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Speaking of Republicans voting the majority of times w/Democrats….

As I posted here, it is clear that Scott Brown, rather than supporting more Conservative issues supported more Progressive ones:

sided with a Democratic majority on 22 percent of votes in his first year, ranking him seventh among all senators.  The next year, he voted with Democrats 46 percent of the time, trailing only Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. In 2012, he rose to the top of the list, siding with a Democratic majority close to 62 percent of the time

Which should give rise to the question: if I am voting for a Republican, am I getting a Republican?  If someone has an “R” after their name, are they a “good” Republican (which NH House Minority Gene Chandler holds to) simply because of that “R” designation? 

After all, for all the kvetching done by the Democrats that the Republicans have forced out their moderates (who certainly were more willing to vote against Conservative ideals), the New Left (the Socialists) who have taken over the Democrat Party have ALSO kicked out THEIR “moderates” (aka, the blue dog Democrats).  So if an “R” is voting with the Democrats, they really ARE support Leftist doctrinaire policies.  Like these present NH State House Representatives:

Below is a calculation of how often a Rep voted with Republicans and how often with Democrats. It is based simply on which way the majority of Ds voted, and which way the majority of Rs voted. Anyone who votes more with Democrats than with Republicans is, by definition, a true RINO:

By their 2013 voting records there are seven RINOs.

NH State
Republican Percentage Time Voting with  
Representatives Republicans Democrats
Gargasz, Carolyn M 47.00% 74.80%
Kidder, David H 45.80% 72.90%
Emerson, Susan 50.00% 72.20%
Copeland, Timothy D 53.70% 67.20%
Shackett, Jeffrey S 58.50% 66.10%
Grenier, James L 54.20% 66.10%
Lockwood, Priscilla P 58.00% 60.90%

Yes – the numbers running across add up > 100%.  Why?  On a popular issue (“who is FOR Mom and apple pie?  Let’s vote!”), I could see everyone voting for something so a Rep got credit for voting with both Parties. And yes, those kinds of votes, where a majority of both could just be dismissed as “ties”.  But life is short and the time to do it to that level is not in my schedule.  Deal with it as the above is a decent (if rough) approximation.

The point is, shouldn’t these kinds of voters be intellectually get honest with themselves AND for the sake of their constituents (who may well never know how they are voting as they are relying on that “R” – mistakingly as it turns out?).

Certainly, the final arbiter of this is the voters.  I keep hearing that from “Leadership” – and then they just walk away (aka, “Not my job, man”) and refuse to protect “the Brand”.  So, if Leadership is going to effectively support “Inconsistency”, their sagging vote totals will continue to do just that.  People DO want to believe but they need to see Consistency first – the NH GOP is scaring them away but not doing that.

Sidnote: Susan Emerson once has dreams (a couple of years ago) of becoming NH GOP Chair; now wouldn’t THAT visualization be laughable (or scary) – a Chair that votes more with Dems than with the Party she leads?

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