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Mike Huckabee wants to ban the term 'RINO'
Washington Examiner ^ | 01/14/2014 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 01/14/2014 11:17:19 AM PST by theruleshavechanged

"Many of you used a term that I’d like to see outlawed from the vernacular of the party: RINO," he said, calling it a "pejorative term" that questioned one's purity.

Huckabee pointed out that he got a tweet from someone who complained that he was a RINO, which upset him.

"With all due respect, I’ve fought in the trenches of Republican politics for over two decades, but I wouldn’t pretend that I’m lord over determining who the real Republicans are versus the so-called RINOs," he said.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2016; exposetherinos; fauxnews; firstamendment; freedomtosayrino; gopestablishment; huckabee; mikehuckabee; mikehuckster; notanotherrino; rino
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To: theruleshavechanged

They are really getting defensive, aren’t they? They can choke on that word. They are politically dead meat.


21 posted on 01/14/2014 11:23:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: theruleshavechanged

Hey Huckabee... how about we replace it with this....

D emocrats
I mpersonating
C onservatives


22 posted on 01/14/2014 11:24:02 AM PST by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Nazi always want to ban words.


23 posted on 01/14/2014 11:24:05 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: theruleshavechanged

The irony here is amazing.

The guy wants to ban speech, political speech, but can’t figure out why people thing he’s a big government ‘conservative’.

Hence RINO, it was easier than saying ‘big government conservative’, and it was more creative than calling them ‘statists’.


24 posted on 01/14/2014 11:24:21 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: theruleshavechanged
fat chance RINO
25 posted on 01/14/2014 11:25:02 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: theruleshavechanged

You’re right, Mike. From now on I’ll just use the term “Republican”, because it means the same thing. :)


26 posted on 01/14/2014 11:25:22 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Ok Hucks, your wish is my command. I’ll henceforth go with statist. Better??


27 posted on 01/14/2014 11:25:32 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: theruleshavechanged

Now, what sort of a person wants to ban words, Mr. Huckabee? I’ll give you a hint - it isn’t a conservative.


28 posted on 01/14/2014 11:26:37 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: DCBryan1

And the word: 0bamaCare


29 posted on 01/14/2014 11:26:38 AM PST by SkyDancer ("How Can People Ask Forgiveness If They Won't Forgive Others?")
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To: theruleshavechanged
Well, isn't it a typical characteristic of a RINO to want to coerce behaviors and/or restrict freedoms, Mr. Huckabee?

You say you want to BAN the use of a term? That sounds like restricting one's freedom of expression. Would you be proposing the employ of government to coerce this restriction? C'mon, you know you'd like to...

30 posted on 01/14/2014 11:27:29 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: theruleshavechanged

If the horn fits wear it!


31 posted on 01/14/2014 11:27:56 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Take out the trash)
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To: theruleshavechanged

Save your money RINO.

32 posted on 01/14/2014 11:28:37 AM PST by McGruff (I stand with Phil.)
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To: Sybeck1

If Huckabee has gained weight, maybe he’s doing a “Reverse Christy”, making a statement that, no, Mike will not be running for the Presidency, or running for anything really, except his private refrigerator. I thought RINOs were known to have thicker skin.


33 posted on 01/14/2014 11:28:57 AM PST by lee martell
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To: theruleshavechanged

He mentioned this on his Saturday night show. He looked a little ticked off when someone tweeted him calling him a RINO.


34 posted on 01/14/2014 11:30:46 AM PST by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: theruleshavechanged

lol - A lot of people don’t like the term ‘politically correct’ either but it’s a perfect description just like RINO.


35 posted on 01/14/2014 11:31:49 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: duckman

Never thought he was a RINO. Pro Second Amendment, anti-abortion, pro-America, pro-military, decent God-fearing Baptist.

Is he really a RINO?


36 posted on 01/14/2014 11:32:23 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: theruleshavechanged

YOU'RE A RINO JACKWAGON HUCKABEE!

37 posted on 01/14/2014 11:33:31 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: dfwgator

LOL...That was my first thought.


38 posted on 01/14/2014 11:33:34 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: theruleshavechanged
Huckabee reminded his readers that Jesus once said that “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” referring to the Gospel of Matthew.

The possible 2016 Republican presidential hopeful concluded his essay with a folksy proverb. “I’d rather have a loyal dog who licks me than one with a pedigree who bites me,” he added. “I’d rather go to battle with someone who isn’t perfect than with someone who thinks he is.” …
How utterly self-righteous, and him supposed to be a pastor at one time. Comes in with the canard of “(im)perfection” when it really is about what one stands for—there is imperfect and then there is wicked. Totally abuses Matthew 12:25, but seems to have forgotten Titus 3:10.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject …
Another “folksy proverb” that applies more correctly: “If you do not stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
39 posted on 01/14/2014 11:33:49 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Cicero

Ronaldus Magnus once said “I did not leave the Democratic party, they left me.”

And so it has become with the “Republican in name only” branch, they have so many of us struggling and coughing in the dust raised in their haste to scramble to the left once again. The GOP-Elite are leaving us behind and embracing each of the extreme positions set out by the loons of the Far Left, one by one, and mocking those who have no “vision”.

When you set off to lead a parade, it is just common good sense to look back from time to time and see if anybody is still following you. Might be time for them to run around and find a new parade they can get in front of.


40 posted on 01/14/2014 11:34:01 AM PST by alloysteel (Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
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