RINOs, RINOs Everywhere
Just two weeks ago, the situation was at least tolerable. Though what I have been calling ORPINO (the Ohio Republican Party in Name Only) was backing a residency-challenged candidate for secretary of state (more on that in a bit), it at least had the sense not to get in the way of proven fiscal conservative John Kasich’s outsider-framed effort. On January 14, Kasich selected current state auditor and rising star Mary Taylor as his running mate. This move justifiably led ORPINO chair Kevin DeWine to declare Kasich-Taylor “as strong a gubernatorial ticket as you will see on any ballot in any state.”
Then Kevin DeWine proceeded to complete his ruination of most of the rest of the ticket in the name of money and nepotism.
Until he decided he wanted to be Ohio’s next attorney general, Kevin’s relative, former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine, was last seen being repudiated twice by Buckeye State voters in a 17-month span in 2005-2006. First, despite spending $1 million, his son Pat finished a distant fourth in a June 2005 GOP primary race to fill an open congressional seat. That thrashing was accurately seen as a proxy repudiation of Mike over his participation in the Gang of 14 and other conservative-betraying votes. After yet another vote in November 2005 to stop drilling for oil in Alaska and a 2006 GOP primary where two completely underfunded challengers blockaded by ORPINO nonetheless took 28% of the vote, Mike DeWine lost his U.S. Senate reelection race against far-left Cleveland-area Congressman Sherrod Brown by a stunning 12 points.
Second-cousin Kevin and the ORPINO gang decided that this awful track record justified clearing the AG field for Mike, even though DeWine’s primary opponent Dave Yost had already racked up a 5-0 record in December and January GOP county endorsement meetings and had earned an intense level of tea party and other grassroots enthusiasm.
Nobody seems to want to own up to what Kevin and ORPINO did next, but all of a sudden early this week Yost, whose campaign slogan was “A Prosecutor, Not a Politician,” decided that he wanted to run for state auditor instead. Not coincidentally, ORPINO was also unhappy with the not-beholden CPA who had just started his own auditor campaign after Kasich selected Taylor.
So let’s review:
- At the top of the ticket, the party now has two formerly bulletproof candidates who stood around while their party apparatus rigged two down-ticket races. Their slogan is “A New Way, a New Day.” Really?
- In the secretary of state race, the party is running Jon Husted, a guy who currently represents a state senate district he admits to not living in and owns an empty house in the district he admits to not living in, while claiming that his SOS campaign headquarters is that empty house. He is supposed to convince voters that he’ll be the state’s steadfast enforcer of election laws in a state where ACORN ran wild in 2008. Uh huh.
- Attorney general candidate and Second Amendment skeptic Mike DeWine, four years removed from public office with no prosecutorial experience in almost three decades, is supposedly going to unseat a Second Amendment-supporting Democratic incumbent. Riiiiight.
- Now auditor candidate Dave Yost thinks we’ll all forget his betrayal of his supporters and that voters will be jazzed about a lawyer running for head bean-counter. Don’t count on it, bud.
- The only uncompromised candidate remaining is treasurer candidate Josh Mandel. The grassroots pray nightly that ORPINO leaves him alone.
Tea partiers who should be the Republican Party’s best friends in a state that has been horribly mismanaged during the past three years under Democratic Governor Ted Strickland are justifiably exasperated to the point where I understand that there is serious thought being given to going the third-party route in certain of the down-ticket races. I suspect that similar third-party moves are under consideration in other states and in higher-profile races. ORPINO and its compadres in other states will only have themselves to blame if this comes about.
If the Tea Party members are shrewd, they will only support true conservatives in the Republican primaries, regardless of how the party officials want them to vote. Third party candidates usually go nowhere and rarely win, although Joe Lieberman won as an Independent in Connecticut (he’s hardly a conservative, though). There is also a question of degree. Scott Brown in Massachusetts is certainly NOT a Ronald Reagan conservative, but he was A LOT more conservative than anyone else running for office in Massachusetts. It was probably the best the Republicans could do in an ultra-liberal state like Massachusetts and it certainly had the very positive effect of stopping the ultra-liberal healthcare bill in Congress, which is a good thing. So it’s really up to the people in the individual states to see how conservative they are willing to go. Hopefully, Tea Party members can bring out enough voters to give the more conservative candidates the edge in Rupublican primaries, as with Rubio in Florida. One can only hope.
