Conservative rating: by
Kristie McDonald 10/5/16
Republican
running mate Mike Pence, the Indiana governor and former House leader, is the
“most conservative” vice presidential nominee of the last 50 years, according
to the American Conservative Union’s grading system.
From Washington Examiner - The ACU said Monday that Pence has a 99 percent grade, meaning he
agrees with or supports the positions of the long-time guard of conservative
principles.
By
comparison, Democratic running mate Sen. Tim Kaine has the lowest ACU grade in
50 years, zero. That is even lower than populist hero former Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, former Vice President Al Gore and even Vice President Joe Biden.
In fact,
Kaine is the only nominee with a perfect zero lifetime rating, and he is even
lower than President Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and the top of the ticket,
Hillary Rodham Clinton. His zero rating comes as the Clinton campaign is trying
to portray the Virginia senator and former Democratic Party boss under Obama as
a moderate.
The two
nominees face off in their only vice presidential debate Tuesday night in
Farmville, Va.
The
influential ACU runs the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or
CPAC. The next one takes place Feb. 22-25 just outside Washington at its annual
home on the Potomac River, the Gaylord Nationa Resort & Convention Center.
Below is the
list put out by ACU of the 18 vice presidential nominees going back to Hubert
Humphrey in 1965.
Republicans
— Mike Pence,
ACU rating 99.0.
— Dick
Cheney, 90.8.
— Jack Kemp,
88.8.
— Paul Ryan,
88.6.
— Bob Dole,
82.4.
— Dan Quayle,
80.3.
— Gerald
Ford, 64.0.
Democrats
— Lloyd
Bentsen 40.5.
— Joe Lieberman,
15.1.
— Al Gore,
14.6.
— Tom
Eagleton, 12.9.
— Joe Biden,
12.4.
— John
Edwards, 12.2.
— Geraldine
Ferraro, 8.3.
— Edmund
Muskie, 6.4.
— Hubert
Humphrey 5.0.
— Walter
Mondale 3.7.
— Tim Kaine,
0.
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