“Since Roberts voted with Cruz and 16 other Senators to not extend sequestration during the phony government shutdown, he earned my vote, unless someone can show me enough negative votes to change my mind.”
Roberts (KS) - 08/05/14 - 78% (Average) - 89% (Heritage) - 55% (CFG) - 72% (ACU) - 94% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts votes conservative on some things but liberal on others. His conservative average is 78%. You can judge for yourself if his one vote last September is worth sending him to Washington again for another 6 years.
Heritage has him at 90 with the average Republican Senator at 67. Freedom Works has him at 94. His average is dragged down by ACU and CFG. Do they have a different agenda than the other two? CFG I can’t seem to find and ACU doesn’t include 2013.
These ratings are all well and good, but I have a MAJOR question. Do these ratings ORGS include YEA Cloture votes in which the Senator eventually ends up voting NO? (i.e., he gets a ‘conservative’ on the NO vote, but his YEA Cloture vote (which was the one that mattered) not held against him?....
In my mind, ANY Senator that votes FOR cloture to cut off debate and amendment on a bill and then AGAINST the bill with other minority Republicans is just a RINO looking for a show vote he can go home and lie about.