President Reagan picked Bush as his VP, was he a RINO too?
” - - - President Reagan picked Bush as his VP, was he a RINO too?”
1.) I define a politician as anyone whose word cannot be trusted. LBJ said “We want no wider War” when speaking about Vietnam. GHWB asked us to read his lips. Both fit my definition of a politician.
2.) I define a Financial RINO as any elected Republican official who spends more money than what is taken in as income, on a fiscal, year to year basis.
On the basis of my above two definitions, ALL Republican Presidents in the last 80 years have been Financial RINO Politicians. (Consider, for a moment, what % of them promised to balance the Federal Budget).
The current Presidential Candidates claiming to be Republicans will also become financial RINO politicians if their plans to cut baseline Federal Spending below Federal income fail.
Flame or blame, the result will be the same: The US Federal Government is broke because politicians in “both” political parties spent more money than was taken in as income.
Once we get politicians in “both” political parties to stand up and accept responsibility for their sorry actions, and inactions, we can begin to solve our spending problems. By my count, NONE have done so to this moment.
If you and I, and others like us, cannot even reasonably discuss the root cause of our bankrupt Nation, then we will have a very long wait for our sorry Federal politicians to do the same.
The National Debt was created by Federal politicians in “both” political parties who approved of spending at a greater rate than the income rate. They spent it, and then cowardly assigned the debt that they created to us.
There are no sacred cows, favorite politicians, or party labels on the financial balance sheet of the United States of America that we will pass on to be paid by our grandchildren and their descendants. It is not about the political labels, it is all about the money.
Our vaunted “Two Party” political system has been a financial failure, and it is up to “we, the people,” (as Newt said recently), to reform our political system.
BTW, these opinions are strictly mine, and I would like to read yours. It would be refreshing to begin a reasoned dialog. Who knows? It might prod our sorry Federal Congress to do the same!