who is more representative of their party?

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Both Bullmoose and I are far superior to the typical member of our respective parties.

That said I think I fit better within the Democrats than he does within the Republicans.

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Iraq War - Opebo supports reinstating Saddam Hussein with reparations, as well as keeping the "nasty Shi'ites" in line.

I agree with him on the Shi'ites, they haven't exactly done a great job running Iran and there's no reason to think they'd do any better in Iraq. I don't support reinstating Saddam though, that's probably impossible at this point anyway. But his basic position if you boil it down to for or against is he's against. Most Democrats are.

That's a rather large stretch to suggest that the fact that he's against the war makes him with the mainstream of his party.  Does the mainstream support reinstating Saddam and keeping the Shi'ites down?  No, and he does; therefore, he is not in the mainstream.

Oh, now, Gabu you conservative, I don't think the average american cares one bit about some Shiite, or in fact even has any idea what they are.  As for Saddam, the propagandists have demonized him, so naturally the simple proles have no idea that he was a prefectly decent standard secular dictator.

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-3.88 is hardly a Marxist score.
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I'd say a $15 minimum wage and a view that the "owning class" heavily oppresses the working class and should be punished is rather close to communism.  The Political Compass score says nothing.[/quote]

No, the policies suggested above are Keyensian liberalism.  Btw, I never said anything about 'punishing' the owning class, nor even about unseating them from their permanent position at the top of the social heirarchy.   I just talk about making them give a little of the social surplus to their underlings.