Good morning and good question.
I’ll take a RINO over a Democrat any day. At least with the RINO’s we have a possibility to move them to the right using conservative logic. No such opportunity exists with Democrats and there is no way the Democrat leadership will ever be acceptable.
If it takes a RINO to win in New Jersey, fine. Christie is better than any Democrat. If our RINO class wants a Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney, fine for their state. BUT, not nationally and not representing the Republican conservative base.
We can work with a Republican liberal on some issues but it’s impossible to work with progressive Democrats on every issue.
Right on. And RINOs don’t vote for Dingy Harry for Senate Majority Leader.
It used to be that the Northeast was all liberal to moderates at the most rightward of the spectrum. So democrats up there were naturally liberal, and Republicans there were what a conservative would call a liberal or at best wishy-washy...
Down here in the South, we actually had loads of conservative democrats, who were much more conservative than even the Republicans of the Northeast. Southern conservative senators like James Hill, John Sparkman, Herman Tallmadge, Sam Nunn, Sam Ervin, Strom Thurmond, John Stennis, Russell Long, etc. All democrats, but decidedly NOT liberals.
I can think of a ton of Northeast liberal Republicans Senators: Prescott Bush, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jacob Javits, Lowell Weicker, Edward Brooke, George Aiken, Everett Dirksen, Nelson Rockerfeller, Margeret Chase Smith, and a host of other RINOs as we know them today.
The thing is that in our lifetime the American political party system went from regional to ideological in a 40 year time span, say 1960-2000.
The point I’d have fro anyone is this: Let the Northeast do their thing, even if it means RINOs, because the voters there just won’t EVER vote for our type of conservative.
Conservatives should concentrate on getting as many like minded people elected in those regions where that philosophy has always held sway; the South and the West. Accept the RINOs as ideological inferiors but whose numbers allow our more conservative party stalwarts to hold and wield power.
Too bad some think that always being on the outside looking in is more pure than winning and getting much of your agenda accomplished, or, in the worst case, like now, or at least 2008-2010, see the Left triumph legislatively. That and Supreme Court justices will hurt us for decades to come.
at least you have it figured out I don’t.
The dems have successfully united some really disparate groups like gays, blacks, unions, Hispanics,and many groups that most of the time really don’t like one another much less care to unite with one another.
but, they have and worse yet they keep winning.
I guess its all about vote buying.
“I’ll take a RINO over a Democrat any day. “
This is where you and I will NEVER agree. RINOs are a Commie’s best friend. They allow for some to hide their eyes from the devastation that is coming.
In the U.S.S.R that was from 1919 to 1990. In China that was from 1945 to today.
That's one thing I can't seem to get through the heads of these LIV conservatives.
A RINO president could be pushed around by a more conservative Congress.
A RINO congress-critter COUNTS for committee control and House/Senate leadership REGARDLESS of their philosophical foibles.
That's just not true. Look at Mississippi. The RINO ptb are more interested in breaking every rule to destroy a conservative challenger than they are in winning the election. Look at Romney. He was vicious in the primaries, then wimped out at confronting Obama on the issues we care about. Look at the RNC using funding to defeat conservative challengers. Then there's Boehner, (stupidly) voted in again as Speaker. We ended up with an HOR that has accomplished nothing because of his and his allies selling out.
The nation's goin' down anyway, unless some real constitutional conservatives show some guts and ability to inspire. Let the dems HAVE IT if that's the case.
RINO backstabbers don't compromise. They destroy anyone and anything that gets in the way of their globalist elitist agenda. And top of their "destroy" list is constitutional conservatives who challenge their control over the Republican Party.