On the left, he is (or claims to be) against torture, corporate welfare and colonial wars. Sadly, this puts him well ahead of some congresscritters with D after their names.

On the right, he is in favour of killing social security and medicare stone dead, wants to downsize taxes and appeals to the small-minded small-government fanatics.

But one should be careful not to overestimate his base. They are very vocal, and they - like the the disenfranchised left (such as it is and what there is of it) - are pretty savvy at using grassroot media to their advantage. Furthermore, like the Austrians, Creationists and Teabaggers, they have a cadre of fanatics who are very good at making noise and polluting open fora. That cadre also has the rhetorical advantage of having a rather platonic relationship with empirical reality, which makes it easier for them to produce propaganda than it would be for people in the sanity-based community.

- Jake

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