...who knew?!
Chicago PM Friday 4 May 2010
Editors, The Wall Street Journal
Gentlepeople:
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan says of Indiana 6-term (36
years) Senator Richard Lugar: “He is a conservative, always has been”
[WSJ Online Thursday 3 May 2012.]
A significant portion of the US Public doesn't know the American
Conservative Union from the American Conservatory of Music, but I'm
sure Ms. Noonan knows the Union has been measuring conservatism of
Congressional members for 40 years, so why didn't she refer to its most
recent ratings that show Senator Lugar voting conservative 77% of the
time in his 36 year senate career. This would make him slightly less
conservative than Lamar Alexander (79%), and 40 other Republican
Senators, but at least more conservative than Richard Shelby (AL 76%),
the two Maine Senators, Brown (MA), Kirk (IL) and Murkowsky.
Would Noonan ever refer to any of them as Conservative?
Arnold H Nelson ah_nelson@yahoo.com
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