[uxbridge]

Ron Paul doesn't flip-flop his priniciples, he just violates them and pretends otherwise, by passing along earmarks and then voting against them, instead of being like Tom Coburn and refusing to insert earmarks

I do get a kick out of those on FR that obviously dislike Ron Paul because of his postion on the Iraq War...but pretend that they don't like him because he's not fiscally conservative enough. Fact is, Citizens Against Government Waste, the leading non-partisan pork and earmark watchdog group, rates every House and Senate member every year as to their votes for wasteful programs and pork-barrel spending.

In 2006, Ron Paul scored 95% (exactly the same as Coburn) and higher than every other candidate other than McCain who also scored 95%

Citizens Against Government Waste--Congress Scorecard

[dirtboy]

In 2006, Ron Paul scored 95% (exactly the same as Coburn)

Except, like I said, Coburn don't do the earmark thing. Ron Paul does.

Therefore, when Ron Paul votes against the earmark and the spending, he gets credit from CAGW - but he was responsible for them being in the bill in the first place (where they get eventual passage from the majority).

Coburn does NOT place earmarks requests.

So the CAGW rating is misleading here.