New at Reason: The GOP Presidential Primary Online Dating Game
Not sure who to commit to in the Republican primary race? Let Reason help you out.
Picking a presidential candidate is like sorting through online dating profiles—nobody's quite right, but once a meet-cute is out of the question, the best you can hope for is to pick a mate out of a self-selected digital lineup.
Thus our handy candidate profiles and dating quiz. We've got the candidates' horoscopes, their nick-names, and catalog of flip-flops. (Here's looking at you, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.) Is Rick Perry the real deal when it comes to small government? We can tell you. What are Herman Cain’s hang-ups? We've got those too.
Take our quiz to help select your ideal whatever-in-chief, or just prowl through the offerings by checking out our profiles of all the GOP wannabes.
The candidates:
Sarah Palin (not a candidate, but just in case!)
Bone up before tonight's debate, and check back at Hit & Run this evening for a debate liveblog.
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Herman Cain for Great Justice!
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OccupyAbandon Wall Street! -
At least you're not ranting about ancient Athens. That's a plus.
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Are you one of those agricultural city-STATE worshipers?
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The agricultural city-state did give us philosophy, democracy, mathematics, science, theater. Perfect, no, but it was the origin of much of what separates us from the other apes.
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Poor substitutes for freedom, aren't they?
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Toys, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Especially in when you honestly consider everything that civilization brings:
Taxes.
War.
Decreased lifespan.
Diseases of civilization.
Way more work and less leisure.
More stress.
Worse food.Overall, civilization reduces quality of life, as documented by the following:
Thesis #9: Civilization makes us sick.
Thesis #21: Civilization makes us sick.
Thesis #22: Civilization has no monopoly on medicine.
Thesis #23: Civilization has no monopoly on knowledge.
Thesis #24: Civilization has no monopoly on art.
Thesis #25: Civilization reduces quality of life.
Thesis #27: Collapse increases quality of life.
The Thirty Theses
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War? Don't make me laugh.
Life span? What a joke.
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You the fact that you are typing on a computer, a product which could not exhist without civilization, using the internet, another product without civilization, makes your statement about quality of life perhapes the dumbest comment ever concieved on this website.
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White Indian might want to think about the roots of the word CIVILization before he claims that the agricultural city state is some sort of root of war.
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Also, chimpanzees go to war. Chimpanzees.
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"Way more work and less leisure.
More stress.
Worse food."Lets see I can tell from your statement you have never had to build your own shelter, cut your own fire wood grow your own food, raise and slaughter your own animals. And I can bet you could not cook if your life depended on it, even if you could do half of the above.
Then lets see Stress....hummmm....if you fail at any of the above things you don't live through the winter....So talk about stress...If your going to make it "with out civilization" your going to be doing alot of hand work for about 15 to 20 hours per day to make it through one winter and have enough strength in the spring to start over....Ho so you will move to "warmer" place.....OK raise your food and animals in 105 degrees and 90% humidity for a season...Now no air conditioner or electric power.......You will be cooking over wood fire too....Yea you'll make it!
If you actually live like that already...where do you plug your computer in?
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"Way more work and less leisure.
More stress.
Worse food."Lets see I can tell from your statement you have never had to build your own shelter, cut your own fire wood grow your own food, raise and slaughter your own animals. And I can bet you could not cook if your life depended on it, even if you could do half of the above.
Then lets see Stress....hummmm....if you fail at any of the above things you don't live through the winter....So talk about stress...If your going to make it "with out civilization" your going to be doing alot of hand work for about 15 to 20 hours per day to make it through one winter and have enough strength in the spring to start over....Ho so you will move to "warmer" place.....OK raise your food and animals in 105 degrees and 90% humidity for a season...Now no air conditioner or electric power.......You will be cooking over wood fire too....Yea you'll make it!
If you actually live like that already...where do you plug your computer in?
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Not sure who to commit to in the Republican primary race?
Not at all. No one. The only person I would ever vote for is Lex Luthor.
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Cthulhu 2012!
There's no pretending he's not evil!
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All hail the Deep Ones Party! A vote for the Deep Ones is a vote for Dagon!
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You third-party wingnuts just refuse to recognize that we live in a two-God system: your only reasonable choices are Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth. Anyone else is just a spoiler.
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You mainstream party assholes just live to marginalize people like Ron Paul and Nyarlathotep!
