And Marco Rubio has a 100% lifetime rating by the ACU. And yet he is constantly attacked here as RINO. Either political ratings by the ACU and the like can become distorted or manipulated to a great extent by experienced politicians, or Freepers are needlessly attacking one of the strongest conservative in the Senate. Heck, John McCain has an 83% rating by the ACU.
I trust these number-based ratings services for politicians about as far as I can throw them. You have to look at their individual votes on important bills, and what changes they might have made to them. Remember how Ron Paul loaded up bills he knew were going to pass with local-kickbacks, and then voted against them, so he could claim that he “voted against earmarks”?
Until Rubio went native, he WAS pretty solid.
Now he’’s just another Amnesty pusher. Sure numbers are not the whole story. There are many considerations. But Akin was not nearly the lib that his replacement is. He WAS largely conservative. He NEVER went 180 on core conservative principles.
Rubio just did. And is pushing hard for it. Yet none of the Akin hate club is bitching a fraction as much as this affront to America.
Why?