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RINO

I think this expression needs to be questioned. The history of the Republican Party is not well-known, even by most Republicans. (For example, prior to FDR, most Blacks voted Republican.)

Going back to at least Theodore Roosevelt, the party has had liberal and conservative wings, with the liberals mostly centered in the Northeast. So to say that someone is a "RINO" because they don't embrace every aspect of the social conservative agenda is not historically accurate.

If Free Republic wants to define itself as a social conservative forum, it has every right to do so, even a responsibility to do so, if it so believes. But that has little if anything to do with the historical Republican Party, which has often been splintered into factions as it is now.