>> “McCain has an conservative rating of 82% from the ACU” <<
That was BS last year and it is BS today!
Top 10 Senate RINOs
by Human Events (more by this author)
Posted 03/11/2009 ET
Updated 03/24/2009 ET
As part of HUMAN EVENTS ongoing campaign against Republicans in name only (RINOs) we have compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Liberal Republican Senators based on the American Conservative Union Ratings for 2008 (110th Congress, second session.
The ratings all compare rather unfavorably with that of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), chairman of the Repubican Steering Committee. Sen. DeMint’s score was a perfect 100)
On the conservative scale, the ten lowest-scoring senators are:
1. Olympia Snowe, Maine: (ACU Rating: 12)
(Only one point higher than liberal Democrat Hillary Clinton who the ACU scored an 11, and an astonishing 4 points lower than Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid’s 16.)
2. Susan Collins, Maine: 20
(Collins received the same score as liberal Claire McCaskill, and 4 points lower than Russ Feingold’s 24)
3. Arlen Specter, PA: 42
(Only 10 points higher than Mary Landrieu’s 32)
4. George Voinovich, OH: 52
5. Lisa Murkowski, AL: 58
6. Mel Martinez, FL: 60
7. John McCain, AZ: 63
8. Richard Lugar, Ind: 63
9. Robert Bennett, UT: 64
10. Thad Cochran, Miss: 68
Uh, AK?
McCain has a LIFETIME ACU rating of 82%. That’s not “BS” at all. It’s on the ACU’s website right here. Read it for yourself: http://www.acuratings.org/2008all.htm#AZ
McCain’s 2008 rating is 63%. His lifetime rating is 82%. Some years he votes conservative more than 82%, some years he votes conservative less than 82%. It averages out to 82%
Specter has a 2008 rating of 42% from the ACU and a lifetime score of 44%.
Seems to me the only “BS” is the claim that they vote alike “95% of the time”. Anyone want to try to prove that?