If we do win the majority again, it will be with the highest amount of RINOs. I remember two years ago and even until recently we were trying to rid ourselves of RINOs. We have certainly changed that thinking here at Free Republic. How do you suppose we will get anything done if we have even more RINOs then we did when we had the majority before. President Bush was constantly stabbed in the back by the RINOs and now we believe that these RINOs are just going to get in line and back the Republican President in 2013? That is highly doubtful.
There are GOP'ers that I consider beyond the pale as RINOs (McCain, Huckabee, Romney) and there are GOP'ers who I endorse that other Freepers consider to be RINOs (Barbour, Daniels).
I don't believe that there is a single GOP elected official in this country for whom some Freeper can't concoct a reason to call them a RINO.
So on balance my opinion is that we have to hold national candidates, and candidates in solidly red states (that means YOU, Lindsey) to higher standards.
For GOP candidates in solidly liberal enclaves the best we can hope is that they don't completely screw the pooch.