well from my own experience, I can tell you that if I got elected to an office as a republican, I would vote the CFG line on issues where it was never going to pass but vote for liberal legislation if it had a chance of passing. But since my occasional liberal vote would be obscured by voting the hard right line, no one would notice.
It would be pretty easy to spot that on ProgressivePunch.org by comparing the lifetime crucial vote score to the lifetime overall score. Dave Brat has an interesting score of crucial 60%, overall 14%, but he's only been in office a month.
While every Democrat had a lifetime score above 60%, 17 House Democrats had a crucial score below 50%, which means that on votes that actually matter, they were closer to the Republican party than the Democratic party. Meanwhile, no Republican other than Brat had above 33% crucial. So aside from maybe Brat, if anyone is being trolled, it's the Democratic party
