I don’t mind RINO’s when they get elected from liberal states (where the Dems would have won if they didn’t run). I do mind when they open their mouth and start denunciating the commander-in-chief, and actively try to sink conservatives, like Jeffords did.
For President or other executive office, there is no way I would support a RINO. Look at the damage Arnold did to the Republican party in California. Look at the damage that George Ryan did to the Republican party in Illinois. If liberalism is to be advanced by the President, I don’t want that president to be a Republican. At least let the consequences of liberalism befall a Democrat! If Jimmy Carter were a Republican, would that make any of us feel better about his policies?
If McCain and Huckabee were in their natural party, the Democrats, we would be facing the prospect of a President McCain or a President Huckabee as a worst case scenario instead of a best case scenario. Then it would be Republicans who could crossover and vote for the rinocrat to help undermine the Democrat Party instead of vice versa.
Also, our Republican senators and representatives will rubber stamp the liberal agendas of a rino president when they would have to stand in the way of a Democrat president offering up the same liberalism just to keep the Republican voters back home happy.
Ted Kennedy and John Kerry would be thrilled to change their party affiliation to Republican if we let them. It would guarantee that a true conservative will never hold those seats in the Senate. Any of the liberal Democrats would gladly do that. Would they be RINOs if we let them do that, Medved?
A RINO himself, he endorsed McQueeg the other day, no doubt in sympathy with the senator's pro-illegal alien, pro-amnesty position which Medved espouses also.
Except for his support as a Jew for Israel, Medved is morphing into a nightmare talk show host.
Maybe he's taken note of the virtual disappearance of the radical Air America radio programs and wants to fill the vacuum all by himself.
At any rate, I won't be listening to his show any more, not even his movie reviews.
Leni
I asked him who the class supported, and he said most support Obama, Rudy or Huckabee.
So I told him, “At least my guy Hunter is a Republican. The other 2 Republicans are RINO’s.”
He hadn’t heard the term before, so I explained it to him.
The next day in class he used the term RINO. No one in the class knew what he was talking about, so he explained it to the kids.
Needless to say,a lot of high school kids learned something new, and hopefully it opened their eyes a little!
As a side note, the teacher is conservative (supports Thompson, likes Hunter) and my son earned some bonus points from the discussion!
Medved, just shut up, you big baby. You’re just whining because die hard conservatives will never support your guy.
Has he been reading our site again, we’re guilty ...
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”
-Ronald Reagan (1975)
Have stopped reading this guy. Wish we could have an election, and elect new pundits.
Perhaps Medved is correct, these Rinos are plain old everyday liberals.
Okay, a practical question.
What should a RINO voter do (i.e., any Republican from a Northeast city) who agrees with the war on terror, lower taxes, etc., but disagrees on social issues? Those are the Republicans I meet here in Philly. Should they vote D?
Would Freepers prefer to jettison those voters from the party?
Medved just got schooled by a caller today...hahaha