If you think that adding up final scores and finding the mean is “dissecting,” then you are even more superficial than I thought. I’m referring to looking at the votes considered and excluded, and the weight given to each vote, by each group. And as for you revelation that Democrats always have less conservative voting records than Republicans, thanks for making one of my points.
You had your chance to replace McConnell with someone more conservative (or bolder, which is your biggest beef with McConnell) earlier this year, but instead of recruiting a good candidate with a proven record you chose to back some guy off the street with no discernible political track record, nothing to back up his claims of being a conservative, a trped-up résumé with a whopper of a lie, and a knack for going to the wrong activities and saying the wrong things. Given that as disastrous and unqualified as Bevin was he still got 35%, a good candidate certainly could have beaten McConnell. Look at Mississippi, where Thad Cochran (who, BTW, is far more liberal than McConnell) is on the ropes, because a strong, qualified candidate challenged him; that could have been McConnell. If you wish to replace a Republican with someone more conservative, you find someone more conservative who can beat him in the primary and win the general, you don’t run a nobody in the primary and then actively campaign for the liberal Democrat in the general.
“You had your chance to replace McConnell with someone more conservative”
There you go again with an inaccurate statement.
No, KY conservatives have one more chance for payback against
McConnell. And you know what? There will not be enough Bushite
votes to save McConnell.
Good riddance to McConnell.
“If you think that adding up final scores and finding the mean is “dissecting,” then you are even more superficial than I thought. I’m referring to looking at the votes considered and excluded, and the weight given to each vote, by each group.”
Yes I know that. But as you said, very few of us have the time to look into all that, and each agency rates on different issues. McConnell voted great on taxes for thirty years. McCain did too, which is why his ACU rating is so high. But how did they vote on abortion, amnesty, or any of the other conservative issues. An average gives a broad perspective and can be used as a tool to compare one senator to another, and to prevent a politician from deceiving the people.
Well said. You’re a tad more eloquent than me. I probably come off as a hostile jerk, cause I am one. ;p