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Interesting comments here by the most conservative member of the House of Reps, Rep. Ron Paul.

Most conservative?? What? Paul only gets a 76% from the ACU. I've heard Congressmen labeled Rinos by some FReepers for a voting record higher than that.

Most conservative?? What? Paul only gets a 76% from the ACU. I've heard Congressmen labeled Rinos by some FReepers for a voting record higher than that.

Apparently, you are still using badly discredited ACU figures to determine how conservative a member of Congress is. The ACU is totally discredited because it uses party loyalty not conservativeness as the qualifier for a positive "conservative" ranking. (They actually had mushy moderate Bob Dole at 100% conservative for a while) Accordingly, the ACU conservative rating only measures party loyalty not conservativeness. Thus, using your figures Rep. Ron Paul supports the Republican House leadership 76% of the time. The other 24% of the time when the GOP House leadership is supporting stuff like amnesty for aliens, the Ted Kennedy education bill, the Clinton "balanced" budget, etc, Paul wisely chooses to vote for conservative principle instead of party. The best measure of conservativism for our Congressman I have yet found is published by the New American magazine's Conservative Index. It used to be on the Internet, but no longer is. You now have to subscribe to get it. At $39 a year it is well worth the price for the best conservative magazine in America. Check out www.thenewamerican.com for more info.