What keeps the RINOs impudent is that conservative Republicans have almost always been willing to acquiesce and get behind a RINO in the general election (win or lose, and almost always lose), once the RINOs have screwed us in the primary. Thus it was in 1940 when the Willkie backers screwed Bob Taft; thus it was in 1948 and 1952 when Dewey’s and Eisenhower’s gangs screwed Taft and conservatives. Thus also in 1964 when Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and other liberal Republicans refused to back Barry Goldwater even when he won the nomination. Thus the liberal Republican John Anderson, who ran on an independant ticket in 1980 when Ronald Reagan had bested him in the GOP primaries.
Thus it will be after 2012 unless we get up and show the RINOs that we’ll be damned if we support Mitt Romney.
I think the Mitt Romney wing of the Republican party is what they in our neighbor to the north (The Great White) Canada: “Red Tories” (more aptly liberals pretending to be conservatives for the ‘perks’).