Thread: The Independent Mayor: How He Aligns

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/ ... MBERG.html

[quote]Last night’s debate thread is the biggest we’ve ever had on HA (even bigger than the defeat of the amnesty bill last summer, if you can believe it) so continue to sound off below — but try not to break the site. While you wait, enjoy this helpful NYT scorecard comparing the world’s richest nanny to the various candidates on both sides. Verdict: “If you want to place him in the spectrum of American politics, he’s a liberal Democrat on all the major litmus test issues, and he’s a liberal Democrat on taxing and spending. I don’t see the product differentiation, except for the $4 billion bank account and the aura of the philosopher-king.â€

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I added the trackback, and commentary, from Hot Air.

The main part of the NY Times article is the graphic.

You know what we need? Another debate
January 6, 2008 by Allahpundit

The Paulnut has been put out to pasture for this one, depriving America of yet another opportunity for the other candidates to score hawkish points at his expense. Romney vs. McCain should be the main event; Mitt will be tempted to toss a few hastily written one-liners his way just to prove that he can scrap when he has to, but he should reconsider. McCain’s stand-up performance last night seems to have bombed and may bode ill for Tuesday given his surprisingly dwindling lead.

Last night’s debate thread is the biggest we’ve ever had on HA (even bigger than the defeat of the amnesty bill last summer, if you can believe it) so continue to sound off below — but try not to break the site. While you wait, enjoy this helpful NYT scorecard comparing the world’s richest nanny to the various candidates on both sides. Verdict: “If you want to place him in the spectrum of American politics, he’s a liberal Democrat on all the major litmus test issues, and he’s a liberal Democrat on taxing and spending. I don’t see the product differentiation, except for the $4 billion bank account and the aura of the philosopher-king.â€

Thanks, Skip!

I had no idea how to upload and repost that graphic.

Originally Posted by Skip

More nonsense leaving out Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter!

They also excluded Gravel, Cox, Kucinich, and a host of other candidates.

.....and Alan Keyes.

I can't blame them for excluding him.

The Keyes candidacy, such as it is, is yet another exercise in vanity.

The only reason The Des Moines Register included him in that debate was so the press could mock Christians and conservative Republicans yet again.

The same reason they decided that Iraq and immigration weren't important enough to discuss.