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Show me Nyarlathotep's long-form birth certificate or His Swarthiness is disqualified.
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I had never heard the name NYARLATHOTEP before, but seemed to understand the allusion. Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in public halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions. These exhibitions consisted of two parts — first, a horrible — possibly prophetic — cinema reel; and later some extraordinary experiments with scientific and electrical apparatus. As I received the letter, I seemed to recall that Nyarlathotep was already in Providence...I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him. But Loveman's dream letter decided me...as I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction. I fell in with them, afraid yet eager to see and hear the great, the obscure, the unutterable Nyarlathotep.
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Some say there's no difference between Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth. Some even suggest they're actually the same Outer God.
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Well Hastur is already in the race in the guise of Ron Paul. How else could you explain the lack of attention he's given.
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Re: Episiarch,
Kodos 2012!
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Morbo: Morbo will now introduce the candidates - Puny Human Number One, Puny Human Number Two, and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon's Head: How's the family, Morbo?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.
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+1
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What about ZOD?!?!
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Rosenbaum does an interesting Luthor, but Lyle Talbot's the one who really nailed the character down pat, and so long ago, too -- http://www.supermanhomepage.co.....luthor.jpg
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Shockingly the quiz matched me with Johnson.
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Me too. Who is Gary Johnson?
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He should be coming up soon in the Reason Gary Johnson crush rotation.
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I got Gary Johnson, too, although I assumed it would match me with Ron Paul.
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I was guessing RP or GJ. And I was right, I got the latter.
I was worried I'd end up with Newt or someone. Relief.
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Really though are Ron Paul and Gary Johnson really that different that it matters? You really can't go that wrong with either one.
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Aye. I'm pleased with this result.
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Mein Gott! Me, too!
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Is this like the World's Smallest Political Quiz, where you get Gary Johnson no matter what you answer?
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I, too, meet the requirements for a Gary Johnson supporter, whoever the fuck he is.
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I got Ron Paul. I guess you all must be consequentialists.... or maybe you just like coherent sentences.
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Could have been much worse. I got RP, although I had considered myself more of a GJ man.
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I like George Jefferson too. Weezy would be a cool First Lady.
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Johnson, and I only recognized one quote.
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Me too (GJ). Despite Clicking on all the Ron Paul quotes. HHHHMMMMM?
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Unsurprisingly, I was also matched with Johnson. If he's still in the race by the time the Texas primary comes along, suppose I'll vote for him. But I'm willing to bet I'll be voting for Paul that day.
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Same here, finally took the dating test and got a Johnson out of it lol
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It newted me.
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She turned you into a newt? I assume you got better.
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Same here. I need some steel wool and a shower.
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If you chose nuclear power, that might have sent you over the edge. He has some thingy about that awhile back. I chose that one and still got Gary though.
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Newt Gingrich!? The fuck?
I need a shower.
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The only time Gingrich could ever be thought of as a fiscal conservative was the brief time when he was opposing Bill Clinton. Okay, sometimes when he speaks as a professor too. His Hillary alliance on socialized healthcare revealed his true colors.
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If only he'd made the name change. Then he'd be the only candidate.
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A little respect. Can we not have "Bone up" right after non-candidate Palin's name?
What, you couldn't have listed Santorum last and quipped "What a mess!"???
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Principal Skinner: Young man, you need to do some serious boning!
[only Lisa laughs]
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I got Ron Paul. That's cool.
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Ditto
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Same here.
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Yup, me too. No surprises there.
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Also got the good doctor.
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Occupy the Creationist Museum!
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I got Ron Paul, he's so dreamy.
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yep.
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I took it twice, and got Paul once, and Romney once. Out-of-context sound bytes are difficult to interpret sometimes.
I couldn't find a place where my choices matched the quote from said candidate, or not, so it's hard to tell why, in either case.
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I didn't like the choices on Religion. I tried to skip it, learned you can't, and took the Golden Rule quote.
In reality, it's: none of your business. WTH do you thing 1A means?
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Followed that exact same process.
Ended up with RP... "The Fringe Candidate Who Polls Above 30 Percent" haha that about sums it up.
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Me too. I tried to choose quotes that while slightly incoherent, seemed to give the middle finger to the government more than the other quotes.
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As did I. So I'm hoping it's nothing like eHarmony, and he rejects me after I've decided he's dreamy.
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Why in the world did it match me to Bachmann? I feel dirty now.
