[Cicero]

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.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"The GOP establishment back then put him forward because they didn’t want William Howard Robert Taft"

Fixed it for you.

[Fiji Hill]

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.

You mean Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio), William Howard's son. Ike's supporters argued that "Taft can't win," which inspired Taft supporters to wear buttons reading, "win with Taft."

[BfloGuy]

Teddy Roosevelt was a self-labeled “Progressive,” not much better than the infamous Woodrow Wilson in that regard.

Yes. Cut from the same cloth.

The only reason Republicans have admired him since is his aggressive "talk softly and carry a big stick" military policy.