Posted on 07/25/2021 4:21:40 AM PDT by Libloather
MUSKEGON, Mich. - The smell of BBQ food filled Kruse Park in Muskegon Saturday afternoon, but none of the food was for “RINOs,” according to signs posted at the local Republican party event.
The term, an abbreviated form of “Republican In Name Only,” has been made popular by former President Donald Trump, who evokes it to attack members of his own party who are critical of him.
Those literal signs are among other things showing the former president’s continuing influence on local Republicans who, at the Muskegon County GOP BBQ bash Saturday, echoed concerns that the 2020 election was in some way “stolen” from Trump, despite a Republican state-Senate report that found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Michigan.
“My take on the report is that it was inaccurate, and it even states in the report that they haven't looked at all avenues of the election in order to come to an ultimate conclusion,” said Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for governor and Allendale Township planning commissioner who attended the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal Rally," but says he never entered the Capitol.
“We would love to have an audit of the election here, but we're going to watch what happens in Georgia; we'll watch what happens in Arizona. And there are a lot of questionable things that happened in the election, not short of the Secretary of State being deemed what she did with absentee ballots illegal,” said Tudor Dixon, a Republican candidate for governor and conservative media personality from Norton Shores. "We do have to prevent those things from happening in the future."
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answer: C before D, for GOP
Conviction. DECIMATION.
Sorry, but the term had been in common usage among true conservatives, going back long before PDJT entered politics. I know that Bob Dole, J. McCain, Susan Collins, M. Romney, Bill Weld, Arlen Specter and a host of others have been called RINOs going back at least 25 years.
Donald Trump was the person who made the term RINO popular? Really? Can the reporter really be that out of touch with reality?
When I joined FR in 2001, I saw the term "RINO" posted quite a bit. I distinctly remember asking what it meant.
So, yes, he probably is that out of touch with reality.
Most definitely! His bio says he went to the University of Vermont before moving to Michigan. Indoctrinated at one of the best Socialist education camps on the East Coast then moved to where he can grow the practice. Plus - he looks too young to care about the terms origins, all history is current to these louts.
Benedict Biden: THAT’S HIS NAME!
Destroying America: THAT’S HIS GAME!!
I both remember and used the term “RINO” in the late 1960s when in high school.
Doesn’t matter. RINOs are into tofu anyway.
He should try to get out more. President Trump did not create the term and it has been used long before his candidacy.
His research probably consisted of going to the online urban dictionary for the definition and word origin
I’ve been to Muskegon. Several times.
My take on this would have been don’t send money to RINOs
Could’ve done without the apostrophe (RINOs) to avoid looking like idiots.
That hit me also’s
Need more of these kind of things to happen. Make it very uncomfortable as possible to remain a RINO within the Republican party.
FOX’s Aaron Parseltongue:
“...an abbreviated form of “Republican In Name Only,” has been made popular by former President Donald Trump,”
Um, Aaron — Conservatives have been using it for many years. Trump just got covered saying it, cuz our MSM found it useful to use against him.
“...concerns that the 2020 election was in some way “stolen” from Trump...”
Um, Aaron (you ignorant young ‘reporter’) — The story of stories lies at your feet, and you step over it, sneering at those who say “Hey! Aaron! Look down!”
FOX 17 in western Michigan should be ashamed.
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