
Kinda funny really.
Poor Mitt Romney.
Looking at it updated... it may be worse now... since they have Utah listed for Gary Johnson now.
http://garyjohnsongrassrootsblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/johnson-wins-election-based-on-issues.html


Kinda funny really.
Poor Mitt Romney.
Looking at it updated... it may be worse now... since they have Utah listed for Gary Johnson now.
http://garyjohnsongrassrootsblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/johnson-wins-election-based-on-issues.html

You do know this is completly irrelevant to the elections and the chances of Garry winning the elections are smaller than 0, right?
| Player1x3 said: You do know this is completly irrelevant to the elections and the chances of Garry winning the elections are smaller than 0, right? |
He's not going to win. However it's interesting to note where things are on the issues because it gives insight into how poltiical parties will change and adopt in the future.
One party shooting towards the libretarian middle would seemingly unbalance party politcs. Espeically if it was the democrats...
and it generally shows the "Run super conservative" to win the south belief may be mistaken.

| Kasz216 said: One party shooting towards the libretarian middle would seemingly unbalance party politcs. Espeically if it was the democrats... |
Thank god that will never happen. Drug wars and culture wars 4 life!
badgenome said:
Thank god that will never happen. Drug wars and culture wars 4 life! |
I feel like this somewhat reinforces the validity of the new Ralph Nader policy of "Try and build a Liberal/Libretarian coalition."

Kasz216 said:
I feel like this somewhat reinforces the validity of the new Ralph Nader policy of "Try and build a Liberal/Libretarian coalition." |
That would probably be a good direction. The libertarian part of the republican party is essentially mocked. Combining liberals and libertarians would probably make a pretty appealing party.
| Kasz216 said: I feel like this somewhat reinforces the validity of the new Ralph Nader policy of "Try and build a Liberal/Libretarian coalition." |
They do have some common short term goals, but they aren't really so many and once those are accomplished, then what? I don't see how such a thing could ever survive in the long run. The left's belief in positive rights will always doom such an alliance. You will sooner get the right to give up its silly moralism than you will get the left to give its up, because the right isn't really defined by theirs in the way that the left is.
All Nader can say about this critical difference is, "Who cares if they quote Ayn Rand as long as they don't ask you to compromise on your principles?" Which may be a great response to the left winger who finds libertarian selfishness distasteful, but it doesn't address the problem at all. Naturally, progressives are going to be much less bothered by the fact that libertarians want to be left alone than libertarians are by the fact that progressives have all kinds of marvelous designs in mind for them and their property.
Thanks for sharing this Kasz. In Ohio so I am not affiliated with a party, but was previously (R) in KY.
Scores:
84% Gary Johnson
on healthcare, economic, foreign policy, domestic policy, and social issues
76% Virgil Goode
on economic, immigration, environmental, healthcare, and foreign policy issues
74% Mitt Romney
on immigration, economic, and environmental issues
71% Barack Obama
on social, science, environmental, and foreign policy issues
76% Democrat
74% Libertarian
74% Green
71% Republican
badgenome said:
They do have some common short term goals, but they aren't really so many and once those are accomplished, then what? I don't see how such a thing could ever survive in the long run. The left's belief in positive rights will always doom such an alliance. You will sooner get the right to give up its silly moralism than you will get the left to give its up, because the right isn't really defined by theirs in the way that the left is. All Nader can say about this critical difference is, "Who cares if they quote Ayn Rand as long as they don't ask you to compromise on your principles?" Which may be a great response to the left winger who finds libertarian selfishness distasteful, but it doesn't address the problem at all. Naturally, progressives are going to be much less bothered by the fact that libertarians want to be left alone than libertarians are by the fact that progressives have all kinds of marvelous designs in mind for them and their property. |
In politics, the short term IS long term.
It would take them a good long while to get far enough to accomplish their common short term goals. After that... a dissolution is sure to happen, but at that point the current system would be destablized already... and you'd hope you can fashion yourself a more influential position on your own.
