[muawiyah]

You cannot explain Bloomberg and Paul with your definition. That’s why it is wrong. Actually, your explanation was always wrong ~ nearly a century ago it was still wrong.

[Sudetenland]

Sure I can. Bloomberg is a liberal democrat who switched parties to become a Republican so that he could run for Mayor. He never changed his beliefs when he changed his party affiliation. He was, A REPUBLICAN IN NAME ONLY.

Ron Paul is not a RINO, he's a libertarian loon. ON the fiscal side, his ideals fall pretty close in line with traditional Republican beliefs, but he fails because of his "non-intervenionist" (read isolationist) foreign policy beliefs, but those do not make him a RINO, just a dangerously naive fool.

Classic, undeniable RINOs include Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Lincoln Chaffee and his father John Chaffee, Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javitts, Mark Hatfield, Lowell Weicker, Chuck Hagel, and let's not forget "Jumpin'" Jim Jeffords who actually made his status official by changing parties, and Arlan Spector who did the same in a futile attempt to save his sorry butt.