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To: MACVSOG68
You know, you reminded me of how they love to throw around the term "RINO", meaning of course, Republican in name only. Yet these are the same posters who tell us all that unless we get their social right candidate that they will refuse to vote Republican. Now, I ask, who is a Republican in name only?

The person who votes for candidates who support the platform of the Republican Party is a true Republican.

The person who votes for any candidate with "Republican" after his NAME is a Republican in Name only.

When the name is devoid of meaning or principle behind it, it's just that, a name.

Think about it: if you vote for a liberal like Hillary, or Rudy, just because they called themselves "Republican", yeah, you're a RINO.

148 posted on 03/20/2007 10:46:06 AM PDT by JohnnyZ ("I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose" -- Mitt Romney, April 2002)
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To: JohnnyZ
The person who votes for any candidate with "Republican" after his NAME is a Republican in Name only.

The person who holds his party hostage to a social agenda out of step with most of America, and refuses to support his party's candidate is the true RINO. He may be a member in good standing of the social right, but he is only borrowing the name Republican.

Think about it: if you vote for a liberal like Hillary, or Rudy, just because they called themselves "Republican", yeah, you're a RINO.

You'll pardon me if I don't take your word for the definition of a liberal...or a conservative. There is no Republican on the campaign trail today who is not an infinitely better candidate for president than Hillary. We make our ideological choices in the primaries, and our party choices in November. If even Brownback (God forbid) should get the nomination, he would garner my vote. November is when real Republicans put all of their differences aside and get behind their Party's candidate. Those who don't are RINO's.

202 posted on 03/20/2007 11:57:38 AM PDT by MACVSOG68
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