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You know you wanna get next to that
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IRS attorneys believe in discipline. And theoretically in submission, too, but I wouldn't rely too much on that.
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Perhaps you mean "behind that?"
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You've earned a good pegging for that. Murcus just loves my technique!
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Romney? I think the quiz is broke.
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Word.
Would have liked to see who's quote was who's instead of the generic wall-o-text profiles reason posted.
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Would have liked to see who's quote was who's
Or at least a scoring at the end of 'You picked x quotes from candidate a, y quotes from candidate b...'
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I would have liked a % match sort of thing.
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STATIST!
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"Ms. Bachman, imagine you were a soft serve ice cream cone. Now describe how you'd like republican voters to lick you."
*wide eyed stare*
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"Imagine the voter was a corn dog..."
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"If the moon was made of spare ribs, would ya eat it?"..."I know I would, and I'd polish it off with a nice tall Budweiser."
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+69 licks to the center of a tootsie pop.
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My date has Newcular Titties. I think I just got roofied.
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You have chosen...... poorly.
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All I need to do now is get cancer and he'll break up with me.
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You got John Edwards?
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I like the idea of matching, but I'd like more detail, not just a "result". I played the game and picked nine quotes, so show me who said each of my choices. I'll draw my own conclusion. Really, I can reason for myself!
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You could always click the text under the candidate's picture. The text that says something along the lines of "click here for more"
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Aw shucks.
I got another rock.
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No surprise I got RP, but I was hoping for more manliness and muscle. And a better skier.
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That personal freedom (i.e. gay marriage) question seemed kind of odd.
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Amen to that. So we're equating "personal freedom" with gay marriage now, are we?
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I thought it was an overall good thing that the Tea Party, whatever you think of them, has at least forced all of the candidates to at least mouth the right words about the size of government. I know the Republicans have been doing that for eons, but still...progress is progress.
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I got Paul.
The damn quiz wouldn't let me not make a choice for question #9.
What candidate thinks radical Islam will dominate the United States within the lifetime of their grandchildren? Because that candidate is a bozo.
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I got Iraq.
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We all know the Islamists are going to rule us because we don't control the border and all those Mexicans are coming over here.
It's obvious.
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I picked the submissive wives quote. I'm atheist and really didn't see a clear pick for me so just went for teh kink.
I got GJ. Shocker.
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Yeah who said that quote about the country being secular and ruled by radical islam. What the fuck? Why would radical islamists run a county as atheist? Its like this candidate doesn't know what he's talking about and is just saying the future will be bad and run by bad people.
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That's what Newclear Titties said to a group of Christian fundies. Of course he knows it is bullshit--an atheist Islamist country is an oxymoron. But his audience at the time was too stupid to know that, and he was able to push two hot buttons (atheism and Islam, three hot buttons if you count secular humanism) at the same time.
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It's Newcular Titties, for the record.
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OK I stand corrected. Its lulz either way.
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I just don't want you to get sued. He's very litigious.
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This is funny.
"Well, I did a show with Michelle and I just loved being with her," Deen told Yeas & Nays. "She probably ate more than any other guest I've ever had on the show —she kept eating even during commercials."
Having Paula Dean call you a gluten is like having Eliot Spitzer call you a whoremonger.
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Gluten? Don't you mean glutton?
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Yes I mean that.
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I could imagine Paula Dean calling someone a "glooten".
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I think she fucks her kids.
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She (Dean) is a creepy weird woman.
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I dunno about that. She's creepy but her sons seem to be fairly normal.
No. I think her husband gets a whole lot of luvin. Lots and lots of luvin. Tons of it. Morning, noon and night. Every day. Even Christmas. Over and over and over...
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A glutton for gluten. Or a glutten for gluts.
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Michelle has stepped up her eating now that she feels like she has to put on bulk to potentially fight the Kraken
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Get on a training diet. I love how Dean rats her out to the media. "She just kept eating".
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She doesn't look like she eats much. I wonder if she headed right for the bathroom afterwards.
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Her name is spelled DEEN!
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I got Johnson, but at least a few of the quotes I picked were RP. It was nice to see more than one acceptable choice on a few of them (education & energy).
On religion, I almost went for Romney's straight up 'yup I'm a Mormon, next subject' just to punish the others for their tiresome emotional blathering. Only GJ's 'do unto others' wasn't too vomit inducing.
