[Dawnsblood]

I think JS McCain has a pretty good rebuttal for Ed's argument.

[Nateman]

Given this election “Hot Air” is a good name for the source of that conclusion!

[Man50D]

Morrissey can try and spin it by citing arbitrary criteria but it doesn't change the fact the GOP has incrementally moved to the socialist left over the years by appeasing to the socialist left to expand the voter base. They have become one socialist Republicrat party.

[RachelFaith]

That’s his conclusion? Move to the Center ??

FUD !

[Grunthor]

I believe that McCain is the epitome of the term RINO. Either that or the battle for the Repube party is lost and now conservatives are the RINO’s.

[VR-21]

"Despite the perceptions of many in and out of the blogosphere and punditry, the parties have moved away from compromise, not towards it..."

He's right, the Republicans don't compromise...they capitulate.

[ModelBreaker]

In 1968, McCain would have been on the right wing of the Republican Party, and both Obama and Clinton would have been significantly on the left side of the Democrats.

Bullpucky. Goldwater was on the right wing of the party in 1968. Rockerfeller and Lindsay were on the left. Nixon was right in the middle. McCain is a Nixon Republican/Scoop Jackson Democrat, although that is probably unkind to Scoop Jackson.

Nixon is the guy who brought us wage-and-price-controls and the Endangered Species Act and, of course, his administration ushered in one of the most disastrous periods of democrat control over our nation, ever.

McCain and Bush are both Nixon Republicans and have brough the same disaster to their party as did Nixon.

[Hawthorn]

Kudos to Poole!

Not only has he done absolutely fascinating statistical analyses:

He also shows the parties in their TRUE COLORS, namely, blue for 'Pubs and red for Dhimms. Very refreshing!

[onedoug]

Myth?

[WOSG]

Here is the data that is the basis of the analysis:

[skeptoid]

Myth of the RINO? It's not a myth . . . I've got a picture:

(thanks to Jared Wilson)

[x]

What does this mean? It shows that RINOs and DINOs exist largely as mythology.

Good point. But I don't think people are going to pick up on it any time soon. There's always some issue where a party is divided, and those in the minority on that issue are going to become known as renegades, even if they agree on most of the others.