I found myself selecting “neither” far more often than the standard “A or B” choices.

I could go into the assumptions behind each question, but I don’t have the time nor the interest to do so (and I’m not sure you have the time or interest to read my rantings on it, anyway), but I will give one example: “Prescription Drugs” is merely a term for government-approved drugs, so I don’t care if you get your “prescription drugs” from Canada or whatever–I think that the whole notion of “prescription drugs” ought to be delegitimized.

Since the questions were so skewed, I didn’t bother attempting to point out whether something was more or less important to me.

So I’ve pasted in my results:

1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Kent McManigal (88%)
3. Ron Paul (81%)
4. Chuck Hagel (61%)
5. Newt Gingrich (54%)
6. Sam Brownback (53%)
7. Mitt Romney (48%)
8. Dennis Kucinich (46%)
9. Barack Obama (43%)
10. Tommy Thompson (38%)
11. Bill Richardson (37%)
12. Christopher Dodd (37%)
13. John McCain (37%)
14. Tom Tancredo (36%)
15. Elaine Brown (33%)
16. Al Gore (32%)
17. Fred Thompson (31%)
18. Duncan Hunter (30%)
19. Rudolph Giuliani (30%)
20. Mike Huckabee (27%)
21. Wesley Clark (26%)
22. John Edwards (25%)
23. Hillary Clinton (22%)
24. Jim Gilmore (21%)
25. Mike Gravel (21%)
26. Joseph Biden (18%)

I don’t really know who the majority of these people are… and honestly, I’m surprised to see that Newt Gingrich is considered to be in agreement with me on a simple majority of “the issues”… reading his “profile,” however, reassures me that he probably matched more of my “neither” votes; his actual positions are still quite far from mine.

The Libertarian guy comes closest, but there’s still the little detail of having to have a president at all that I disagree with on a fundamental level, so he doesn’t get my vote, either.

All of the “traditional” candidates are, predictably, not in agreement with me the vast majority of the time. This is of no surprise to me, however, as all of them are committed to stealing the resources of others to redistribute to their friends.

I do have a name for the “Theoretical Ideal Candidate,” however: “None of the Above.”

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