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Rino is for people that threaten to stay home and not vote if they don't like a candidate! What some of you newbies to the Republican Party are finding out is that those of us who are strong fiscal conservatives are sick and tired of the whining and threatening to stay home that we keep hearing from some of you social conservatives. Most of us have been activists in the Republican Party for years and remember what it was like to be in a permanent minority in the House and to now have Pelosi because some of you stayed home and then you call us names, does go over well.

I am not staying quiet any more! Social issues belong at the state and local level and not at the federal level -- ditto education. My #1 priority is a strong defense -- foreign and domestic and how I base who I will support in an election. 'Kumbaya' and 'compassionate conservatism' are out of my playbook.

After living in OK with some of the social conservatives that made our rural fire fighters wait for funding while OK was burning so they could debate where to put books in the OKC library, I have had it. I am a conservative and resent the labels some of you are throwing at conservative Republicans because they don't share your views.

I am a pro-life conservative, but that is my personal belief and I don't need to ram it down everyone's throat like happened on the OU campus this fall by the pro-life group which also costs us votes in OK.

I'll vote for McCain if I have to.
I voted for Arnold for crying out loud.
I just hope to God I don't have to.
The Republican party needs a simple reboot.
Clear out the noise and back to what people sent them there to do in the first place.

My first vote ever cast was for Reagan. I have voted Republican ever since. I am not thrilled with any of the names out there right now. I abhor democrats. Nothing will EVER convince me to vote for them. But we can do far better then McCain or Rudy.
Where are the conservative Governors?
Where are the modern Reaganites?
Has it been so long?

Rino is for people that threaten to stay home and not vote if they don't like a candidate!

You don't get to redefine the terms in this debate. RINO is for those that sport an "R" by their name, when their politics are RAT! Those pushing these RINO's didn't learn much in '06, so I suspect you'll need some more learning in '08. It's your call! Blackbird.

Me too! Note my tagline. I live my life as a Christian, but I don't wear it on my sleeve. I like to think at my age (you will need an e-mail to get that out of me, LOL, but I campaigned for GOLDWATER as a teenager in BROOKLYN NY)I have matured enough to make rational decisions, I might not be the brightest bulb in the box, but I enjoy a rare abundance of common sense, as you say the PRESIDENT is the CIC, the executive, and those other issues important to me for sure ARE the purview of the states, congress, etc.

Throwing Arafat out of the UN and returning the 10 million tells me all I need to know about RUDY'S character, he would do what it is going to take to keep us safe, and RESPECTED.

Now watch as the RUDY haters first reply to me will be I support him ONLY because I am originally from NYC and the 'good parts' of the country will never vote for him. Once they meet him, they are going to be pleasantly surprised! LOL!