I did, I thought, kinda anyway. As far as I can see ACU is not listing what votes it’s uses. So I have no idea what they are. Pretty lame.
I am certain their ratings are only based on (25 selected) votes though, NOT position statements.
Back when they DID show which votes used they were always votes on final passage, key conservative amendments (or key liberal amendments), or key cloture votes in the Senate. Not meaningless procedural votes.
If your asking is his high ACU an illusion based on terrible vote selection by them, I don’t think it is.
Say what you want about him but you can’t say he’s from the left wing of the party. Near as I can tell he’s well off on the better half of Republican Senators. Despite having championed shamtesty he does indeed appear to be pretty dang conservative overall. So I would find more productive lines of attack than trying to tear down his voting record. You could point out it wouldn’t necessary translate to being a good exec and you’d have a valid point.
The question then is why is he viewed as a RINO squish? I never knew he was a global warming “denier”-—maybe because I never heard him say it. So is it a message problem?