[muawiyah]

Being a RINO has nothing to do with being Conservative. It has to do with whether or not you support Republican legislative initiatives, or Republican candidates, or Republican officials (acting on behalf of all that's right and good).

Republicans who stand apart from the crowd, but with the Democrats, or who were Democrats, or ran as Democrats, or who support Mexicans before Americans ~ they are all RINOs.

[DJ MacWoW]

Being a RINO has nothing to do with being Conservative.

It does on FR. Conservatives are what Republicans USED to be. Have you read the party platform lately? I can't think of a single Republican that stands on that platform firmly.