Otherwise, there will be no win for Specter, because there will be no salvation for him (nor for his "legacy") in the Republican ranks.
"What's the big deal?" ... is going to crash down upon the margin of Republicans who should have voted for Toomey, who are not going to get much peace.
To wit: "Winning" a room full of R.I.N.O.'s is not a gain for any principle for which Republicans and democratic-republicanism stand.
People who struggle to maintain liberty, will not fight for scraps of "We'll take anything that we can label a 'win.'"
So-called Bush-bot "pragmatists" like to imagine, and they spin mightily, "political victories," that are not actually gains, but again, "wins" on their toke board(s), while they, who claim that it's not nice to bash fellow Republicans, do just that, bash fellow Republicans.
Ronald Reagan may have advised that we not speak too much in the open about our disagreements with fellow Republicans, yet I will point out that he was talking about fellow Republicans, not R.I.N.O.'s.
You are not a Republican because you wear the name. You are a Republican because of where you stand, and that, very much, for liberty, justice, and the truth.
Those qualities, by, with, and upon which we raise our children to such high standards, are too often betrayed by our suddenly dumping upon our kids, what equivocating temerities of the day, we then thrust our kids into, with which, they are supposed to "deal."
When their principles are challenged, we are, according to the "political realists," to suddenly not stand up for our principles, and thus abandon our teachings and expect our kids to abandon much of what we have taught them, because, as we are instructed by the R.I.N.O. Party, we are too "uncompromising."
That would be the nature of R.I.N.O.'s, to miscast, to misrepresent, to mislead the public into thinking that such R.I.N.O.'s are certainly not ... uncompromising and especially conservative Republicans.
Well, there is the R.I.N.O. Party, and then there is the Republican Party. The R.I.N.O. Party platform is for winning. The Repubicans stand for liberty, justice, and the truth.
Some ever-changing number of conservatives have flowed, and will continue to flow, between these parties.
We stopped giving to the R.I.N.O. Party right at the moment when George W. Bush's "people" made the deals with Trent Lott and Arlen Specter, to keep "President" Clinton in Office. I'll probably never forget it.
Not only what happened between Bush in Texas and Lott-Specter in the U.S. Senate Clubhouse, but what happened over the telephone.
The R.I.N.O. Party called repeatedly, thereafter, asking for money. We said, "No."
To the R.I.N.O. Party, we had to then make clear that "No." means No --- there was no wiggle room wherein we would compromise on the meaning of No.
Where the R.I.N.O. Party is going, scrambling after the scraps left by the left, is not where we are going, even when R.I.N.O.'s speak ill of us as "sore losers."
Shot and shelled, we will still stand for liberty, where, when the left and all who compromise with it are desparate for salvation, will try to find home.
So, I am not going to abandon where we stand for liberty, because it is home, our homes, our country under God.
God Bless.
The Republican Party, like any other political party, is a political entity whose platform is based on the aggregate of the political ideology of the totality of its membership, operating under one common banner.
Your use of the acronym is meant to belittle those who do not stand firm on a specific ideology, and support the Party.
I would point out to you that "Republican" indicates membership to a political party, not adherence to one of the specific ideologies that make up the whole of the Party.
A R.I.N.O then, must be one who looks to elevate their particular ideology above the general direction of the Party at large.
"Conservatives" who continually threaten to abandon the GOP because their ideological demands are not met, are the true Republicans In Name Only.
A proud BTT for wisdom and eloquence.