Atlas Forever 2008

[Associate Justice PiT]

Basic Information:
Title: Governor
First name: Santiago
Last name: Drexler
Party: Republican
Age: 54
Gender: Male
PIP: 400 (I'm the governor of the biggest state in the Union)
Home region: California
Starting funds: $3,200,000
Primaries description: Can a libertarian-leaning governor become the GOP nominee?
General description: Can Governor Drexler appeal to economic right-wingers enough to secure the White House?
How well known: 2
How well established: 4
Percentage goal: 55%
Seats goal: 325+

Attributes: (28 total points allowed, 1-5)
Leadership: 4
Integrity: 5
Experience: 3
Issue Familiarity: 3
Charisma: 5
Stamina: 5
Debating: 2

[Associate Justice PiT]

Abortion -- Right
Balanced Budget -- Right
Business Tax -- Center-Right
Education -- Right
Energy - Center
Environment -- Center-Left
Gun Control -- Center-Right
Health Care -- Center-Left
Homeland Security -- Center-Left
Immigration -- Right
Iran -- Left
Iraq -- Center-Left
Outsourcing -- Center-Right
Personal Tax -- Center
Same-Sex Marriage -- Left
Social Security -- Center-Right
Unions -- Far-Right
War on Terror -- Center-Left

     As you can see, I'm socially liberal & friendly to businesses.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I want you to use this for my photo:

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I want to see the state-by-state breakdown for the Republican primaries. We have two libertarian big-state governors & one centrist big-state governor. I'm curious to see how each state will go.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     So I won a state that Valmont was polling ahead in? Sweet.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     So I won a state that Valmont was polling ahead in? Sweet.

Psh...it's just because California is providing Nevada with a constant stream of new residents.  Hehe.

     Considering how much BRTD talks about how near-state advantage is bunk, it would be funny if I just pulled in the entire western half of the U.S. & nothing else.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I might be able to win because of delegates from CA & NY. That would be awesome since I have half the money of either of my opponents.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     How do the delegates stand now? That should be worth seeing.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I would like to say that I am intensely grateful to the primary electorate of the Republican Party for choosing me to be their nominee for President, despite my monetary shortcomings. I would also like to extend my thanks to my opponents, Governors Soult & Valmont for running a good race.

     PS: I like that both major-party nominees have Hispanic names.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I guess hispanics realized that despite being named Santiago, I'm super-Anglo-Saxon.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Ah, what the heck, I'm back for round two. Governor Drexler is back & better than ever (& a Senator now ). Since I'm the losing party's nominee, I should get a bonus to how well known & money to reflect my national stature.

Basic Information:
Title: Governor Senator
First name: Santiago
Last name: Drexler
Party: Republican
Age: 54 58
Gender: Male
PIP: 400 (I'm the governor of the biggest state in the Union)
Home region: California
Starting funds: $3,200,000 $4,700,000
Primaries description: Can a libertarian-leaning governor become the GOP nominee? Can the man who failed to defeat Governor Sanchez four years earlier re-capture his party's nomination?
General description: Can Governor Drexler appeal to economic right-wingers enough to secure the White House? Can Senator Drexler win over the voters that handed him defeat four years ago?
How well known: 2 4
How well established: 4
Percentage goal: 55%
Seats goal: 325+

Attributes: (28 total points allowed, 1-5)
Leadership: 4
Integrity: 5
Experience: 3
Issue Familiarity: 3
Charisma: 5
Stamina: 5
Debating: 2

Abortion -- Right
Balanced Budget -- Right
Business Tax -- Center-Right
Education -- Right
Energy - Center
Environment -- Center-Left
Gun Control -- Center-Right
Health Care -- Center-Left
Homeland Security -- Center-Left
Immigration -- Right
Iran -- Left
Iraq -- Center-Left
Outsourcing -- Center-Right
Personal Tax -- Center
Same-Sex Marriage -- Left
Social Security -- Center-Right
Unions -- Far-Right
War on Terror -- Center-Left

     If anyone objects to running against the nominee from four years earlier, I'll withdraw from the race.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Could you run me against Pilar?

[Associate Justice PiT]

Basic Information:
Title: Senator
First name: Naveed
Last name: Chowdhury
Party: D
Age: 52
Gender: M
PIP: 370
Home region: CA
Starting funds: 4.5 million
Primaries description: Can the leftist Senator dodge accusations of extremism to win the nomination?
General description: Will the nation decide to take a step leftward and elect this Californian?
How well known: 5
How well established: 3
Percentage goal: 51
Seats goal: 0

Attributes: (28 total points allowed, 1-5)
Leadership: 5
Integrity: 4
Experience: 4
Issue Familiarity: 5
Charisma: 3
Stamina: 4
Debating: 3

Abortion: L
Balanced Budget: L
Business Tax: FL
Education: L
Energy: L
Environment: L
Gun Control: L
Health Care: FL
Homeland Security: FL
Immigration: L
Iran: FL
Iraq: L
Outsourcing: L
Personal Tax: L
Same-Sex Marriage: CL
Social Security: FL
Unions: L
War on Terror: FL

     Welcome fellow Senator. Your positions though.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Welcome fellow Senator. Your positions though.

I, for one, am scared.

Well, if you'd taken the time to see what those positions are...

Also, I dislike PF's pigeonholing.

