[EternalVigilance]

Reagan was a RINO?

Those are your words, not mine. I said that this eleventh commandment thing is the last refuge of the RINO.

Ronald Reagan was such an effective RINO hunter that he very nearly took down a sitting RINO Republican President in a primary.

[Tribune7]

Reagan was a RINO? . . . Those are your words, not mine. I said that this eleventh commandment thing is the last refuge of the RINO.

And the 11th Commandment was used and embraced by Reagan with great effect. What made his run against Ford so effective was that he made it one of principles and did not make it personal. Ford was the one who would get a little personal.

Reagan also was willing to accept a RINO (Richard Schweiker) as his VP in his primary challenge in 1976. And let's not forget that he picked GHWB -- a bit of a RINO -- as his VP in 1980.