"Today's pubbies are returning to the blue blood roots of the rockfeller gop." The word RINO seems to surface much too frequently in the past several years.
Wanna know what a true Republican really looks like?
(Very likely, noone will even come close to him in our lifetimes.)
This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." -- Ronald Reagan's Speech at the 1964 National Convention: A Time for Choosing
The word didn't exist then, but I think you have to call Ronnie a 'neo-conservative'. He was very liberal in his early days.