Problem: the RINOs like Mitt never had character and a belief in America if it ever conflicted with their personal careers and wealthbuilding to start with, so expecting them to suddenly be ready for a starring role in a chapter of a new edition of Profiles in Courage is unrealistic.
As Harry Truman said of the politicians: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
Everyone in DC listens all day long to the radio station WII FM (call letters stand for What’s In It For Me).
That’s what makes them RINOs.
Goal #15 in the list of 45 communist goals for the USA reads, “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.” That goal was well along by the time both “The Naked Communist” (1958, which contained that list in chapter 12) and “The Conscience of a Conservative” (1960, which described the RINO movement in action within the GOP) were published.