Posted on 05/09/2014 4:06:58 AM PDT by Yosemitest
Jones' ACU ratings in recent years have been 79% in 2006, 71% in 2007, 58% in 2008, 83% in 2009 (the lone year in recent memory where he scored over 80 like conservatives are SUPPOSED to EVERY year), 65% in 2010, and a pathetic 60% in 2011. He is one of only a handful of Republicans who votes with the RATS on the minimum wage and to censure Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie!" at Obama for lying about Obamacare. If that's Rush's idea of principled conservative, I'd hate to see what liberal looks like. Jones' voting record looks like a typical New England "centrist", not a conservative from a safe GOP seat in North Carolina.
This is worse than Rush's silly support for drafting Rick Perry for POTUS in 2012. I really like listening to Rush but he does go off the deep end from time to time, and this is one of those times.
Fortunantely I don't worship talk radio show hosts and consider their opinions to be infallible, unlike some conservatives (::cough:: Mark Levin worshipers ::cough::)
Not just the ACU which is getting less and less relaible and has their 2013 and 2012 ratings posted sideways for some reason so you have to tilt your head to see them.
Look at the national journal ratings.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/free/document/5075
It’s an XLS doucment but if you can open it you’ll have to scroll way down to find Jones because they have him as the 4th least conservative Republican in the (they are in order of CON RANK from highest to lowest) House behind only NY RINOs Hanna, Grimm, and Gibson! That’s worse than I thought.
It’s complete madness to call Jones “tea party”, madness. The only thing he has in common with them is that he hates the party establishment, in his case cause he’s a liberal.
Paulbots Amash and Massie also score poorly.
I’m disappointed to see IL Republican John Shimkus rated so poorly for 2013.
Auh2orepublican has a combined rating system that he outlines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3102832/replies?c=53
There.
<<<<<<Yosemitest: There are too many “Establishment Republicans” Who’ll lie in a heartbeat to trash a TEA Party Conservative.<<<<<<
There are also way too many a**holes ranging from random millionaires who gave money to democrats to Ron Paul kooks to Liz Cheney (as establishment as they come) who claim to be “tea party” when they sure as hell don’t fit my definition of a good conservative. Seems like all they have to do is rail against the “establishment” to fool people into believing them.
Go ahead and “research it”.
Jones voting record speaks for itself. He is probably the most liberal Republican in the south. Lifelong Dem prior to 1994, comes from a LIBERAL Democrat family, and his dear ol’ daddy Walter Sr. had a longtime reputation as a “progressive leader” in the North Carolina RAT Party.
Now “Republican” Walter Jr. is one of only a handful of Republicans who voted with the RATs for the minimum wage. One of only a handful of Republicans who voted with the RATs for tax increases. One of only a handful of Republicans who voted with the RATs to censure a conservative congressman for shouting “You Lie!” at Obama. “Republican” Jones is 9/11 truther who supports causes with the likes of Dennis Kucinich.
Feel free to look up all the previous posts about Walter Jones on FR, you’ll find out this guy is a RINO’s RINO, which is why all the mainstream (non-Ron Paulite) tea party groups and Sarah Palin OPPOSED Jones in the primary.
I agree with Rush 95% of the time, but he’s dead WRONG here. Rush failing to properly research Jones is no excuse for freepers not doing so.
Walter Jones, that was then, this is now
Ironically, it looks like RINO Jones was one of the turncoats who joined the Dems in trying to start a backlash against Rush by making hay out of his “phony soldiers” comment. Jones even took it so far that he was the ONLY Republican who announced he would co-sponsor the congressional resolution to condemn Rush:
http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/?p=1101
Rush would probably be kicking himself now if he knew he endorsed one of the mainstream media suckups who went after him.
LOL. Rush needs to improve his "show prep" team ping ...
I’m not sure if he actually endorsed him before the election or just deiced to ballyhoo his victory to offer a counterpoint to the “tea party is dead” storyline that cropped up because Tillis won. Either way, he made an error.
The fact that Tillis is not a RINO and that Brannon was vastly overrated as candidate adds another dimension of sillyness to the whole thing.
Either way, EVERY ONE needs to get behind Tillis now, and get kay hagan the hell out of there!
Agreed.
Well .Tillis has some RINO tendencies, but he’s not awful ..and I would also add that Brannon was fine, his team was not.
“A big shout-out and Mega Dittos to my pal, Rush Limbaugh, who talked about our victory over the Washington Insiders in Tuesday’s primary race. It was Main Street vs. Wall Street and K Street.
Rush and I - and the voters in Eastern North Carolina - know that the Washington Republicans’ prescriptions - endless debt, foreign aid, Wall Street Bailouts, and amnesty for illegal aliens - are wrong for America
Here’s a link to Rush’s audio and a transcript:”
https://www.facebook.com/WalterJonesCommittee/posts/618776598206231
Limbaugh failed to mention immigration and foreign policy.
Also part of the Tea Party bashing was that they claim there is a mandate to ram through amnesty.
Ellmers the RINO said she wanted to have a long discussion on immigration and it wont happen in 2014.
Tillis even said he wanted the border sealed before they debate any immigration law changes.
Taylor Griffin said we either deport 12 million or we give them legal status.
“Limbaugh failed to mention immigration”
He never was interested in it although he’s improved a bit recently. For years he used to parrot the Chamber of Commerce line, the usual pro amnesty treason lobby garbage.
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