Posted on 08/27/2022 8:56:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I despise the term RINO — Republican in Name Only. It splits the Republican Party year after year, and its persistence hands the Democrats power in Congress they would not otherwise be able to earn. I never hear the term DINO — Democrat in Name Only — because the Democrats are too smart for that.
Within the Democratic Party are avowed socialists (Bernie Sanders) together with senators and representatives who represent Montana, Arizona, and other generally red states — states that have long traditions of independence and free-market values. In other words, the Democratic Party is at least as divided politically as the Republican Party, but we don’t hear Democrats routinely denounce one another as fakes.
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Because Democrats don’t claim that fellow Democrats with whom they disagree are not actually Democrats, they are able to hold and use power to a degree that the GOP cannot. Here’s an obvious case in point: Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a Democrat, prevented President Biden from getting Congress to adopt his Build Back Better plan — a $5 trillion monstrosity that would have changed this country had it been passed — almost single-handedly. Although Manchin was attacked by activists on the Left, we didn’t hear Democrats in Congress or otherwise holding official party positions calling Manchin a DINO. They recognized — somewhat reluctantly, to be sure — that he was still a member of their party, and among other things had voted to organize the Senate under Democratic control.
And what came of that? President Biden was recently able to claim a success with a destructive new law called the Inflation Reduction Act. It doesn’t reduce inflation, but it does double the size of the Internal Revenue Service and, according to independent studies, adds taxes for virtually every American. To the Democrats, that’s a success, and they can credit it to Senator Manchin, whom they did not attempt to exclude from their party.
On Capitol Hill, Democratic lawmakers worked with Manchin to find common ground, and eventually were able to claim some kind of victory. To many Americans who just want a functioning government, that may be enough to urge them to vote for the Democrats instead of the GOP in the upcoming midterms.
Bullcrap
Dems are all socialists of one stripe or another
Some just admit it openly
Dems call them “blue dogs”
They are known as Blue Dog democrats you fool.
In my experience with the run-of-the-mill Democrats I meet in my personal life, they don’t seem to possess a principle-based political philosophy. They are mainly just issue-oriented.
Democrats are all leftists, socialist and communists.
Most of the elected Republicans are Assistant Democrats.
Very few real Republicans.
Written like a true RINO.
What a stupid article. There are no moderate democrats and they all vote in lockstep for communist policies.
There aren’t any blue dogs left.
Obamacare flushed them out.
The author wants us to accept and embrace our Assistant Democrats.
A DINO would delay what the Democrats want.
A RINO will destroy what the Republicans want.
Exactly. Bill Buckley wouldn’t be welcome at the magazine he founded
Just know that if one crosses the Hildabeast or one of her lieutenants, you are suicided.
All one has to do is read the sentence about Manchin to confirm that the author is another RINO, moron from National Review. Manchin knows how to play his side as much as he does the Republicans.
Schumer and Pelosi want something. He plays stubborn, they give him what he wants and he’s all in. Does it every time.
The Dems no matter what rally together and never betray their principles.
Republicans do it, daily. CornPop needs votes for something the list of about 10-15 Republicans give it to him every time.
I’ve read that Graham has voted for every judge nominated by CornPop. How many Dems and how often did any of them vote for any of Pres Trumps.
Of course. Just ask Joe Lieberman, Albert Wynn, Joseph Crowley, etc. Manchin and Sinema certainly weren’t attacked when they (initially) refused to support Build Back Better...
This author is spot-on with his analysis.
And it gets them elected and gives them the power to do as they’d like.
money
the LEFT controls the dem party and therefore the purse strings
they run moderate/conservative candidates with the understanding they will vote LEFT once in office
go against them and you’ll be starved out
the RINOs control the pub party
and do the same
It is our own fault we keep voting for the bastards, lesser of two evil you know, SPIT!!!
Here’s my opinion of Dims:
They LOVE to JOIN...there is NO individual thinking in Dimville.
They cannot operate as individuals...there must be some other voices, posters, signs and CHANTS. YECH.
As far as I can tell, if you think as a person, your own thoughts, your own beliefs, your own map for life...with little help, or NO help from government, you are conservative.
THAT is what I am. And sometimes that’s why we lose. BUT NOT THIS TIME. This time we win.
National Review. Right.
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