SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT SENATORS-- LIFETIME CONSERVATIVE RATING
Lincoln (D-AR)...20%
Carnahan (D-MO)...28%
Graham (D-FL)....18%
Nelson (D-FL)....16%
Cleland (D-GA)....8%
Miller (D-GA)....60%
Breaux (D-LA)....47%
Landrieu (D-LA)...11%
Sarbanes (D-MD)....5%
Mikulski (D-MD)....6%
Bingamen (D-NM)....12%
Edwards (D-NC).....10%
Hollings (D-SC)....38%
Byrd (D-WV)........28%
Rockefeller (D-WV)...9%
NORTHERN REPUBLICAN SENATORS-- LIFETIME CONSERVATIVE RATING
Stevens (R-AK)....64%
Murkowski (R-AK).....83%
Craig (R-ID)........94%
Crapo (R-ID)........93%
Fitzgerald (R-IL)....88%
Lugar (R-IN)........78%
Grasley (R-IA).......82%
Brownback (R-KS).....97%
Roberts (R-KS)......86%
Collins (R-ME)......60%
Snowe (R-ME)........51%
Burns (R-MT)........87%
Hagel (R-NE)........82%
Smith (R-NH).......96%
Gregg (R-NH)......80%
DeWine (R-OH)......82%
Vonoivich (R-OH).....76%
Smith (R-OR).........76%
Spectre (R-PA).......41%
Santorum (R-PA)......85%
Chaffee (R-RI).......44%
Those are the numbers from the American Conservative Union. Backers of the conservative movement in America since Goldwater in '64.
Looking at FACTS isn't too fun when you want to sit on your high horse and scream about the evil Yankees, is it? Most of your "conservative" Democrats are further left than Jeffords. The national DNC can't wait to foist the likes of John Edwards and Max Cleland on the rest of us. And you yellow-dogs keep electing them. A whooping two or three of your "moderate" Democrats (Breaux, Miller, etc.) managed to score about the SAME rating as a some New England RINOs (that means they vote like Olympia Snowe and Arlen "Scottish Law" Specter), so if you're happy with that, then that's your problem. Enjoy your CFR, open borders, and taxpayer funded pork projects. No one with a "conservative" rating of 40% is going to get my vote in EITHER party.
Of course, statements like yours that prove the article's point. Dixiecrats have NOT "joined" the Republican Party. They're still Dixiecrats. You guys have blindly voted Democrat for 120 years and show no sign of stopping. Grandpa voted for FDR Dems and so will you. It's unfortunate that REAL southern Republicans have to deal with your bad judgment. If it weren't for yellow-dog 'RATs, guys like Fritz Hollings would have been gone YEARS ago.
FReegards...MUD