Posted on 02/02/2009 3:39:16 PM PST by freema
Jones should resign or at the very least switch party affiliation to the Democratic Party.
He is not a Republican, definitely not a conservative and has misled voters by running as a Republican. Leaders of the Pitt County Republican Party should be ashamed to have put out info that Jones had made amends with his voting record and was now on the straight and narrow with conservative views.
(Excerpt) Read more at reflector.com ...
NC PING!
Jones’s father was a longtime Democrat Congressman and he ran in 1992 to succeed his father as a Democrat, but the district was redrawn to be a Black seat, and he lost the primary to Eva Clayton. He moved into the adjacent district and switched to the GOP in ‘94 and won.
Yep, and he sucks. Buddies up with murtha, too and while he helped Ilario Pantano, he called in his markers for it.
He used to be conservative. I wonder what happened?
Conservative Republicans should get the heck out of that lameass party and start a new conservative party.
Reverted to his roots. He should’ve been dumped in the primary last year. He’s an embarrassment now.
Pulled a "Bloomberg" eh?
Yes and no. Switching to the GOP was no guarantee for success. He unseated the Democrat incumbent, Martin Lancaster, in the general. He was the first to win that district as a Republican since Reconstruction.
How does one go from a conservative to a RINO? Is it the Washington effect? Were they ever truly a conservative or did they deceive their constituents? This crap needs to stop.
It’s very easy in DC, since with the exception of rare few individuals (the late Jesse Helms, for one), you become the establishment before long, and that almost always pushes you to the left. His ACU lifetime rating averaged out at 90, but it’s been slipping downwards, and was last at 71 in 2007 (’08 ratings not out yet), his lowest rating ever. That was down from 79 in ‘06. That made him the most liberal Republican in the NC delegation (even the often derided Elizabeth Dole got a 92, same as Richard Burr).
Go back to his first year in ‘95, and he had a 96, tied for second place for most Conservative House member. In 1996, he scored 100, and did so again in 1997, 1998 & 1999. In 2000 it slipped to 96, and dropped to 92 in ‘01. It went back up to 96 in ‘02 and back down to a 92 in ‘03. In ‘04 he plummeted to a 79 (about where he started to go “RINO”). He rose a single point to 80 in ‘05. As I wrote above, he’s dropped twice since, so it’s now not been since 2003 he has voted “solid” Conservative. Clearly he’s a decade past his best voting record, and now is voting a third wrong most of the time. Definitely time for retirement.
He only won an underwhelming 59-41% in the GOP primary last year against a respectable challenger (but clearly the Dems were quite happy with Jones, along with foreign policy liberals and paleo-cons, who were on the same page on Iraq). A swing of just 3,600 votes would’ve seen Jones defeated in the primary.
Lookey here he joined rat witchhunt (Ron Paul too)
“On February 14, 2008 Rep. Jones was one of only three Republicans (along with Ron Paul and Wayne Gilchrest) to vote to hold George W. Bush confidantes Joshua Bolten and Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for failing to testify and provide documents relevant to the firing of federal prosecutors.”
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll060.xml
Most Republicans absented themselves in protest.
The Jones article in question or so I believe.
http://www.reflector.com/news/jones-dc-has-chance-to-restore-peoples-faith-387385.html
I’d rather see Walter E Jones in Congress.
To his credit, there are few who sounded the alarm about GOP spending when Republicans controled Congress. His real problem, IMHO, has been as patronizing an attitude toward his base nearly as bad as John Murtha, when a schizm arose at the beginning of that war. He basically came out and said, "I just know more about it than you do." He had an opponent in the last Primary, one with a high enough profile that, had it been possible to beat Walter, with his inherited name recognition Eastern NC, and in NC Dist. 3, Joe Langdon (?) might have given Walter a real race. And Walter has a well known consultant team who are simply profane people, which is out of synch with Walter's genuine Christian worldview. If he snuggled up to President Obama, he'll be making a serious political error, taking a stand opposide of a unifying factor in the Republican Mass Movements..
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