Guess Bush's Political Matrix Score

[SPC]

I answered political matrix questions the way I thought GWB Bush would answer them, and I found out his score. Guess what his score is. I will give a fictional prixe to whoever gets closest. Go...

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Bored, so I did the Test as GWB:

Economic score: +2.32
Social score: +6.09

Not that that means anything at all....

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Economic +10
Social +9.92

[SPC]

Bored, so I did the Test as GWB:

Economic score: +2.32
Social score: +6.09

Not that that means anything at all....

Odd, because I got
E: -2.46
S:+9.13

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Odd, because I got
E: -2.46
S:+9.13

For Bush to be ranked as economically liberal is ridiculous.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

I took the test and got
Economic: +8.65
Social: +9.57

[Gabu]

I'm not convinced that Bush even has a coherent real ideology anymore.

[Mr. Paleoconservative]

George W. Bush would probably come in somewhere around E: 3.1 and S: 6.9 on the Political Matrix.

[minionofmidas]

I'm not convinced that Bush even has a coherent real ideology anymore.

I am convinced that Bush has never had a coherent ideology.

Most people don't.

[Gabu]

I'm not convinced that Bush even has a coherent real ideology anymore.

I am convinced that Bush has never had a coherent ideology.

Most people don't.

Okay, but he at least had the pretense of one when first elected.

[minionofmidas]

Bored, so I did the Test as GWB:

I tried to, and ran into problems immediately. It's quite possible that Bush considers the Patriot Act to be an infringement of civil rights, it's just that he doesn't give a fuck. It's more likely that he's allowed himself to be convinced that it isn't, though.

The same kind of problems will probably crop up more often.

Anyways, I got Ec +6.45 Soc +4.35

[minionofmidas]

I'm not convinced that Bush even has a coherent real ideology anymore.

I am convinced that Bush has never had a coherent ideology.

Most people don't.

Okay, but he at least had the pretense of one when first elected.

Did he?

[Smash255]

E 7.35
S 8.67

[GMantis]

E 5.55
S 8.00
It seems that the more leftwing board members see Bush as more rightwing than the rigthwing members.

[Ebowed]

Economic score: +7.48
Social score: +9.39

[??????????]

LOL @ the folks that put Bush over a 2 in the economic category. It's quite obvious with Bushs' spending that he is NO economic conservative.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

LOL @ the folks that put Bush over a 2 in the economic category. It's quite obvious with Bushs' spending that he is NO economic conservative.

If Bush is left-wing then I'm Jesus.

We might as well say (to achieve full political bastardization) that Bush uses traditionally left-wing methods to achieve right-wing goals.

[??????????]

LOL @ the folks that put Bush over a 2 in the economic category. It's quite obvious with Bushs' spending that he is NO economic conservative.

If Bush is left-wing then I'm Jesus.

We might as well say (to achieve full political bastardization) that Bush uses traditionally left-wing methods to achieve right-wing goals.

I never said he was left wing, I said he's a populist and a fiscal liberal. Look at his spending.

[minionofmidas]

LOL @ the folks that put Bush over a 2 in the economic category. It's quite obvious with Bushs' spending that he is NO economic conservative.

If Bush is left-wing then I'm Jesus.

We might as well say (to achieve full political bastardization) that Bush uses traditionally left-wing methods to achieve right-wing goals.

I never said he was left wing, I said he's a populist and a fiscal liberal. Look at his spending.

Look at the questions on the test. Anyways arms spending is neither populist nor fiscally liberal.

[Verily]

LOL @ the folks that put Bush over a 2 in the economic category. It's quite obvious with Bushs' spending that he is NO economic conservative.

If Bush is left-wing then I'm Jesus.

We might as well say (to achieve full political bastardization) that Bush uses traditionally left-wing methods to achieve right-wing goals.

I never said he was left wing, I said he's a populist and a fiscal liberal. Look at his spending.

The questions on the test don't make such fine distinctions. All Bush likes spending on is the military; he's an economic conservative on everything else.

I got +4.90, +5.39.

The immigration question brings down his social score. Questions on the budget and military spending would lower his economic score (and incidentally probably make mine positive; a dastardly thought).

[DanielX]

LOL @ the folks that put Bush over a 2 in the economic category. It's quite obvious with Bushs' spending that he is NO economic conservative.

If Bush is left-wing then I'm Jesus.

We might as well say (to achieve full political bastardization) that Bush uses traditionally left-wing methods to achieve right-wing goals.

I never said he was left wing, I said he's a populist and a fiscal liberal. Look at his spending.

The questions on the test don't make such fine distinctions. All Bush likes spending on is the military; he's an economic conservative on everything else.

That's quite false. Under the Bush administration, there has been a massive increase in non-defense spending, the largest since the Johnson administration.

My first attempt gave Bush about (3e, 5s). I think the economic number is too high; the test asks things like "who is better: big corporations or the people?" and not "what about reducing government spending for both?". 

[??????????]

Daniel X hits the nail on the head, yet again.

[adam]

Economic: 1.80
Social: 5.80

[SPC]

The questions on the test don't make such fine distinctions. All Bush likes spending on is the military; he's an economic conservative on everything else.

Okay, then how do you explain:
*NCLB
*Medicare Part D
*support for raising minimum wage
*support for foreign aid
*support for school voucher program
*McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform
*support for decreasing fossil fuel consumpsion
*etc.

Bush is arguably even more of a leftist than Clinton on economics. Howver, forum Democrats won't admit that, because they hate capitalism and Bush, and they don't want those to be mutually exclusive.

[jokerman]

LOL @ the folks that put Bush over a 2 in the economic category. It's quite obvious with Bushs' spending that he is NO economic conservative.

It's quite obvious with Bush's plutocracy that he is far right economically.