FLASH to Sarah Palin!!! Do NOT support McCain! BIG MISTAKE. You’ll lose Tea Partiers like me.
The Eleventh Commandment was a phrase used by Ronald Reagan during his 1966 campaign for Governor of California. The Commandment reads: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
My own views are on the libertarian side of conservatism, but insisting on philosophical purity in our candidates is how elections are lost. If there is a better alternative than Mark Kirk or Charlie Crist, I agree we should support the more conservative candidate in the primary. But after the primary, Republicans should get behind their party’s candidate. Pouting and staying home on election day will only give the Democrats another 2 years of Congressional leadership, which is the last thing we need.
What standard decides who, when, where and what is acceptable as a political agenda, viable candidate, party platform or whatever?
Ohio, gathered from this article doesn’t appear to be any different than the rest of the country. No two people in a row can point to a single point of focus. Everyone has an answer for everything, but no one has the definition of anything. The rule of thumb is “pot-shots are free” so use less sugar and wing them like hell while you can, no one will complain about the noise.
Bottom Line: I’ll settle for anything that stops Obama and the other ego maniacs that are in charge right now. As a nation we came way too close to a horrible destiny this time.
The problem with the Ohio GOP is not RINOism. What Tom Blumer describes is not a problem of Ohio GOP candidates taking socialist and progressive positions instead of conservative ones. The problem appears to be that while there are some very, very good Ohio Republicans — e.g., Boehner, Kasich, Portman and Blackwell, the Ohio GOP seems not to have enough candidates who are solid individuals.
I live elsewhere now and have for 32 years, but I grew up in Ohio and take an interest in Ohio politics, as my 95 year old father and 80 something mother-in-law still live there. I understand Tom Blumer’s frustration, but let’s define the problem accurately.
Exercising the third party option should not be done lightly. As a practical matter, it usually results only in helping Democrats win elections. The inane libertarian in Minnesota who siphoned thousands of votes from Republican candidate Norm Coleman significantly helped Al Franken get into the U.S. Senate. The situation in California, however, is an exception. Conservatives should do everything possible to make sure Carly Fiorina fails in her efforts to unseat Barbara Boxer. She even championed affirmative action policies during her business career. It would be far better letting Boxer win reelection. California is not Minnesota. The latter state’s economic problems are relatively mild. A middle of the road Republican politician like Coleman can still do more good than harm. California’s economy, on the other hand, is a complete mess. Only tough love measures have any chance of turning’s that state’s fortunes around. Fiorina will more than likely provide rudderless leadership. She is going to be too inclined to suck up to the powers that be in Washington, DC. Her previous positions concerning affirmative action policies are all you need to know.
I don’t know enough about Ohio’s predicament. It may also behoove that state’s conservatives to stay home on Election Day. They need to think long and hard on this matter. I am inclined to believe it might be best for Ohio’s conservatives to let the Democrats stay in power. Oh well, ultimately an outsider like myself can only wish them good luck.
If Palin doesn’t support JD Hayworth she’s toast.
Actually, here in Ohio, DeWine isn’t considered trustworthy by most voters of either, or any, party, outside of Cleveland, Columbus or Cincinnati. But in a the race for AG that might not matter, simply because the present AG, Richard Cordray, is considered in roughly the same boat.
Up to the political demise of his “ethically challenged” predecessor Mark Dann (the fallout from whose forced resignation is still working its way through the court system), Cordray was State Treasurer. Under his tenure there, several million dollars of tax money somehow became “lost in the system”- misplaced, stolen, whatever, no one seems to know. So, when Governor Strickland appointed Cordray to replace Dann, Cordray’s first job was- yes, you guessed it, investigating the “irregularities” at the treasurer’s office that happened while he was in charge.
Now, leaving aside the surreal idea of someone being tasked with investigating their own previous actions (which falls somewhere between Gilbert & Sullivan and Monty Python on the “bizarrely improbable” spectrum), there’s the small problem of expecting Cordray to be able to find out what happened as AG when he (supposedly) totally missed it as treasurer. Most Ohioans don’t have much confidence that he can do so, or even that any answer he might come up with would make much sense to anyone in a legal state of mind.
