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]

"I loathe John Warner but he's a Democrat."

Unofficially, perhaps yer right, but John Warner is presently listed as a Republican Senator from Virginia...Mark Warner is the DemocRAT Governor-to-be.

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"No "yer" not...I am."

Somebody needs to start a Most Conservative Competition Thread sometime so we can sort this out...too many of y'all are harboring delusions and it's high time I demonstrated true Number One Most-Conservative-ism so as to give you pretenders something to shoot for in the future!!

LOL and FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"The GOP is in the process of merging with the democrats, mainly because they're too dimwitted to keep up the charade of being in opposition to the dems."

While I'll admit there is a move towards RepublicRAT/Demoblican Party out there, IMHO, there's also a subtle move from within the GOP to move the Party to the Right, thereby swallowing up the folks who might be tempted to vote Constitution Party and/or Libertarian.

"Let's hope the GOP formalizes the merger before '04 so that conservatives won't be gulled into giving Geedub a second term or throwing the election to the dems by failing to support a conservative if one can be found to run in time."

While I have not been afraid to chide Dubyuh when I felt he was leaning slightly portside, I've been pleasantly surprised by his knee-jerk conservatism. If he continues along his present course, I can see him being viewed in history as one of the great POTUS's in History (a la Reagan) and it'll be specifically because he will have made Conservatism Cool again...while putting Federal Guv'ment spending on a course that will make it the smallest--as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product--since early last Century.

I've got no desire to throw the baby out with the bathwater...MUD

[KLT]

I am humiliated that my state forced this clown on the rest of you.

You're humiliated....just think how we feel here in NY...OMG...Whoelse in this whole country would have voted for the Hitlerybeast....No one! That's for sure!

Of course, she is no RINO, but she's just so disgusting!

[cake_crumb]

For his little meeting with Daschle, his co-writing useless "campaign finance reform" with Drunk of the Year Kennedy, his admission that he has an "agenda" and that it to thwart President Bush as much as possible, his backing federalized anti-gun legislation, and many, many other sins,

I vote bitter non-president John McCain, who never even made it out of the gate, much less ran in the presidential race.

[d14truth]

Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Jeffords, and Spector I believe are the Republican Senators who voted NOT TO REMOVE X-42. They top my list of RINOS and, in effect, on close issues give the Democrats a 55-45 majority, add McStain and it's 56-44.

I could blame Lott, but because of the RINOS he, in fact, never had the votes to wield any power other than 'cheerleader'.

[VMI70]

Do recall a cute blonde farmgirl.

Daisy Mae.

Freegards,

[Jeff Smith]

I heard Mathews say this on Charlie Rose hocking his new book. He said he'd like to unseat Specter the way Kennedy unseated Lodge- attack from the left on economic issues but criticize him from the right on social conservative issues. Whatever the hell that means.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Daisy Mae."

Not to be confused with the cute blonde farmgirl on Beverly Hillbillies, Ellie Mae...

LOL and FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"I heard Mathews say this on Charlie Rose hocking his new book."

Well, that explains a lot right there.

"He said he'd like to unseat Specter the way Kennedy unseated Lodge- attack from the left on economic issues but criticize him from the right on social conservative issues. Whatever the hell that means."

Sounds like the Left's typical Clarion Call for a larger, more-intrusive Federal Leviathan mixed in with some hypocritically-insincere moral preenin'...ho hummm, and that DOLT Matthews probably thinks he's found the Holy Grail!! LOL...what a mind-numbed TWIT he is!!

FReegards...MUD

[Tuco-bad]

Somebody needs to start a Most Conservative Competition Thread sometime so we can sort this out...too many of y'all are harboring delusions and it's high time I demonstrated true Number One Most-Conservative-ism so as to give you pretenders something to shoot for in the future!!

Beat this one.

I proved I am the most-conservative FReeper by constantly attacking Lazio, even though he was running against Hillary, because Lazio mocked out country's constitution, the U.S. Constitution, by buying and selling stock options in companies Lazio was regulating while serving on the House Banking Committee and House Commerce Committee.

All the rest of the FReepers ignored that only because Lazio was running against Hillary.

Beat that Mudboy Slim.

[Mudboy Slim]

Congratulations...you got the HildaBeast for the next 5+ years. Personally, I don't see how real conservatives can even live in New York.

FReegards...MUD

[VMI70]

That's right. Daisy Mae was much smarter and sexier.

FReegards,

[Tuco-bad]

Congratulations...you got the HildaBeast for the next 5+ years.

You gotta admit, she's much better than Lazio.

[VMI70]

Found the info:

Senator Phogbound:

Pot-bellied Jack S. Phogbound was satirist Al Capp's skewed archetype of a filibustering southern politician. Senator Phogbound was a corrupt, conspiratorial blowhard, who often wore a coonskin cap and carried a ramrod rifle to show his constituents he remained a trustworthy good ol' boy.
Phogbound seemed to spend a disproportionate amount of his time campaigning or passing through Dogpatch, which made sense from a plot standpoint, but where, it can be assumed, no one ever voted.

Sounds like our man, doesn't it?

[Mudboy Slim]

"[The HildaBeast]'s much better than Lazio."

Have you been Mirandized yet?...everything you say can--and will--be used against you in the competition for Most Conservative FReeper!! And that statement shall come back to haunt you, my FRiend.

LOL...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"...archetype of a filibustering southern politician. Senator Phogbound was a corrupt, conspiratorial blowhard..."

That's eerily-accurate, ain't it?!

Good find...now we need a photo fer the bumper stickers!!

FReegards...MUD

[TatieBug]

It's not even close...JOHN MCCAIN will win this one and, if he doesn't, memories are surely short!

[cake_crumb]

"He said he'd like to unseat Specter the way Kennedy unseated Lodge- attack from the left on economic issues but criticize him from the right on social conservative issues. Whatever the hell that means."

Sounds like what Al Gore tried to do to President Bush.

Specter's a good second choice for RINO of the Year, but I'm still voting McInsane for all the damage he tried to do to GW's presidency THIS year.

[floriduh voter]

I believe it would be John McCain because he puts his political ambitions ahead of loyalty to the pubbies. He was even running the war for awhile there on tv and wanted to insert thousands of ground troops.

Now, he is silent. Best decision he ever made.