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What is your problem, besides reading comprehension. I only said Palin was to the left of those others on a single issue and I said it was the ONLY issue I had disagreement with her on.

And I never pushed Romney as anything but flawed and unreliable — that is not exactly a ringing endorsement. I did say Mitt does not trash other Republicans the way McCain and Graham and Snowe and Schwarzennegar does and I said the historical use of the term was applied to those who did so. In other words, many lib and moderate republicans are rino’s, but not all are. They are simply liberals or moderates. Or in the case of some, liberal on some issues. (and yes I understand the inconsistency with that, but that’s another thread).

I never supported any trashing of Palin by anyone at any time and in fact have a long published record of Pro Palin articles and am a favorite on the Palin websites and have been often quoted on them. I still disagree with her on unions, but generally love her. I do not worship her. And until you have been quoted as a pro Palin authority by C4P and other sites, don’t come at me as some kind of anti Palin type. I am the furthest thing from it.

If you doubt it, check my archives at American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/c_edmund_wright/

I do not share your hatred of Mitt and that’s fine - because you can only not vote for him once and I can only not vote for him once so you and I will cast the exact same amount of votes for Mitt: 0. I don’t begrudge your hatred of him, why can’t you be satisfied with my mere dislike of him? You call him a RINO, I call him unreliable and flawed. Why does that make me evil in your mind?

But all of this is beside the point, because I was having an intellectual and historical discussion on the origins of the term RINO as I understood it from my history and from my connections in the GOP who go back before my time. I used Mitt simply as an example. He was not the point, just an exhibit.

I also said RINO was not owned by anyone and anyone was free to apply it as they saw fit - but that the origin of the term remained the origin of the term and I still prefer the original usage.

Why does this make me evil? Why does this make me worthy of being tattled on? I know Mr. Rob hates Mitt too, and I respect his right to do so. The only positive thing I said about Mitt was that he rarely trashes other Republicans and by that I meant publicly the way McCain and Graham and Arnold do.

If he has subversive covert anti-Palin stuff going on then clearly that is not acceptable and worthy of contempt. But again, that’s not RINO so much as it is simply contemptible scum behavior. That’s worthy of another thread too.