How Do They Lean?

Here, in alphabetical order, are several of the current Republican Presidential hopefuls (and a few possible "spoilers") and how they lean politically according to http://www.ontheissues.org/ : (The grid with the political philosophy is at the bottom of each person's ontheissues page)

Mike Bloomberg (Moderate Libertarian Liberal)
Sam Brownback (Libertarian-Leaning Conservative)
Jeb Bush (Populist-Leaning Conservative)
Newt Gingrich (Libertarian-Leaning Conservative)
Jim Gilmore (Populist Conservative)
Rudy Giuliani (Moderate Liberertarian Conservative)
Chuck Hagel (Libertarian-Leaning Conservative)
Mike Huckabee (Moderate Conservative)
Duncan Hunter (Moderate Conservative)
John McCain (Moderate Conservative)
George Pataki (Moderate Populist Conservative)
Texas Representative Ron Paul (Moderate Libertarian)
Mitt Romney (Moderate Populist Conservative)
Mark Sanford (Populist-Leaning Conservative)
Tom Tancredo (Moderate Conservative)
Fred Thompson (Moderate Conservative)
Tommy Thompson (Moderate Populist)

You can go here for the Vote Match quiz used to "score" these candidates. According to this 20 question quiz. If you are at all interested in the issues and who becomes the next person to be "the most powerful person in the free world", then you should take the quiz. This grid idea is more informative than the old "left or right" and it is very interesting to see where exactly on the grid the candidates fall.

The first time I took the quiz it told me "Your political philosophy is Populist-Leaning Conservative". After a couple hours of reading info on the ontheissues website I took the quiz again and now it tells me that I am "Hard Core Conservative" (I think I got fed up with all these "Moderate Conservatives" and their policy statements :-)

The "useless information" tag is tongue in cheek. This information is only useless if you don't care. (yes sir, i am opinionated - God Bless America)