Thanks for all the detail, in this post and in your message. That gives me more insight into why Amash may not be considered a conservative.
“That’s why I look at numerous organizations (not just the five you cherry picked to make Mike Enzi look bad), and on many scorecards, Amash is repeatedly shown as one of the most Democrat-friendly Republican incumbents.”
I didn’t cherry pick organizations to make Mike Enzi look bad. I compiled the averages based on the organizations that I knew of and Enzi was way down the list, based on his votes. And I wasn’t surprised since I’d seen so many stories about him constantly helping “his friend” Ted Kennedy as ranking member of the HELP committee. I thought he was still ranking member, but I found out yesterday that Alexander is now ranking member, which is worse. He’ll never repeal Obamacare and is for Common Core.
But I digress, can you give me a list of the organizations you use? I’d like expand my average as we gear up for 2016.
“So what’s YOUR beef against Brian Ellis?”
I really had no beef with him and don’t know anything about him. Every day I do a search on moderate republicans, to get insight and to see what they’re upset about or excited about. And what popped up yesterday, Pete Hoekstra, 2012 loser endorsed the candidate running against who John McCain called a wacko bird. And I remembered here and there that the Establishment wanted to take out Amash. Stories like this involving Steve LaTourette and others on Breitbart.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2013/11/former_rep_steve_latourettes_g.html
“I thought challenging ALL incumbent politicians was GOOD no matter how conservative they are, isn’t that what the “all incumbents must go” crowd”
You twist this constantly. As I’ve said many times, rotation in office is a key to liberty. I am against long term politicians. I believe their terms should be limited, but not to one or two terms. If a congressman votes poorly, by all means remove him, and if he votes well, by all means re-elect him, but only for so long, because eventually, they stop representing the people and only represent themselves, i.e. “what do I need to do to stay in office and keep this power.” We need some experienced legislators and yes, some fresh blood. And the people need to keep their eye on these people in EVERY election. Where’s the NRCC, which exists to reelect incumbents. Don Young can vote badly for forty years but Amash needs to be thrown out after 3??
So, in your opinion, how many terms should an incumbent be "allowed" before its automatically "time for them to go" regardless of their record? Will be it be acceptable to challenge Amash in 2016 if he wants a fourth term?
>> If a congressman votes poorly, by all means remove him <<
Which applies to Amash. He now has a proven terrible record on national defense issues (being a Hamas and Palestinian sympathizer) and almost certainly the most liberal record on abortion of any self-proclaimed "pro-life" Republican incumbent, as well as other social issues. Brian Ellis would clearly be an improvement over Amash (unlike for example, replacing Mike Enzi with Liz Cheney and ending up with a more liberal Senator who votes to his left on gay rights and illegal aliens)
>> the Establishment wanted to take out Amash <<
The establishment wanted to take out RINO Alberto Gonzales, too. Does that mean we should automatically support him because several people in the GOP establishment demanded his head on a platter?