Almost every Republican Senator voted for TPP because Free Trade is the conservative position and protectionist taxation that’s passed on to the consumer is the union/lib position. Cruz was swayed to switch to no based on the fear-mongering being put out, but most weren’t.
ACU ratings have been weird in recent years. I don’t necessary agree with DJ that people have people been rated too well. A few years ago I was shocked at how LOW they were rating people. Basically they haven’t been consistent with their criteria, unless I’m to believe Congress has become sctizo. For a while they weren’t even posting the ratings in a format that could be easily read. Currently they don’t show what the votes they’re basing it on are, as far as I can tell. They should rehire whoever was in charge of doing the ratings 15 years ago. Fail.
Other ratings have major problems too, this one touted by some freepers had really wonky scores, “Liberty Score”, They have Maxine Waters rated ahead of some Republicans so clearly they have issues with their criteria. You gotta look at several of them and see how Congressmembers score in relation to each other.
Rubio generally scores well with most, as far as I recall. Paultards tend to score well too, despite holding dangerous non-conservative ideas that must not get voted on a lot.
I wish I had the time and skill with spreadsheets to just make my own. Haha.
As for Rubio I have some issues with him. I don’t trust him on immigration and he’s a bit neo-con-y. But I think he’s obviously significantly more conservative than McCain and Romney, horrible candidates from the left of the party. Not to mention better than Jeb. As the highest polling “GOPE” candidate I know he’s enemy #1 around here but I’d be fine if he was nominated. I’m for Cruz though.
My theory is that many boost their ratings with the meaningless stuff, but vote the wrong way on stuff that really could do something.