Ah, so you use a straw man to refute my attack on jveritas’ straw man? I never compared McCain to Chafee. As for the ACU rating, since when do they get to decide who is and is not a conservative? As I understand it, they simply pick what they consider the conservative position on a vote and record whether or not the senator voted for it. So, McCain could vote for an abomination like comprehensive immigration reform yet maintain a high ACU rating by voting with conservatives on several minor bills. Sorry, I think for myself and don’t just suck up McCain PR.
You claimed McCain votes with us less than 50% of the time. IF that were true, his voting record would be compariable to Chafee (though Chafee is really really liberal, he had an ACU rating of 16%, so a more accurate comparison would be that McCain would be an Arlen Specter clone, as Specter votes "with us" about 42% of time)
Since I know McCain is nowhere near as liberal as Specter, your argument is false, ACU ratings or not.
Furthermore, I can probably find half a dozen DIFFERENT conservative organizations (not single issue organizations like say, Americans for Immigration Reform) that rank members of Congress, and McCain will score well over 50% "with us" on ALL of them.
Your allegations claiming we don't get McCain to support at least 50% of our positions is simply false. McCain votes like a DemocRAT on a handful of issues like immigration and ANWR, but on the majority of issues out there, he supports the conservative position.