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This is idiocy.

Burr had an 88% ACU rating.

Here are his positions:

Fiscal/monetary/financial

Burr voted against the financial reform bill Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank). In the June 26 debate, he stated: “I fear we’re headed down a path that will be too overburdensome, too duplicative, it will raise the cost of credit ... The balance that we’ve got to have is more focus on the products that we didn’t regulate ... more so than government playing a bigger role with a stronger hand”.

In fall 2008, during that year’s financial crisis, Burr described his response to problems in the U.S. financial system: “On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, ‘Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take. And I want you to go tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday.’ I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash.”[26] This statement attracted attention from the national press when an April 2009 story in the News and Observer made it more widely known.[27] In late April, Burr told WFAE, a public radio station in North Carolina, “Absolutely I’d do it [again].” He said that “The exact situation we were faced with was a freeze bank to bank. And as I stated, my attempt was to make sure my wife had enough cash at home to make it through the next week.” Burr also said that “It was not an attempt to run a bank,” and “Nor was it a bank that was even considered then or now to be in trouble.”[28]

Burr is a signatory of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge”.[29]

In 2013, Burr criticized some of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, who were filibustering the passage of the fiscal year 2014 federal budget in an effort to defund the Affordable Care Act. In a tweet, he called their strategy “the height of hypocrisy”.[30]

Gun rights

Burr supports Second Amendment gun rights and voted against the 2013 legislation which would have extended background checks to internet and gun show weapons purchases.[31] He has sponsored legislation to stop the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from adding the names of veterans to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) if the department has assigned a financial fiduciary to take care of their finances due to mental incompetence, unless a judge or magistrate deems them to be a danger. Persons added to the NICS system are barred from purchasing or owning a firearm in the United States.[32]

Social issues

Burr’s personal belief is that marriage is between a man and a woman, however, he believes that the law should be left to the states.[41]

Senator Burr is a vocal opponent of President Obama’s healthcare reform bill, claiming that the President’s health care proposal ignored the demands of the American people and will result in a Government takeover of individual healthcare decisions, increased taxes, and rationed care.[58] Critics note that he was ranked second[59] for senators to receive contributions to their campaign committees and leadership PACs between January and September from health and accident insurers and ranked first for funding from pharmaceuticals companies.[59] Burr voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009,[60] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.[61]

So, let’s take a pro-2d Amendment, anti-Obama-Care Senator with an 88% Conservative voting record, replace him in the General with some unknown, so a Dem can be elected in the General Election?????

We eat our young.

There are a lot of Congress people who will go along with leadership, but are willing to be more conservative if they had better leadership. They are subject to criticism, but for being weak minded, and enabling the McConnells and Boehners. I don't know which kind Burr is. He may be a moderate who pretends to be conservative for the folks back home, like Cornyn, Blunt, Hatch, Rubio. Or he may be someone who is going along to get along, like happened with Ron Johnson. If we can get rid of these types in a primary, fine. But they are less of a priority than those who are truly on the other side--McCain, Graham, McConnell and many others. The only liberal Republicans who I would not actively oppose are those who are from very liberal states--Kirk, Ayotte, their ilk. The ones I most oppose are those from conservative states, like Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Arizona and South Carolina. Being stuck with Graham, Cornyn, McConnell and McCain is just a travesty.

So, bottom line, with someone like Burr, I am all for a primary challenge, if there is a more solid conservative who might also win the general. But the problem with his type is not that he voted with McConnell. It's that McConnell is leading the Republican majority. He and his band of progressives must be voted out. Will Burr join that effort if he gets support from a newly elected Republican President? Perhaps that should be a campaign issue.

This is idiocy.

Methinks you doth protest too much. Are you a paid operative? Burr is a genuine, gold-plated GOP establishment hack.

Here is Burr’s profile from Conservative Review
http://www.conservativereview.com/members/richard-burr/

1. His most prominent issue is healthcare policy. He was criticized by conservatives for being the most ardent opponent of defunding Obamacare, even resorting to publicly cheering for the effort to fail.

2. Burr has a history of supporting federal interventions into education. He also has a history of voting against vouchers and school choice initiatives.

3. He has regularly parted ways with conservatives by supporting subsidies for trade, agriculture, and energy, as well as corporate welfare, such as the Ex-Im Bank. Burr was the lead sponsor of the â€œNatGasâ€ subsidy bill, vehemently opposed by conservatives.

4. He has even voted against several balanced budget proposals. Burr voted for the â€œfiscal cliffâ€ tax increases and is a strong supporter of the internet sales tax. He was also part of a bipartisan group of senators willing to raise taxes in order to close the budget deficit.

5. With regards to social issues, Burr is weaker than most Republicans. He has consistently voted for taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research and was one of only a few Republicans to vote to repeal the militaryâ€™s â€˜Donâ€™t Ask, Donâ€™t Tellâ€™ policy. Burr also supports amnesty for illegal immigrants,