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Republican. A brief quiz
Government’s role
1. Federal judicial activism which supersedes the will of
the majority of the people through an unelected court
system is wrong _________.
A) all of the time.
B) some of the time.
C) except in close Florida elections.
2. The Patriot Act, which allows the government the right
to secretly search your home, monitor your internet
usage, and keep track of what books you check out from
the library, is:
A) disturbing
B) It allows the government to do WHAT? HOLY CRAP!
C) a way of protecting our freedoms
3. The primary purposes of the federal government are to:
A) keep our environment protected and provide a social safety
net of services for the citizenry
B) keep the social contract intact and provide for the protection
of our freedoms.
C) keep gay people from getting hitched and provide you with a
tax refund.
4. Historically, the greatest threats to freedom have
always come from:
A) Overbearing legislatures dominated with ideological zealots
determined to change, remove or ignore the minority's
constitutional safeguards.
B) Psuedo-messianic heads of state who believe themselves
picked by God to spread their vision around the planet using
the armed forces.
C) The concept of an independent judiciary.
Section 2
Scandal
5. In terms of centrality to the national interest, which of
these scandals is the most important?
A) A multi-billion dollar federal contract awarded to a politically-
connected, price-gouging company without proper bidding
procedures
B) A twenty-year-old failed Arkansas real estate deal
6. A man cheating on his wife is an issue best addressed
by _____.
A) a marriage councilor.
B) a divorce court judge.
C) congressional hearings.
7. Dick Cheney’s connections to Halliburton are an
example of:
A) mind-bendingly egregious, Boss Tweed-style government
cronyism on a billion dollar scale
B) returning honor and dignity to the White House
Section 3
War and Peace
8. The deaths of a thousand U.S. military personnel in a
war launched with false allegations justified by fraudulent
information is _____.
A) a gross error in judgement.
B) treason.
C) sound foreign policy.
9. The intricacies of international geopolitics in the age of
terrorism can be best analogised to:
A) a high-stakes round of grand master-level politico-religious
chess in which the object is to out think the opponent
B) the subtleties expressed in complex, strategic games theories
that predict human behavior based on the attainment of mutual
outcomes
C) Milton-Bradley’s “Risk”
10. Voting to authorize the president to use force and
then opposing the president when he blatantly abuses
and misuses that authorization is _____.
A) a principled stand.
B) a perfectly understandable action.
C) an unforgivable flip-flop.
11. Going to war to find weapons of mass destruction and
failing to find them and then saying you went because
Iraq had links to 9/11 instead and then denying you said
that and then saying it again and then saying the war was
actually to liberate the Iraqi people is _______.
A) disturbing
B) weird
C) steady leadership
12. The best way to discredit Osama bin Laden, who has
been claiming for twenty years that we want to invade
and occupy an oil-rich, Arab nation is to_______.
A) promote more understanding and education about America
in the Arab world.
B) sensitively handle Middle East issues with the need for
international legitimacy in mind.
C) invade and occupy an oil-rich Arab nation.
13. The best way to fight a war on terror is ______.
A) a complex series of multilateral diplomatic, military and
political initiatives designed to destroy terrorist entities and stop
new ones from being created.
B) a combination of unilateral and multilateral efforts to root out
dangers to the nation.
C) by alienating, offending, bullying and angering all of your
allies while stretching your military forces paper-thin in nations
that have no connection to terrorism.
14. It is unpatriotic and un-American to question a
president’s motives in fighting terrorists this year.
A) True.
B) True, unless the president is pursuing a disastrous policy.
C) True, unless the president is Bill Clinton and the year is 1998
in which case you should undercut his support by implying that
his air strikes against bin Laden-related targets in Afghanistan
and Sudan are merely a “wag the dog” diversion from his
problems at home and there really is no danger from a rag tag
bunch of terrorists living in caves halfway around the world so
we should all get back to sniffing around in Monica Lewinsky's
underwear drawer as soon as possible.
15. Ignoring the expressed wishes of the international
community, being blatantly aggressive, defying the
United Nations and breaking international law is ______.
A) grounds for invasion.
B) solid foreign policy.
C) Both. Depends on who’s doing it.
16. United Nations mandates should be enforced ______.
A) over the objections of our enemies.
B) over the objections of our allies.
C) over the objections of the United Nations.
17. When a reporter exposed the fact that American
troops were digging through junkyards to up armor their
vehicles because the Defense Department wasn't
ordering enough properly armored Humvees, you asked:
A) Why wasn't the Secretary of Defense fired?
B) Why wasn't the President fired?
C) Why wasn't the reporter fired?
Section 4
History
18. Historically, the most socially-advanced, cutting-edge,
forward-thinking states in the Union have been:
A) New York, Massachusetts, and California
B) New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Iowa
C) Alabama, Mississippi and Utah
19. From the 9/11 commission report which found that
Iraq had no “collaborative relationship” with Al-Queda
and there is “no credible evidence that Iraq and Al-Qaeda
cooperated on attacks against the United States.” we can
conclude:
A) Iraq and Al-Queda had no collaborative relationship and
there is no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Queda
cooperated on attacks against the United States.
