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And I am also in the process of finding out if I am "officially" considered a RINO for that reason alone, and if you are given tacit permission to harrass simply on that basis.

I have this suspicion that you could be walking down the street, and some stranger might look cross eyed at you, and you would believe they were 'harassing' you.

As for your blind loyalty to GWB, I recall that when I was much much younger, that I (like many Americans and no doubt many American youth) fell hook, line & sinker for the idea that JFK was the "good" guy in that long ago election of 1960, and it wasn't until later that not only did I learn that my perception of JFK was totally wrong, but that he (and the 'Rat Party) had stolen the election from then Vice President Richard Nixon (who had not yet blossomed into his own version of 'RINO', manifested after his eventual win in '68).

I learned that for all of the polished public appearances, the eloquent speeches (some of which have credence even today), only reflected JFK's aspirations, and not necessarily his performance.

First of all? He sold out the Cuban people at the Bay of Pigs, and thereafter sealed the deal after the Soviets allegedly removed their IRBMs from Cuba by pledging not to overthrow Castro.

Second, JFK chose to play politics with the XB-70 bomber, supporting it on the '60 campaign trail, accusing the Eisenhower Administration of being weak on defense, but after being sworn in, JFK canceled the program, and his idiot Defense Secretary (Robert Strange McNamara) went on to royally screw things up in the military establishment and of course mismanaged our efforts in Vietnam and turned a war that could have been easily won into the slow motion train wreck that we all remember.

Third, was the cancellation of the Skybolt GAM-87 missile, a system that our UK allies had staked their entire deterrent capability upon, JFK tossed it in the trash on the advice of (again) that idiot McNamara. (Skybolt would have given our B-52 fleet the capability of standing off from their targets instead of having to penetrate deep into Soviet airspace, long before the Tomahawk cruise missile came along.)

There are many more examples but the point of all this is that in my own idealistic youth, I believed that JFK could do no wrong, that everything he had done was carefully thought through, that his Administration was indeed made up of the 'best and brightest', blah-blah, lah-dee-dah. His untimely death sealed his image and made him nearly unassailable by critics. But I had my eyes opened, and I realized that JFK was ill-prepared for the Presidency he assumed in January 1961, and it was due to his own lack of gravitas that the Soviets sought to test him by putting missiles in Cuba. Everyone generally agrees that we came within a hair of nuclear war and yet the unspoken truth is that had the Soviets been dealing with fervent anti-Communist President Richard M. Nixon in 1960, they would have never dared their Cuban missile gambit.

The fact is, George W. Bush (prior to 0bama) was one of the least experienced men to ever seek and attain the Presidency. Did he rise to the occasion after 9/11? Yes indeed he did and I give him full props and credit for that. However his actions while President were far and away those of a LIBERAL, expanding the federal government, infringing upon civil liberties, spending and spending like there was no tomorrow, and the smoking gun in all of this were his words to his speechwriter preparing that text for an address at CPAC early last year, when GWB informed that speechwriter that "there was no movement" (conservative movement) and that HE had "redefined the Republican Party".

And we know how he redefined it, from the Party of Reagan to the Party of RINOS, and we are all paying the price for his political expediency.

You will eventually need to come to grips with that oWf, because George W. Bush was no conservative. Not by any standard.

And he got it honestly from his RINO 'New World Order' old man, George Herbert Walker Bush, the ONLY major political mistake that Ronald Reagan ever made.