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Medved: Call Off the "RINO Hunt" [Barf Alert]
townhall.com ^ | 01/07/2008 | Michael Medved

Posted on 01/07/2008 2:03:00 PM PST by jmc813

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So what if the RINO’s run to the dark side when they get called out? It’s better that way for everyone.

I’d prefer to know exactly where a politician stands (if that’s possible) that to have them fake being a Republican and then vote Democrat on everything. If they think like a Democrat and vote like a Democrat, then they’re certainly not a Republican.

They are what they are: RINO’s. Oh, and Ahnold is not just a RINO, he’s a girlee-man RINO.


81 posted on 01/07/2008 2:55:25 PM PST by retr0 (He who argues with a fool is an even greater fool.)
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To: dinoparty

Care to state how that is over the top?


82 posted on 01/07/2008 2:55:42 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: CAluvdubya
It's getting old now.

What's getting old is watching the GOP eat itself from the inside and hand over more and more to the dems without a fight.

While just about any of the Republicans can beat any of the Dems this time around, I suspect we're going to see a dem in the white house in 08 anyway. Republicans have too much self-hatred to get together and fight a common enemy.

Here on FR there's a contingent that *wants* the democrats in the white house mainly because no amount of damage to the country is too much if it means they think it will teach some kind of "lesson" to all the "other" Republicans they hate so much.

I've got no time for people who want to lose. Medved is spot-on.

83 posted on 01/07/2008 2:56:25 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: jmc813

Medved appears to be a Huckabee shill.


84 posted on 01/07/2008 2:56:35 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
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To: jmc813

My only concern about the ‘RINO’ wars is that the term is tossed about every time someone says something someone else disagrees with. It is used as the insult designed to end arguments when actual facts don’t seem to suffice. It is the label placed on someone so as to marginalize them and impugn their credibility.

I hate it (the term RINO) in the manner it is often used on FR because it is a weak argument - it is simply name calling. It does nothing to further the discussion of issues, the debate on principal, and the education of the populace about what core conservatism really is.

There seems to be an unwritten motto - when you are losing a debate, pull the RINO card. When you disagree with someone - pull the RINO card. When you prefer one candidate over another - pull the RINO card. It smacks of intellectual laziness, and I for one am tired of it.

That said - I must disagree with Mr. Medved. It is not in fact a RINO hunt that we are on. Rather, it is a conservative hunt. And that, Kind Sir, we will not abandon.

/Soap-Box


85 posted on 01/07/2008 2:56:47 PM PST by BlueNgold (... Feed the tree!)
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To: Rummyfan
Huckabee - he's to the left of Nancy Pelosi on some issues!

I'm not a Huckabee fan I'm a Hunter fan, but I seriously doubt you can name one issue that Pelosi is to the right of Huckabee.
86 posted on 01/07/2008 3:01:47 PM PST by dan1123 (You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. --Jesus)
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To: Ramius

As are you sir!


87 posted on 01/07/2008 3:01:49 PM PST by jmc0519
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To: Ramius
I've got no time for people who want to lose. Medved is spot-on.

And I've no time for any Republican or conservative to run as one thing but actually believe something altogether differently....hence, RINO.

The "it's getting old now" comment comes from running into certain posters on various threads put down Conservative candidates while pumping up dem type rhetoric.

88 posted on 01/07/2008 3:08:21 PM PST by CAluvdubya (I won't stop supporting Hunter until he tells me to...GO HUNTER '08)
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To: toddlintown

You got that right. Medved couldn’t be “spot-on” even if he were dressed as a Dalmatian.


89 posted on 01/07/2008 3:09:28 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: dinoparty

Your kidding me right? Ever time I’ve had to pull a sharp stick out of my conservative eye, the person that stuck it there was McCain. I had decided years ago I would never vote for that man. He’s enforced that dozens of times since.


90 posted on 01/07/2008 3:11:29 PM PST by Robbin
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To: jmc813

This thread needed this pic.

91 posted on 01/07/2008 3:12:01 PM PST by FreeInWV
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To: CAluvdubya

People forget that in the recall, the RINOs and Dems in Cali voted in Schwarzenkennedy because of star power, marital connections and the fact that Bustamente just p****d them off waaaay too much.

Conservatives voted for Tom McClintock.


92 posted on 01/07/2008 3:12:03 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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To: jmc813
Democrats are a street gang, dividing up the spoils. Anyone who wants to join their gang is welcome, so long as they stay loyal to the party. Republicans are a philosophical society, joined together by a shared ideology. If you don't share the basics of that ideology, you shouldn't call yourself a Republican.

Medved doesn't get that, because he is a Huckabeetle.

93 posted on 01/07/2008 3:12:48 PM PST by Defiant (Huckabee puts the goober back in gubernatorial.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Thats right,and the destruction they have caused by saying one thing and doing another ,disregarding the conservative values for a few minutes of fame,has been far reaching,when can we decide who we are with,what we believe and stick to it,life is dynamic,but jeeshh! liberals change with the wind,conservative I think,stand on tried and true principles


94 posted on 01/07/2008 3:15:17 PM PST by coalman
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To: jmc813
How does it help if politicians or office-holders with whom you disagree leave your party and join the opposition?

How does it help the party if politicians or office-holders stray from the party and join with the opposition on important issues they should agree with?

I generally like Medved, but if an (R) is acting like anything but an (R) why should we, the base, continue to support them?

95 posted on 01/07/2008 3:17:09 PM PST by infidel29 (I'm pulling for Fred... The 6 of us just don't have a loud enough voice to "b" Duncan Hunter "ttt")
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To: Right Cal Gal
Conservatives voted for Tom McClintock.

Yeah, I screwed up royally! I was one of the "scared of Bustamente" voters. I would love to have my vote back (plus I feel tricked by Ahnold. I really thought he held some conservative ideals *sigh*)

96 posted on 01/07/2008 3:18:44 PM PST by CAluvdubya (I won't stop supporting Hunter until he tells me to...GO HUNTER '08)
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To: FreeInWV

He would do it too. Many FReepers would vote for him.

Great reminder, great post!


97 posted on 01/07/2008 3:21:21 PM PST by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: jmc813
Governor Schwarzenegger of California regularly draws that denunciation. Those who make war on RINO’s, however, ought to confront an obvious question: would you really prefer that such people drop the Republican designation? How does it help if politicians or office-holders with whom you disagree leave your party and join the opposition?

When they don't agree with the party platform, and adopt the agenda of liberals, they are the opposition. Why do you (Mr. Medved) support them just because they put an (R) next to their name?

98 posted on 01/07/2008 3:23:05 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: jmc813
Those who make war on RINO’s, however, ought to confront an obvious question: would you really prefer that such people drop the Republican designation?

Absolutely. The Jeffords business is a perfect example of why such people should be out of the party.

99 posted on 01/07/2008 3:24:28 PM PST by Sloth (Democrats and GOPers are to government what Jeffrey Dahmer and Michael Jackson are to babysitting)
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To: CAluvdubya

Nah, you didn’t screw up; to me, there were really two criteria in that recall — get rid of Davis and keep Bustamente out of the State House. Dems were incredibly angry at “Busta” for running - especially since he was Lt. Governor at the time - many voted for Ah-nold for that reason.

Of course, getting Tom would have been ideal. But more than anything, it was to keep Busta out of the governorship - he was (and is) ready to completely turn this state over to the illegals.


100 posted on 01/07/2008 3:24:46 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Remember Billy Dale!!!)
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