B) Iraq and Al-Queda may have had a collaborative relationship
but the evidence does not support such a theory.
C) Saddam Hussein often took long moonlit strolls across the
beach with Osama bin Laden and Mohammed Atta.
20. The demise of the Soviet Union was the result of
_______.
A) the inevitable forces of economic decay that have shown
themselves manifest in every communist economy throughout
history.
B) the yearning of hundreds of millions of Russians hoping for a
better life.
C) the complex wave of radical economic, political and social
liberalization policies of Mikhail Gorbachev.
D) Ronald Reagan’s insistence of funding “Star Wars,” a
bloated, useless defense program that his critics said would not
work and - twenty years and tens of billions of dollars later - still
doesn’t.
21. During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan promised
never to negotiate with terrorists. Then it turned out that
elements of his administration were negotiating with
terrorists as well as funneling arms and cash all over the
globe without any congressional oversight whatsoever.
Reagan later said he either didn’t remember or didn’t
know about any of this. This makes Reagan’s statement
an example of:
A) a lie
B) a criminal cover up
C) gross negligence
D) why we should put him on the ten dollar bill
22. During the 1980s, our foreign policy was really being
run by:
A) Ronald Reagan
B) Ollie North
C) O.J. Simpson
D) magic pixie fairies
E) no one really knows
Section 5
Economics
23. Garnering lots of votes by giving out massive,
politically-popular tax cuts while we are paying to fight
wars all over the world, defend the homeland from
terrorism and sinking $7,000,000,000,000 in debt is called:
A) extreme stupidity
B) shameless pandering
C) leadership
24. The policies of Bill Clinton, who presided over the
most explosive period of economic growth in modern
history, were ______.
A) provably correct.
B) obviously disastrous for the economy.
25. Ronald Reagan and George Bush, who ran massive
deficits every year they were in office, were ____.
A) incompetent.
B) budgetarily insane.
C) responsible fiscal conservatives.
26. Bill Clinton, who turned those deficits into the largest
budget surplus in history, was ______.
A) a fiscal wizard.
B) a vast improvement.
C) a tax-and-spend liberal.
27. George W. Bush, who turned the largest surplus back
into the largest deficit in history was _____.
A) massively inept.
B) deserving of impeachment.
C) a welcome return to fiscal conservatism.
28. The economic policies of George W. Bush which have
resulted in the first net loss of jobs since the Great
Depression are _________.
A) yet another reason he should not have been re-elected.
B) not his fault.
C) an example of his commitment to economic growth.
Section 6
Issues
29. The wrongness of murder and the importance of the
sanctity of life can be emphasized by:
A) alleviating the root causes of crime
B) expanding educational opportunities
C) executions
30. The best way to reduce gun crime is to:
A) Ban guns
B) Place reasonable restrictions on guns
C) At least put a freakin’ waiting period on them
D) Lift prohibitions on assault weapons to allow more large-
caliber, rapid-fire automatic firearms on the streets
31. The second amendment, written in the late 18th
century decades before the development of automatic
weaponry, protects a private citizen’s right to own:
A) muzzle-loading muskets
B) breech loading rifles
C) Uzis
D) Stinger missiles
32. The best way to curtail our crippling dependency on
oil is to _____.
A) search for cleaner-burning fuels.
B) fund development of more renewable sources of energy.
C) drill for more oil.
33. The best way to reduce air pollution is ______.
A) lead a global effort to reduce harmful emissions.
B) be a part of a global effort to reduce harmful emissions.
C) pull out of a global effort to reduce harmful emissions and
gut the Clean Air Act.
34. An initiative relaxing emissions standards and
allowing polluters to put more toxins in the air should be
called ______.
A) The Dirtier Air Initiative
B) The Let My Polluting Campaign Contributors Do As They
Like Initiative.
C) The Clear Skies Initiative.
35. After its inauguration, the Bush administration took
action to relax federal water purity standards, allowing
more arsenic in the water supply. Your response is:
A) “They did WHAT???”
B) “For goodness sakes, why?”
C) “Oh c’mon, a little arsenic never hurt anyone.”
36. The Greenhouse Effect is ________.
A) a fact accepted by scientists worldwide
B) a proven danger to our nation and the world.
C) a great threat to our planet.
D) made up by pinko-communists, like that silly “cigarettes
cause cancer,” thing.
37. The “No Child Left Behind Act” which promised both
higher standards and higher funding for education, failed
to provide much of the promised funding but still expects
cash-strapped school districts to meet its standards by
threatening to slash funding further for them if they don
‘t. The Act is _______.
A) poorly thought out.
B) doomed to failure.
C) a sound plan for education.
and tell me
what you
think
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