Ros-Lehtinen decinitely lost Key West in the 2012 redistricting, but I think that she kept South Beach. In any event, I used to think that her pro-gay voting tecord was due to all of those gay constituents from 2002-2010, but that was before I learned of her “transgender” daughter.
Agreed. It's not like she's only voting like a RAT on gay issues, either. She's become one of the go-to RINOs whenever the Dems need "bipartisan" support for some unpopular leftist scheme. For example, she voted against a measure to block Obama's executive order amnesty and opposed reducing the Dept. of Energy's funding back to 2008 levels. As Impy noted, she's never been a reliable conservative and her voting record has just moved further and further left over the years.
http://conservativeamerica-online.com/11-biggest-house-rinos-7-ileana-ros-lehtinen/
I really have to wonder what the hell is wrong with the self-appointed "conservative" watchdog groups in this country. They really seem to have their priorities backwards lately. There's some freeper (who's not posting on this thread, BTW) who came up with his own cherry picked list of five conservative ratings and kept demanding Pat Roberts head on a platter because he "only" got a 78% score from one of those groups. Meanwhile this useless RINO Ros-Lehtinen gets less than a 30% rating from Heritage, the American Conservative Union, AND Conservative Review, but none of these idiots screaming for Mike Enzi and Pat Roberts to be run out of town on a rail because they've "been there too long" will lift a finger to oppose an actual liberal RINO who's been entrenched in south Florida for 30 years.
As I noted in another thread, had today's "conservative groups" used the same standards in the 80s and 90s, they would have worked their butts off to "take out" Strom Thurmond because its "3 Senate terms is enough for anyone and its time for him to go", while giving Arlen Specter a complete pass.
Also, I could care less if her election decades ago with a "historic first". Joseph Cao's election was just as much a "historic first" for Vietnamese Americans, he won an ultra safe RAT district that was 10X harder for a Republican to win in than Ros-Lehtinen, and plenty of conservatives were willing to throw him to the wolves after a single term because they didn't care for his centrist voting record.
Finally, we now have numerous "Hispanic women" that the GOP can use nationally as the face of the party. Dump this slime and promote Jaime Herrera and Susana Martinez, if you want to reach out to Hispanic women.