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Romney can only use the "yup, I'm a Mormon" line because he is a polished public speaker who won't get tongue-twisted.
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The "I'm a proud Mormon" comment actually came from Huntsman. Not Romney. I had assumed Romney as well, but he's too much of a noodle spine to stand up for any conviction in that manner, of course.
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Huntsman is a Mormon, too?
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Old news. Plus Utah should have tipped you off.
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I tried to take it. But the first question was just full of meaningless taglines. I didn't agree with any of it completely. So I couldn't choose.
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I tried to take it. But the first question was just full of meaningless taglines. I didn't agree with any of it completely. So I couldn't choose.
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YOU MUST CHOOSE!
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STATIST!
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On the ones where there was more than one acceptable answer, I had to decide which one sounded the most sincere. It was damn hard.
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(in that most of them sounded like complete B.S.)
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Yup. Even lines like "less government is best government" or whatever that one was, sure that sounds good but depending on whose piehole it's dribbling out of, I'm going to have a hard time believing it.
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A relative adjective and a superlative adjective don't match, either.
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If it came from a politician, it probably is.
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That is why i couldn't complete the test.
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Same here - when they all sounded the same, I picked the quote which seemed, how shall I say this, least rehearsed. I figured it would be Paul, and I guess I was right.
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How did I get Romney?
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At least you didn't get Huntsman.
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What's a Huntsman?
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A guy who doesn't like Heinz?
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+57 flavors
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(doh! 57 varieties; 37 flavors)
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An Australian Spider...
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STATIST!
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All the cool kids are getting Romney. Even though Romney is a lowlife cowardly cipher. Since he's the "default" I reckon if you choose 4 Johnson quotes and 4 Ron Paul quotes, and 1 Bachmann quote (for teh lulz), you get tagged for Romney. It makes no sense but there it is.
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I'll be getting my rectum cleaned from Johnny H (we'll be taking "Hunts-man" literally). Of course, for issues like spending, it isn't so much what they do as how far they'll go, and their rhetoric only says so much. And it's easy to dodge a social issue with federalism advocacy.
The religion answers were odd, and show just how much pandering goes on with religion. I thought Palin's quote was the best, since it was the only one that put religious life on a separate pedestal, though any other of her soundbites on the subject would have turned me off.
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More importantly, does this mean I like Zappa?
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I got half my age plus seven and Asian. Do you guys not have that rule?
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+1
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I'm a Huntsman! The only candidate with a chance of beating Obama... Heard it here first.
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I got Gary but the last question was awful.I needed none of the above.
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I ended up with Jon Huntsman. Huh? Don't really know anything about him but this is awesome:
Was a prog-rock keyboardist as a teen for band called "Wizard."
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So, he's a dork?
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If only it was Brit glam rock band Wizzard, I might have voted for him...
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My Cesar Franck jokes aren't getting any traction, I see.
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Since in Hawaii, the Republican presidential candidate is chosen at partisan R caucuses, and I'm the Chair of the Libertarian Party of Hawaii, it would look reeeeeally bad if I showed up to vote for Gary Johnson at the caucus.
So, not happening.
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Oh, and just took the quiz and got Gary Johnson.
Would have been helpful to know how many of my yes's belonged to each of the candidates -- though the religion question was full of suck on the responses.
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Is your (LP of HI) hq in Kahala? And its just some dude's house?
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We used to have a HQ right next to a porn shop (seriously), but we got rid of it and now just meet in houses and rent a hall if we need more space.
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WE NEED GOVERNMENT
Agree or disagree?
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How about you answer this?
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Your prevarication reveals you as a STATIST!
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Shouldn't you be gamboling with ferrets or something?
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Someone has a gamboling problem.
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Hell, I don't even agree with the "we" part of that. Some people want / need government, and I'm OK with them making that choice for themselves -- they just need to quit dragging the rest of us involuntarily into their scheme to have others tell them how to live.
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Where's Buddy Roemer?
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Yeah...I kinda agree that Reason shouldn't complain about Gary Johnson being treated like he doesn't exist, while ignoring another legitimate candidate unable to get media attention.
The guy just joined the OWS protests, so I guarantee he's at least different from the other GOP candidates, for better or worse.
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Police: Crook killed himself accidentally
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I got Johnson. Shame I won't be able to hear any more about his ideas from some sort of forum in which candidates answer questions posed to them regarding hypothetical policy implementation.
