—As long as RINOs are running the party, the Republicans will be out of touch with the bulk of honest, moral hard-working Americans who are overwhelmingly conservative.—
This assumes that there is a definition of just what a “RINO” is; there is, after all, no clear definition of just what a “Republican” is. Until 1980, after all, people like Gerald Ford, Bob Michel, and Nelson Rockefeller were the face of the GOP, and all were squishy moderates. Even Nixon was no conservative (unless compared to McGovern). Basically he was LBJ redux; hawkish on Vietnam, but bloated the federal government all to hell. I fear that conservatives are grasping at a thin reed in relying on the GOP, but I’m not sure what the alternative is.
I’ve said it before. “RINO” really applies to us, not the big-government, Democrat-Lite “Rockefeller Republicans.” We conservatives are the true “Republicans in Name Only.” It may be time to cast the Republican party aside and develop something that will truly promote the values that I still believe the majority of Americans actually hold. The American Party, anyone?