No BBQ for you!
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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No BBQ for you!
RINOs was made popular by (still) President Donald J. Trump? I first heard it in 1979...Was this moron been living under a rock?
UVM makes Cal-Berkley looks Conservative...🤓
Thanks for posting the reality re RINO's:
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.
"“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."
Huh? RINO has been around for at least two decades. Fox17 should have this Aaron character arrested for loitering.
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I have a slightly different point to address. The author and editors are using this 'Rino' designator as a way to slam our President Trump personally.
They know full well that the term Rino is used by conservatives to define the liberal, Benidict Arnold types within the Republican Party. But the media slimes are trying to say that President Trump is using it only against those who don't like him. When in reality he is using it to distinguish true conservatives from the anti- conservatives within the Republican Party.
President Trump is using the term consistently, and in exactly the same way, as his fellow Republicans do; not as some attack against him personally. It's just another intentional smear tactic used by the left, which includes the Rino's from within.
“Sorry, but the term had been in common usage among true conservatives, going back long before PDJT entered politics.”
True, but Trump has introduced the term to the 80% of Republican voters, and that is a huge deal.
Yes, he exposed more of them than a spy cam in a locker room. And yes, it is a big deal.
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