If I read your post 10 correctly, you think Karl Rove and Liddy Dole are RINOS.
If this is true, you are a nut.
They have a lot in common among themselves, one of the most common traits-in-common being an Ivy League degree. Liddy Dole went to an Ivy, or one of the Seven Sisters, I forget which.
If there is anything in that crowd that is sooooo uncool, it's the personal profession of principles that openly embraces Christianity. That tells you something concrete about Yacht Club values.
It puzzles me why Midwestern men like Bob Dole, who was maimed in World War II and nearly died of his wounds after the war at least twice (he was shot by a German heavy machine gun during a battle in Italy), would make peace with, and work hard for the agenda of, Ivy Leaguers who dedicate their own lives to spitting on small-town Rotarians like him.