Ron Paul - Candidate for President of the United States

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fkusumot said:

Final-Fan said:

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Entroper said:

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Parokki said:
I'm about two thirds of the entire political spectrum left from this guy, so I'd much prefer to see one of your less far right candidates like Obama in the White House, but this guy wouldn't be half bad either.

? Ron Paul is not right on the political spectrum. He is in the pro-liberty section. Obama is in the opposite section, and anti-liberty section. Where do you stand? Have a look for yourself. http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html

 

Ron Paul is very much to the right on the liberal/conservative scale, and very much to the left on the libertarian/authoritarian scale. The neo-conservatives tend to be to the right on the authoritarian scale. It's as takeru51 said, Paul is a true conservative and not a neocon.

How can you support the legalization of drugs, abortion, prostitution, and speech and be very much to the right on the political spectrum? Ron Paul is a libertarian which means he is generally for smaller government on econimics issues (like many conservatives) and generally for smaller government on personal/social issues (like many liberals). See this page for more info, http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html

Isn't Ron Paul rabidly anti-abortion? And I thought "speech" was already legal.

Ron Paul does believe (at least I heard him say it in an interview) that Christian Nations do not launch pre-emptive wars. He said we should never have gone to Iraq and should get the hell out. Ron Paul is anti-abortion but has said it should be left up to each state to decide the legality, not the Federal authority. Speech is legal (I hope) still. Drugs aren't unless you people are inclined to give them to you for nothing.

Yeah, and I'll admit that, as a libertarian, his support for the states' being able to decide on abortion probably isn't code for "because we win on the state level and lose on the federal level". That makes him a rare breed of Republican indeed. But that still doesn't make him in favor of "legalizing abortion".

BTW I took the same test you did. -4.25, -4.15 here. But some of the questions were strange, hard to answer accurately, obviously loaded, or what-have-you; in short, I question the accuracy and possibly bias of it. Still, hanging with my peeps Gandhi and Nelson isn't bad at all.

[edit:  I like the test in this post's history better.  It's got simple, clear questions and a simple, obvious bias (pro-libertarian).  Much better IMO than the other one, although the website of other one has some interesting things to say.]