His big claim to fame was that he was a FISCAL CONSERVATIVE, but socially he was a regular old baby killer.
If you poke around a bit you'll find that a SIGNIFICANT CHUNK of the TEAParty movement is made up of such folks.
What happens when you accuse folks like Ridge of being RINOs is that all Tom's friends (in the TEAPARTY, etc.) are going to do two things ~ doubt that they are welcome in Republican circles, and doubt that you know what you're talking about.
Frankly, I would have ridden all the pro-abortion types out of the party on a rail ages ago. That they like to kill babies has little to do with politics ~ it has a lot to do with immorality, and that's a good place to draw the line.
Tom Ridge might well be a good guy otherwise, but I don't associate with such people and you shouldn't either.
At the same time he's not now nor has he ever been a RINO.
Documentation, please.
ALL RINOs claim to be fiscal conservatives: Christine Todd Whitman, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Bill Weld, Olympia Snowe, Mike DeWine, George Voinovich, Arlen Specter, Jim Jeffords, Linc Chafee, Lowell Weicker, Bob Packwood, Lisa Murkowski...
Are they ever? If they’re willing to sell out their moral and legal principles at the cost of fifty million dead babies, you think they’re going to blink at passing some pork?
the pro abortion tone you allude to was completely absent from the tea party convention i attended last year....instead...anti abortion rhetoric was at full tilt