RINO apologists ping!
I hope they fail
McCain needs to retire
Why are all these Republicans rushing to help out McCain! McCain is a LOSER! He lost, his ideology LOST. Are the Republicans ever going to learn? We should not be like the Democrats, we should not prop up our losers! A lost election should not be a resume enhancer. Leave that to the Dems.
Only God is perfect. Nothing of men ever is. Demanding perfect purity in Politics is a sure prescription for political irrelevance. This is why the Libertarian wing of the Conservative movement has been so completely ineffective for the last 20 years. This is why you people always lose to the RINOS. They all keep wasting all their time making the perfect the enemy of the good. They are so busying spending all their time worrying about the dogmatic purity in their political allies they never have any time, or energy left to fight the Leftists on anything.
They are so busy factionalizing their political base into competing interest groups, they have nothing left to ever fight the progressives. No wonder they continually kick the conservatives asses in election after election.
As one famous Conservative leader said " A man who agrees with me 80% of the time is a trusted friend and ally, not a 20% traitor"
Curious what these sort of ideological purist would of said about a President who presided over a worse recession then this current one, appointed a Liberal to the Supreme Court, Raised taxes 6 times, doubled the size of the Fed Budget in 8 years. Spent, prior to this regime, record deficits. Ran away from a Muslim terrorist threat. Signed an illegal Alien Amnesty. Lost control of the US Senate to the Democrats on his watch.
What would you say about that? Using the sort of purist dogma exposed on this thread, and every other possible thread daily, I suspect, the 100%er crowd would be screaming "RINO" at that former President and assigning him to rank down there with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, U.S. Grant, and Warren Harding as one of America’s worst Presidents because he did not pass their personal ideological purity test.
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That President was Ronald Reagan. Probably the greatest President of the 20th Century.
Reagan had words for your sort of ideological 100%er.
By Ronald Reagan in his autobiography An American Life “When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”
Why does McCain have an 81.4% life time rating from the American Conservative Union?
Why does Ron Paul only have an 82.40 life time rating from the ACU?
Doesn’t that mean, based on your world view, Ron Paul is now a RINO too?
http://www.acuratings.org/2008all.htm#AZ
Brown I can at least understand campaigning for McCain - don’t like it, but at least its understandable. Palin, on the other hand....well, her apologists can make all the excuses about “loyalty” they want. Those are the same arguments that were made to justify going along with all the fiscal nonsense that bush pushed off onto us, too - “loyalty.”
For the Palinites, I would ask, where’s her loyalty to the country and to conservatism? Or does her loyalty only extend to those who have personally done something for her?
If she's not careful she will get sucked into that Beltway Stink'n Think'n.
She's always boasted about being outside the GOP inner circle, I hope she stays that way.
Try answering the question for a change instead of screaming in hysterics.
If McCain is a RINO, despite having a life time rating for 81.4 from the ACU, doesn't that mean Ron Paul is ALSO a RINO since he only scores 82.4?
And so the game plan begins, separation of the “Conservatives†from the “Republicans†from the “Tea Partiesâ€, that tactic was only declared a week ago and rapidly put into effect by the Democrats and their State Run Media, and further giving credence to those posting as Republican Conservatives, Rush refers to them as seminar callers
Odd, that is exactly the same sort of debate tactics we Conservatives are use to seeing directed at us by Leftists.
Answer the question.
Since Ron Paul only scores a 1% better in the American Conservative Union rankings then McCain, why do you not consider him a RINO too?
Why am I 99 percent sure that you voted for McCain/Palin in 2008?
Just want to state that McCain is FAR FAR less than perfect for those conservatives that like to claim McCain opponents are “purists.”
McCain himself is the cause of the dissension in Republican ranks. He’s the problem here, not those of us who want him removed from office.
There’s no doubt McCain carries weight in the senate. That’s pretty much obvious. So what? Do we excuse everything the man does simply because he throws a crumb our way once in awhile?
If anyone is a purist here, it’s someone who claim that we MUST support the Republican label. It doesn’t matter if that carton of McCain milk is LONG curdled so long as it’s the Republican brand, right? Get a grip folks!
McCain is the enemy of conservatives. He’s even said as much. He’s even more dangerous than the left, because at least they leave no doubt which side they are on.
If Sarah Palin somehow gives McCain enough votes to put him over the top, mark my words: he’s going to be a pain in our rear for the next SIX years. Count ‘em folks. That’s six more years of back stabbing we’ll all have to endure!
Clearly, Sarah’s support is reciprocity for McCain’s having tapped her for VP and elevating her to the national stage. She’s in a tough spot here and I don’t envy her or hold it against her. I would hope, however, that her appearances for him would be as luke-warm as the McCain staff attacks on her during and after the campaign were vicious.
Brown is a similar but less intense situation. I would hope that Brown would see that McCain’s coming in to help him in Mass. was McCain’s having read the pre-election polls and saw that Brown reoresented a sea-change there from which he, McCain, could later profit — by indebting Brown to later help in the AZ race.
NOTE: Wish someone would show me how to post a pic. I have a great tea party Chicago pic. Tried but just link showed. I use imageshack for photos. Tks
Palin is sending mixed signals at best by pronouncing conservative ideals while at the same time endorsing McAmnesty who votes with the socialist RATs on many of the issues.
Thats it! I am not going to support Brown or Sarah ever again! I’ll support ummm ahhh well somebody. (s)
Brown hasn’t made one vote so how do we know he’s a Rino other than the FR true conservatives say so? Guess some of us will wait before we throw the star of MA down the elevator shaft. Guess a true conservative would rather the commie won. Guess I’m not or ever going to be a true conservative, Thank God!
Pray for America and Scott Brown
What I see is after every sign that the Republican Party is being reborn out comes the Ron Paul people and the Scorched Earth Libertarians trying to shoot them down again with the overuse of the term RINO. Afraid that a rejuvenated GOP spells doom for your nut-job candidate.
She is going to screw this up if she continues with crap like this!!!!! Get AWAY FROM HIM!!!!!!!!!