As for Cordray being “pro-Second Amendment”, actually, to the best of my knowledge, he has always been silent on the subject. His boss, Governor Ted Strickland, ran as a “pro-gun” Democrat, but since then we’ve learned that his “pro-gun” voting record in the U.S. House of Representatives consisted mainly of making sure he was absent whenever such a vote came up. That’s not the same thing.
True, Strickland has jettisoned the major albatross he had in that respect, namely his deputy governor, Lee Fisher, who has made no secret of his desire to eat any and all gun owners with fava beans and a nice Chianti since he was a (one-term) state Attorney General himself. (Fisher, BTW, is vying with the even more virulently gun-hating Secretary of State, Jennifer “Miss” Brunner, for the Senate nomination to succeed Republican George Voinovich, who is retiring this year.) But this doesn’t make him, or Cordray for that matter, any friend of the Second Amendment; it just means that his advisors have told him that here in Ohio, it’s one of those “third rails” in politics that pundits are always going on about.
It could be said that the primary political “asset” of the Ohio Republican Party’s leadership- are their opposite numbers in the Ohio Democrat(ic) Party’s upper echelon.
Which is rather like saying that their best bet for victory is that the OPFOR continues to “fight stupid”.
clear ether
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Ohio is lost and totally corrupt. I keep hoping there will be somebody decent running, but so far nada.
Wish I could afford to move. Taxes through the roof for NO services. I can’t stand living here any more.
This used to be a nice farming state, now a leftist mecca. Yuch.
As a center-right independent who votes most often for Republicans — and who also is excited about the rise of Tea Party activism — I wish I could say that Blumer has gotten things wrong.
It saddens me to say that most of his criticisms (with respect to the state of affairs in Ohio) seem right on target.
Mike Murray
Berea, OH
Its as though the entire Republican establishment has developed a tin ear and has totally misconstrued what the Tea Party has been telling them: Drill, listen, conservatism, low taxes, defeat Obamaism. They’ve substituted Democrat Lite and expect us to support them because they aren’t ultra-liberal (well, some of them are).
In Texas we have two RINOS claiming to be conservative running against Debra Medina. Medina is the only one who has voiced true conservative politics from the beginning and she is fighting an uphill battle.
I think the libtards and environmental wackos have succeeded in bringing an endangered species – RINO’s – back from the brink of extinction. Beware, these are very dangerous animals which can decimate the conservative movement handily.
When the RNC milquetoasts come calling for money, give them an earful and keep the checkbook closed. When they persist in touting the “accomplishments” of Michael Steele, laugh in their faces and just say no. When they accuse you of being a closet Dimocrat, tell them you’ll see them at the next Tea Party or Town Hall.
“If Palin doesn’t support JD Hayworth she’s toast.”
Sarah Palin is not toast. She has been placed in an awkward situation. Cut Palin some slack. The woman is more often than not on the right side. Perfect people don’t exist. We should simply ignore her recommendation in this particular instance.
Maybe you should have Joe the Welfare Plumber run for something.
Ohio certainly is cursed with some of the worst Republicans in any swing state.
Sarah Palin:
Hopefully after the shabby treatment by McCain handlers(espcially that bald nut job) you will feel no great reason to support John McCain. You are totally different from him. You changed a pathetic contest into a close one. He should be supporting you not the other way around.
McCain has had his run. He is a good man but his judgement is way off the reservation today. Just to name a few: Cap/Crap and Trade high taxes based on flawed science, support for legalizing illegals, his Anti Free Speach and incumbant supporting McCain Feingold legislation, and finally his pathetic attempts to reason with and do business with liberal scum bags. You lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. I am not against reasonable cooperation and bipartisianship with reasonable honorable people. However 50 years of compromising our principles has now brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and almost losing our country to a bunch of tin horn marxists radical control freaks.
Sarah you need to take some good advice and jump this ship now. Otherwise you will show me and the rest of your supporters that you lack the good sense to be a contender and a conservative leader. Not a threat. Just a promise. The stakes are too high. Let McCain take the retirement that he richly deserves to make way for real conservatives!!
Tommy Gunn
Good column and unfortunately says it all. For decades, the Ohio Republican Party refuses to cede control to the people and is presently the main catalyst for all third-party thinking/venturing.
How long does an abused wife stay in the marriage before leaving – or beating the crap out of – the son of a b&%$th(es)?
