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"RINO" Label Used Too Flippantly By Conservatives
Townhall.com ^ | December 24, 2010 | Matt Towery

Posted on 12/24/2010 7:29:13 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: only1percent
From 1994 to 2002 New Jersey had a Republican governor

Christie Todd Whitman was a disaster that set the party back a decade.

Christie ran as more or less of a moderate

He is aggressively cutting back spending and reducing the size of government, supports tax cuts, is openly pro-life, supports school vouchers, opposes environmental regulations that harm the economy and opposes same-sex marriage. How can he be defined as moderate?

121 posted on 12/24/2010 12:11:19 PM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: GenXteacher
BTW, the overwhelming majority of the Countryclubbers ARE Conservatives.

Your boy Obama targeted a lot of them with his shut down of the automobile dealerships. You may not know but the Democrats know where they work, how they work, who they are, and how to hurt them.

I think you're confounding the guys running the party machinery with the folks on the RNC committees.

At some point in time you have time to waste on the upper reaches of the party structures, but for the most part all of the parties are STATE parties, and the national elements are supposed to arrange for conventions and the like.

122 posted on 12/24/2010 12:12:27 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Artemis Webb
Overuse of the brand does kind of dilute the meaning of the word.

I would use, "TRAITOR" instead, but then all the Republican Namby-Pampies "moderates" wouldn't let me back into their "Big Smelly Tent."

123 posted on 12/24/2010 12:12:41 PM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: Conservative Tsunami
We no longer use the term "moderate" or haven't you noticed?

That's mostly because the MSM is losing its influence. They were the only ones who would actually say "it's good to be a moderate" ~ which it isn't of course.

124 posted on 12/24/2010 12:31:58 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: only1percent
That Mitt Romney had to surrender his office without a fight in 2006

Was that really the case or did Romney just want to make a Presidential run?

New Jersey is a bit more conservative than Massachusetts but both Romney and William Weld were elected governor as Republicans. And, if the economy and impact of liberal legislation like Romneycare negatively impact the state, I believe a real conservative could win there.

From a national perspective, liberal Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins do more harm than good. Brown appears to be in the same category.

125 posted on 12/24/2010 12:48:32 PM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: muawiyah

There are at least a baker’s dozen of the traitorous bastards in the Senate and still a passel of them in the House. And there will always be more in the making. It’s OPEN SEASON, NO BAG LIMIT until we bag them ALL!!


126 posted on 12/24/2010 1:05:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: muawiyah
The problem with the 13th Amendment is that *CONGRESS* is the one given the power to enforce the article, when in fact, it is CONGRESS which should be sold into involuntary servitude to pay off the national debt which they have incurred.

See this vanity.

But if you think it looks bad to choose the 13th, I'd go for the 16th instead :-)

Cheers!

...oh, and Merry Christmas!

127 posted on 12/24/2010 1:09:32 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Kaslin

Liberal republicans if you prefer...but they aren’t conservatives. They may have a few conservative views but one or two areas of agreement with conservatives does not make one a conservative.


128 posted on 12/24/2010 1:21:38 PM PST by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: muawiyah

“Your boy Obama targeted a lot of them with his shut down of the automobile dealerships. You may not know but the Democrats know where they work, how they work, who they are, and how to hurt them.”

First, Obama isn’t “my boy”. Secondly, it was patently obvious that whole thing was politically motivated- I wouldn’t dispute that but I find it disparaging that you assumed I didn’t know. But I’ll let that slide, because your first remark is what I want to address.

“BTW, the overwhelming majority of the Countryclubbers ARE Conservatives.”
I want them to prove it. I want them to walk the walk. And not just sit on one leg of the stool, either- not ditching social conservatism because it offends some of their snotty liberal friends and business partners. My opinion, based on a lot of current events, is that there are too many in the GOP who are willing to compromise at a point when further compromise only gives the Demcoms more of what they want.

“You must get men of a spirit that are likely to go as far as they will go, or you will be beaten still.”- Leo Amery, quoting Oliver Cromwell. Amery made these remarks while they were ejecting Neville Chamberlain from the Prime Ministership of Great Britain. I find them particularly appropriate at this time.


129 posted on 12/24/2010 1:24:11 PM PST by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: Kaslin
Doubtless the treaty has warts. It makes little difference to me.

Obviously when Zero gets us nuked, the blast wave won't hit this author, then.

130 posted on 12/24/2010 1:25:57 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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To: Kaslin
Have you ever been pelted by rotten fruit and eggs as you rode in a parade, only because you were a Republican?

