[nopardons]

Ted Olsen is now a RINO, Michael Reagan is now a RINO and a traitor, George Will is the same, and on and on and on.....

The misuse and abuse to that term, by you and your ilk proves one thing and one thing only....that you are indifferent to facts and the actual meanings of words and terms.

Unlike you, I know the reality of not only how important it is for the GOP candidate to beat the Dem presidential candidate, but why it is better to support someone who can do that and give me most of the things I want.

Principles mean less than nothing, when you lose. When you lose an election, you get exactly what you do NOT want and no, your life does NOT just then go on, as if nothing changed.

[jim35]

["Ted Olsen is now a RINO, Michael Reagan is now a RINO and a traitor, George Will is the same,"]

Nope. But Rudy is still a RINO. He's way, way too left-wing to make a comparison w/ any of the above named.

["...misuse and abuse to that term, by you and your ilk..."]

Leave my ilk out of this. And no, RINO means something. It means one who is naming him/herself as a Republican, but stands against many planks of the Republican platform. That makes them a Republican In Name Only. Get it?

["...I know the reality of not only how important it is for the GOP candidate to beat the Dem..."]

Yep, I agree there. But it doesn't really help if that Republican stands for a bunch of Democrat principles, now, does it? Anyway, me and my ilk think so.

["Principles mean less than nothing, when you lose."]

In some cases, principles aren't gonna mean much if we WIN. I believe that's what's known as a Pyrrhic victory.

I hope that didn't sound too provincial.