Defend Life has stacked up the 2008 Presidential candidates against the US Catholic Bishop’s Faithful Citizenship document. They were evaluated on

30 different issues, eight of which were the issues involving potentially “intrinsically evil” positions and 22 which were other important issues.

Those issues under “intrinsically evil” include: Protect all unborn (no exceptions; unborn protected under the Constitution), Oppose Euthanasia, Oppose Research that Results in Embyonic Destruction, Oppose all Human Cloning, Oppose targeting of Noncombatants (Use of nuclear weapons or landmines), Marriage is One Man, One Woman; Oppose “domestic partnerships”, Oppose Use of Torture, and Oppose Racism (added 11/20/07).

These are the results:

1. Ron Paul (R): 99 points
2. Alan Keyes (R): 70 (not on the ballot in all states)
3. Mike Huckabee (R): 69
4. Duncan Hunter (R): 50
5. Tom Tancredo (R): 48
6. John McCain (R): 36
7. Chris Dodd (D): 25
8. Dennis Kucinich (D): 22
9. Mitt Romney (R): 10
10. Joe Biden (D): 5
11. Fred Thompson (R): 4
12. Hillary Clinton (D): (-11)
13. John Edwards (D): (-13)
14. Bill Richardson (D): (-15)
15. Barack Obama (D): (-15)
16. Rudy Giuliani (R): (-28)

If you are interested in how the entire thing breaks down (and you have a google account) you can view the spreadsheet here. (H/T The Catholic Knight)

What do you think? Does this help you? Does this help me? I’ve told you before that I have been pretty unimpressed with our choices. I can’t really muster up any sort of enthusiasm for anyone, or for politics in general. Maybe it’s just too early for me. Have they always started campaigning a year and a half before the election? Quite frankly I’m actually just bored with it already and would rather the general election were held tomorrow so that we could be rid of all this, at least for the next two and a half years. Am I being a bad pro-life advocate here? Politics is usually my thing, especially when it comes to the defense of the unborn, but I’m just not into it right now. Even if there was a candidate who I could say I would vote for, the enthusiasm’s just not there for me.