I can say that many of the policies he supported were terrible.
Do you want to tell me that Dick Cheney is a Rino?
You mean Dick "deficits don't matter" Cheney?
You may not like the RINO label, but it seems to me that the only way the likes of McCain, Romney, and the Bushes could be acceptable to any conservative as nominees is when political party affiliation trumps policy and ideology (I did hold my nose and vote for Romney in 2012, but I had no illusions about him. His Presidency would have been "better" than Obama's in the same sense that a Hepatitis C patient is marginally better off than an AIDS patient).