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2004-08-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-
The Political Quiz Show
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Posted by .com 2004-08-29 05:38|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Interesting, I scored a 33. ;)
Posted by RJB in JC MO 2004-08-29 7:04:56 AM||   2004-08-29 7:04:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 35 and I was in my "sensitive" mode
Posted by Frank G  2004-08-29 7:09:14 AM||   2004-08-29 7:09:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 HA!

36!
Posted by badanov  2004-08-29 7:59:26 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-08-29 7:59:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dang, Only 39! Where did I go wrong?
Hehehe
Posted by DanNY 2004-08-29 8:30:14 AM||   2004-08-29 8:30:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 38 here.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-08-29 8:40:31 AM||   2004-08-29 8:40:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 And people think I'm a fascist. :) :) :)
Posted by RJB in JC MO 2004-08-29 8:51:46 AM||   2004-08-29 8:51:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 well I only got a 35.
Most folks say I am to the right of Attila the Hun.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-29 8:56:29 AM||   2004-08-29 8:56:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm going to have to try harder, I'm uncomfortable looking like the resident liberal.:(
Posted by RJB in JC MO 2004-08-29 9:05:38 AM||   2004-08-29 9:05:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 38. Clearly I am weak and spineless.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2004-08-29 9:46:42 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2004-08-29 9:46:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Cough(22)Cough.

Yikes!
Posted by Heysenbergmayhavebeenhere 2004-08-29 9:49:43 AM||   2004-08-29 9:49:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Going back to the quiz and playing around a bit, I found out what kept me from a perfect 40 score: my "NO" vote on banning pornography, and my "NEITHER" vote on the question of whose views are more extreme, Jocelyn Elders or Pat Robertson.

For what it's worth...
Posted by Dave D. 2004-08-29 9:58:17 AM||   2004-08-29 9:58:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 How appropriate that Jesse is a big "0"! Also, I disagree that a 40 would equal Reagan. That would mean that his views would strictly align with the correct answers to all the questions. If memory serves me, Reagan never compromised social security and medicare or cut the programs mentioned in the questions.
Posted by Jack is Back  2004-08-29 10:22:25 AM||   2004-08-29 10:22:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hrmmm 34. Very odd.
Posted by Silentbrick  2004-08-29 10:24:40 AM||   2004-08-29 10:24:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 33 here. Waiting to see results for Old Spook, .com, and several other regulars.
Posted by Mark Z.  2004-08-29 10:24:45 AM||   2004-08-29 10:24:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 25.I'm so ashamed,clearly I must go out back and shoot my Liberial ass.
Posted by raptor 2004-08-29 10:36:39 AM||   2004-08-29 10:36:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 The problem with that test is there are more than two political stances. Big media pushes the two party system in this country. I got a 32 but I classify myself as a (right leaning) libertarian.
Posted by Anonymous6206 2004-08-29 11:18:38 AM||   2004-08-29 11:18:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 38.

I the Catholic side of me on (especially on question 11, I said need rebuilt cities AND more prisons) kept me from the 40. That and my non-opposition to deficeit spending (which puts me in line with the Gipper) - deficeits are OK as long as they are eventually resolved by cuts.

One I don't see a liberal/conservative difference for is: 19. Deceptive political campaign commercials should be banned. (FYI I said no - which marked me as a conservative - I guess liberals tthat are pure free speech types must be closet conservatives according to this poll).

Both sides want the other side's ads banned, so when you say "Deceptive" it draws different pictures in people's partisan minds. Conservatives see deceptive ads as those full of untruths, like the Bush=AWOL (completely unproven), whereas Liberals see the swift vets ads (even if they are factually correct like the latest one about Cambodia) as "Deceptive".
Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-29 11:37:10 AM||   2004-08-29 11:37:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 32 here.
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-08-29 12:13:48 PM||   2004-08-29 12:13:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 30, but I didn't study for it.
Posted by Matt 2004-08-29 12:16:57 PM||   2004-08-29 12:16:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I got an Incomplete because I did not take it....
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-29 12:22:56 PM||   2004-08-29 12:22:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 ..I came up with a 31 - not in bad company, I'd say*S*

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-08-29 1:00:38 PM||   2004-08-29 1:00:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 I scored "36"-identical to badanov and close to sock and frank. Pretty much where I thought I'd be, though I am surprised OS is more "right" than us four. Good job, OS, now you will inherit the John Birch, Barry Goldwater moniker. ha, ha

Posted by rex 2004-08-29 1:29:42 PM||   2004-08-29 1:29:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Ooops I didn't pay close enough attention - it's Dan who is the "extreme" rw moniker winner, not OS.
Posted by rex 2004-08-29 1:37:28 PM||   2004-08-29 1:37:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Even taking a pretty libertarian line through the questioning I got a 34. I'm surprised that Bob Dole is considered to the Right of me, though. I wonder how they picked the people to represent the various scores.
Posted by eLarson 2004-08-29 1:41:30 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-08-29 1:41:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 38 out of a possible 40. They set the "quiz" up to show extremes of thinking (the possible answers make that obvious). I didn't even answer one of the questions, since I didn't agree with either choice.

