John McCain: Conservative Stalwart

Red State ^ | 01/16/2008 | Adam Graham

[Keyes2000mt]

Here's the truth: John McCain is one of the most Conservative Republicans in the Senate. Indeed, in 2006 few Senate Republicans were as Conservative or had a higher ACU Rating than John McCain. They're listed below:

Richard Shelby
Jeff Sessions
Lisa Murkowski
John Kyl
Wayne Allard
Mel Martinez
Saxby Chambliss
Johnny Isakson
Larry Craig
Michael Crapo
Charles Grassley
Mitch McConnell
Jim Bunning
David Vitter
Norm Coleman
Trent Lott
Thad Cochran
Jim Talent
Kit Bond
Conrad Burns
Chuck Hagel
John Ensign
Judd Gregg
John Sununu
Pete Domenici
Elizabeth Dole
Richard Burr
Michael DeWine
Jim Inhoffe
Tom Coburn
Gordon Smith
Rick Santorum
Lindsey Graham
Jim DeMint
John Thune
Bill Frist
Lamar Alexander
Kay Bailey Hutchinson
John Cornyn
Orrin Hatch
Bob Bennett
George Allen
Craig Thomas
Mike Enzi

With these few exceptions, no one in the Senate was more Conservative than John McCain's proud 65% American Conservative Union Rating in 2006. He was proudly just to the right of Ted Stevens (64%), Dick Lugar (64%), and John Warner (64%), who along with McCain, and except for the 44 Senators listed above, were some of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate.

[pissant]

LOL

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hahahaha! That’s there’s funny there, I don’t care who you are!

[sofaman]

conservative, my arse

[Darkwolf377]

That’s funny! Good one!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He’s such a clever guy....but if he believes in the sovereign roots of this country why the amnesty in the immigration bill?

[the808bass]

I had to click the link to see who could fathom...

Then it took me a couple a seconds. Then I laughed.

[sand88]

I fear we are about to enter Bizarro world. I would believe the Earth to be flat, before I would believe McCain a Conservative. McCain relished the thought of screwing ALL conservatives if he is elected. The man is unstable and power hungry.

[WOSG]

ROFL ... had me for a sec with that title.

[STARWISE]

It’s really comical and schizophrenic, when
you look at all the other farces of his
political career.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011708/content/01125106.guest.html

[fortheDeclaration]

John McCain's proud 65% American Conservative Union Rating in 2006.

That is pretty pathetic!

A 65 is a C-!

I think the point of the article is don't nominate Senators to be Presidents.

[pissant]

ANd stupid as well.

[libbylu]

lolol thanks for a big laugh.

[WOSG]

65% ACU RATING IS RINO TERRITORY. MCCAIN IS MORE LIBERAL THAN 44 OTHER SENATORS. CONSIDERING HOW WIMPY THEY CAN BE, THAT IS TERRIBLE!

Don’t let folks fool you with that “But McCain has a lifetime ACU rating of ... “

Folks, back before 1998 or so, McCain *was* a conservative-voting senator. He got a screw loose, or he drank the DC water for too long or *something* happened ... but he has gotten worse and worse and worse over the years.

In 1996, he might have even been a good candidate. In 2000 he was barely tolerable, and NOW —— HE IS AN AWFUL OLD RINO.

Proamnesty-antiBushtaxcuts-proCO2caps-CFR-RINO John McCain delenda est!

[Dick Vomer]

[STARWISE]

“(Fred) Thompson’s record in the Senate from 1995 through 2002 sustained his answers: His lifetime American Conservative Union rating is 86 (out of 100) and his lifetime Americans for Democratic Action (the liberal quotient) rating is a measly 5.”

http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2007/03/revisiting_fred_thompson.html

[GOP Poet]

Grab the garbage, I can’t choke it back a second longer . . .

[Kevmo]

Where’s the barf alert?

[Keyes2000mt]

In 1996, he had an 89% ACU Rating. Since then, he hasn't had a single Congress where between the two years, he averaged an 80:

105th Congress (1997-98): 74% (80 and 68)
106th Congress (1999-2000): 79% (77 and 81)
107th Congress (2001-02): 73% (68 and 78)
108th Congress (2003-04): 73.5% (72 and 75)
109th Congress (2005-06): 72.5% (80 and 65)

[sageb1]

Hah!