I believe when this mess is over that the Republican party will get a lot smaller.
It’s time for a real second party, let the Republicans and Democrats unite and let’s start a viable second party.
I hear you.
I tell people all the time that *I* am a RINO. I’m still a registered Republican, but that’s about it. When leading Republicans endorse and champion bailouts (TARP), government intervention in education and everything else (NCLB), and the best they can give us is John McCain - then the party has abandoned its conservative principles. Or as Ronaldus Maguns said, “the party left me behind”. Thus, I’m a Republican, in name only...