It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: trapeze on December 23, 2011, 09:19:36 AM
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Brief but thought provoking post (http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/12/23/ron-paul-rino/) on RINO's and how the term is maybe overused and/or misused.
Specter began his career as a Democrat, and only switched to being a Republican when it was politically expedient for him. Then, when it wasn’t expedient for him anymore, he ditched the party and went back to being a liberal Democrat. Same basic principle applies to Lincoln Chafee and Michael Bloomberg. These are true RINOs – and they are the most faithless sort of “man” in existence, because they narcissistically and cynically use the sweat, donated money and time of countless civically-minded people and toss it aside on a moment’s whim just to serve their own pathetic needs. A true RINO has no interest in furthering a larger coalition or cause – they only have interest in what they can parasitically suck out of it for their own benefit. I would not trust any of the three men listed above to watch my cat, or to watch my briefcase while I went to the restroom.
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True enough...
...So anyway, you know who’s a true RINO? Ron Paul. When he got his feelings hurt after he lost the 1984 Senate Primary to Phil Gramm, he decided to run for President. Only, he realized that he would get no attention and no traction running as a Republican, so he ditched the party and ran as a Libertarian. When he decided to go back to Congress in the mid-90s, he suddenly found himself as a Republican again. Then, after he lost his bid for the Presidency in 2008, he refused to endorse the Republican nominee for President, favoring instead two socialist loons and a confederate sympathizer. Now, yet again, Paul has pointedly refused to commit to endorsing the eventual GOP nominee and to completely rule out a third party run. Here he is helpfully explaining that after working for months to get the GOP vote, trying to hijack GOP conventions, and using the GOP brand to get himself on national television over a dozen times in debates, there’s really no difference between Republicans and Democrats:
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I left that little chestnut as a surprise.
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B-b-b-but Paul is surging in Iowa...is Iowa full of RINO-lovers?!
::speechless::
::stirpot::
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B-b-b-but Paul is surging in Iowa...is Iowa full of RINO-lovers?!
::speechless::
::stirpot::
Not in my house. ::puke::
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Hope you got more allies DL!
::praying::
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Wonder if Pauls son can have some influence on him to forgo a 3rd party run.
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Paul turns third party it will diminish his son's future.
Rand is much like his father except he's not insane.
Ron goes third party then every unusual tack Rand
takes, his sanity will be called into question.
My definition of RINO is a bit more expansive than
the author's.
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Paul turns third party it will diminish his son's future.
Rand is much like his father except he's not insane.
Ron goes third party then every unusual tack Rand
takes, his sanity will be called into question.
My definition of RINO is a bit more expansive than
the author's.
Know what you mean.
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Paul turns third party it will diminish his son's future.
Rand is much like his father except he's not insane.
Ron goes third party then every unusual tack Rand
takes, his sanity will be called into question.
My definition of RINO is a bit more expansive than
the author's.
Mine, too.