Well, she's older than most of them. But seriously...
Whenever someone asks my opinion of Senator Dole, I end up "damning her with faint praise." She's... OK. For sure, she's no Jesse Helms, and it's difficult to follow a legend. Ask Bill Guthridge, who succeeded Dean Smith as UNC basketball coach. Dole will be like Guthridge: an adequate placeholder until the real thing comes along.
She has a tinge of RINOism for sure. But she looks mighty good compared to the Maine duo, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, who are real RINOs.
If you like to go by the ratings (and they should be taken with a large grain of salt), Liddy's ACU numbers are 86 lifetime, 92 for 2004.
A tinge? I think not. She is a dyed in the wool Republican. Everything the Republican party has truly stood for is exhibited in Giddy. Now is she conservative? Not by a long shot. It is clear the honorable Senator Helms, along with Ronald Reagan, were just aberrations in the Republican party, a long line of big government, wasteful spending, centralization focused, power grabbing political hacks.
Course that's just my two cents. I could be wrong but I'm not.