As for being a RINO:
She went to Harvard Law School.
She then went straight to Washington to be a bureaucrat with the Department of Health, Welfare, and Human Service.
She registered as a Democrat.
Still a Democrat, she served on LBJ's consumer affairs comission.
She stayed in that office when Nixon came in, swithcing her affiliation to Independent.
Only when she married Dole did she switch to Republican.
As Secreatary of Transportation, her big Republican accomplishment was using the Federal Gov't to force all the states to adopt the 55 mph spped limit.
One day she dressed up like Bobby Brady did when he was a hall monitor and stopped everyone coming to work at DOT with a little red stop sign to see if they were wearing their seatbelts.
What more does one need to know that she is a RINO?