[Eagle Forgotten]

You suggest that the RINO alternative to Obamacare will involve "much, much higher penalties for not buying an insurance policy from their campaign contributors."

That's possible -- but the RINOs' problem is that the single most unpopular feature of Obamacare is the individual mandate (the part it borrowed from Romneycare). Republicans can't get any electoral mileage from "repeal and replace" if they admit that their replacement will also include an individual mandate. If they dump the mandate, though, they also have to dump required issue (i.e., the Obamacare provision that the insurance companies have to issue policies regardless of pre-existing conditions) -- which is one of the most popular parts of Obamacare.

The true conservative position is to repeal both the mandate and required issue, leaving individuals and insurance companies free to make their own decisions based on the market. There seems to be a shortage of Republicans willing to say that, however.

[Orangedog]

Rinos don’t care about what’s popular. They care about what the people writing them the big, fat checks for bribes, err, I mean campaign contributions tell them to do. Don’t think that is reality...then I give you TARP. Passed just days before an election over calls coming into their offices that were 90% NO and 10% HELL NO. All of them were reelected later that week.