Posted on 05/11/2021 10:25:47 AM PDT by BDParrish
RINOs, or “Republicans In Name Only,” have been a cancer on the Republican Party for decades. Conservatives have had to spend far too much of their time fighting against the fake Republicans who infiltrate leadership positions, leaving little time for the fight against our more transparent adversaries. Donald Trump has devised the best way to deal with them once and for all. His plan is simple: “No more money for RINOs.” He explained, “They do nothing but hurt the Republican Party and our great voting base—they will never lead us to Greatness.”
Trump is absolutely right to expose the parasites within the GOP who soak up money while thwarting party growth. In 2020, the Republican National Committee used Trump’s name heavily to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. A lot of that cash went to fund Republican candidates other than Trump. Even after the election, the RNC continued to use Trump’s name for fundraising purposes.
Keep in mind, Trump is not being stingy by asking the RNC to stop fundraising off of his name. He has always been very generous in allowing other Republicans to use his name, until they recently started stabbing him in the back. The RNC funds some of the 17 congressmen and senators who voted in favor of impeaching Trump and unconstitutionally “convicting” him after he left office. It’s no wonder he wants to stop sending money to these people.
Trump can and should control the use of his name. For too long, RINOs have benefited from Trump’s coattails when raising money, only to govern as anti-American, anti-Trump liberals. If they want to vote like Democrats, let the Democrats fund their campaigns. It’s not merely justifiable to withhold money from them; it’s the only right thing to do. When Republicans and Democrats are both funding liberal candidates, they are depriving voters of a real choice between two candidates. Prospective Republican candidates do not deserve a dime of RNC money if they refuse to stand by the Republican Party platform, which expresses the sentiments of grassroots Republicans everywhere. Let’s follow the Trump plan: “No more money for RINOs.”
Trump stops short of saying no more votes for RINOs, but that is the growing feeling here on FR. It is already the predominant view, but only functions as a kind of justification motto rather than a guiding principle, because there is no consensus on what constitutes RINOsity. For now the 17 congressmen and senators who voted for impeachment or conviction can be explicitly branded as RINO.
How about no more VOTES for RINOs?
Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with MAGA patriots. Rinse and repeat every 2 years until the RINO plague has been eradicated.
They've been smart with regard to keeping their mouths shut and not revealing their contempt for the base. In 2020 they showed us exactly who they are. Give them all the Lizard Cheney treatment and send them packing.
How about the RINO-controlled state legislatures of GA, AZ, PA, MI, and WI who refused to enforce voter ID and did nothing to stop/audit the cheat-by-mail-in ballots before electors were seated?
If those state legislatures had been controlled by MAGA patriots, Trump would still be president.
The blame for the woke clown world we live in today lies squarely with them.
We need five RINOs in the U.S. Senate just to get a 50-50 tie.
Conservatives have to accept the demographic reality...
Republicans are a minority party in the USA.
Without the RINOs, we will have no federal power at all.
If you give to the RNC they will use that money to fund TransRepublicans.
RINOS - Republicans in Name Only
Globalists who identify with the human race as patriot Republicans wanna-be(s). Not to be confused with We the People.
Give your financial support directly to the one you will be voting for...dont give any money to the Republican party or any PAC...it goes to the RINOs also...
I stop giving to the Republican Women’s years ago when we were assured that the funds were divided squally amongst the candidates...RINOs included...
I go to the local fund raisers and meet the candidates and give there...
We MUST primary EVERY Bush League Republican, including those endorsed by Trump, Rubio in particular.
We will NEVER Make America Great Again by re-electing Assistant Democrats.
The very first sentence of this article is incorrect. And the very premise of it is what is confusing people.
The bush wing / chamber of commerce people ARE the republiCANT party..
It’s WE, the conservatives that are the rino’s..
Once you accept this premise, your course of action becomes crystal clear..
Great advice! If you want to sleepwalk to oblivion.
Face facts, We would get more out of a minority party who's leaders are committed to its principles than a majority composed of self-serving weasels.
There is no longer home in the Republican Party for the GOPe/Bush Crime Family.
When my wife died earlier this year, I kept her e-mail account open for practical reasons. During the intervening time, that account has gotten around 10 messages per day from various RINOS soliciting money, many times on behalf of Donald Trump himself, and all playing to my wife’s conservative values. It’s completely sickening.
What is the difference between a Demonrat and a RINO? Nothing!
I am not a Republican; I’m a Conservative.
Yes, Rinos’ are needed. Would you ever get a right winger elected in Maine?
There are districts where you either get moderate RINO or some AOC. I take that RINO every time. However Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney, those are the RINO’s which should be ousted. Taking safe districts, where lot more conservative person would be welcomed.
How do you define RINO? Somebody who is regularly voting with the left or somebody who just once disagreed with the “conservative” position.
I see a lot of people here who seems to be preferring the later. If we went that way, Republicans would be one taxi party (all fitting into one taxi). The Pelosi’s would have free reign, we would be a communist country with a dozen protesters in congress.
Even in most Communist countries they allowed a token opposition in the parliament.
The Republican Party has been infested with RINOs since at least the 1960s...
Governor/Vice President Nelson Rockefeller - RINO
Governor George Romney - RINO
NYC Mayor John Lindsay - RINO
Chief Justice Earl Warren - RINO
Chief Justice Warren Burger - RINO
Rep. John Anderson - RINO (tried to derail Reagan in the general election in 1980)
The GOP is a minority party.
In addition, Conservatives have had no consequential national leadership since the GOP allowed the Democrat Party to destroy Newt Gingrich in 1995.
Bottom Line...
Conservatives have no choice - either we compromise with the RINOs, or the Democrats, the Deep State, and the corrupt Judiciary will destroy the country.
Why not?
Maybe the problem is we never had a genuine conservative run up in Maine. If somebody like Ron Desantis ran up there, he'd crush it.
Because working with RINOs has never worked. In 2016 we had the House, Senate, and Presidency for 2 whole years and the American patriots of the base received nothing. Conservatives do not have a choice because "Conservatism, Inc." is bankrupt of ideas, inspiration, and energy. Patriotic Americans will run the Republican Party or it will die.
You keep doing stupid and I will keep calling you out on it.
Then I guess we are a permanent minority party, thank you GOPE and the Bush R’s. I am DONE voting and supporting these liars that stab you in the back more efficiently and often than Democrats. If the Republicans want to win again I suggest they grow a spine.
Yes I know the Democrats will win. Yes I know the RINO line you’re supporting the Democrats by not voting for these progressive Republican sleaze bags, right and they don’t, they’re as pure as the driven snow(please for the love of all humanity, you Party worshiping pukes find another line, this is worse than the Republicans will cut your social security line of horse crap!). When you offer no real choices the Democrats always win. Reagan fought the same battle as Trump with the GOP RINO’s. They are bluntly cheapskate progressives and I am done listening to their lies, broken promises and elitist BS.
And with the RINOS the GOP has no chance to win a majority in the House or the Senate. You’ve got Hobson’s choice, buddy, Hobson’s choice.
McCain.
There were several of Democrats that came to the party riding Reagan coattails, they were smart enough to see the future and work from within to undermine the revolution instead of throwing rocks from the outside. Some of those politicians seemed to have changed their perception but most didn't.
I have been receiving stupid questionnaires and donation requests since the stolen election, I threw every one in the trash and will continue to.
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