[longtermmemmory]

I remember hearing about a movement by in the 1910's or 20' where the elites set about contributing and manipulating both parties so that is would NEVER MATTER which party won. (I think it was michael reagan or another radio show host. Liddy?)

They did not want to have to worry about which party won or whether voting by the populace in general would matter.

I see these RINOs as a movement to foster irrelivancy.

[penowa]

A few of the sheeple have one eye open and that is enough to cause the elite a few sleepless nights.

[Morgan in Denver]

Republicans have always had RINO's, in the vernacular of today. We used to call them Country Club Republicans, and Limousine Republicans also strikes a memory bell. Although the latter may be my confusion with Limousine Liberals.

The difference is Republicans will battle it out between us and still support each other once the election is over. Democrats, OTOH, destroy anyone in dissent who does not strictly follow the party line.

[familyop]

"I remember hearing about a movement by in the 1910's or 20' where the elites set about contributing and manipulating both parties so that is would NEVER MATTER which party won. (I think it was michael reagan or another radio show host. Liddy?)"

Yes. Their effort was the result of about seventy years of romanticism (in popular literature, speech saying that adultery is alright for those who are "in love," women and their back-door male feminist friends the arbiters of morality, and so forth). It was a family breaking movement and "our-kids-versus-your-kids" class war.

When they hit us high (politics), we should duck and sweep low (economics and other). Many of the Fortune 500s give money and effort to the most radical of anti-family causes.

They are not "fiscally conservative" at all, as they are those behind current support of the enormous, anti-family social engineering program structure to steal the inheritances of the children of others (those of the "neanderthall" class, as they see social conservatives). ...not to mention public education--a full topic in itself. Enough feminist bureacrat offices taking bits and pieces, and we have a revenue drain of many billions to support those of the "elite" families who are too lazy for the hard sciences.

I sometimes refer to such self-described "moderates" in so many illegitimate PACs as the "whorehouse coalition." They feel that they can better stay on top of things by making sure that the other half of our nation continues to be more of a whorehouse (as opposed to family being the stabilizing force) each term.