They are control freaks, endorsing/shoving weak-minded RINO’s down our throats (Mike DeWine & Jon Husted) and destroying conservatives by playing musical chairs and forcing them into primaries (all to clear the field for the Chairman’s cousin).
It’s not about principle to them, or given their actions, the majority of the candidates. Rather it’s all a game and the prizes are power, glory & money; screw the people. I can’t wait until one of them calls our house for money…
I’m not one to say “I’m leaving” b/c usually things aren’t any better where you land and you’ve missed an opportunity to improve them. At this point however, anywhere except Michigan is better, and since the pinheads of the Ohio Republican Party aren’t allowing anyone who doesn’t agree with – or have the same last name as – them, to choose their own leadership, what the heck, I’d leave tomorrow if the opportunity arises.
If Palin goes for McCain (against Hayworth) she will have lost respect in my eyes, and , I imagine, in the eyes of many independents. Where are her principles, if she doesn’t stand up to the GOP “party bosses” and machine? I had great hopes for her. . . now I am beginning to wonder if she will turn out to be another sellout. . . I hope not!
JD Hayworth . . . really? PAC money to his wife Hayworth? Abramoff money Hayworth? Indian casino fund Hayworth? Skybox Hayworth? The Arizona Republic retracts its endorsement Hayworth? Birther Hayworth?
You people sure know how to pick your saviors.
Good luck with that jughead.
I respect John McCain for his service to his county. If McCain would have had the best interest of the County at heart he would not have run for President. I find him very self serving. He was given the nomination by the liberal Demorats voting in the Republican primarys. I would say that Sarah Palin is making a big mistake by supporting the Rino McCain. JD Hayworth is the kind of person we need in the Senate. JD want roll over and will make the conservative cause heard. Supporting McCain is a bad decision for Palin.
The Republican National Committee is Neanderthal. A modest contribution to this body will result in repeated calls from every Republican Committee (state and federal) asking for money. The caller always starts out with something like this: Mr ____ do you know what those other guys (Democrats) are up to now?; followed by a litany of their “sins”. I repeatedly have said that I am being deluged by such calls. Despite my refusal to donate, the calls continue and so do my refusals.
Yes sir, this is why I resigned from the RNC 3 years ago. Mr Blumer captures the stupidity and cronyism. Mike Steele where are you? Do you have a clue? I, unfortunately, have concluded after watching you for a year that you don’t.
The TEA party members will throw away their vote if they go third party. They need to go to the Ohio and California GOP and tell it that they will withold support unless leadership rethinks it’s support for “Frum/Brooks” candidates. They need to make it clear that they will stay home and withold finacial support until the party comes around and backs conservative candidates and new blood.
The party gets no money from me because of ridiculous behavior such as Mr Blumer describes. I have had it with the country club Rockefeller types like Frum and Brooks who think they know better than the rest of us; they definitely don’t.
Sarah Palin has an easy out for staying out of the McCain-Hayworth race: all she has to do is simply say she won’t get involved in R primary races, and that she will support the nominee in the fall. McCain’s a big boy – why would he need Sarah Palin in the first place? Not to mention McCain’s handlers muzzled her during the 08 Presidential campaign. All she would be doing is more of the same.
All you RINO candidates out there be warned: you better reach down deep inside yourself and find your inner conservative b/c if you get elected, you’ll be tossed out on your ear if you don’t vote that way.
Rush says conservatism wins every time it’s tried, so if you RINOS are thinking of trying something else, be prepared to lose.
Sarah Palin has an easy out for staying out of the McCain-Hayworth race: all she has to do is simply say she won’t get involved in R primary races, and that she will support the nominee in the fall. McCain’s a big boy – why would he need Sarah Palin in the first place? Not to mention McCain’s handlers muzzled her during the 08 Presidential campaign. All she would be doing is more of the same.
All you RINO candidates out there be warned: you better reach down deep inside yourself and find your inner conservative b/c if you get elected, you’ll be tossed out on your ear if you don’t vote that way.
Rush says conservatism wins every time it’s tried, so if you RINOS are thinking of trying something else, be prepared to lose.
The best comment is “3. Bob:”
Fight for your faction in the primaries and the state party meetings. In the general election support your party.
PS send Money JD Hayworth. He is a tip top conservative.
I am an Ohio tea partier, but I don’t identify with the GOP. I regularly get email from Kevin DeWine asking for donations. Name recognition alone has kept me from making a donation. I will never vote for or otherwise support any organization that has a DeWine or one of their lackeys involved. Perhaps they should try the private sector.