     It's funny though, because I actually take a more left-wing position on same-sex marriage than you do.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Welcome fellow Senator. Your positions though.

I, for one, am scared.

Well, if you'd taken the time to see what those positions are...

Also, I dislike PF's pigeonholing.

     It's funny though, because I actually take a more left-wing position on same-sex marriage than you do.

Yup, the social issues are cold-button for me, except civil liberties.

     If you'll notice, my only wing-nut position is on unions (though I fear my position is unconstitutional ).

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Welcome fellow Senator. Your positions though.

I, for one, am scared.

Well, if you'd taken the time to see what those positions are...

Also, I dislike PF's pigeonholing.

     It's funny though, because I actually take a more left-wing position on same-sex marriage than you do.

Yup, the social issues are cold-button for me, except civil liberties.

     If you'll notice, my only wing-nut position is on unions (though I fear my position is unconstitutional ).

No kidding. Why do you love extortion so?

     Because union leaders are Stalinist overlords that want mill workers to be paid $30 an hour.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Welcome fellow Senator. Your positions though.

I, for one, am scared.

Well, if you'd taken the time to see what those positions are...

Also, I dislike PF's pigeonholing.

     It's funny though, because I actually take a more left-wing position on same-sex marriage than you do.

Yup, the social issues are cold-button for me, except civil liberties.

     If you'll notice, my only wing-nut position is on unions (though I fear my position is unconstitutional ).

No kidding. Why do you love extortion so?

     Because union leaders business executives are Stalinist overlords that want mill workers to be paid $0.30 an hour.

Fixed.

     However, business executives are held in check by federal labor laws. Union leaders are free to gangpress everyone into joining their obscenely-overpaid communist organizations.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Welcome fellow Senator. Your positions though.

I, for one, am scared.

Well, if you'd taken the time to see what those positions are...

Also, I dislike PF's pigeonholing.

     It's funny though, because I actually take a more left-wing position on same-sex marriage than you do.

Yup, the social issues are cold-button for me, except civil liberties.

     If you'll notice, my only wing-nut position is on unions (though I fear my position is unconstitutional ).

No kidding. Why do you love extortion so?

     Because union leaders business executives are Stalinist overlords that want mill workers to be paid $0.30 an hour.

Fixed.

     However, business executives are held in check by federal labor laws. Union leaders are free to gangpress everyone into joining their obscenely-overpaid communist organizations.

But you support suppression of unions entirely.

     I would like suppression of unions entirely (since their unreasonable demands are tearing apart American industries), but I would settle for lesser measures of combatting them.

[Associate Justice PiT]

You are indeed a Democrat; is there anyone in particular you wish to run against?

Why not a Flynn vs. PiT match up in the 2008 Presidential Election? With Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold as my running mate . What a ticket that would be Flynn/Feingold, if you could pretty please.

Do you plan to run the updated Democratic and Republican fields anytime soon? Also, could you send the scenario out to all of us? I'll send you the updated 2008 scenario with Bob Barr as a Libertarian candidate. Fair deal?

     I'll go with Thompson for my running mate. I want someone who's socially conservative to balance out my libertarian views.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I want to do something!

     We can run against each other if you want.

Flynn/Feingold: 53.4% PV, 379 EV
Drexler/Thompson: 46.6% PV, 169 EV

     The United States is not kind to libertarians.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I want to do something!

     We can run against each other if you want.

Ooh, fun!

     I'll go with McCain as my running mate to mix things up.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Valmont: 60.3% PV, 516 EV
Chowdhury: 39.7% PV, 22 EV

     60%+ for a Republican? Did Valmont pull a Watergate or something?

[Associate Justice PiT]

Valmont: 60.3% PV, 516 EV
Chowdhury: 39.7% PV, 22 EV

     60%+ for a Republican? Did Valmont pull a Watergate or something?

He hit Chowdhury with a number of major scandals, including two level 9's just before the election.

     That makes sense. I've noticed that it's hard for a Republican to just win in this scenario, let alone landslide.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Can you run everybody (that is, primaries), with Conor as an independent?

     Conor should have a ridiculous amount of money in that case (as in $100 million) due to the lack of a base of support for independents.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Basic Information:
Title: Governor
First name: Santiago
Last name: Drexler
Party: Republican
Age: 54
Gender: Male
PIP: 400 (I'm the governor of the biggest state in the Union)
Home region: California
Starting funds: $3,200,000
Primaries description: Can a libertarian-leaning governor become the GOP nominee?
General description: Can Governor Drexler appeal to economic right-wingers enough to secure the White House?
How well known: 2
How well established: 4
Percentage goal: 55%
Seats goal: 325+

Attributes: (28 total points allowed, 1-5)
Leadership: 4
Integrity: 5
Experience: 3
Issue Familiarity: 3
Charisma: 5
Stamina: 5
Debating: 2

Abortion -- Right
Balanced Budget -- Far-Right
Business Tax -- Center-Right
Education -- Right
Energy - Center
Environment -- Center-Left
Gun Control -- Right
Health Care -- Center-Left
Homeland Security -- Center-Left
Immigration -- Center-Right
Iran -- Center
Iraq -- Center-Right
Outsourcing -- Right
Personal Tax -- Center
Same-Sex Marriage -- Left
Social Security -- Center-Right
Unions -- Far-Right
War on Terror -- Center-Left

     Here is my information again. I updated my policy positions.