The problem with voting Republican is you no longer get half a loaf, or a quarter of a loaf. Reagan knew how to leave the table with something, the rest give away the farm with both hands and are happy to promote more socialism, or worse, globalism.
It's become a why bother for every voter I know IRL many of whom have no intention of visiting the polls this Nov. My neighbor, who has a picture of herself and Bush at a function shocked me when she said she will not vote for him again. Seems a gay friend of her's convinced her that we needed Bush to fight the war, now that he has done his job, we need Kerry to negotiate a peace and get us back in line with the E.U. and U.N.
We had a long talk, I hope I had an impact on her thinking. I don't plan to vote for Bush myself, but a persons reason should not be the reasons she came up with. The thing about the Republican Party courting RINO's at the expense of their conservative base is, that the loyalty of a RINO is not even skin deep.
The only thing that makes the thought of a Kerry victory tolerable is the knowledge that American and EU/UN interests in the Middle East are so divergent that even a Kerry will have to stand up to the Europeans after a certain point. But then I think again that he might be another Jimmy Carter and one who speaks French.
That's the bottom line. They are not reliable. I don't know how many times that some people have to be taught that lesson. It's too late in the game to be timid about who RINOs really are.