Buchanan is a sexist, a homophobe and something of a religious bigot, but he isn't a racist or an anti-Semite (those accusations are political smears). I think his rants are often disgusting, but it seems to me that Bush has done just about every wrong thing that Buchanan would do and added a lot more. Of course, I could be wrong.

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The troubling thing about Buchanon is his rhetoric about "fixing the melting pot". Buchanon wants assimilation beyond just learning English and getting a job. He wants unanimous religion and complete sameness in all elements of culture. The entire concept is fascist to the core.

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No, I think it's more a matter of wanting everyone to be fiercely patriotic. It is similar to what Theodore Roosevelt said about "hyphenated Americans" not being "true" Americans. That could be seen as ethnically bigoted, but I think it's a matter of jingoism. Don't get me wrong- I'd really have to hold my nose to vote for a paleoconservative, but I look at it in this way. For example, let's compare Bush and Buchanan. Buchanan is a sexist. Granted, Bush doesn't seem to be, but half the men in Washington are. Buchanan is homophobic- so is Bush. Buchanan uses Religious Right rhetoric- so does Bush. I would agree with Bush rather than Buchanan about immigration and free trade, but Buchanan would be fiscally responsible- Bush is not. Buchanan wouldn't try "nation building"- Bush does. In other words, I think that Bush, even if he means well, is more destructive than Buchanan, the Constitution Party and other paleoconservatives. In the same way, I'd vote for an all-around liberal from the Green Party before I'd vote for a statist mainstream Democrat.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Of the top 5 political parties in America, this would be my order of preference:

1. Libertarian Party
2. Constitution Party/Green Party (Depending on who they run)
4. Democratic Party/Republican Party (Depending on who they run)

For example, in the Constitution Party, Peroutka is better than Phillips and from the Green Party, from the last two elections, Cobb is better than Nader was. If Nader is counted as a separate entity, I'd put him between #2 and #4. I'd put Buchanan above Nader but below #2.

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OK. Utilizing the priority thing and leaving a couple as "Not Sure" I got these results... which are slightly more accurate.

1.Libertarian
2.Left-libertarian
3.Radical
4.Paleo-libertarian
5.Neoconservative
6.Centrist
7.Liberal
8.Third Way
9.Conservative
10.Paleoconservative

I still think the first two are mixed up... but at least now liberal is above conservative and paleo-con is still on the bottom where it belongs!

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I have no desire to be considered liberal or conservative. The welfare state approach has been tried. It's a mess. The "God wills it" nation-building approach has been tried. It's an even worse mess. Neocons are the worst of both worlds because they are indifferent to the former and supportive of the latter. I suppose I could stomach welfare statism if it was accompanied by a genuinely socially liberal mindset (e.g. the Green Party), just as I could probably cast a reluctant vote for a social conservative if they were an actual fiscal conservative (in other words, the Old Right). Right now, though, we have economic populist Democrats, indifferent to genuine liberalism, hanging on to bureaucratic inefficiency until their fingers turn blue while we have neoconservative Republicans creating disaster after disaster in foreign policy, trying to push theocracy and a Big Brother state at home and letting domestic spending increase even as they continue their meaningless references to "smaller government", something from the Old Right philosophy, a philosophy they long ago discarded. Honestly, short of a fascist or an authoritarian communist, give me anyone but the Republicans and Democrats, who are currently seen as representing conservatism and liberalism, respectively. I'd vote for the Green Party, the Constitution Party, the Socialist Party, the remnants of the Conservative Party, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan or just about anybody but the GOP and Democratic partisans. Oh, and I took the test again:

#1 Libertarian

#2 Left-Libertarian

#3 Centrist

#4 Paleolibertarian

#5 Neoconservative

#6 Conservative

#7 Third Way

#8 Radical

#9 Paleoconservative

#10 Liberal

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#1 Conservative

#2 Neoconservative

#3 Centrist

#4 Paleoconservative

#5 Paleo-libertarian

#6 Third Way

#7 Liberal

#8 Libertarian

#9 Radical


Pretty dated test..


#10 Left-libertarian

#1 Libertarian
#2 Left-Libertarian
#3 Centrist
#4 Radical
#5 Neoconservative
#6 Paleolibertarian
#7 Conservative
#8 Third Way
#9 Paleoconservative
#10 Liberal

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#1 Libertarian
#2 Centrist
#3 Left-Libertarian
#4 Neoconservative
#5 Conservative
#6 Third Way
#7 Radical
#8 Paleolibertarian
#9 Paleoconservative
#10 Liberal

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#1 Paleoconservative
#2 Conservative
#3 Neoconservative
#4 Centrist
#5 Liberal
#6 Third Way
#7 Paleo-libertarian
#8 Radical
#9 Libertarian
#10 Left-libertarian

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