I voted for Stovall, but this shows you what other kinds of *facts* are out there.
Posted on 02/21/2014 1:06:25 PM PST by Innovative
New rankings of lawmakers’ votes show that that Sen. John Cornyn ranks as more conservative among senators than Rep. Steve Stockman ranks in the House, despite the latter’s contention that Cornyn is too liberal:
How they rank: National Journal, a public-policy magazine, ranked all members of Congress on a conservative/liberal scale based on votes on key legislation in 2013. Cornyn ranked the 14th-most conservative of the 100 senators. Stockman ranked 138th among the 435 House members. He was behind all but two of the 24 Texas Republicans and in the middle of all House Republicans.
How it works: The particular issues that come up for a vote in any given year can contribute to fluctuations. Stockman ranked especially conservative on fiscal issues, but less so on social and foreign policy issues, which dragged down his composite score. Social policy was Cornyn’s most conservative category.
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Your idiotic postings do you no favors. If you think the Happy Meal candidate the Democrats are running is even in the same league as Joe Donnelly, you don’t know anything about Texas.
Next, you’ll tell us Windy Davis is going to win, and we need someone more moderate than Shelley Moore Capito in West Virginia!
Rankings according to whom?
OUCH:)
Bullsh*t.
Time for bed Rick.
What the good ole boys do is vote Conservative on issues of little matter. When it comes to important issues, they vote Democrat. It preserves their credentials. Anyone following them knows this.
I don’t see how it ranked someone conservative or not on the listed votes at Nattional Journal.
You wouldn’t be a Cornyn staffer shilling for him now would you? ;)
“Stockman ranked especially conservative on fiscal issues, but less so on social and foreign policy issues, which dragged down his composite score. Social policy was Cornyn’s most conservative category.”
Ah hah
Maybe one of the issues is that “Conservative” might mean “hawk” on some foreign policy issues (like intervening in Libya for instance), and yet some very good Conservatives are not automatically reflexive to get our military involved in something.
On the “social conservative” issues, not all Conservatives agree on which side the big-brother hand falls, universally. It can depend very much on the specific issue, and some very good Conservatives can disagree if a matter is a matter of personal conscience vs involvement of legal mandates.
So I can see how someone more focused on our spiraling increases in the size of the federal government, federal power, federal spending and federal debt - fiscal matters, and the matters the GOP is most famous for siding with the Dims on, could maybe seem “less” Conservative than someone who mostly matches what the social conservatives and foreign policy hawks want to hear.
The man most likely to “grow” in office, is the one who is not conservative to begin with, for instance, a republican who is only a little bit conservative, as you just described.
Should have known. Thanks for the heads up and due diligence. I was remiss
Dallasnews.com. Enough said.
I will never forgive or trust Cornyn for supporting Murkowski in Alaska over Miller, the primary winner.
Don’t see Jeff Sessions on the list...
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That’s how skewed these *ratings* are. I think they commissioned Karl Rove to set the criteria AND tabulating.
I voted for Stovall, but this shows you what other kinds of *facts* are out there.
How much did Cornyn pay this “conservative” group to give him a high ranking? Cornyn is a fraud, the type of pol who allows Obama to succeed. BOb
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