# Find your candidate for 2008 (not really a debate) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 7, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638 "2008-01-07T21:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/21 "2008-01-08T22:18:43Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] I’m similar, although guns aren’t an issue for me. But what does it mean to be “pro-war” and anti-Iraq war. Are you “pro” any other war we might want to get into as long as it’s not Iraq? [/QUOTE] Well, I’m not really pro-abortion either. I’m against what’s happening in Iraq, but in favor of the military-industrial complex and blowing up places that are hard to spell. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/22 "2008-01-08T22:44:20Z")
\*\*Dennis Kucinich (D) 87.50% \*\* Huh. Of course, I don’t believe he has a chance in hell of winning, or of getting anything that he supports done. Despite his talk on the big issues like the war or impeachment, he hasn’t been effective in Congress, AFAICT. Mike Gravel (D) - 85.71% Joseph Biden (D) - 75.00% Christopher Dodd (D) - 72.32% **Bottom of the Barrel** Kansas Senator Sam Brownback ® - 5.36% California Representative Duncan Hunter ® - 4.46% Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney ® - 3.57% Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson ® - 2.68% ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/23 "2008-01-08T22:47:32Z")
Weird… Top match is Biden, with 65.97 percent compatibility. After that, Richardson with 63.89, Kucinich with 61.11, and Clinton with 59.72. Very, very strange. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/24 "2008-01-08T22:50:00Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Well, I’m not really pro-abortion either. I’m against what’s happening in Iraq, but in favor of the military-industrial complex and blowing up places that are hard to spell. 😉 [/QUOTE] So, I guess we know your position on Kyrgyzstan then. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/25 "2008-01-08T22:55:10Z")
92% Gravel. I know nothing about him, but apparently we think alike. Should I be worried? Ah, I’m voting Obama. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/26 "2008-01-08T22:56:39Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] 92% Gravel. I know nothing about him, but apparently we think alike. Should I be worried? [/QUOTE] Not if you’re a grumpy old man given to loud outburst of incoherent outrage. You might be the life of the party! ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/27 "2008-01-08T23:13:50Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Not if you’re a grumpy old man given to loud outburst of incoherent outrage. You might be the life of the party! [/QUOTE] Oh balderdash! You youngsters don’t know how to party! Harrumph! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/28 "2008-01-08T23:18:48Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] Oh balderdash! You youngsters don’t know how to party! Harrumph! [/QUOTE] Actually, he did provide a good amount of comic relief in the early debates. I expected him to jump and yell: _They’re all a bunch of liars. Liars, I tell you. All of them!!_ As he pointed them out one by one. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/29 "2008-01-08T23:21:20Z")
Well…they actually ARE all a bunch of liars… Just sayin. -XT ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/30 "2008-01-08T23:44:16Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Actually, he did provide a good amount of comic relief in the early debates. I expected him to jump and yell: _They’re all a bunch of liars. Liars, I tell you. All of them!!_ As he pointed them out one by one. [/QUOTE] Wow. So he’s basically the Democratic Alan Keyes? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/31 "2008-01-09T19:58:21Z")
I got 87% Ron Paul. I already decided he’d be getting my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/32 "2008-01-09T20:19:04Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] So, I guess we know your position on Kyrgyzstan then. [/QUOTE] If I were in charge those people would get their comeuppance, believe you me! Then I’d have a sit-down with the president of Canadia… ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638/33 "2008-01-09T21:26:16Z")
I got Kucinich at 91%, but my dislike of the man has little to do with his stance on issues. Likewise with Hillary #3 at 75%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-your-candidate-for-2008-not-really-a-debate/432638.md?page=1)