Posted on 11/01/2014 10:11:43 AM PDT by knarf
FR is hot with news and commentary about the upcoming election and a common theme / argument / point for discussion is the RINO's of the GOPe ...
Are Rino's REALLY evil people or are they just politically weak ?
I've tried to imagine myself being elected to a high office and would I be swayed by bribes or women or whatever ... or maybe even some dredged up past ?
So it occurs to me that RINO's may be just people with no backbone.
Now, I'm certainly open to accept sabotage as a motivation to be RINO ...
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
There is your answer.
The Founders warned us of this, and yet Republicans refuse to believe it infects their own party and leadership because they are convinced that they must continue to vote for the status quo to save the country.
RINOS love and admire Barack Hussein Obama. They worship at his feet as much as the Media and Democrats do. However, they have to pretend to "fight" him just so the "rubes" back home will vote for them.
Those who are light in the loafers regarding, life, family, borders, guns, big government, socialism, etc, are evil. Communist-lite.
So it occurs to me that RINO’s may be just people with no backbone.
They have no problems attacking their own conservative base.
The GOP had the “backbone” to impose under WIllard Romney
BOTH socialized medicine and gay marriage/polygamy.
The GOP had the “backbone” to protect Obama and his
treason for 6 years.
... And the “backbone” to attack conservatives and their
families (even when Presidential candidates).
Heck, its not called the Give.Obama.Power Party for nothing.
Or do you mean RINOS? As in, a bunch of people who are Republican In Name Only?
There's a big difference between RINO'S and RINOS.
They swear an oath to defend the constitution. Those who can’t do it or refuse to do so are evil liars who place their own selfish interests before God and country.
I don’t know what their motivations are, but the first big test, if Repubs take the Senate, is for McConnell to warn Harry Reid not to try anything in the lame-duck session, and if Reid does, the Dems will be severely punished in the new year. And DO IT.
Yes.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Anyone who pursues politics as a career is either power hungry or unable to make an honest living. They call themselves “public servants” but a true public servant is a person who sees a need for improving or cleaning up a public matter, does it then returns to private pursuits. Every elective office needs a term limit.
The GOP has reached the point, IMO, where they are either so incompetent as to be malicious OR they are actively colluding with the elitist statists, which is by its very nature, malicious
Both parties suck. Embrace it.
I think more than a few of the RINO-types are just hopelessly outdated in their thinking.
They still watch network news and think that’s really the way the world is. In their minds, Brian Williams is “mainstream.” Maybe even “conservative.”
They barely use the internet at all, so their access to alternative news and opinion is almost nil.
They think they’re doing a good thing by “compromising” with their Democrat colleagues, when they’re really just “compromising” with fascism.
Because they actually believe the legacy media, they think they must be “hip” and “with-it” by embracing the legacy media’s propaganda (”women’s issues” trump all, “alternative” energy is the wave of the future, Islam is the “religion of peace”, Americans hunger for same-sex marriage, etc.). By the same token, because they are not internet-savvy, when the absolute truth is told by an “alternative” news source that isn’t NBC or the New York Times, they think that’s just the “fringe” talking.
So while some RINOs may be truly evil, I think most of them are just WOEFULLY uninformed. They get biased information and think they’re hearing the truth. They are “ignorant” in the purest sense.
If you feel they are “in name only” because they’ve abandoned the principles that underlie the Republican party, then that’s weakness and there’s your answer.
I’ve said for year that “RINO” is a misnomer. I’m one who still does embrace the conservative principles that once were strong pillars of the GOP, thus I am the one who is tied to the current part “in name only”.
Don’t try to define RINO, just try to recognize one when you see him. Generally, they are usually republicans that vote consistently or a higher than normal percentage of the time with the opposition, in this case the democrats...
OTH, I find myself being sort of a RINO, when I disagree with GOPe over conservative issues and candidates.
Politics doesn’t generally attract men of principe. You can get a Reagan who falls into it, who didn’t really want or need it, who wasn’t looking for it, who is called either by men or conditions in combination with their own conscience.
One should wade into it, half against his will, seeing that he is the singular person who can rescue a baby drowning in a sea of manure.
Anyone who wants to wade and swim about in manure as a way of life probably has a character made of it. A soldier who craves war is a sociopath. A man who craves public life is a narcissist and often mildly or strongly psychopathic.
Neither the eager soldier or the eager public personality has any connection to the human condition.
RINOS are human garbage. They intentionally ignore their base, side with dems on policy, manipulate elections and take money for doing it.
The above is a mirror of how the DNC operates and it is not remotely deniable.
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