[writer33]

Indeed, I maintain that it is considerably more urgent to reject them in the Republican party than it is to reject them in the Democrat party. Liberalism in the Democrat party is zero threat to the Republican party; liberalism in the Republican party threatens the very freedom and prosperity of the nation because it sabotages the Republican party's future as a bastion against big government liberalism.

Of course, but I was not addressing that. I was addressing the Democrat Party. We already know we need to clean up the Republican Party. That's not what I was talking about. The Democrat Party is a threat to the entire nation, even more than RINOs.

[Finny]

Again, I deg to biffer (!!!) and I know I am bucking the tide and that my take on this is entirely counter to convention. That's too bad -- my counter-conventional thinking has proven correct entirely too many times for me to doubt it just because most people I respect and admire disagree with it. I've learned to trust my judgment because it's so often correct.

I have concluded after many years of observation that indeed, you have it backward. RINOs are a bigger threat to the nation than the Democrat party because unlike Democrats, RINOs can destroy from within the future hope and growth of the Republican party -- and that would be deadly because a small-government Republican party IS THE ONLY CHANCE WE HAVE of combatting and defeating the liberalism that makes the Democrat party so dangerous.

Again, LIBERALISM is the real enemy here -- not the Democrat party. LIBERALISM within the Republican party is a bigger long-term threat to our nation than liberalism in the Democrat party.