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Endangered species alert: 45% of RINOs vanish in a single year
Data from American Conservative Union ^ | 11/30/06 | Dangus

Posted on 11/30/2006 4:11:28 PM PST by dangus

The 2006 election was tragic for conservatives who did lose several key races. But the losses were downright devestating for RINOs (Republicans In Name Only.)

The following is a list of the RINOs, who scored under 60% as graded by the American Conservative Union, and how they fared in the last election:

SENATE: Linc Chafee, RI: defeated. Olympia Snowe, ME: no contest. Sue Collins, ME: re-elected. Mike DeWine, OH: defeated.

HOUSE Christopher Shays, CT: re-elected. Mike Castle, DE: re-elected. Sherwood Boehlert, NY: defeated. Jim Leach, IA: retired. Mark Kirk, IL: re-elected. Nancy Johnson, CT: defeated. Wayne Gilchrest, MD: re-elected. Scott McInnis, CO: previously retired. Jim Ramstad, MN: re-elected. Robert Simmons, CT: defeated. Tim Johnson, IL: re-elected. Jim Gerlach, PA: re-elected. Tom Davis, VA: re-elected. Schwarz, MI: defeated in primary. Charlie Bass, NH: defeated.

It's worse than that, even. Also ousted were Jeb Bradley (ACU score: 60), Mark Foley (63), Mike Sweeney (72), and Clay Shaw (71).

This is not to say that there weren't some painful conservative losses, such as Northup, Hostettler, Sodrel, Chocola, and Taylor. But the losses to the Republican Party struck largely at the "centrist" wing. Where's the media decrying the loss of so-called centrists, like they did in 1994?


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1 posted on 11/30/2006 4:11:32 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

Quite a few RMSPs took it in the shorts, some of the gals have survived but not after some delay in doing the vote totes and one or two still may face a mandatory recount due the small margin of victory.


2 posted on 11/30/2006 4:14:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Kyl / Cornyn in '08)
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The problem is that more RINOs are waiting in the wings.


3 posted on 11/30/2006 4:14:28 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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To: NormsRevenge

RMSP?


4 posted on 11/30/2006 4:15:10 PM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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To: dangus
Jim Leach, IA: retired.

Leach was defeated.

5 posted on 11/30/2006 4:16:02 PM PST by EternalVigilance (The RINO presidential field says it has "solutions"..."solutions" are solids watered down to nothing)
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To: dangus

Don't they use the horn of RINO's for an aphrodesiac? ;-)


6 posted on 11/30/2006 4:17:48 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: dangus
Republican Main Street Partnership.. a bunch of moderates , much in the vein of the group Christy Whitman started, It's Our party Too.

Many of them are nothing more than Progressives masquerading as Republicans, imo.

keyword RMSP

7 posted on 11/30/2006 4:18:56 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Kyl / Cornyn in '08)
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To: dangus

Rick Santorum belongs on the tragic defeat list. A great conservative senator who made one mistake.


8 posted on 11/30/2006 4:20:01 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: dangus

Funny they don't mention J.D. Hayworth.


9 posted on 11/30/2006 4:21:01 PM PST by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: dangus

We took Schwarz out in the primary and replaced him with a conservative.


10 posted on 11/30/2006 4:21:04 PM PST by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: dangus
But the losses to the Republican Party struck largely at the "centrist" wing.

No centrists, no majority ever again. We'd better hope some RINOs can win in those marginal districts in 2008.

11 posted on 11/30/2006 4:21:11 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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Whoever wrote this is delusional in the implication that republicans cannot survive without conservatives (small 'c' intentional), when in fact, the opposite is certainly more true.

Keep thinking this way. Those who do are beginning to sound like all the apologists for Communism when they tried to explain it's failures. How many of you remember this argument:

"Well, of course Communism is a viable system, it's just that we haven't found the right Communists to run it all yet..."

Substitute "Consrvative" for "Communist" and that pretty much sums up the tone on FR, amongst the "REAL" conservatives (i.e. those who can't define conservatism, and can't tell you how a republic is supposed to operate, except that they know they don't like the way this one works, and who believe that what's good for Pastor Bob is good enough for them!), and the "Conservative" think tanks/organizations ever since Nov 7, 2006.


12 posted on 11/30/2006 4:22:10 PM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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Snowe was re-elected not Collins. Snowe, running against
a moonbat's moonbat won with over 70% of the vote. Collins does not run until 2010 or 2012


13 posted on 11/30/2006 4:24:47 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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The Republican Party has become the party of big-business and big-government progressivism.

So these candidates that lost were true Republicans.

RINO should be attached to people like Tancredo who is truly just a Republican in name only since he is conservative, wants a smaller government, and won't kowtow to big business' wish for exploitable illegal labor.

14 posted on 11/30/2006 4:25:56 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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We lost six seats in the senate. Only two of them were listed as RINO (at least per this thread). I don't consider it a good riddance.
15 posted on 11/30/2006 4:26:16 PM PST by paudio (WoT is more important than War on Gay Marriage!)
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To: Dane

Funny they don't mention J.D. Hayworth.
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Yeah, it was -- one of the few real Americans left in the Congress....a major loss.


16 posted on 11/30/2006 4:27:08 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Mr. Jeeves
No centrists, no majority ever again. We'd better hope some RINOs can win in those marginal districts in 2008.

Agreed. I may be in the minority here, but thinking that we can have a Republican majority without any 'RINO' is delusional.

17 posted on 11/30/2006 4:27:50 PM PST by paudio (WoT is more important than War on Gay Marriage!)
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To: dangus

I call them the Main Street Garbage.


18 posted on 11/30/2006 4:29:15 PM PST by darkangel82 (Everyone has the right to be an idiot, but on DU they abuse the privilege.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

RINO should be attached to people like Tancredo who is truly just a Republican in name only since he is conservative, wants a smaller government, and won't kowtow to big business' wish for exploitable illegal labor.
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True. The terms Republican and Conservative are mutually exclusive in MANY cases. As this whole tragedy brought to a head....maybe things had to get bad, before they get better?


19 posted on 11/30/2006 4:29:52 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Mr. Jeeves
No centrists, no majority ever again. We'd better hope some RINOs can win in those marginal districts in 2008.

Oh B.S.! No Rinos, NO DEFEAT! The reason why Repubs lost is exactly because of the rino factor. kowtowing to DBM/dems, putting factions together to defeat conservative ideas. All rinos need to be squarely defeated or move to the ass party and repubs need to either condone a conservative agenda and IMPLEMENT it, or stay in the minority.

20 posted on 11/30/2006 4:30:14 PM PST by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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