This is idiocy.
Here is Burr’s profile from Conservative Review
http://www.conservativereview.com/members/richard-burr/
1. His most prominent issue is healthcare policy. He was criticized by conservatives for being the most ardent opponent of defunding Obamacare, even resorting to publicly cheering for the effort to fail.
2. Burr has a history of supporting federal interventions into education. He also has a history of voting against vouchers and school choice initiatives.
3. He has regularly parted ways with conservatives by supporting subsidies for trade, agriculture, and energy, as well as corporate welfare, such as the Ex-Im Bank. Burr was the lead sponsor of the “NatGas†subsidy bill, vehemently opposed by conservatives.
4. He has even voted against several balanced budget proposals. Burr voted for the “fiscal cliff†tax increases and is a strong supporter of the internet sales tax. He was also part of a bipartisan group of senators willing to raise taxes in order to close the budget deficit.
5. With regards to social issues, Burr is weaker than most Republicans. He has consistently voted for taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research and was one of only a few Republicans to vote to repeal the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. Burr also supports amnesty for illegal immigrants,
The ACU did not give him an 88% approval rating because he was wrong on too many issues!
Please remember President Reagan’s caution that someone who disagrees with him 20% of the time was not a 20% enemy; they were his 80% friend.
In this case, it’s 88%.
The bigger problem however is the recently history of nominating supposedly conservative candidates who were so inept as politicians that they lost the General we should have won easily. Maryland, Nevada, etc.
Nominating this new doctor would again replace a friend with a candidate unknown to voters, and probably lose us the General.
Let’s be glad we have the 88%