It's the easily led, self-centered, spineless, sheep, who for the most part don't even bother to vote that put those RINOs in office and worse yet, put fascist democrats in even more often. And they've given those fascist democrats majority control of Congress for the past seventy years. So many "Conservative" sheep sit on the sidelines and complain without even voting that it's a minor miracle you can even get RINOs elected in most places. For seventy years the "Conservative majority" has routinely elected fascists to Congress and only elected Republican presidents when their middle class lifestyle was disrupted and they wanted to "send a message" to their fascist democrat sugar daddies.
The problem isn't RINOs in Congress, it's lazy sheep that say they're Conservative right up until it's time to go to the polls. Then they either stay home and bitch or go vote for "their" democrat because he's OK and brings home the bacon. Once the 17th Amendment was passed, it was only a matter of time until a dedicated group who owed their allegiance to their party rather than to the nation would dominate to the degree the fascists have.
The Republican and Conservative leadership is a perfect reflection of the makeup of Conservatives in this country. A relatively people who are patriots, some brave, some brilliant, and a whole lot of others who go along to get along and are really only Conservative as long as it's painless. No matter what any poll says, for the past seventy years the "Conservative Majority" has cared more about their own wallets and not rocking the boat than about keeping the Republic.
JMHO
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