[Defiant]

Time to go RINO hunting !!!

Listen, in liberal states, if we have a RINO in office, you can accept that. You can work to make that state more conservative over time, so that it can become a state eventually that will accept a conservative, but until then, a RINO who is usually with us is better than a Dem who is not. Where we need to improve is in removing RINOs from holding office in conservative states. This is unacceptable. Lindsay Graham and Chuck Hagel, this means you. They should be removed in PRIMARIES, and the national GOP should stay the hell out of the race.

This is a winning strategy--persuade in liberal states, consolidate in conservative states, and use primaries to replace, not general elections against socialists. Oh, one other thing--

Go libertarian hunting all you want. They have cost us the Senate, and endangered the US as a result.

[discostu]

Good point about RINOs, they do serve a purpose. Anybody doubting that need look no further than AZ8, RINO Kolbe retired and the hard right GOP lost to the lefty Dem. Now I'm not sure the GOP could have gotten somebody RINO enough to replace Kolbe, but they certianly would have had a better chance than they got with a non-RINO.

Can't blame the Libertarians though. The job of a candidate is to get the votes, successful politicians pull in those non-hardliners (like Reagan did with the Libertarians), for the same reason that RINOs are occassionally necessary too.

[Southerngl]

"This is unacceptable. Lindsay Graham and Chuck Hagel, this means you. They should be removed in PRIMARIES, and the national GOP should stay the hell out of the race"

That's just it, how many Republicans were running against Republican incumbants? Hardly any. The National GOP made sure they supported noone who would challenge a standing Republican, RINO or not.

[Ouderkirk]

I am just a little tired of being treated like a $2.00 whore.

Buy her a drink before closing time, tell her "Ya sure, I love ya baby". Whatever it takes to get her out the door and on her back.

That's what these RINO's do to us. They buy us a drink (i.e talk conservative at election time) then get some action (elected) and they're leaving vapor trails when it comes time to do the right thing.

George Pataki is a glaring example. He talked a great game in 1994 and I guess he looked pretty good compared to Mario Cuomo. But when things got hot and it was time to stand up to Shelly Silver and really beat back the downstate cabal in the legislature, he was AWOL. ( My Dem assemblyman went after Silver and it cost him is position (Michael Bragman D-Cicero) We get crapol like Healthy NY (health insurance for the poor) Higher property taxes due to my property being re-assessed at higher than what I could sell it for. Enormous Medicaid costs, and taxes on everything except raw food.

I would at least prefer to have a true democRAT, I may oppose him, but at least I can count on his opposition, so I at least know where I stand.

[ConservativeMind]

Interesting. I tend to agree with one caveat: We need to get out replace incumbent RINOs in liberal states every election or two, so their seniority doesn't allow them to hold the party hostage.

Examples: McCain and Specter.