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"For starters, Paul couldn't get elected as a Libertarian, so he masquerades as a Republican. He sometimes votes with the Liberal Dems and against Conservative positions. There's far too long a list and this is a boring / not on topic dodge, so, just go do some real research, on this matter."
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TOP "TEN" CONSERVATIVE LIST based on 2001 Conservative Index scores published in The New American magazine:

US House
1. Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) 95%
2. Rep. Paul (R-TX) (former Libertarian) 92%
3. Rep. Schaefer (R-CO) 90%
4. Rep. Hostettler (R-IN) 88%
5. Rep. Royce (R-CA) 84%
6. Rep. Rohrbacher (R-CA) 83%
7. Rep. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) 81%
8. Rep. Duncan (R-TN) 79%
9. Rep. Barr (R-GA) Rep. Goode (R-VA) (former Democrat) Rep. Pombo (R-CA) all tied for 9th place with a 78% conservative rating.

US Senate

1. Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) 74%
2. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) 72%
3. Sen. Robert Smith (R-NH), Sen. James Inhofe & Sen Voinovich (R-OH) 70%
4. Sen. Strom Thurmond 69% (former Democrat)
5. Sen Phil Gramm (R-TX), Sen. Campbell (R-CO) (both former Democrats) & Sen. Frank Murkowski at 67%
6. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) & Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) at 65%

To provide context, 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 is running 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!!
39 posted on 4/26/02 2:30 PM Pacific by rightwing2
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