VOTE IN YOUR NOMINEE FOR RINO OF THE YEAR!

CLUB FOR GROWTH ^ | 12-11-01 | STEVE MOORE

[KLT]

We are taking nominations for our first-ever RINO (Republican in Name Only) of the year award. This award will recognize a Republican who has advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free-market policies. The "winner" may be a member of Congress or any other state or local elected official. (Sorry, our economically challenged Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is not an elected official, so he is ineligible.)

Here are some front-runners who have already been nominated:

Governor Don Sundquist of Tennessee for repeatedly trying to enact a State income tax.

Rep. Greg Ganske (Iowa), a Republican sponsor of the Democratic bill to federalize 30,000 airport workers.

Sen. Mike Enzi, for co-sponsoring the Internet tax bill.

Sen. John McCain, for voting for a key amendment by Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and for offering his own amendment that would have gutted the Bush tax cut.

California Assemblyman Mike Briggs, for making it possible for Gov. Gray Davis to pass his tax increase budget this year.

Please fax (202-955-9466) or e-mail your nominations by 12/19/2001. You should include a few sentences about your nominee's anti-growth efforts in 2001. If you have particularly dumb quotes from the nominee that attempt to explain his actions, please include this information. We will then have a poll of our members and our Board will make the selection from the finalists.

Thank you for your nominations.

Stephen Moore
President
Club for Growth
1776 K St. NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
SteveMoore@clubforgrowth.org
202-955-5500
202-955-9466 fax

[Mudboy Slim]

John "Plastic Head" Warner.

Not to be confused with Gov.-to-be Mark "HorseFace" Warner.

LOL...MUD

[vin-one]

you are of course absolutely correct. I want to change my vote to that
big RINO from VA. Warner. I forgot about him.
thanks for the reminder.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Let's get rid of Warner (Hey, which one? The Senator or the Governor?)"

BOTH...the Senator in the Primary and the Governor due to Resignation due to scandal as he is linked to the Chi-Com moneymen who helped Clinton commit TREASON!!

Gonna be a busy 2002, I reckon...MUD

[vin-one]

both, Warner's need to go.

[ElkGroveDan]

I think we need a sleeper winner who deserves the award no less. There were so many deserving candidates, but this one has gone above and beyond the call to sell out his party. Firing his Republican campaign staff and hiring the Clintons' goons was the clincher though.

My nomination goes to former LA Mayor and California Governor wannabe Richard Riordan!

[Mudboy Slim]

"...thanks for the reminder."

De nada, mi amigo...MUD

[katze]

Guess I'll have to say John McLame, tho' Loncoln Chaffee is neck and neck--tho' Chaffee has an excuse, comes from a rather liberal state; McCain has no excuse.

[Landru]

Let's see now...uh huh; Arlen Spectre, John McLame, Peter King...
Oh yea -- the clown from Vermont whose *now* an, ah-hem, "Independent". {wink-wink}
So many choices; so little time.

...with *friends like those, the Right doesn't need the Left.

[katze]

Mind telling who would have been your candidate (and willing to run) to beat Hillary? Can't say Rudy, since he backed out.

[KLT]

I vote for Ron Paul. He is clearly not a Republican, what with his whining about the constitution and limited government and all that crap.

Oooooo, NC_L, you might be in trouble for adding Ron Paul's name. Wait until the Texas Freepers look at this....I'm leaving this thread...LOL

[Clemenza]

Answer: Bill Paxon, former congressman from Buffalo. I'm sick of the NY GOP running corrupt fools from downstate with vowels at the end of their names. :-)

[johnny7]

Chris Shays from CT.

This living piece of $hit saw Juanita Broaddricks testimony to the

Starr Commission but still couldn't quite bring himself to vote for Clintons impeachment

The jackass was born with no spine.

[katze]

Can't argue with that, but did he announce an intention to run? If so, why didn't he? I don't recall hearing of anyone who would run against "her".

[Dan from Michigan]

McSTAIN!

Dick Riordan is 2nd, only because he doesn't affect me in Michigan.

[Labyrinthos]

"...the Republican Party, which by definition should stand to the left of the democraps"

Serious typo (see what happens when I try to do too many things at once). Should have said something like, by definition the pubs are to the right of the craps but to the left of the conservatives. But you know what I really meant.

[Clemenza]

Paxon is currently making a considerable amount of money as a consultant. He has also had problems with members of the NY State GOP machine (ironic, since he is married to the daughter of Guy Molinari, a machine boss par excellance). When he stepped down from Congress in '98, these reasons were cited in the press.

[NC_Libertarian]

I think any fan of Ron Paul, or the constitution for that matter, will understand what I was saying. Said another way: ALL ELECTED REPUBLICANS EXCEPT FOR RON PAUL ARE RINOS! At least based on what the GOP says it stands for.

[xzins]

There is no one close.....Jeffords. Case closed!

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, your absolutism makes you the weakest link. Good-bye!

[KLT]

I think any fan of Ron Paul, or the constitution for that matter, will understand what I was saying. Said another way: ALL ELECTED REPUBLICANS EXCEPT FOR RON PAUL ARE RINOS! At least based on what the GOP says it stands for.

Good answer NC_L....I understand your sentiments, being you are obviously a Libertarian.