Large Scale Central

Candidate Matchmaking? (poly tickz, don't read)

General Discussion
#1

Found this on another board. It gives you 20 questions and matches you to the presidential candidates that most closely match your views (or is least likely to hold ones that make you puke). http://wtvt.4wmt.com/cmm/

Yes, Since it is only 20 questions, it is rather limited. It told me that I most agreed with McCain, which was OK since I think he is the best of a bad lot…but it said my friend in Cali agrees most with Hillary… whom he despises. So he says it’s totally bogus, and a few more unprintable things. It’s a tool, perhaps useful, if you take it with a grain of salt, and actually read what these people are saying they believe

Doesn’t matter to me who ya vote for, as long as you vote, and do it intelligently.

#2

Took the test, tied with Clinton and Edwards, which doesn’t surprize me, already voted for Hillary twice for sen, and twice for president the first time she was in that office!!

#3

mark,

I take back all the good things I ever said about you! :smiley:

#4

I matched with Duncan Hunter, which is no surprise, since he is my guy! I’ve known Duncan since we were Cub Scout Den Leaders in the Mission District of San Diego Boy Scouts. He is a good guy.

#5

I also matched with Duncan Hunter, but who the heck is he? Never heard the name out here in the “State of Denial” of the two minorities Hillary Obama.

#6

That’s neat, Ric!

I saw my first choice, Mike Gravel, on “The News Hour” once - liked what I heard.

Clinton came up as second choice. She had a lot of guts tackling the doctors’ union - oops, sorry, the AMA - when her husband was in office.

Having worked in the US health care industry in the not-too-distant past, I came back to Oz with a lot of respect for the bigger US insurers. They have to deal with some of the most diabolically clever frauds you can imagine.

Doctors, in general, are highly intelligent, and when they join up with lawyers and set out to beat the system their combined ingenuity is formidable. Fair enough, only a tiny minority is involved, but they’re scary smart and you’re paying for it with premiums higher than they should be.

My nephew wrote today. He’s working in Japan at the moment, and wanted to tell us how intensely interested the Japanese are in the US presidential contest. Where else in the world would a black man and a white woman both be seriously considered for the highest office in the land? Where else do the candidates have to hit the stumps and actually talk to the voters, month after month?

No place to hide in the land of the free!

#7
Ric Golding said:
I also matched with Duncan Hunter, but who the heck is he? Never heard the name out here in the "State of Denial" of the two minorities Hillary Obama.
So did I, but I have heard of him. I was hoping Fred Thompson would fare better in the primaries. Liked his voting record and his no-nonsense approach. Oh well, he's still appears on Law & Order re-runs.........;)
#8

Hey what gives…it said I was a Marxist !

(http://blogs.sun.com/factotum/resource/groucho_cigar2.jpg)

#9

Too bad Harpo isn’t running, then…at least HE knew when to shut up!

#10

Rudy
I could live with that I guess.

#11
mark Dash.... said:
Took the test, tied with Clinton and Edwards, which doesn't surprize me, already voted for Hillary twice for sen, and twice for president the first time she was in that office!!
Mark! So your the one got this end of NY in such a sad situation!?!?!? Hilary really should have moved to Allegany County. Then she MIGHT have done some good in NY state. Otherwise she hasn't done diddly for us. She never writes or even visits. Just like family when they get a chance to leave the state. LOL!
#12

Oh yeah I found the selections amusing too~! McCain and Guilianni were basically tied at 38% and 37% but everyone else was in the 30% category too. LOL! Geuss I’m pretty average American then huh? None of the questions asked really were issues I was too fired up about. Of the ones that were relevant to me and my family, I didn’t care for the way the question or the answer was rated.

Chas

#13

Looks like the field is thinning. Eddie and Julianey are dropping. I guess it coming down to MacKane is the best demeocrat the repubilicans can put up against Illinois’s favorite minorities, Hillary Osama. I’m sure other countries do like at us with questions mark, but this is the best the drug culture of the 60’s and 70’s could come up with. Maybe it all clears up a bit if cetain products are consumed before analzing.

#14

The thing that has me thinking at the moment (dangerous habit, I know) is this… How many GREAT leaders from the past would have a snowball’s chance in h#ll of getting elected today? Jefferson?, Lincoln?, Teddy Roosevelt?, Eisenhower?, Truman?.. forget about it. All of them would have serious problems. MAYBE FDR or Kennedy would stand a chance.

And it isn’t just here, either…somehow I doubt Churchill could get elected dog catcher in modern England

#15

Check this out -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ

#16
Mik said:
The thing that has me thinking at the moment (dangerous habit, I know) is this... How many GREAT leaders from the past would have a snowball's chance in h#ll of getting elected today? Jefferson?, Lincoln?, Teddy Roosevelt?, Eisenhower?, Truman?... forget about it. All of them would have serious problems. MAYBE FDR or Kennedy would stand a chance.
Nope, FDR was a cripple, and JFK had more women problems than Rudy and Slick Willy put together. Just would not happen.
#17

Real leaders can’t afford to be president. :frowning:

#18

Ric,
1 - that guy needs to skip the bs and just get to the point
2 - man that does make you go WOW never thought of it like that. makes sense, those of us that are taxed to death and play with g scale trains can’t afford to have more kids while those illegals have nothing better to do than ****

#19
mark Dash.... said:
Ric, those illegals have nothing better to do than ****
"Those illegals" have been coming to the US for at least forty years.

They have made an awesome contribution to the US economy.

They wouldn’t have come, and wouldn’t have stayed, if Americans hadn’t made it worth their while to do so.

One family working in northern Indiana in the mid-60s had a swag of kids, and loved every one of them.

The father, Rey, worked as a roof tiler. Yeah, Rey - not “illegal”. A good bloke with a name, a face and a life.

Other folks worked in different jobs, like tomato picking on small farms south of Gary.

They didn’t come chasing handouts - they bore the heat of the day, and earned their daily bread.

Small kindnesses from a few Americans meant a lot to them.

Before you finalise your opinion on illegal immigrants, have a look at John McKain’s policies.

He makes a lot of sense.

Better yet, have a chat with a small farmer.

Ask him how easy it is to get good workers at a price he can afford.

#20

I watched the video Ric linked a couple of times. I then had an unrelated browser crash and lost it. Since I’m on dialup and it’s over 9 minutes long, I won’t download it again, so this is from memory:

The guy was talking about LEGAL, CONGRESS APPROVED, GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED IMMIGRANTS. I didn’t hear nor see anything even remotely pointing to or attacking illegal immigration. Please go (actually) watch it and tell me if I missed something.

I notice that the supporters of illegal immigration didn’t even bother to listen to what the guy was saying. IMHO, this just goes to show how little attention people pay once their minds are made up.

BTW, I personally support setting the quota for legal immigrants back to previous levels. And I strongly support fines, jail time and deportation for anyone here illegally.

On Topic, the ‘Candidate Matchmaker’ thinks I should vote for Duncan Hunter. Probably will in the primary.

Happy RRing,

Jerry