Only in his final term has he entered "squish" territory, assuming that anything below 90% conservative is considered to be dangerously radical.
Doug Lamborn's bio, election results and voting record
No matter what source you use, thorough or otherwise, there's still more to a Congressman's record than how he votes. Ken Buck provides an excellent example (conservative voting record but, lately, lunatic tendencies).
But insofar as voting record matters, which it does (a lot), more data is always better than less.
Agree. Massie and Amash were pretty “conservative” and useless as far as MAGA reform goes.
Yeah, ACU is not reliable at all. They use their “lifetime” score to give politicians cover. Their old votes give them cover for their recent liberal votes, thus deceiving the people. And they only rate on certain items.
For example, they used to rate John McCain in the 90th percentile, or close to it. So all McCain had to do was vote right on abortion and taxes and liberal on everything else and he could keep his high rating.
I used to do an average of the five rating groups to get a REAL assessment.
But for a quick view I’d trust CR’s score.
“Liberty Score is a simplistic/lazy way to evaluate a member of Congress. According to the ACU, which is a much more thorough and longer-term measure, Lamborn’s lifetime rating is 95%”
I disagree.
Rating sites like Conservative Review (Liberty Score) focus on key issues that I care about (judicial nominations, debt spending, 2nd amendment, etc.).
The ACU ratings are watered down. RINO legislators can raise their conservative ratings by voting for a high number of inconsequential bills and voting against the most important bills. John McCain was the poster child for that type of voting.
http://ratings.conservative.org/people/M000303