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The word RINO is demeaning and I wish I had never used it myself but I grew up and realized I was using it for some of our Republicans that were not Republican in Name Only -- they were lifelong Republicans who voted how the majority of their States wanted them to vote. What are they elected to do anyways?

What gives any of you the right to determine if someone who has been a lifelong Republican is Republican in Name Only? Where in our Party Platform does it say we are the Conservative Republican Party? No place to answer my own question.

The Republican Party leans to the right, but what gives people the right to say our two Senators from Maine or others are not Republican in more than Name Only and now Arnold is added to the list. A conservative cannot get elected Senator from Maine and other more liberal states -- you want to know one of the reasons? Because the "pure" conservatives in their unbending, all knowing, arrogant attitude, give the rest of us a bad name. The mantra of a candidate has to be 100% conservative on all the issues or I am not voting for him, is just flat out wrong.

How do you expect anyone to listen, when you are in their face that they are not really a Republican. Someone called several of us RINO's on here in the past and since I have been a lifelong Republican, I am asking just who made the "pure" conservatives the judge and jury of the rest of us.

Sorry to burst your bubble but the Republican Party has a lot of diverse candidates and because they are not 100% of what you want doesn't make them wrong or you right. They have a right to their opinion as you do to yours. The bottom line is that they are Republican and so am I -- a Bush Republican as a matter of fact.

BTW, until recently I had never heard of "pure" or "true" conservatives and I still wish I hadn't because I find it demeaning to the rest of us conservatives who want to win elections and will vote for MODERATE candidates that can win instead of LIBERAL, SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS.