They are pretty good about properly recording votes. How they use those votes to put people on their grid sometimes amazes me.
Thompson wasn't big on tort reform which the site took as a non-conservative position. He had one or two really strange votes, like one where it seems he was against restricting minor's access to violent movies. That could either be seen as an anti-family-value position (which is how the site seemed to treat it) or it could be a strong libertarian position.
He's not perfect. He's the kind of person where you would have to make some compromise, but it's what they meant when they defined the word compromise, not the "sacrifice all your principles" kind of compromise you'd have to do for Rudy.
He's not perfect. He's the kind of person where you would have to make some compromise, but it's what they meant when they defined the word compromise, not the "sacrifice all your principles" kind of compromise you'd have to do for Rudy.
I gotta go with ya here.
I don't expect my candidate to go with me 100% of the time, but I DO expect them to go with me 80% or so. And that's FAR more than I'd get with a rudy/mccain.
I looked over that list of votes. The one on violent videos caught my eye - it's not the way I'd have wanted that vote to go. But who's going to vote with me on EVERY issue? I don't expect that.
But voting against my stands on immigration, gun-control, abortion etc is beyond the pale which is why I wouldn't vote for any of the top tier R's running currently and I WOULD vote for Fred.
No. Freds not perfect as far as my pet issues go, but he's FAR above the rest of the pack that are running to my way of thinking and i'd vote for him in a heartbeat.
As far as the women? Hey. The biggest problem with Clinton was that he couldn't hold to an oath whether it was his oath to his wife, his oath to a court, his oath to the military or his oath as President of the US.
I don't hear it said that Fred dicked around on his wife while they were married. I hear that there was a long stream of women AFTER his divorce and before the next marriage.
SO WHAT? I'd do that as well if I could. And I refuse to let that distract me from his stands on issues. As long as he's not doing anything truly revolting, immoral or illegal, his private life is his own and not ours to peer into.
Let the guy have a private life for cryin out loud people!
< /end rant>