>I have been frustrated during the Bush years that the “Republican” president and “Republican” Congress did nothing to advance conservatism and limited government. In fact, 2000-2006 were the warm-up for the Dem spending binge that we just had.
This is *exactly* what I mean when I claim that the Republicans, AS A PARTY, are worse than the Democrats. The Democrats at least put effort into advancing their stated party-planks while the Republicans are “whitewashed tombs” that make appeals to their constituents about morality, ending abortion’s legality, limited government, fiscal responsibility and so forth; yet when in power they don’t even make the symbolic gesture of proposing such legislation. (And look at the reputation of ones that do propose doing things differently, like Ron Paul, who suggested the use of Letters of Marque & Reprisal instead of the Global War on Terror and the massive military spending; people [republicans] call him a nut and deride people who think he has some quite valid points.)
And *DON’T* bring up Reagan. I’m not even 30 yet; meaning when he was in office I didn’t have *ANY* care about politics. His *actual* advocacy of the conservatism that the Republican-party-plank is based upon seems to me to be something of a “statistical anomaly.”
Yes, RINOs truly are disgusting little creatures. Purging them from our ranks is a long-term plus. And if in so doing we have to wait another election cycle to capture the Senate, then so be it. We have the House now and can at least block any more of the insanity we've put up with for the last two years.