I agree with your summary about the RINOS and feel that you too have a feel for how these nicely entrenched fellows resent our looking over their shoulders.
As for Barbour...well no, I don’t consider him a RINO. And I’d certainly not put it past Matthews to misquore or outright lie, or hey, maybe someone else fed him a lie.
Could be a feint, could be the truth. I just thought it to be an intriguing statement flying under the radar.
You know, I watch that show Chris Matthews has on Sundays; and I really can’t figure out why I watch it. It’s always just the group deciding that they all agree on most things, therefore that’s how things must actually BE. It truly is a coconut convention.