Yes. Even Dwight Eisenhower was a RINO candidate, although he was a good man on the whole. The GOP establishment back then put him forward because they didn’t want William Howard Taft, who was too conservative for them.
The only real conservative since then was Reagan, and he ran and won despite the best efforts of the GOPe to derail him.
For that matter, Teddy Roosevelt was a self-labeled “Progressive,” not much better than the infamous Woodrow Wilson in that regard.
Republicans haven’t just been doing this kind of thing for 50 years, they’ve been doing it for nearly a century. In that way they’ve enabled such country wreckers as FDR, HST, JFK, LBJ, Mr. Peanut, Clintbilly, and Mohammed Himself—I mean Barry Hussein.
Someone should send Karl “Kommie” Rove a copy of that article
Instead, we fell right into the same old pit again with Romney. Shame on us.