Top 10 RINO's (Human Events List)

Human Events ^ | Dec. 27, 2005 | H.E. Editors

[K-oneTexas]

What was Governor Ventura? Where did he fall in this discussion.

[JohnLongIsland]

MuhKAIN?? Insane MkCaine Mutineer???

there's a difference between a RINO and a media whore.

[Mad_as_heck]

McCain is certainly King of the RINOs but his nuttiness is less about ideology than ego. He isn't in favor of anything other than "John McCain".

[Pusterfuss]

What was Governor Ventura? Where did he fall in this discussion.

Independence Party.

[Tarkin]

The RINO label is wearing thin for me. Sometimes it seems like a legislator has two choices: stop thinking for himself and slavishly obey the party powers or be labelled a RINO.

There is a big difference between a Republican who may differ from the official partyline on some, even veryimportant, issues (like for example, sen. Craig on Patriot Act, or Barry Goldwater on abortion) and a RINO who either votes against everything conservatives support (like Chafee or old-school mega-RINOs, like Javits or Brooke) or usually votes with conservatives but apart from that does everything to help the Democrats (like McRino).

[Just A Nobody]

They are.....http://republicanmainstreet.org/
Amazing that FReepers will not study this site.

Republican Main Street Partnership
Congressional Members
109th Congress

Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island
Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota
Sen. Susan Collins, Maine
Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia
Sen. John McCain, Arizona
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
Sen. Gordon Smith, Oregon
Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania
Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska


Rep. Charles Bass, New Hampshire
Rep. Judy Biggert, Illinois
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, New York
Rep. Mary Bono, California
Rep. Jeb Bradley, New Hampshire
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, Florida
Rep. Ken Calvert, California
Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Rep. Michael Castle, Delaware
Rep. Thomas Davis, III, Virginia
Rep. Charlie Dent, Pennsylvania
Rep. David Dreier, California
Rep. Vernon Ehlers, Michigan
Rep. Mark Foley, Florida
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Rep. Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, Maryland
Rep. Paul Gillmor, Ohio
Rep. Kay Granger, Texas
Rep. David Hobson, Ohio
Rep. Nancy Johnson, Connecticut
Rep. Timothy Johnson, Illinois
Rep. Sue Kelly, New York

Rep. John R. Kuhl, New York
Rep. Mark Kirk, Illinois
Rep. Jim Kolbe, Arizona
Rep. Ray LaHood, Illinois
Rep. Steven LaTourette, Ohio
Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa
Rep. Jerry Lewis, California
Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey
Rep. Jim McCrery, Louisiana
Rep. Thomas Petri, Wisconsin
Rep. Todd Platts, Pennsylvania
Rep. Jon Porter, Nevada
Rep. Deborah Pryce, Ohio
Rep. Jim Ramstad, Minnesota
Rep. Ralph Regula, Ohio
Rep. Joe Schwarz, Michigan
Rep. Christopher Shays, Connecticut
Rep. Robert Simmons, Connecticut
Rep. Michael Turner, Ohio
Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan
Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon
Rep. James Walsh, New York
Rep. Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania
Rep. Jerry Weller, Illinois






Gov. Robert Ehrlich, Maryland
Gov. Linda Lingle, Hawaii
Gov. George Pataki, New York
Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California

[Hildy]

The guy running against Chaffee next year sounds good. He was the Mayor of Cranston, I believe. Conservative businessman. Lked what I heard on Jerry Doyle's show.

[DManA]

McCain is in a class beyond RINO.

[Just A Nobody]

Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland would have made it on the list...

He is on the the REAL list - see post #46.

Y'all should really research that site!

[Hill of Tara]

Seriously!!!!

He would be #1 on my list of RINOs.

[Luther_Right_or_Wrong]

His apparent switches make him much more dangerous because we expect nothing from Spectre and similar cads while McCain still fools some conservatives. I'm sorry the recall effort against McCain stalled. Who would guess that Arizona has a good, reasonable, hard-working conservative senator, Kyl? The media does not seem to know about him.

[Hill of Tara]

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey--This gun-hating moron would be on my RINO list

I thought Frank LoBiondo was conservative though, but apparently he's a member of the Mainstreet group :(

[MplsSteve]

Jesse "The A**wipe" Ventura was a bloviating, self-absorbed buffoon of a governor. His election was (and remains) a fluke.

Jesse Ventura was all about whatever was good for Jesse - and Jesse only. He had the attention span of a puppy on methamphetamine.

His shtick got old about 1 year in office. About the only thing the Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature could agree on was to over-ride as many of his vetoes as possible.

[Pessimist]

What??!! No DeWine or Voinovich?

Man, we can't even make the top 10 losers list in this state anymore...

[Pessimist]

Yes, they do.

Honestly, and unfortunately, in states like Ohio, the only kind of Republican who can win statewide is a RINO.

[Pessimist]

Good tag line!

[manwiththehands]

Thanks for the link to republicanmainstreet. I'll look at it later.

I wouldn't expect to see my two Senators, but I was surprised to see my congressman (Hobson). My last letter I got from him made me question his honesty about the so-called defunding to the "bridge to nowhere". I suppose I'll have to research it myself.

[Hill of Tara]

"When your RINO runs for re-election, does his or her RAT opponent try to paint said RINO as a right-wing wacko extremist Christian fundamentalist Bush-bot who wants to pollute the air, poison the water, starve schoolchildren and freeze old folk?"

Well I live under RAT rule unfortunately :(

But the answer is yes, whenever a RINO challenges the incumbent RAT.

[manwiththehands]

"(Jesse Ventura) had the attention span of a puppy on methamphetamine."

ROTFLMBO!

[K-oneTexas]

I never studied him or his time in office. I didn't know he vetoed so much. Wonder if the Governor of California is taking a page from Jesse's secret play book. Arnold seems to get people feeling good and riled at the same time. Much alike your past Governor and California's current one.