We did lose some Rhinos this year, getting Rats in trade. We still have Spector, the girls from Maine, McEgo and his first understudy Hagel. And a lengthy list of wannabe Rhinos voting for shrinking portions of our agenda in the wings such as McEgo’s second understudy Gramnesty, Voinovich, and Lugar. That list could easily be added too. Some of the wannabes might do better if provided with strong conservative leadership for them to follow. They’d have been livable with someone like Reagan in charge; without him they are pathetic. Their nature is to climb aboard any bandwagon. Bush didn’t even pull his little red wagon before its wheels fell off. For Obama they’ll volunteer to be the wagon.
It would be easier and a shorter list to name the non-RINO’s.
While not a certain indicator of Rinoism, run some though the ‘free trader’ chart and see how many end up as ‘free traders’:
http://www.freetrade.org/congress
Hagel’s gone. We got Mike Johanns in his place. That’s a gain to the right.