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[QUOTE=FreedomFanatic;bt1490]Just saw this. So just curious, in your opinion, how good is good enough? Would you suggest we vote for three star types? Two star types?[/QUOTE]

Truth is, you can only vote for someone if they are running in your district or state. The purpose of candidate evaluation is to see which candidates that activists can choose to support financially and/or with volunteer hours. For example, I cannot vote for Greg Brannon since I don't live in NC, but the $5000 I sent him will result in a lot of votes.

I'm not so much worried about the social type stuff, whether it be abortion (which should be dealt with at the state level anyway), gay marriage (Which is really the laughable issue of the era) and drugs (Which again should be a state level issue: which really only marijuana is seriously being debated ATM and I agree with you that liberty candidates like Rand Paul aren't going to force them to change their policy even if they don't openly support legalization.)

My bigger concern is foreign policy, and anti-terror stuff. My willingness to compromise on those issues is far less. Are we really "Better off" if we aren't being taxed as much if we're still waging war everywhere and spying on everyone?

I like Rand Paul, he's at least close to Ron's foreign policy, even though I occasionally express frustration at a few of his votes. Mike Lee's rhetoric sometimes annoys me, such as with the whole Snowden thing, but for the most part he's a principled conservative. Ted Cruz seems like a bit of a hawk, but its hard to tell with certainty.

I don't really know exactly what the best strategy with this kind of stuff is, but my concern with some of the borderline people isn't the social conservative stuff, its the neoconservative stuff, if that makes sense.

Just saw this. So just curious, in your opinion, how good is good enough? Would you suggest we vote for three star types? Two star types?

Also, where are you rating someone like Ted Cruz on a scale like this? Where would you put an honest progressive like Dennis Kucinich on a scale like this? (Personally I'd say three stars on Cruz and either one or two stars on Kucinich, but I'm not sure.)

Does it include civil liberties yet? Because if they may have voted for NDAA or the Patriot Act they are not Paul incarnate regardless of their other attributes.