[raybbr]

McCain has ticked me off plenty but mindlessly labeling him as a "RINO" is not accurate. On some issues he is a flaming liberal. On other issues he's a solid conservative. If one takes the emotion out of it by looking at ACU ratings you see his lifetime rating is 82 and Obama's is 9.

I don't disagree. By the way his ACU rating has been all over the place.

In '99 it was 77.

In 2000 it was 81.

In 2001 it was 68.

In 2002 it was 78.

In 2003 it was 75.

In 2004 it was 72.

In 2005 it was 80.

In 2006 it was 65.

Is he a RINO? I think he is. One day he'll "cross the aisle" and he won't come back.

[hellbender]

Take a look at the ACU ratings for all the Demonrats in the Senate. There is almost no overlap in numerical ratings between D and R Senators. The D's are mostly in the single digits and teens. Even the worst RINOs are in the 40s. That's about twice the rating of almost any Demon, and half of McCain's lifetime rating.