfish- SO, Barr- SS, Baldwin- SS, McCain- SO, Obama- SS, Clinton- SS (the main thing here is wiretaps on foreign phone calls, which is basic signals intelligence…what helped us with WW2 on both fronts! Foreign signals are free game and spies/saboteurs have NO RIGHTS!)

Replace US troops with UN in Iraq (VERY important to click the link!)
Crawfish- N, Barr- S, Baldwin- SS, McCain- SO, Obama- S, Clinton- SS (The Crawfish wants the UN to go away, PERIOD! Replace US troops with Iraqi troops when they are good enough and reliable enough to handle it!)

Just for S&G’s, I took the quiz and matched my answers with my Senator who is up for re-election.

Matched Senator John Cornyn 68% (69% social and 67% economic, with no breakdown available).

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