From the comments on here, it seems like the Brickman crowd reeks of Sore losermen "my way or the highway" types who label ANYONE besides THEIR choosen one to be a "RINO", even if that candidate votes our way 90% of the time. (simular reaction from the Scaffer worshippers in CO who couldn't get over the fact their "more conservative" candidate and his "en espanol" pandering didn't win the primary, so they helped Salazer trash Coors for the remainder of the campaign)
Jesse Helms could have beat Brickman and they'd be banging the RINO drum. As for me, I was overjoyed that the REAL RINO in the primary had his ass handed to him and I'm sorry to see Hackett did so well because the Schmidt haters couldn't put aside their bitterness and worked to defeat Hackett.
I can safely say that if their boy Brickman had won the primary, I wouldn't be helping Hackett bash him during the general election campaign. Pity it doesn't work both ways.
From your comments, it looks that you should be more informed about Tom Brinkman and his supporters. We've had no problem getting behind primary winners before that we didn't initially support, and I imagine the majority got behind Schmidt this time. You should also be better informed about the candidate's record. On record alone, DeWine was more conservative than Schmidt, and it wasn't even close, so to call DeWine the "true RINO" would not be accurate.
Since you obviously couldn't bother to inform yourself before making your idiotic post, let's review Schmidt's record for you:
Schmidt voted to raise Ohio's Sales Tax by 20%.
Schmidt voted to raise our Gas Tax by 6 cents/gallon.
Schmidt voted to raise 151 fees.
Schmidt sponsored legislation allowing Hamilton County and Cincinnati to significantly raise their hotel taxes.
If a Democrat had that kind of a record we'd be calling them a liberal. For a Republican, that's solid RINO territory.
I don't know a single Brinkman supporter who ever referred to Pat DeWine or Bob McEwen as RINO's. You are simply uninformed when you claim that we call everyone a RINO except Brinkman. Schmidt is a RINO because of her record, not because of who she ran against. McEwen, DeWine, Minamyer, and every other Republican in the field was not labeled a RINO.