Except for this guy. :-)
You still paint with too broad a brush. I know several older elected Republicans down here, conservative as anybody today, who were once ELECTED democrats. Nobody was a Republican down here before 1970. Then again, back then (pre-1970) you had Nelson Rockerfeller of New York, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, Lowel Schweiker of Connecticut, all not just RINOs but real liberals, who were Republicans!
You might want to adjust your present view with what has changed historically, and yes, even in our own lifetimes!
And that’s why I said your statement is nonsense, because historically, for Southerners, it is. We were all democrats back then. And I welcome them all into the CONSERVATIVE side of the Republican party!
There's a good reason for that ~ one of them is that we were still, to a considerable degree, still working with Souvrnr's in Congress who ustabe Democrats. None of them were particularly Liberal ~ and some of them occasionally had to deal with people who thought them TOO SOUVRN ~ for reasons we will not mention on this board ~ and no, that wasn't for eating pigs feet!
I think we have quite enough terms for calling Leftwingtards that we don't need to change what RINO meant historically.
Rockefeller, Brooke and Schweiker (none of whom were RINOs) were NE Republicans called, for short Rockefeller Republicans.
They'd cr*pped their shorts if you'd accused them of being Democrats.
Provided we can get enough votes in the rest of the country we no longer need to work with RINOs in the NE or the South, or California. The only reason we put up with those people was to get votes where someone without that prior Democrat label could not win as a regular Republican.
If you go back and examine policies the Rockefeller Republicans backed you might find some familiar topics that today are thought of as rather Conservative ~ hard core in fact. Same with the Democrats of that time ~ they still had some patriots and supported national defense. Today they can't be trusted.
Except for this guy. :-)