The same disease has infected them all; Leviathanitus (otherwise known the big government elephant disease). “Tin ear” how about “blind fools”?
Governments everywhere have gotten so big they are now unsustainable across the board. The filthy lucre of big government has attracted the worst sort of lying fool. Just look at the prez. or any career politician, most of them fall way short of anything that can be trusted with our money, courts, security etc… These crooks are smart enough to know that there is not enough money to sustain the big government disease so they are once again trying come up with all sorts of lying schemes to steal money from the earner, to make us all slaves to support their largess. We must realize that they have a system set up that works very well for them and we must also know that they will do anything to keep it.
This message has to get to the RINO leadership: If you do not support and will not fight for small government and the elimination of 80% of the beauracracy you will not get any votes from a true conservative or libertarian. None!
They would love to hear the words compromise, let’s make a deal and can’t we just all get along, it would mean to them that they could survive for another period of time conducting business as usual.
We cannot wait for big government to die on its own as it surely will because it will take most of us with it. We can’t wait, we must bring it down now, and we must demand it, in every peaceable way possible. They would love nothing better than violence, then they could just take it all away in a flash, I mean everything you own including your freedom and perhaps even your life. They have a plan and the means to do it.
We must use the tools our forefathers gave us to throw Leviathan off of our backs pronto.
It is not encouraging to see voters in Oregon voting to tax business and the so called rich. They do not seem to realize that they just voted away their own income and some of their own freedoms. This is what we have to deal with and we will not win them all, some people are just suicidal or just plain ignorant. We can’t fix stupid so we shouldn’t even try, but we do need to be aware that stupid is out there and try to help stupid along in terms that stupid can understand.
It’s going to suck for the government employee when he or she can’t get that fat pension or that fat government paycheck anymore. But they must realize that it was a false promise to begin with and they should have asked where the money came from. The good news for the ex-government employee is that there is plenty of fruit to pick, grass to mow, parking lots to sweep, you know, all of the jobs Americans won’t do. Work is good for the soul and productivity is even better. When Leviathan is dead the free air and easier living will be a great reward for even ex-government 2nd hander.
see a lot of dems interjecting dem strategy here.
Palins help of Mccain means nothing….accept that payback is a bitch, if mccain wins it is not because of palin its because TP players showed no bandwidth for here neccessity…TPers need to accept what was inevitable and go elect the conservative without input from dems.
rinos are boobs, here is a challenge for them….go look at the MA> Primary, republican vote totals…the republican votes illustrate thier true value add. now the primary data are clear & illustrate how that they could care less, repblcns wrote off MA. the data are not debateable.
rinos want things exactly as they are, a framed debate but always just accomplices, whether they are on top or on the bottom they are just bought and paid for.
The non voting majority is the largest voting block of the American electorate….using any parties is just a matter of choice and expediency.
I don’t ahve a comment on this piece. But this is where the butt-kicking that Obama gave the mendacious luminaries of the GOP should have gone. I also noticed that there was no coverage here of the SCOTUS decision on corporations last week anywhere here. You can’t hide what you are PJM, not even from the teabaggers. Just a GOP voicebox, mainstream and as deep and dirty in the worst governance in history over the last ten years. Idiots.
20. skeeziks moho
What is this, a Case of Liar in Name Only?
“You people… “.
Jan 30, 2010 – 9:58 am
69. skeeziks.
“You people…”
“…are children. You remind me of my granddaughter who yesterday got caught feeding chocolate to Kyber our dog. She knows she’s not supposed to do that. She said, “You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
Jan 29, 2010 – 9:05 am
38. moho
“…you people… “.
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:38 pm
“You people.” Moho will become a bowl of dog food so that he may pass effortlessly in the Modern Liberal cesspool of lies. See it happen right here!
What’s the latest? “You have no standing”?
Really now. And that poor Modern Liberal Turkey Now and Then. Ripped off one of your own. Omelets must be made. Well, you absorbed that, that Turkey is now part of the Pee Wee moho Pantheon of Ethical Actions.
Can’t get away from it. IDs it every time. The Pee Wee moho – kochevnik – Shawn Ondeen sleazits Blovis American Muslim Alice Whatever Twilight Zone Dummy will channel Jane Mansfield’s head next. Or why not comment as Kyber? That would help rationalize those barking sounds coming from you funhouse mirror.
