Of RINOs, moderate Democrats, and Men

The American Thinker ^ | November 18, 2009 | Bruce Walker

[Scanian]

All RINOs are not the same, even when they profess almost identical beliefs. All politicians try to appeal to their constituents, but not all politicians - by a long shot - have the same type of constituents. RINOs who try to win election by stating policies as conservative as the voters will allow are not the problem with the Republican Party. Democrats, shrewdly, have grasped in the last two election cycles the art of the possible in winning congressional elections. Blue Dog Democrats are congressmen who, if Republicans held their districts, have voted completely against the House leadership's health care bill. Enough Blue Dogs voted with the House leadership to pass Pelosi's bill when it came to a floor vote.

A good example of a RINO who is not the enemy of conservatives is Rudy Giuliani. The former Mayor of New York was wrong on much more issues than John McCain. Rudy was totally unacceptable as a Republican presidential candidate. But Giuliani, by a wide margin, was as conservative as anyone who could reasonably have won as Mayor of New York.

[proxy_user]

The important thing about RINOs is that they caucus with Republicans. They will put conservatives in the committee chairs, even if they are not conservatives themselves. Then no Democrat-sponsered legislation will reach the floor.

[joe fonebone]

Snowe, Collins, specter, scuzzofini.........wanna re-state that?

[Anti-Utopian]

So we get some less RINOey RINOs. And then what? The “conservatives” deliver more pork, more kick-backs, more subsidies, more regulations, more welfare, more unelected government bureaucrats, more spineless political correctitude, more illegals, and more dead babies.

These status quo politics will continue unabated until the Soros Media gins-up the entitlement-addled retards for the next wave of social and financial disaster in the name of “progress.”

But hey, at least we “won.”

[BuffaloJack]

I don’t mind RINOs voting Republican, but they should never be in policy making positions or in charge of anything other than their own vote.

[MortMan]

RINOs who try to win election by stating policies as conservative as the voters will allow are not the problem with the Republican Party.

This is utter bravo-sierra.

A RINO is a politician who claims to be conservative enough to be a "good republican", but governs the exact opposite way. Think Scozzafava. Think McCain (re: campaign finance reform and the 1st amendment).

The whole premise of this article is obfuscating the issue. A conservative politician from Massachussetts will not hold the exact same views as a conservative from Texas.

But a RINO from either state will suck up conservative money, mouth conservative platitudes, and still vote for liberal positions every danged time.

[MortMan]

The important thing about RINOs is they vote liberal.

RINOs don’t support conservatives - they use them to build a power base, but ignore them for the purpose of governing.