Posted on 09/21/2011 3:56:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
That ad kicks some butt!
There’s no such thing as a RINO, as the GOP has always had liberals, moderates and conservatives in it.
Perry is a cafeteria conservative.
There’s no such thing as a RINO, as the GOP has always had liberals, moderates and conservatives in it.
Perry is a cafeteria conservative.
RINO has never been a useful acronym, as The Republican Party has always had liberals.
CINO is arguably a better acronym, but I think cafeteria conservative is a more useful term. It pegs Bush43, a big spender weak on immigration, but strong on cutting taxes and national defense.
LOL!!
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But by what criteria do you define conservative? They may mean that he’s the most conservative of the bunch and acceptable to a lot of people as a coalition candidate. He’s acceptable to me but I don’t carry his train.
Perry: He’ll put the adults back in charge.
Damn straight!
Well political historian, Texmom makes one. I make two. I have at least 50 family and friends that will attest to the same thing.
Here's the deal pal, if Sarah doesn't jump in, Perry is all we got. Period.
I would agree that CINO makes some sense and is accurate, but I think “unreliable” or “shaky” conservative gets the message across.
RINO was for a time useful, but it is useless now because of over use. No one owns the word so anyone is free to apply it as they want to, but It was not intended by those who crafted the term to mean anything other than a Republican who advanced by trashing other Republicans. Thus, the term, Republican in Name Only.
Since these were almost always moderate and liberal Republicans who did this, a lot of single issue conservatives - especially single issue pro lifers - started using the term for Republicans who went the wrong way on that issue. But this is misleading since the quintessential RINO is John McCain, and he is (technically) pro life and I think so is Lindsay Graham.
Both McCain and Graham are much much more likely to curry favor with liberals by trashing other Republicans or even conservatives than say, Rudy G, who while disagreeing with pro lifers, has never gone out of his way to antagonize the conservative base on a regular basis the way McCain and Graham do every time a camera is rolling it seems.
It’s an interesting conversation, and I don’t think RINO will ever mean what it once did - killed by over use and mis-use.
>>> There’s no such thing as a RINO, as the GOP has always had liberals, moderates and conservatives in it. >>>
Now I see where you are coming from:
I respectfully say you are half right: the GOP has always had liberals, moderates and conservatives in it for sure. But there is indeed such a thing as RINO — just not as defined by philosophy alone - which is how the term has been perverted.
As I explained in a couple other posts, the term was attitude driven and not issue driven, though many who had the anti Republican attitudes also have the liberal to moderate bent on issues.
Oh there will eventually be reasonable discussions, and you can find the rare thread where people are actually polite to each other, but most are swamped with other candidate activists and even dems hoping to demoralize and offend.
Perry/Palin,Palin/Perry 2012,doesn’t matter,still a winning team....
“One of the best political ads I’ve ever seen.”
Agreed. It’s very well done. Many voters are not like us Freepers (long discussions about complicated issues)—instead, many voters need a simple, direct message.
One thing about Perry, regardless of how deep his conservative convictions lie, he is not afraid to attack liberal philosophy head on.
WOW!
Thank you for putting those links together.
Attest to what ? Posting a long diatribe inferring Huey Long was really a right-wing Conservative Republican ? You want a guy who lies about his record, diminishes Reagan and deifies Al Gore ? You can keep him. I’m voting for someone that doesn’t make my skin crawl. Go Palin !
You might reserve judgement until she declares herself a candidate.
Voting for people who aren't running is colossally stupid.
And grab her a good VP too, because a couple of years in when
some yay-hoo files a "frivolous lawsuit"... PFFFT! She's gone.
You’re welcome.
It’s posted and has been shown and talked about considerably more since then. And at YouTube, there are (last time I was there) 11 individual videos running for Perry’s “Proven Leadership” ad.
Perry on Hannity [September 22, 2011]
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