Wonder how people would score if at least some of the questions had "Who gives a rat's ass?" as a choice?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-08-29 2:06:27 PM||   2004-08-29 2:06:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 I disagree that a 40 would equal Reagan. That would mean that his views would strictly align with the correct answers to all the questions. If memory serves me, Reagan never compromised social security and medicare or cut the programs mentioned in the questions.

Actually Reagan was pretty conservative, more so than he is given credit for. We have selective memory about his "conservativism" nowadays. The neocons have wrongfully claimed Reagan as their one of their own and therefore Reagan is being painted these days as a social liberal hawk than he actually was. Remember it was Reagan who contemptuously used the image of a "cadillac" welfare mom to great advantage to support cuts in welfare spending. And he only gave amnesty to the 4 million illegal immigrants, because he was trying to cut a deal with a Democrat dominated Congress to bring in stricter employer-of- illegals penalties and stricter border control. Reagan actually believed that the Democrats were serious about amnesty being a one time only thingie. Also, though Reagan spoke favorably about deficit spending, he was still fighting behind the scenes with the Democrats to make domestic spending cuts. He spent alot in defense and space exploration because he inherited a broken military and a demoralized nation from Carter. Keep in mind Reagan was also a big proponent of state autonomy and small federal government. And recall it was Reagan penalized the UN for its blantant anti-Americanism by refusing to pay UN dues. So I'd say Reagan is definitely more RW and "less compassionate" than people today remember him to be.

The following following is a Cato Institute 2 page analysis of Reagan's domestic spending cuts versus GWB's.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb-0308-16.pdf

Reagan proposed that spending be reduced to below baseline levels. In his first budget plan,he proposed cuts of $41 billion for FY1982, or about 5 percent of baseline outlays. His second budget for FY1983 proposed an additional cut of 5 percent.3 He targeted both discretionary and entitlement programs for cuts, including health care, welfare, food stamps, student
loans, housing, and education. Reagan did not get all the cuts he wanted, but he did push for subtractions from the baseline, not additions as Bush has pushed for.
Posted by rex 2004-08-29 2:15:42 PM||   2004-08-29 2:15:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 25
This test is messed up...
Posted by Kentucky Beef  2004-08-29 2:20:46 PM||   2004-08-29 2:20:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 I got 14 !
^_^
Posted by Gentle 2004-08-29 2:41:15 PM||   2004-08-29 2:41:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 26, Gentle you're not allowed to take the test, because you're not allowed to think.
Posted by Shipman 2004-08-29 2:55:47 PM||   2004-08-29 2:55:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 I mean that kindly, but ignorance screws up the results.
Posted by Shipman 2004-08-29 2:56:40 PM||   2004-08-29 2:56:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Then why is the result so accurate?
Posted by Gentle 2004-08-29 2:58:33 PM||   2004-08-29 2:58:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 Hmmmm..... it's sez see the registrar about fines.?
Posted by Half 2004-08-29 3:35:00 PM||   2004-08-29 3:35:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 Wow, I got 25 - just like Dubya! :-)
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2004-08-29 3:44:07 PM||   2004-08-29 3:44:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 lolo half!
Posted by Frank G  2004-08-29 3:58:56 PM||   2004-08-29 3:58:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 A slight OT:
Is anyone else watching the C-SPAN coverage of today's anti-Bush march in NYC?
Some lowlights:
Big mob of fat lesbians ululating terror-mom style.
An obese 50 something woman marching topless.
An old guy in a barrel.
A dragon float set on fire by blackshirts and hosed down by the FDNY.
Another nut with a sign declaring (I kid you not) "The End is Near" just like a MAD Magazine cartoon from the 50s.
Cameras cutting away constantly because of obscene signs, audio blipped or shut down because of obscene chants.
My question: Where did Karl Rove get the dough to pay all these idiots?
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-29 4:00:09 PM||   2004-08-29 4:00:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 thks AC - just turned it on after reading your comment. "people not profit!" oooohhhh that's DEEP
Posted by Frank G  2004-08-29 4:02:02 PM||   2004-08-29 4:02:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 I scored a 25.

Posted by Destro 2004-08-29 4:07:13 PM||   2004-08-29 4:07:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 "Suck" and "fuck" and variations thereof seem to be the protestors' words of choice today. An homage to the Clinton White House perhaps?
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-29 4:10:18 PM||   2004-08-29 4:10:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 LOL AC! I'm turning C-Spam on right now. I can't wait to see this!
Posted by Charles  2004-08-29 4:13:14 PM||   2004-08-29 4:13:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 Wow. Just turned on the C-SPAN coverage of Moonbat Central Control.

