Vin Weber was a high school classmate of my younger brother. He grew up in Slayton, MN and his dad owned the local weekly newspaper for years.
Vin was a congressman from that area and not someone I would call a liberal pub, but not exactly a conservative either.
But, you have to keep in mind these yahoos go to Washington, make big bucks selling out to whomever they have to, and suddenly you need a scorecard to tell dem/pubs apart because in the end, their only passion is money, elite cocktail parties and the slap on the back from the ruling elite.
I fail to see anything rational much less conservative in that statement. Someone mentioned his association with Madeleine Halfbright. That makes me wonder where he stood on the bombing of Serbian Christians in defense of KLA Muslim narco/slave/arms trafficking terrorists.