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It's friggin' unbelievable. Given the dissatisfaction with business as usual this election, in most alternative realities, I bet he's doing much better.
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How in the fucking fuck did I get Newcular Titties?
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more importantly, how do you get them off.
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Too many doughnuts?
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you mancered your nipples too much. or not enough.
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STATIST
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Police: Crook killed himself accidentally
Home invasion suspect's gun discharged as he wrecked car fleeing scene.
Kenneth Kenard Fortson, 21, died when the pickup truck he and three other suspects were traveling in overturned on Roberts Drive across from Riverdale High School.
That accident happened after the three men had allegedly forced entry into a home on Fairway Pointe Drive in Riverdale and demanded money and a video game, according to police.
"He was found with a weapon in his hand, after the truck crashed," said Clayton Police Officer Eddie Soto. "It appears he accidentally shot himself in the head."
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Romney? I just threw up a little.
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STATIST!
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Oh, shit. The FBI is saying they stopped an Iranian terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US. This is not going to end well
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Kinetic drone action coming soon!
Also, war = jobs!
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Cain, who is by now my third choice. I blame having to choose an option for every question.
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Same result, same blame. Although after reading all of those quotes I'm pretty sure I wouldn't pick any of those people on purpose.
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Herman Cain? WTF?
Gotta be kidding me...
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STATIST!
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Maybe you're hungry and are in the mood for pizza?
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I got Gary Johnson, even though I clicked on many insane statements.
• White Indian is more libertarian than thou.
• White Indian knows real liberty, not fake tripe promulgated by self-styled libertarians.
• White Indian is the only consistent, non-contradictory anti-Statist commenting at Reason.
Be ye therefore perfect, even as White Indian which is in heaven is perfect.
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White Injun is consistent in at least ONE thing: He would cry like a little girl if having to face survival in the "original affluent society."
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You're psychologically projecting again, foofoo domesticated poodle.
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Pics or it wouldn't happen.
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Ron Paul. Or, would you rather have a shit sandwich or a steak?
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Well, lookie here! I was matched to Ron Paul!
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I am very unhappy with this dating service. For some reason, I got Ms. Bachmann. While she is my preferred sexual partner (of this bunch), I am not a big fan. I have a feeling that the religious question put her over the top. I could not find any of those statements that I could support. I tried to leave it blank, but the dating service insisted I pick one.
The answer I would have preferred would be something like: "Who gives a shit about religion? I thought we were talking politics."
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You are just thinking with your dick. NTTAWWT
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STATIST!
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The answer I would have preferred would be something like: "Who gives a shit about religion? I thought we were talking politics."
Mega ditto, but alas, current political reality requires that they play the Jesus card early and often.
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Religion, politics, and capitalism are the same thing: hierarchy. Which means: the desire to possess control over other humans.
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Ent Ent, thank you for playing.
You get one agricultural textbook as a consolation. But, since we still have time, we'll be having another contestant on Pretend You're a Voluntaryist.
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Gave me Hermain Cain as well. My actual preferences are probably
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I got the Kochtopus.
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Herman Cain is going to say something stupid tonight and his support will evaporate as fast as Perry's did. He's already said a number of stupid things this election season but benefited greatly by not being a frontrunner (ie, target). He can't play the comic relief anymore.
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Presumably the quote "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." is supposed to be from Sarah Palin. If so, whoever constructed the quiz isn't being very careful with his facts.
As you can easily check by listening to the speech in question, or reading the text, what she actually said was that her audience should pray that Iraq was a task from God.
That particular out of context quote has been widely circulated, but I didn't expect to see it from Reason
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This is the result of the anarchy of the interwebs. You know this better than most.
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Shit! Romney? W...T...F?!!! I know some of my responses were Johnson's and Paul's, and the others were all good libertarian-leaning policy positions. I think that this just proves that, if you just go by what a candidate promises in the debates (and not by his or her record or decisions), you will get burned.
Also, don't vote for Mormons. They're trained to hide the gory details of their lives (e.g., God is a man who lives on a star called "Kolob". You can be a god too, if you just don't drink alcohol or caffeine. Make sense?). It's called "milk before meat", and Romney is just giving us the "milk" ("I'm a free-market conservative businessman, honest.") before the "meat" has a chance to rear its head before he gets in office ("Whaaa? No, I didn't expand government expenditures on needless things so that I could throw cushy contracts in the direction of my Mormon business cronies. And Obama Care? Not so different from Romney Care.")
