Leaving John McCain's name off this list
The list are RINOs. He votes with Republicans over 80% of the time. You can't call him a RINO.
A whack job maybe..........., but not RINO.
Oh good! You just saved me from having to read the thread!! Your's was the first reply I spotted and if the parameters for being a RINO are what I spotted above, then I know you're being very careful to keep this very vague and ambiguous as to what makes a RINO like our RINO/CELEBRITY/GASBAG Gubernor Arnold SchwartzenRenegger!!!
He thinks now that doing the right thing with Tookie will get all his leftist tendencies forgiven by conservative Cauleeforneeahns... Phhhht!!!
We can't?
Okay, answer me this riddle.
RINO=REPUBLICAN IN NAME ONLY
Can YOU tell me McCain's loyalty to the Republican Party is absolute? If so, why then did McCain break ground by being offered the VP slot on the Democrat presidential ticket last year?
A good "Republican" doesn't have to be a conservative or a Liberal. Being a good "Republican" is nothing more then being loyal to Party. Which is why I'm not a Republican. I'm a conservative. I'm loyal to conservatism first.
A good "Republican" does not flirt with the offer to be VP for the Dems for weeks. A good "Republican" would result in instantaneous dismissive calls by everyone on both aisles at the possibility of joining the opposing party's ticket. That didn't happen with McCain, because Mccain isn't loyal to Party. he's loyal to self. As result it was the story for weeks during the campaign of will he/won't he.
He does classify in the purest sense as a RINO accordingly.
Frist, as someone else asked about his absence, does not. Without question he's weak. But no one doubts his loyalty is to the Republican Party. Which is why he is not a RINO.