During the time Thompson was getting his 86%, McCain’s average is lower than 82%
If we look at the last 7 years, McCain’s number is about 72%.
Fred did NOT show himself as a solid conservative when he was a Senator. He voted for McCain/Feingold, for example. But he was better than McCain. Fred did have a thing for opposing tort reform, which hurt him in the ratings. He even had a few bad gun votes.
But most everything THompson ever did wrong was swept away by his supporters, because in order to nitpick Romney’s record, they had to pretend their candidate was perfect. If they had to admit their own candidate had flipped on major issues like McCain/Feingold, the “flip/flop” argument would carry less weight.
So when in 1994 Thompson was “pro-life”, but only after viability, and didn’t really think it was an important thing to him, they had to instead insist that he was 100% pro-life from birth.
What about the Pubbie endorsements?
Not conservative.....
That being said, I am taken aback that he gets the votes he does. Of course, he will not fare so well in closed primaries.
The point I am trying to make is, folks try to say 82% over 21 years is a not a great rating, and then fawn over themselves over a guy who was about 86% over an 8 year span. Had Thompson had as long of a time in the Senate, I highly doubt his rating would have wound up over 80% lifetime.
Thompson was the Obama of the right this season.. a lot of folks projected onto him things that just weren’t there, they saw what they wanted to see, not what was.
I don’t think there are too many republicans that deserve over 75% over the last 8 years... lets face it, amnesty was fought for and supported by most republicans in the Senate, spending has been out of control for most of the last 8 years, etc etc etc.
A consistent RINO during the Bush era.
We CANNOT let this man be our nominee!
Charles, it seems as though everyone we are expected to support is hoped to govern as POTUS more conservative than in the past at whatever position they held.
sad isn’t it?