Yesterday, Republicans for Environmental Protection issued their annual scorecard for 2007.

Party standard bearer Sen. John McCain missed every vote they scored. (For more on that, see here.)

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So what did REP do? Give him a score of zero? No, they just didn’t score him at all.

Nice to see calculated political cowardice rewarded. With a bang-up start like this, I’m sure we’ll see REP holding McCain’s feet to the fire throughout the campaign!

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