That’s only if one accepts the premise that the assholes are actually Republicans.
Oh they can be Republicans, from the candy ass wing of the party.
What they can't be is conservatives.
On October 24, 2008, despite his previous support for the presidential aspirations of Senator John McCain, Fried announced that he had voted for Senator Barack Obama for President by absentee ballot. Fried cited Senator McCain’s selection of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate as the principal reason for his decision to vote for Senator Obama. As president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, Obama had published an article Fried wrote criticizing the effects of race-based affirmative action.
In February 2011, Fried testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of President Obama’s health care reform law.
Although he initially supported Republican Mitt Romney, Kmiec “caused a stir” when he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election in a piece on Slate. As he explained in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, “One of the things I kept discovering...was that Obama was sounding more Catholic than most Catholics I know.” The issues that drew Kmiec’s attention were wages, health care, and the cost of the Iraq War.
On July 2, 2009, President Obama nominated Kmiec as Ambassador to Malta.
They may be Rinos, but they sure as heck aren't conservatives!