What a pleasure it is to speak at this year’s “How to fool the electorate” conference
Jim Matheson claims to be a “fiscal conservative” and a “blue dog” Democrat. So how often do you think he votes with his political party?
Close your eyes now and guess… then click the “Read More” button.
Source: OpenCongress.org
Surprised? Go down his list of votes. He votes with his party virtually every time.
Now, if we lived in Vermont, or Santa Monica, we’d be darned lucky to have a Representative somewhat less liberal than Lenin. But Southern Utah is CONSERVATIVE.
And… I’d submit… darned gullible to be fooled by Jim Matheson for a decade.
With luck that will change in 2010, but frankly, I don’t have high hopes. I meet lots of people and Matheson still has them fooled.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:39 am
[...] As to Blue Dog Democrats…. I’ve got one “representing meâ€. Frankly, he is too much work. We have to watch him all the time to make sure he doesn’t go off the deep end. I’d rather have a REAL fiscal conservative, not one that votes with his party 90% of the time. [...]