What does ACI stand for?

David Keene Head of the American Conservative Union CAPTION(S): Mary Buttolph / The New York Times : Conservative businessman Doug Hoffman, outside his campaign office in Canastota, N.

[Hatch and Grassley] are so out of touch with the base of the party and the grass roots that they don't realize that by screwing Sessions, they are creating the kind of ill will among supporters that won't necessarily personally hurt them politically, but will hurt the broader party," says a longtime conservative activist and a board member of the American Conservative Union.

com, David Keene of the American Conservative Union, and Gary Bauer of American Values.

But even though he has a lifetime rating of 82 percent from the American Conservative Union, there is nothing McCain will be able to do to fend off the attacks from within his own party.

He has received A or A+ ratings from the American Conservative Union, National Right to Life, National Rifle Association, Family Research Council, National Taxpayers Union, and National Federation of Independent Business.

In February 2006, David Keene, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, spoke of Memogate when he presented Miranda with the organization's Reagan Award, saying, "[Democrats] no doubt thought that it would all end with that, that Manny Miranda would slink off into the darkness and never be heard from again .

A selection of the interest groups whose ratings are included are Americans for Democratic Action, the Conservative Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Security Council, the National Education Association, and the American Conservative Union.

While the general public sees McCain as moderate, he earns a lifetime rating of 83 from the American Conservative Union (based on a scale from 0 to 100 with 100 being the most conservative.