[TommyDale]

Yawn!

[Astronaut]

I dont support McCain and I’m a RINO? What a complete tool. McCain voted against tax cuts, supports liberal judges (Alito is “too conservative”), supports limits on free speech, and would make 20 - 30 million illegals citizens, supported by your tax dollars. Captain Queeg does not represent my views. He would make a great Democrat nominee! I wont vote for him. I would vote for Obama as a way to punish the GOP elite that forced Captain Queeg on us. The GOP abandoned me for I left it.

[MNJohnnie]

It stands for "Republican In Name Only," an appellation that self-styled conservative purists apply to any Republican who disagrees with them about anything

Odd isn't it?

When we stand our principals, we are "Self-styled Conservative purists".

When they agree 60-70-80% of the time with Democrats and stab us in the back politically time after time after time, they are "independent thinkers, mavericks, moderates".

Absurd for people who have never had any loyalty at all to the GOP to now scream bile at us about how we have to be loyal to them.

[mtbopfuyn]

Wrong. McInsane isn’t a RINO, he’s a RINORAT.

[pennboricua]

This is the liberal rag in my neck of the woods.

[joe whit]

Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were good Republicans, but they were conservatives by contemporary measures. Hell, Kennedy would just be a RINO now.

[alaskamomma]

that was a real barfer..

[Doohickey]

Memo to Jack: Kiss my butt.

[GVnana]

The logic of the conservative RINOs is puzzling. If they sit out the election as they threaten, one of two things will happen: Either a Democrat will win the election, or Mr. McCain will win without their support.

Because they have an exaggerated sense of both their numbers and their worth, the RINO conservatives assume the first is what will happen. But it might not.

"RINO conservatives"...That's the problem with insult slinging. It's dumb.

[so_real]

"it assumes that being conservative and being Republican are identical"

Though it was true, by and large, for much of my lifetime, I've stopped making this assumption myself. Now ... I vote "conservative" and the Republicans (RINO's or not) who have a problem with that can either get on-board with the conservative base or pound sand. The choice is theirs.

[SIDENET]

The epithet is ridiculous, because it assumes that being conservative and being Republican are identical.

Well, I'm just going to be a conservative "maverick" and not vote the Republican party line. Hey, it was good enough for McAmnesty!

Take a hike, Jack. Conservatives don't need to be lectured by a RINO.

[Politicalmom]

Oh, dear. Another GOP apologist is calling me names.

The answer is STILL: NO VOTE FOR MCCAIN.

[live+let_live]

“but they weren’t conservatives. Nor were Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Bob Dole or George H. W. Bush. “

Does anything else need to be said?

[LibLieSlayer]

Hey jack... No way jose... or should I say juan!?

LLS

[Riodacat]

Don't worry.
We'll all bitch and moan, but in the end, 95% here will vote for McCain in the GE - and you can take that to the bank...

[RetiredArmy]

I’m a conservative and I am not thinking about bolting the party. I HAVE ALREADY DONE IT!!! Long gone a few years back now. No more money. No more support. No more party membership. As long as the republican party continues on this road, I will never support them again. I have no party.

[paleorite]

This is utter nonsense. Conservatives are the base of the Republican party. They stay home, and the “war hero” gets the biggest drubbing he’s gotten since he was a guest of “Charlie.” This Kelly doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

[Cicero]

Whatever happened to multicultural understanding and liberal broadmindedness?

These naughty liberal writers are unfairly treating conservatives as the “other.” That’s just not right. We’re human too!

[JoJo Gunn]

Because they have an exaggerated sense of both their numbers and their worth....

So unless you wear the clothespin and polish the turd, you're full of yourself.

Attacking individuality and/or standing for principles isn't just for the Democrap fax readers anymore.

[gitmo]

The [RINO] epithet is ridiculous, because it assumes that being conservative and being Republican are identical.

That's a good point. Perhaps we should use LICC (Liberal In Conservative Clothing) or TransCon (lib dressed like a Conservative) or CDL (Cross Dressing Lib).

CINO doesn't seem to cut it.

IICS: Ideology Identity Confusion Syndrome?