To provide context to this list, as a general rule conservatives are anyone that has a Conservative Index score around 65% or better. Moderate conservatives fall into the 50-65% range, moderates in the 40s and liberals in the 30s and below so the listing of conservative Senators above is fairly comprehensive while the more numerous House of Reps scores above omits many good conservatives of which there tend to be around 35-40, in this case all of whom are probably Republicans.
Ron Paul almost always scores as the top conservative followed by Dana Rohrabacher and Bob Barr in the House. In the Senate, Bob Smith (a personal hero of mine) usually scores as the top conservative and Don Nickles who I have long been trying to recruit to run against Trent Lott for Senate Minority Leader usually scores in the top ten. The Senate conservative numbers were unusually low presumably due to the fact that the GOP supported more liberal "bipartisan" legislation than normal. The other surprising thing is the fact that Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) scored #1 conservative in the house besting even traditional conservative champion, Ron Paul. If I am correct in assuming that this is the same Rep. Tancredo that has been leading the charge against Bush on Bush's indefensible support of open-borders immigration, then we have got a new veritable conservative hero/icon on our hands in the House of Reps!!
If your Congressman or Senator is not on this list or if they score in the 65% conservative or below range, you need to call them and urge them to do better. Other House and Senate Leader scores include Trent Lott a moderate conservative scoring a bit higher than normal at 62%, current House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) at 65% and future House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) at 68% both scoring unusually high in the "low" conservative range. Speaker Hastert voted so seldomly, he could not be scored (even less than is traditional for House Speakers) but generally he scores in the 50s as a moderate conservative.
About damn time Goode switched! What took you so long Virgil?
Where's he at?
Proof of discredit please? Citations of measuring the Leadership votes rather than conservative principles please?
Don't forget the linky poo to back up your false claims.
"The much discredited ACU". OK. I didn't realize that voting for school vouchers, ANWR drilling, tax cuts, the Ashcroft nomination, and against CFR, overseas abortion funding, NEA funding, and the International Criminal Court (among other things the ACU bases its ratings on) wasn't conservative. I'll be sure to take the ratings of the John Birch Society's magazine over the ACU. You can't possibly be serious.
Recently, John McCaslin who writes the Inside the Beltway column for the Washington Times, featured several true (and unbelievable!) immigration stories, passed on to him from Rep. Tancredo. Maybe someone saw this, maybe someone has it archived, WTimes does not have material available beyond 7 days back.
After hearing him there at CPAC and even though his remarks were limited to immigration issues, it does not surprise me to find him at the top of this list. He represents his district (and all conservatives) well!