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Using RINO to describe an unelected/unelectible professional political pontificator stretches the meaning to the point of evaporation.

Getting back to the basics a RINO is a guy who runs on the Republican ticket but who was a professional politician with a different political party earlier ~ e.g. Ron Paul is a RINO. Jon Huntsman is also a RINO since you necessarily convert to Democrat theology when you take a major ambassadorial assignment from aDemocrat. And there's Perri Caliente! He's a RINO.

Newt is not now nor was he ever a RINO, nor is Mitt.

There are people out there who imagines that ALL the RINOs are Leftwingtards.

They're not.

However, the Leftwingtards are, in fact, Leftwingtards and that's what best describes them.

Being a RINO has absolutely nothing to do with any previous party affiliation. It is solely a function of the policies an individual advocates and pursues.

A "RINO" is a person who supports a non-Republican agenda as defined by the Republican platform. That's all.

"ALL the RINOs ARE "Leftwingtards." Note the name "Republican In Name Only." That means their hearts, their minds and their beliefs are not aligned with what are traditional Republican ideals.

You got it dead wrong. Time to go back to school.

Disagree with your definition. I always understood RINO to basically mean someone who’s a liberal/moderate Republican. Basically a continuation of the old Rockefeller Republican. Same thing, new name. It’s the GOP version of the blue dog democrat.

I don’t think there’s an official Merriam-Webster’s definition in any event But Wikipedia seems to agree with the above definition.

By RINO pundits it was pretty clear she was referring to folks like Will, Krauthammer, who are more on the side of the establishment.

I agree with you on Newt, but I think the earlier versions of Romney fit the bill. He even admitted he wasn’t a Republican during the Reagan era. When he ran for the Senate he said he considered that R stood more for reform than for Republican, said he didn’t back the Contract with America, and basically disdained partisan affiliation. Same when he ran for Gov in 2002. He said he was a progressive. To top it off he was openly pro choice and anti gun. That’s pretty much a northeastern Republican in the Bill Weld/Christie Whitman mode, i.e. a RINO.