Using your granddaughter is a new low. If that poor little girl reminds you of a Republican, oh my, oh my, the rants and rage she must have to endure.
Is it good rehearsal time for Kyber too?
More lies here.
“You have no standing.”
“Hail Rush! Go Sarah!”
129. skeeziks:
Got a love a man with convictions.
Hail Rush! Go Sarah! Onward Scott!
Jan 28, 2010 – 7:51 am
Now and Then:
Hail Rush, Go Sarah!
Dec 7, 2009 – 5:35 pm
“You people sure know how to pick your saviors.” “Good luck with that jughead.”
What about “that jughead” Van Jones?
Moho
“But I actually knew Jones in his communist days…,”
Sep 4, 2009 – 8:43 pm
What about the “jughead” who has family in the military?
Moho
“My son’s a bit old to be looking for a mentor, and I doubt Van Jones will be mentoring him since he’s in the marines and currently stationed in Iraq.”
Sep 4, 2009 – 8:43 pm
Is “functionally illiterate” going to make a comeback, or how about “toothless hillbillies”? Hurry up. Be intelligent.
Come on now, quickly with the denial. Don’t be weak with it. You could use the wisdom of that pamphlet, The Youngsters of moho. Good stuff there. Or something.
“You people sure know how to pick your saviors.”
You sure know how be a liar.
“You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
Whatever. Kyber. Sit Speak. Bark. Kyber.
To tommy gunn: You say McCain off the reservation today, but what you write does not reflect knowledge of McCain’s voting record in 2009. He voted AGAINST every Obama bailout bill (and even voted against the second release of TARP monies when Bush was still President in late 2008). McCain voted AGAINST every Obama spending bill, denouncing Obama’s multi-trillion dollar deficit spending as “generational theft.” McCain voted AGAINST the confirmations of tax cheat Geithner, radical pro-abortion advocate Sibellius, leftist attorney Kagan and transnational advocate Koh to their respective positions in the Obama Administration. McCain voted AGAINST the confirmation of Sotomayer to the U.S. Supreme Court. McCain voted AGAINST ObamaCare and was attacked by the New York Times for throwing bombs on the subject. McCain has announced that he will vote AGAINST this year’s cap and trade bill. The foregoing is as conservative a voting record as you could ask for.
Also, McCain has been and is still is one of the more knowledgeable persons around concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security — you know, those subjects as to which Obama knows nothing.
skeez@20: Aside from Wikipedia, how about independent sourcing for your comments on JD Hayworth?
To get rid of Rinos once and for all: get non-RINOs to compete in the primaries, and let the people choose. If they prefer RINOs to others, why not? If RINOs win seats, why not? No more national committees to decide which candidate to support in primaries. They suppoerted that woman in that NY seat, (sorry, never know how to spell her name) and have spoiled eggs thrown all over their face. They supported Charlie Crist, never warmed to Brown until Brown was closing the gap.
Ergo: to get rid of RINOS: national party busy bodies stop meddling.
24. Chuck:
Sarah Palin has an easy out for staying out of the McCain-Hayworth race: all she has to do is simply say she won’t get involved in R primary races, and that she will support the nominee in the fall.
By all means, set aside your principles and your true convictions in favor plausible deniability. You people are such chickenshits.No wonder nobody respects you.
23. I think McCain’s biggest problem is one of projection- he is an honorable man and thus assumes that everyone else working around him is also honorable. This causes him to negotiate readily in good faith with those unwilling to reciprocate. In short, he’s a great commander, but a sucker in a negotiation.
While my own blog is titled Buckeye RINO, I have to say that I was first called a RINO by party establishment types for criticizing former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and fellow Republican state legislators in Ohio that engaged in blatant pay-to-play politics. Since then, I’ve worn the RINO moniker as a badge of honor, considering which kind of Republicans first called me a RINO.
I very much agree with what Tom Blumer has written here, with the exception that I’m not as enthusiastic about Kasich’s candidacy, though I certainly favor Kasich over the Democrat incumbent.
