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Purge the RINOs and the RINO Apologists
4/28/09 | Natural law

Posted on 04/28/2009 7:57:14 PM PDT by Natural Law

I am as sick to death of RINO apologists as I am the RINOs themselves. Too many real conservatives took a lot of flack here on FR during the last mid term and presidential election cycles for expecting Republicans to actually legislate like Republicans rather voting for every Obama-lite candidate with an “R” after their names who just might be electable. To too many, elections are about partisan score keeping and not about the direction and future of the country.

Many conservatives received a lot of undeserved criticism because they refused to vote straight party line or choose the lesser of two evils, opting instead to withhold their vote when neither candidate represented me. All one need to do to see the folly of voting for RINOs is the passing of the Stimulus, the Prescription Drug program, and the confirmation of pro-abortion appointees and judges.

It isn't about party politics or which party is in power. No party owns me or my vote. It is about principle and voting for candidates who, based upon record and not campaign rhetoric, will work staunchly for the conservative principles I believe in. I would much rather be represented by a legitimately conservative minority party than by a RINO majority who moves us toward socialism only slightly more slowly than Obama.


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To: Natural Law
The unpleasant reality of politics is that RINOs are necessarily part of the formula for the GOP and conservatives to win and keep political power. If, as we must, we are willing to seek victory by appealing to Democrats and liberals based on one issue or another, we surely ought to seek the votes of RINOs on the same basis.

The strategic problem that we face today is not due to RINOs but that the missteps and fecklessness of George W. Bush and John McCain weakened the GOP and led it to two consecutive political defeats in 2006 and 2008. The defections and sniping from RINOs today are the consequence of those defeats, not their cause.

A strong, winning Republican party with a conservative President would enact a conservative program and grow the GOP base so as to make RINOs a minimal influence over policy even as they contribute to general election victories and a larger and more effective governing margin. We need not a smaller, more cohesive losing party but a winning Reagan style conservative party with “Big Tent” appeal that draws Democrats and RINOs to add to our strength but does not let them hobble us politically.

61 posted on 04/29/2009 5:45:40 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: exit82

(Resuming this AM.)

“You can’t handle the truth ...”

Here’s MY truth: An elected representative is SUPPOSED to represent those who elected him - whether they are conservative,liberal,or just waiting for a spaceship to rescue them.

SOME see themselves as instruments of their party,and take “the easy way out” by voting in strict adherence to party lines. Who do they represent ? (Themselves,usually.)

OTHERS vote mostly along party lines ; but-when something that will affect the people in their district comes up-become “heretics” by considering the needs of the majority of those they serve - regardless of what the party line is.

For this,they are criticized as RINOs (or DINOs)...when they are not being denounced as “traitors”.

I see some of that same sentiment voiced here on FR: “There’s the right way and the wrong way-and there’s OUR way.Do it our way-Newbie Troll -or else !”


62 posted on 04/29/2009 6:06:24 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: mrmeangenes
"while you channel St. Thomas Aquinas, John Locke and Edmund Burke !!"

I am not channeling them, but rather, I am standing on the shoulders of giants. Every time conservatism has been a legitimate choice the American people have overwhelmingly chosen it. You can join me in "duck walking, not to the right flank, but to the high ground. Or, if you have so much disdain for conservatives and conservatism you can, as Thomas Hobbes professed in Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil reject the social contract and take that which is your and leave [SIC] the Republican party.

63 posted on 04/29/2009 8:10:56 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: mrmeangenes
"Here’s MY truth: An elected representative is SUPPOSED to represent those who elected him"

Had the founders wanted a form of government in which their representatives acted as a direct conduit for the thoughts and passions of the day they would have constructed a democracy rather than a constitutional republic.

It is not too much to ask that our elected "leaders" exhibit some measure of intellect, wisdom and leadership rather than act upon a wet finger thrust into the prevailing breezes and manipulated public opinions. Conservatives only want the original constitutional contract restored and respected.

64 posted on 04/29/2009 8:16:47 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law
Why do I get the feeling your idea of constitutional government is government by a self-proclaimed elite ?

