While I was checking out the Project Vote Smart site I also looked at Rod Grams page. Rod hasn’t sent in his answers yet either but I did check the link to his webpage to see if it’s changed since my last peek at it. It has.
I was particularly unimpressed with his bashing of Jim Oberstar on this page. It shows exactly what’s wrong with the current Republicans and demonstrates how Rod could have a 97% “Republican” voting record.
Jim Oberstar has done the fairly surprising thing of endorsing a dark horse candidate for Governor, the liberal State Senator Becky Lourey, who I also like. Grams makes sure to point out her pro-choice voting record and tars Oberstar through guilt by association. Supposedly by supporting Lourey despite her pro-choice voting Oberstar is helping a baby killer which apparently Grams would never do.
Well, Oberstar is in the party which is primarily pro-choice. If he had nothing to do with any prochoicers he’d be pretty ineffective. By implication Rod is affirming the blacklisting and purging of pro-choice Republicans in his own party. That would be folks like me! I suspect Rod would have approved when Duluth’s Justin Krych called Republicans like us worse mass murderers than Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot combined.
Rod Grams is campaigning to bring a new more positive tone to Washington. Yeah sure!