Posted on 06/04/2002 6:54:36 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
I think there is a difference between a moderate Republican and a RINO.
For example, here in CT we have Nancy Johnson and Chris Shays. They both have the same liberal voting record. Johnson is a moderate Republican, that's what she believes, it is what she always has beleived, and it is what she was elected on. Although her votes annoy me sometimes, she support the leadership and the party. She does not go to the press to blast the party. She is welcome in the party in my opinion.
Shays, on the other hand, is a RINO. He hates the party, he hates the leadership. He feeds off of the press he gets from the NY Times when he bucks the party. He is a RINO who harms our party and should not be welcome in it.
How come I can count the DINO's on one finger (Zell Miller), but there are scores of RINO's?
Why don't they just run as Dems in the first darned place?
I guess we should give out annual "Jumpin' Jeffords" awards, but we'd run out of awards pretty quick.
You have a problem with setting standards?
Let me guess, NEA, right?
Echos of Bobdole - so much for 'working within the system'. The elephant has morphed into a RINO. Find a third party that responds to the grassroots and help it grow. It's the only way for your voice to be heard.
Because they would have no chance in Hades of winning in a conservative area. So they fraudulently pass themselves off as conservative to win office and promote their liberal agendas against the will of the people they said they would represent.
These guys have a great idea, I hope they have alot of success with it. The Republican Party does need to set standards for it's candidates.
Spoken like a true liberal.
When it comes to some social issues, I am not with the Republican mainstream. But the fact remains the GOP is the one major party in the U.S. that supports the free market. Therefore, I am supporter of the GOP.
Maybe some would classify me as RINO, but I sure as Hell am not a Democrat.
She just got here (member since 6/3/02) and batters Republicans and Christians in the same sentence!
(Maybe a slow day over at DU?)
Are we for or against term limits? Are we for or against straight party voting? Are we for or against mandatory sentences? How do we feel about aid to business including the multi-nationals, the UN, and my Congressman taking trips with lobbyist? Where are we on trade with the Arabs, student visas, home schoolers allowed to compete in sports with local high schoolers without regard to where they live?
While we are at it how about the guys who say one thing and do another? How about my state rep who SWORE he would only run for 4 terms and is now in his fifth race? BTW He is the most conservative member of the Texas House.
Problem is we can't agree on very many core issues and the party in Texas looks very little like the people who attend conventions. If you hold everyone to the platform that's fine, you will get the 20% of the vote that agrees with everything you write.
This will be fine with that segment of the party who loves to lose while not giving an inch on anything. My Baptist city councilman told me at lunch Monday that most of our problems were centered in the Catholic and Methodist Church. He will be a fine member of the 20% ...........
Wow, you mean following all the commandments of God, not just the ones that make us feel good, but also the ones that move us toward being more holy? That's some tough standards there < /sarcasm>
RINOs are destroying the Republican party. We've been told, even here on FR, that we are supposed to hold our nose and vote for them to 'win back the Senate'. I for one WILL NOT do it. I'm not voting for Giddy Dolt under any circumstance
Those people are a little slow, anyway.
They don't run as dems because they are back-stabbers. I remember Rush crowing about all the dems who were switching to the repub party. He couldn't even figure out that they were not changing their colors, only their party.
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