Tancredo | Paul | Brownback | Gingrich | Hagel | McCain | Allen | Hunter | |
ACU: | 99% | 83% | 95% | 90% | 86% | 83% | 92% | 92% |
CAGW: | 92% | 81% | 83% | 77% | 87% | 71% | 70% | |
NTU: | 78% | 89% | 77% | 79% | 76% | 77% | 72% | 63% |
Club For Growth: | 88% | 82% | 88% | 99% | 76% | 84% | 49% | |
Average: | 89% | 84% | 86% | 85% | 85% | 81% | 80% | 69% |
Pork Reduction | 89% | 100% | 0% |
Since Hunter seems to be a choice of many FReepers, consider the following:
American Conservative Union: 2005: 92%, 2004: 87%, Lifetime Score: 92%, That makes him tied for 120th place among active Congressmen in Lifetime Score
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW): 109th: 71%, 108th: 51%, Lifetime: 70%, 2% below the Republican House Average Lifetime Score of 73%
National Taxpayers Union (NTU): 2005: 56%, 2004: 56%, Lifetime: 63%, 1% below the Republican House Average of 64%, Average of 130th place among Representatives.
Club For Growth: 2005: 49%, 187th place out of roughly 230 Republicans: Here are some of the more troubling votes: YES on No Child Left Behind, YES on Sarbanes-Oxley, YES on the 2003 Medicare Drug Benefit, YES on 2005 Highway Bill, YES on the 527 bill. Hunter also went 0 for 19 on the Flake anti-pork amendments. Despite being a member of the Republican Study Committee, Hunter frequently votes NO on their fiscally conservative annual budgets.
Wastewatcher, January 2006: "Buy America" Rips Off America Buy America provisions have been inserted into legislation, especially defense bills, for many years. Usually, such provisions are removed from the final version of the defense legislation. That happened late last year, when Senate leaders and administration officials convinced House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) to drop the provision from the fiscal 2006 Defense Authorization Act, which was then signed into law by President Bush. The Buy America clause would have blocked the Pentagon from buying military equipment from international companies that receive government subsidies. The removal of this language constitutes a victory for taxpayers and national security. More competition in Defense procurement can only result in better value for taxpayers and improved equipment for military personnel.
By my evaluation, Hunter is just another big government, big spending RINO. That's what lost us the House and Senate in 2006. Do we want to run another RINO for the White House, or do we want to return to the conservative roots that built this party?
So a 92 percent American Conservative Union rating translates to a description of a RINO??!! I don't think so.
Sorry my FRiend. You are wacky if you are calling Duncan Hunter a Rino.
He's the one candidate the dems fear will pick up momentum.
Weighing everything, Duncan Hunter is still the best of the bunch.