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I'm a former Mormon, so let me just say this: do you really want me to break out a can of whoop-ass and point out all the crazy in Mainstream Christendom?
The virgin birth. The dead guy coming back to life. God being simultaneously one being and three beings. Calls for loving your neighbor, admixed with calls to stone them to death for trivial offenses. A supreme being, all loving and merciful in theory, a genocidal prick in practice. A guy swallowed by a whale and, days later, spit out alive. Pretty much everything in Leviticus.
And so on.
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Sorry, there's a statute of limitations on crazy. The good news (no pun intended) is that Mormonism will be totally normal in around 1300-1400 years.
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"Christiandom" (sic.) has some hard-to-swallow beliefs, but at least they aren't clearly contradicted by primary sources (e.g., how the Mormon claim that Native Americans are descended from Hebrews is contradicted by primary DNA and linguistic evidence -- well, they *used* to claim that, but then amended their scripture when the DNA didn't pan out). Mormonism took these Christian beliefs and then added some completely unfounded and even crazier shit based on speculations about Native American history that a 14-year-old boy heard about and thought sounded cool.
But I digress, my point was that Mormons know that their views (and their ultimate allegiance to the Mormon Church over *all* else, the Constitution included) will not sit well with the voting public. This is why they are trained to lie and evade (hence, "milk before meat"). And Romney is such a smooth and evasive liar.
Tell me I'm wrong, and I'll have to bust out the can of whoop-ass that is Shawn McCraney (a former Mormon [born in the church, stayed in for 40 years] who is an anarcho-libertarian-ish born-again Evangelical Christian). He knows first hand just how crazy and anti-American the heart of Mormonism is.
That said, I would still vote for Romney over Obama, since he at least says that he'll vote to overturn Obamacare. (Which, clearly, Obama will not.)
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Not to get all theological again, but clearly you missed the New Testament/Old Testament thing. Not surprising, since Mormons (despite protestations to the contrary) aren't Christians and don't know the Bible.
Also, yes, the virgin birth thing is hard to believe (and may have something to do with an ambiguity in the Aramaic...or was it Coine Greek?), but at least the notion of a Messiah comes from a Judaic tradition with thousands of years of history, and not just the musings of a 14-year-old's brain.
Plus, Mormons believe in modern-day prophesy, which means that if their prophet tells them to do something (like, oh, ban gay marriage), they give all of their time and money to support the cause, unthinkingly -- Constitution be damned! Christians at least only do what a reasonable interpretation of the New Testament tells them to do, which is to love thy neighbor. There are reasonable interpretations of the New Testament that are consistent with the most radical of libertarian policies (Ron Paul's, e.g.), but not so with Mormonism, because there is no end to the "scripture" that the crazies in Salt Lake are churning out.
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I'm a Mormon and a libertarian, but I got Ron Paul in the quiz.
Oddly enough, I found that last religion question really annoying to answer, "I'm a Mormon..." well, yeah, but why in blazes does that matter to anyone? I thought we were talking about things that actually matter...religion is kind of irrelevant.
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I picked the dumbest answer on every question and got Sarah Palin!
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I did that and got Newt.
I think the one about how in 50 years we'll be an atheist country with Sharia Law was possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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Makes quite the case for political celibacy.
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Ron Paul hangups edit: His hangup isn't with warfare starters, it's with warfare finishers.
But, make no mistake about it, somebody better be ready 'cause Ron'll give'em a run for their money!
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wtf i got huntsman
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Gary Johnson for me, apparently.
Wow, it was really depressing to have to pick some of those.
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Something is wrong here. I took this test sincerely and I got Bachmann. I swear.
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Looks like I'm dating Romney. Who'd've thunk it?
So the question is why, if these are their public pronouncements, as fairly selected by Reason editors for us to judge by, why do our unblinded judgments come out so different? Or did Reason editors choose the statements for their comic value or something else?
Is something like Project Vote Smart better for letting candidates choose their own statements to submit, rather than filtering them as here?
Meanwhile, should I consider Romney more seriously, based on this dating game? If not, why not?
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I got hooked up with Gary Johnson, which is not far off the mark because even though I'm a Ron Paul supporter Johnson is the only other GOP contender I'd vote for in November 2012.
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What in hell does astrology have to do with "reason?"
