While they’re leaving, they could have the decency to take bonehead with them.
He’s the very definition of RINO, and I think only slightly better of him than I think of the lying, felonious Cretin-in-Chief bottom dwelling, smegma-lipped “thing” currently infesting the White House.
Some of them had actually been candidates for office under other than a Republican label, or they'd been donors to Democrats, or they worked in Democrat campaigns.
Your first definition of a RINO is someone who came over ~ kinda ~ from the Democrats or some other party!
Ideologically it's difficult to pin them down since yesterdays hard core Conservative idea (e.g. increase the percentage of the population NOT subject to income tax) becomes a leftwingtard idea to some others who imagine themselves to be Republican Conservatives.
So, if Hannity says "no skin in the game" and Obama says "no skin in the game", who becomes a RINO?
I think just taking a look at their former political affiliations, particularly if they were donors, campaign workers, or even candidates, is a good guide to isolating them and ferreting them out. And, as has been demonstrated numerous times if all we knew about Romney was his donation history we'd know he was a mind numbed knee jerk Leftwingtard (aka a RINO) and we could guess that Perry was going to prefer Mexicans to Americans (again, a sure sign of RINOdom).
Boehner was never a Democrat, nor did he work for them. He's pretty much as Conservative as our three LIFELONG Conservative Republicans though.