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.