And if people like this author don't start getting the true reason behind the election results, it's going to happen to them again.

131 posted on 12/24/2010 1:27:56 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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To: Jim Robinson
13? I remember when the MAJORITY of Republicans in the US Senate were RINOs, and the real thing too, not just guys who voted wrong ~ they'd really been Democrats.

We are making considerable headway.

I don't think we've got but two Rockefeller Republicans left (Snow and Collins), and in the Souf' there's Br'r Lindsey, but he'll go whichever way the wind blows.

Now, technically speaking, NONE of the current Republican Senators ever ran for office as a Democrat except Senator Shelby.

No doubt we continue to need a term for folks like Shelby. You take a real good look at that bad boy's voting history and he's been on the WRONG SIDE a hundred times more often than Brown (as yet). RINO fits the man; the man fits the classic definition of RINO, and that means all those others are simply Leftwingtards and Pukes.

You get rid of just two of the outliers ~ and pick from Corker, Alexander, Hatch and Lugar for your best picks, and you'll see the others having to come in line with the regular Republicans.

We'd earlier had an event called The Gang Of 14 which consisted of 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans who'd agreed to screw up the Senate together to advance various items of common interest ~ that included Justice Alioto's confirmation.

The names on the Republican side are interesting: Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) (no longer serving), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mike DeWine (R-OH) (no longer serving), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John McCain (R-AZ), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), John Warner (R-VA) (no longer serving).

The Democrat 7 suffered 3 losses as well ~ 2 by death.

It is not unreasonable to expect a high rate of death and retirement among senior Senators which means we can actually plan on that. The time has arrived to start figuring out who we'd like to run in the next primary that involves any of the Senators you don't like.

132 posted on 12/24/2010 1:32:11 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: grey_whiskers

Yeah, advocating the return of personal indenture for life is a non-starter in this country these days, so go for something else.


133 posted on 12/24/2010 1:33:50 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Look, if you don’t have the stomach for the RINO hunt, just get out! We’re gunning for them ALL!!


134 posted on 12/24/2010 1:38:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: GenXteacher
The record number of state legislative seats just won happened on account of the guys who run the state Republican parties, and do the work, hold the meetings, raise the funds, knock on doors (or get door knocker oners), arrange for campaign literature mailings, and a myriad other bunch of tasks that somebody has to do to win an election.

I don't think they need to prove anything to you ~ they won, and in elective politics that's all that counts.

And yes, Obama is your boy. You didn't do enough to stop him back when he was running for the Illinois state legislature.

135 posted on 12/24/2010 1:39:50 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Kaslin

Everybody is somebody else’s RINO.


136 posted on 12/24/2010 1:44:30 PM PST by Drennan Whyte
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To: Jim Robinson
Gun for the RINOS ~ and that will include Shelby and a couple of others rising up in the South.

If you want to get rid of all the Left-leaners and former Democrats, go for it.

My position is that we had a perfectly good word that described a phenomenon that has been around for a very long time ~ and that back in the days when Republicans were a pitiful helpless minority in the South, it served the party well.

I would like for people to refer to the morons, thieves, reprobates, conmen and people of that kind with the correct terms which are morons, thieves, reprobates, conmen and their friends.

Let NONE ESCAPE~!

137 posted on 12/24/2010 1:45:24 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: paulycy
Ignore it at your own peril, RINOs.

Da (as Boris might say).

RINOs haven't figured out that they will be cashiered-out in their very next PRIMARY; and that the Democrat and Independent alternative pathway doesn't work (when the votes are counted fairly.)

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138 posted on 12/24/2010 1:54:46 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: muawiyah

wrong guy but same point


139 posted on 12/24/2010 1:59:33 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: muawiyah

“And yes, Obama is your boy. You didn’t do enough to stop him back when he was running for the Illinois state legislature.”

Merry Christmas from NC, where I have lived all my life. Rather hard to stop someone from making it to the Illinois state legislature from here.

“I don’t think they need to prove anything to you ~ they won, and in elective politics that’s all that counts.”

Rather elitist statement....but actually, yes they do. They have to prove they are worthy of my vote- and that of people of a like mind. Otherwise they don’t get it. “We’re not as Marxist as the other guys” isn’t going to cut it anymore, either. Winning doesn’t matter much if the only thing you are going to do is go along with the Demcoms.


140 posted on 12/24/2010 2:03:00 PM PST by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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