Me ? I prefer to steer a middle course: between the fuehrer prinzip of one side, and the "dictatorship of the proletariat" of the other.

65 posted on 04/29/2009 9:23:40 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: mrmeangenes
"Why do I get the feeling your idea of constitutional government is government by a self-proclaimed elite ?"

I agree that one of the problems of the American form of government is that we can only choose our leaders from among those who first choose themselves. That is why a constitutional republic, in which the ability of the elected to act mischievously or maliciously is minimized, is critical. Rights endowed by God are must remain off limits to the government even when 99.9% of the population and 100% of the elected officials conclude otherwise.

66 posted on 04/29/2009 10:42:24 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law
I swear I am going to b*tchslap the next person who implores me to vote for a RINO.


67 posted on 04/30/2009 9:54:56 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Natural Law

That makes two of us.


68 posted on 02/18/2010 4:00:03 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Natural Law
Where did all the walking talking anus-heads come from who are suddenly spamming the blogs and crawling out of the media woodwork wheadling "Romney is our Messiah"?

Did the CFR let its quislings out of class early?

69 posted on 02/18/2010 4:03:38 PM PST by InternetTuffGuy
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To: mrmeangenes
If you do not believe conservatives are the base of the Republican party, you need to leave this CONSERVATIVE website and find something more to your liking, such as the Huffington Post or Daily Kos.
70 posted on 02/18/2010 4:04:25 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: calcowgirl

Wow, I like that picture!


71 posted on 02/18/2010 4:05:15 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: mrmeangenes

But you forget that if the politician cannot represent his constituents and hold the ideology of his party... then he must join the political party that best represents his constituents.

If he’s going to vote liberal because his constituents demand it, then he should be a Democrat and run in a Democratic primary. Not hide his colors for personal gain.


72 posted on 02/18/2010 4:08:50 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: rabscuttle385
Going on the record:

I AM NOT a Republican*.

I AM NOT a Democrat.

I AM a Conservative.

And I will always vote for the most conservative candidate no matter his/her party.

Thus, my mantra:

NO
more
RINOS

I am registered to vote as a Republican. But only because in South Carolina you have to be registered to vote in the primaries.
73 posted on 02/18/2010 4:26:01 PM PST by upchuck (The horse is in the pasture. The barn door is wide-open. Obama wants to know who made the hinges.)
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To: Redbob
It is total Complicity. See Rinos are not about ideology like conservatives. Rinos are about class and elitism. They marry liberal, go to school with liberals and read the NYSLIMES just like liberals. They live just like liberals (anyone for a weekend trip to Argentine to hunt for mistresses!!, votes just like liberals (albeit in slow motion)and go to parties with them.

Conservatives actually believe in God, the Constitution and with a free market. Our values are just so many talking points and political punchlines to Rinos!!

74 posted on 03/10/2010 7:36:21 PM PST by Nat Turner (Escaped from NY in 1983 and not ever going back....)
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To: grumpygresh

Ooooh, what a true conservative you are!!!
*Swoon*
;^)


75 posted on 03/10/2010 7:41:04 PM PST by La Enchiladita (wise gringa)
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To: Natural Law
St. Thomas Quinas

Hmm, never heard of him, honestly...You're saying he's an example of a non-RINO?

76 posted on 03/10/2010 7:44:48 PM PST by La Enchiladita (wise gringa)
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To: Natural Law

They are true Republicans, just neither conservative nor strong. Purge the pols, but everyone has a right to defend whomever they will.


77 posted on 03/10/2010 7:59:51 PM PST by steve8714 (If Lindsay Graham is a conservative, I am not..)
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To: La Enchiladita
"Hmm, never heard of him, honestly"

You ought to read up on him. His writings on the natural law were fundamental in Thomas Jefferson's work.

78 posted on 03/10/2010 8:00:19 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

Define RINO.

An ACU rating of 40-50-60-70.....%
At what point does a politician become a RINO?

The perfect is the enemy of the good.


79 posted on 03/11/2010 5:30:58 AM PST by Valin
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To: Natural Law

Contribute to conservatives now.

It’s primary time—RINO hunting season 2010!


80 posted on 03/11/2010 5:33:26 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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