McCain and other RINOs are ‘playing right into the hands of the democrats”.
I hear what you’re saying, by some people’s standards 90% of the Republicans in Congress are RINOs.
But we have some bad trash in our party we need to clean up, like Arlen Specter and John McCain (his overally voting record is fine but that masks his negative impact), people that hurt the conservative agenda from inside the GOP.
Certainly this should be discussed. I don’t see how talking about one thing detracts from another.
We should scream and point at the inferno across the street while ignoring the smoke rising from our own house?
I criticized RINO President Bush this one time and some guy said it was “playing into the hands of democrats” and detracting from the fight against Obama.
I don’t get the argument, this is a discussion forum.
We do need to distinguish between "moderate" Republicans and liberal Republicans, and make it a priority to go after the MOST leftist-leaning elected officials in the GOP. People in general (and many freepers) can't seem to distinguish between a moderate Republican and a liberal Republican, and the media plays right along with this, claiming all Republicans are either "hard right conservatives" or "moderates", even if the "moderate" they're discussing vote to the left of many Democrats.
Norm Coleman is a "moderate" Republican. He's certainly not as conservative as me but he's miles ahead of the drug-addled socialist kook who ran against him. Mark Kirk is NOT a "moderate" Republican, he is a liberal douchebag, and his "debate" with his RAT opponents consist of them arguing over who will do a better job implementing Obama's agenda (Kirk's TV ads even GLOATED that he was rated "better than Obama" by some "progressive" groups!).
These closet Democrats running as Republicans are slipping through the cracks because freepers aren't exposing them for what they are. Many rank-and-file conservative voters STILL don't realize Kirk is a liberal, they just read the media's talking points that he's a Iraq veteran whose "moderate" an "expert on defense issues". Look at all the freepers screaming bloody hell at Susan Collin voting for Porkulus. She was up for re-election LAST year and no one noticed! Not ONE conservative challenged her in the primary! (A conservative would not be expected to win in Maine, but at the very least a primary challenge would have forced Collins to the right in order to be renominated) Freepers were too busy whining about other Republicans who voted on the wrong way on one bill that happened to be their little pet issue.
I would infinitely prefer getting rid of a Republican who is with me 30% of the time than getting rid of a Republican who with me "only" 80% of the time. Don't understand why so many conservatives feel the opposite way. I guess they figure the 80% "RINOs" are easier to defeat in the primary, but well... that's why things like Porkulus get passed. It should be priority #1 to go after ANY "Republican" who votes with the Democrats more often than they vote with us.