For those of you too young to remember, this is what the Sixties were like, except now there's no blood in the streets.

Yet.
.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-08-29 4:16:25 PM||   2004-08-29 4:16:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 They are either saying "Fuck and Suck" or "Boston sucks" I can't figure it out. And what's the deal with the flag draped coffins? Are they trying to impress the Paleos?
Posted by Destro 2004-08-29 4:17:15 PM||   2004-08-29 4:17:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 LGF is running not one but several live threads on the coverage.
At this point, many of the marchers are going openly totalitarian by chanting "No more GOP." They are closing in on Central Park to confront the police there. Can the blackshirt terrorists overthrow rule of law and hijack the park for their own purposes? This is the showdown.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-29 4:18:24 PM||   2004-08-29 4:18:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 I got a 31! I will try to improve that to a 40.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-08-29 4:20:01 PM||   2004-08-29 4:20:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 They have the Quakers on their side! We're all doomed!
Posted by Charles  2004-08-29 4:31:46 PM||   2004-08-29 4:31:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 Somebody call me when the NYPD gets down to business. Or maybe I'll just wait and buy the Patrolman Murphy Highlight Reel.
Posted by Matt 2004-08-29 4:58:34 PM||   2004-08-29 4:58:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 From the Roger Simon site:

"Cops were everywhere. It was fun talking to them. One of them said to me, 'It's like fuggin' 9/11 never happened.' His buddies seemed to agree."

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we're getting close to game time.
Posted by Matt 2004-08-29 5:38:55 PM||   2004-08-29 5:38:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 THey have Ducks?

Ohhhh.. QuaKers now QuaCKers.
Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-29 5:43:49 PM||   2004-08-29 5:43:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 Here is a real political Quiz.
The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz.
Yes I am an registered evil libertarian.

Komrads unite! Join the revolution!
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-29 5:50:18 PM||   2004-08-29 5:50:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 Spod - excellent quiz! Concise and too the point.
Posted by Bulldog  2004-08-29 5:56:00 PM||   2004-08-29 5:56:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 Sweeeeet political quiz, sock. I scored on "the border of right-conservative and libertarian." [90% economics per the former and 50% personal issues per the latter]
Posted by rex 2004-08-29 6:08:26 PM||   2004-08-29 6:08:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#51 31

I've got no problem being between Jack Kemp and Bob Dole.
Posted by mojo  2004-08-29 6:24:25 PM||   2004-08-29 6:24:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#52 33 - same, Mojo. I guess my re-education is coming along rather well.

Here's the IndyZits thread on the NYPD vs. Direct Action. You will find some amusing comments, I'm sure...
Posted by .com 2004-08-29 6:34:00 PM||   2004-08-29 6:34:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#53 Like all pop psych quizzies, fun but incomplete (according to Myers-Briggs, my husband - of almost a quarter century - and I should have loathed one another on sight; according to another one whose name escapes me, I don't exist). Twenty - because there were a bunch of questions that didn't provide the right answer - and slightly left in the Centrist box.

But neither questionnaire asked, "What would you do if they wanted to put a black tent on your daughter?" or "What should be done to those who believe Jews need human blood to make Passover matzahs/Purim pastries/holiday bread?"

Gentle: Did you leave any questions unanswered because you don't know one or both of the choices? Did you choose your answers with reference to your own country, or to America? Both of these could change the validity of your result. Although I think that a lower number does seem to track well with your age, status, and general tone of your coments here (outside of your hateful attitude toward Jews and Israel, which likely are the result of the propagandist streak in your education and society. I suspect you have never personally made the acquaintance of a Jew, or even a Muslim Arab Israeli, in order to form your own opinion.)
Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-29 6:46:45 PM||   2004-08-29 6:46:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#54 29, prolly about right. I don't mind being somewhat liberal, I just don't want to be idiotarian, as seen in NY today. Thats lame ass.
Posted by Lucky 2004-08-29 7:19:27 PM||   2004-08-29 7:19:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#55 Lucky - got a link for you: MoCoLoco (Modern Contemporary Design) - you were talking, no make that emoting (heh), about composition and there are interesting things to be seen here which might offer inspiration. Cool runnings...
Posted by .com 2004-08-29 7:37:14 PM||   2004-08-29 7:37:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#56 I'm 35, right there with Bob Dole. I know it. You know it. The country knows it.
Posted by jackal  2004-08-29 7:57:42 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2004-08-29 7:57:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#57 How do you that and thanx for noticing. Very cool stuff. The kernal of truth.
Posted by Lucky 2004-08-29 8:42:04 PM||   2004-08-29 8:42:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#58 SPOD - By your test, I'm Libertarian, but much more to the right side of it.
Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-29 8:58:58 PM||   2004-08-29 8:58:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#59 21 on the first quiz, dead-center Libertarian on SPOD's quiz.
(shrugs)
Posted by Another Dan 2004-08-29 9:54:56 PM||   2004-08-29 9:54:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#60 24. Who gives a f*ck.
Posted by Jarhead 2004-08-29 10:24:28 PM||   2004-08-29 10:24:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#61 .
I got a 26. But….. I’m with trailing wife. Here are some problems I had with the survey.

