Why can't you people understand that liberal RINOs pretending to be real Republicans are equally as repugnant, or even more so, than Democrats who don't try to hide what they really are or what they will actually do if elected? I would regard a man who tells me up front that he intends to kick my a## and steal my money with more respect than I would a man who says he's my friend but is in fact trying to trick and beguile me into giving him my wallet by saying he's on my side.
By the same token, I would be less galled by Hillary appointing liberals to the federal bench than I would by a RINO doing the same thing, and how many Republican-appointed liberal Justices and federal court judges are there now sitting on the USSC now or were there recently? I realize that the truly conservative Reagan appointed a liberal Justice, although the least liberal of the five libs now on the USSC, namely Kennedy, and also the retired faux moderate O'Conner. But I believe that resulted from advice by deceptive RINO advisors feeding Reagan false information about those appointees.
RINO Ford appointed one of the five, Stevens, knowing of his disastrous "living document" philosophy regarding Constitutional interpretation, and RINO Daddy Bush appointed the most flagrant RINO Justice of them all, namely Souter, based on catastrophically bad advice and urging by a New England Republican claiming to be conservative. The remaining two, Ginsberg and Bryer, were appointed by the Clintions and both have certainly lived up to his and her most hopeful expectations. By contrast, I don't for one NY minute believe that Duncan Hunter would appoint a single liberal to the federal bench unless he was totally taken in by some elaborate, deceptive scheme devised by untrustworthy advisors, and I can't imagine him having any of that type on his staff.
The USSC and lower federal court appointments made by the next president may well be the most important executive actions taken during his or her administration, and recent history tells me that a RINO president is little, if any, more trustworthy in the matter of appointing originalist jurists than is a liberal Democrat.
Judges, taxes, the war, security and so forth would be in better hands with any running Republican over the Democrat candidates.
No sense in getting your worst enemy elected because there isn’t the perfect Republican candidate.