RINOs need to take back the Republican Party (Kathleen Parker drivel)

Washington Post ^ | 2-21-2013 | Kathleen Parker

[Mozilla]

RINO-hunting, the long-popular political sport that morphed in 2008 into a sort of hysteria-driven obsession, lately has become a suicide mission.

RINO, of course, refers to Republicans In Name Only and is the pejorative term used against those who fail to march in lockstep with the so-called conservative base. I used “so-called” because, though the hard-right faction of the party tends to be viewed as The Base, this isn’t necessarily so. My guess is there are now more RINOs than those who, though evangelical in their zeal, are poison to their party’s ability to win national elections.

Yet, as always, the base manages to control the message because it is vocal, loud and, most important, makes for “Good TeeVee.” Spittle sells.

There are now so many RINOs wandering the barren plains that, banded together, they might even form a critical mass. A base, if you will. If only they weren’t so attractively independent. The individualist nature of those most likely to be drawn to the Republican Party is such that they tend not to gather in groups. Ostracized by their own tribe, they feel alone in their exile.

Quite the opposite is true. Indeed, as the base seeks El Savior, isn’t it time for a RINO Rebellion?

Take a cue from the tea party, RINOs. Embrace your alienation. Slap a bumper sticker on your angst and rally that dispassion. Witness how bloggers turned others’ insults into a movement. What were random basement bloggers in terrycloth bathrobes and Uggs are now the respected and influential Pajamas Media, a.k.a. PJ Media.

Own your insult, in other words. Why should RINOs hang their heads in shame and be relegated to the fringes of their party? The party is the fringe.

[Mozilla]

Radio Host Rusty Humphries brought this up on his show today. So I hunted it down. This broad is loco or crazy.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This vapid airhead makes absolutely no sense. What is so freaking extreme about the Republican Party? The fact that they want to stop the growth of spending? Is that what this dope is talking about? If we don’t stop spending, we will be bankrupt. Read her entire, silly article if you can do so without throwing up. She does not give one concrete example of why the Republican Party is “on the fringe” in her stupid opinion. She just piles on with every other useful idiot “conservative” whose leash is held by a MSM organization.

[ilovesarah2012]

Kathleen, you stupid twit. Romney was not a conservative and he lost.

[JRandomFreeper]

though the hard-right faction of the party tends to be viewed as The Base, this isn’t necessarily so.

So why even mention it? If you can win elections without the 'hard-right faction', get after it, and win elections.

I'll wait.

/johnny

[Diogenesis]

Ms. Parker and Romney conspired against the GOP
to help Obama in 2008.

Parker: "Remember John McCain the Maverick?
Precisely. Though long considered a RINO by his own party,
McCain enjoyed kinder, gentler treatment by the media
— and, therefore, the sexier “maverick” moniker
— at least until he fell for Sarah Palin,
the tea-chugging Diana of RINO-haters."

Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem."
"Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

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"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

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Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

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"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

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Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[GeronL]

The GOP is not extreme. The modern conservative view would have fit into 1950. Modern leftism would be seen as insane in 1950.

[Secret Agent Man]

take back?!?

the entire leadeship are rinos. the latest blacklist and purge was run by the rino leadership.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Exactly. In 1985, if you would have asked Al Gore or Harry Reid whether they supported a federal law that allowed two men to get married, or were OK with $1 trillion + annual deficits, they would have looked at you like you were crazy. The country has moved so far to the Left on social and economic issues over the past 25 years that its astounding. Yet Republicans who try to slow down the rush to PC Socialism are “extreme” in the view of idiots like Parker.

[GeronL]

Imagine in 1985 if schools decided that 11 year olds are mature enough for sex. I think there would have been an outcry.

[Mozilla]

I would venture to say the modern liberal-progressive view is really a 1930s view of the Marxist communist party of Russia in 1920.

[Mozilla]

I would venture to say the modern liberal-progressive view is really a 1930s view of the Marxist communist party of Russia.

[lu shissler]

Hmmmmmm!! TAKE IT BACK? When did they ever lose control of it? Wasn’t Romney their man?

[rockrr]

You’re welcome to it parker - I’ve given up on the losers.

[hosepipe]

She seems to have a point.. Rove is taking over..
After all how do you lose an election running against Americas worse President ever..
even worse than Carter?..

The Republican party has been and is mostly RINOs..
Only natural they assume total control...

How can a party run the inventor of Romney care against the inventor of Obama care?..
Must be... obviously is... serve delusion going on there..

Proof; the republicans REJECTED quite literally ALL conservative candidates..
And they were rejected quite harshly as well... it wasn’t a NICE rejection..

[hosepipe]

She seems to have a point.. Rove is taking over..
After all how do you lose an election running against Americas worse President ever..
even worse than Carter?..

The Republican party has been and is mostly RINOs..
Only natural they assume total control...

How can a party run the inventor of Romney care against the inventor of Obama care?..
Must be... obviously is... serve delusion going on there..

Proof; the republicans REJECTED quite literally ALL conservative candidates..
And they were rejected quite harshly as well... it wasn’t a NICE rejection..

[sauropod]

My guess is there are now more RINOs than those who, though evangelical in their zeal, are poison to their party’s ability to win national elections.

Guess away, honey.

[Lancey Howard]

Heh.. Parker is not only a simple squish, she’s a bad writer. I found it difficult to read that mess.
(shrug) Whatever. She’s nobody.

[jmaroneps37]

Republican is pejorative enough. RINO has no meaning when they are all the same.