1. Executive v/s Legislative…I based my answer on: what if Hillary was in the white house? I trust the legislative branch more because it can not be completely corrupted by one (or more) tyrant-wannabe(s).

2. CIA v/s Peace Corps. Trust them for what? To be nice people who only think nice thoughts. I’d bank that fewer Peace Corps people have ever had an occasion to slit a throat in a dark alley. What am I trusting them to do? If the survey said, “who do you trust more to protect you from terrorists,” then I’d vote CIA. But they didn’t ask it that way, now did they?

3. Team v/s Owners. You guys gotta be kidding me. While I know that many professional athletes are jerks…most of them are good boys and girls who live good lives. Yet many of the owners are just a bit too cushy with mob interests for my taste.

4. Entitlements.. I lost points because I think we do need some environmental legislation. Do I support the loony ones? No. But I do support laws preventing lazy businessmen from dumping their waste into the nearest river or ditch. So sue me.

5. Prisons and Rebuilding. It wasn’t phrased as an either-or question. So why wouldn’t both would be helpful?

6. I’m not for abolishing public radio altogether. That doesn’t mean that I don’t think current public radio is a total propaganda machine – because I do. I’d like to see it reformed into REAL public radio, rather than propaganda radio. It needs to be restructured – not abolished all together. I’d love it if we could have a free source for all points of view to get airtime. That it’s not like that now doesn’t mean that it is not possible for it to be good!

7. Elders/Robertson – disliking both of them hardly makes me “a liberal”. I’m a believing/wants to practice it- Christian – but Pat doesn’t speak for me.

So I guess I’m one of the folks that they hope will sway to Kerry. Good luck. I think he’s the sorriest thing in town. And contrary to cool opinion – I think Bush has been a great president. If I’m a bellwether of Kerry’s chances for success…we are in good shape in Nov.

I know that nobody is going to read these comments a day late. But, for reasons unclear, I feel compelled to write this anyway.
Posted by B 2004-08-30 1:26:46 AM||   2004-08-30 1:26:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#62 Well many conservatives (like myself) find out some issues they are closer to Libertarians. Like privacy and taxation. So much so that I registered as a Libertarian though I vote for the candidate not the party and usually split my vote.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-30 1:32:26 AM||   2004-08-30 1:32:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#63  But, for reasons unclear, I feel compelled to write this anyway.

Here's the reason. You are in denial that you are a liberal deep inside, and felt you needed to "justify" your choices aloud. Unfortunately your arguments for answering the way you did were even more self-revealing.

You are a liberal and if it was an Edwards/Hildabest ticket instead of Kerry/Edwards, you'd probably vote Democrat. Likely you voted Clinton 2 terms in a row.

It's not a big deal that you are a liberal, except that it worries me Kerry is the Republican's best "weapon" to keep the WH in 2004.
Posted by rex 2004-08-30 2:01:05 AM||   2004-08-30 2:01:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#64 rex, you really can be a jerk -- unnecessarily most of the time. There isn't anything wrong with being baseline liberal, as long as one thinks through the issues, and always factors in reality! Its those darned fairy tale inhabitants now busily shouting their way down the streets of NYC that concern me

B, thank you for clarifying some of what I'd been thinking, too. And see, I read your post! I generally try to check out what happened after I went to bed :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-30 2:31:08 AM||   2004-08-30 2:31:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#65 Well, sorry, #64, for answering B's question honestly, albeit bluntly. Why get your panties in a twist over honesty? Sheeesh. I don't have a problem with you guys being liberal.

My point was that as a traditional conservative, I worry about the future of the Republican Party if our Presidential candidate's biggest advantage for attracting voters like yourself is the dis-likeability factor of the Democrat's candidate and the fact that some freako ME terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers. Those reasons are not very re-assuring re: continued support for our party since we "lucked out" this time around due to things beyond our control.
Posted by rex 2004-08-30 2:53:37 AM||   2004-08-30 2:53:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#66 trailing wife - thanks! It's nice to know that posting wasn't in vain :-)

Sock Puppet..."vote for the candidate" I always believe that if you find your friends are in 100% agreement with you, then you are their friends - not the other way around.

rex...yawn..I'm sorry, were you saying something. If I have more time tomorrow, I'll give it a read.

Posted by B 2004-08-30 3:10:42 AM||   2004-08-30 3:10:42 AM|| Front Page Top

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