Reply #146: Then why'd you say that you thought you were being fair to exclude '04? [View All]

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You don't think that any Democrat's low score during a year when they were campaigning to be president, even though they voted with the ADA when they did show up to vote, and had high ADA scores in previous years, means they're conservative, do you?

So your argument is that they're bad for not showing up to vote.

But I wouldn't want a guy to be president who didn't have the sense to call the party whip and confirm the yes and no votes and who couldn't make a reasoned decisision about whether it was more important to talk with voters face to face and hear there concerns versus going back to DC to make a meaningless vote for or against a proposition that was going to fail or win regardless.