A sampling of my own thoughts on Ohio’s statewide executive branch races:
http://buckeyerino.com/2010/01/16/the-hubris-of-kasich/
http://buckeyerino.com/2010/01/23/orp-pushing-yost-around-to-clear-ag-primary-for-mike-dewine/
Baltimore = Waterloo
At first, I thot Palin was making a HUGE mistake supporting McCain, but after thinking about it, pondering her motivations, and then learning a bit about Hayworth, I think she is on the right track.
If you check into Hayworth, he is not so great. I know alot of folks hate McCain, but at least McCain isn’t a hypocrite, and we know what we get with him.
Come on people, Scott Brown is considered a Tea Party type, now! Barf. I think we need to get some of that fire and guts back, and not let this turn into a Pro GOP thing, cause the GOP is a big govt, leftist, socialism for the rich party, just like the Dem’s. I want more true social conservatives like Hoffman, who are credible on the pressing issues of abortion and anti-heterosexual activism. Those types, btw, are far far more likely to also be credibly for smaller gov’t.
As a born and raised Clevelander, although ten years removed here in Phoenix, I’ve kept in close contact with friends and relatives there. This post really ticks me off. I’ll try and be as civil and concise as #8 eon’s reply.
Tom Blumer I wish you well with your dedication to form a new conservative party. I don’t think you or others who lay claim to the Tea Party movement will succeed any more than the folks who were once claiming Ross Perot or later Pat Bucannan or even later Ron Paul. As were all those movmemnts before, yours will likewise play a signifigant role in shaping conservative politics today.
In this regard I think its healthy, and embrace it. But there are limits. Such as;
You folks see RINO’s everywhere like the friggin UFO nuts who go about getting their names in the funny papers Tom. You got more definitions of what a RINO is than there are volumns for Encyclopedia Britannica! It’s a convienent ruse, a lot like former Supreme Court Justice Stewart Potter’s famous definition of Porn; I Knows it when I sees it Popeye.
As a reborn conservative/capitalist who survived the Dem dominance of George Forbes & Mike White, and congressional fops like Dennis the Polish Mennace & Louis Stokes, and having on occations done business in Mason, I find Tom Blumers take on recent history bit odd, or, frankly, cow diddy.
From John Gilligan to Dicky Celeste to the current over-rated (not that long ago he was a fair-haired suggested running mate for Hillary) dunce, Ohio has had some god-awful democratic govs. And while a lot of congressional Dems today are all up in arms about the conservatives reliance on the fillibuster – it was the legendary Sen Metzenbaum who made the modern proceedure fillibuster what it is today (a fact none of the current Dems like to conceed). Typical memory lapse Progressivism. They have the biggest congressional majority since the new deal and they bitch about conservatives having a fillibuster? How lame is that?
I don’t remember Mike Dewine being that bad of a senator, and in particular I don’t remember 2003 on as Tom Blumer suggests as being a particularly awful political peroid in regards to Dewine either. In fact if anyone did poll the good folks of Mason I believe most would be down right nostalgic for Dewine, especially considering what they have now with Brown and the soon (thank God!)to be gone Voinovich.
2005 was the seminal year of the collapse of the republicans under Bush. Within a year the combo of malfeaseanse in prosecuting the Iraq war, Bush’s betrayal on spending, Katrina – closely followed by the Harriet Miers mistake – Abu Ghraib/Gitmo & Torture debate – The Abramoff scandal – all of which bled into a whole slew of toxic messes leading to the congressional slaughter which in turn led to the rise of Obamanation.
To suggest as Blumer does that Mike Dewine was a failed politican in the wake of his final defeat – and carry on the further suggestion that any who bear his name are doomed in Ohio politics is beyond ridiculous. It’s a rather pathetic attempt at anticdotal journalism to prop up rather thin gruel when claiming a seminal change in Ohio politics.
I think the Blumer doth protesteth too much madam, to borrow from another, since that is what passes for ‘facts’ around these parts.
More so, it seems those who claim to follow are confusing Mike Dewine for another more damaged conservative brand name, who really did screw up conservative politics for those who followed. That clan owes it’s origins in Ohio to the paterfamilias who beat back Teddy Roosevelt to take the big prize, and subsequent sons who represented the most fervernt anti-commies on the right in the heady Ike years, exorcising a true outsized affect on our national politics. Only, in the end, to have a grandson so screw up that he ended up giving Ohioans Strickland on a silver platter – and much misery about – not just on the northcoast.
His name ryhmes with graft, the natural state of mind for the democrates who still rule the fever swamp of greater cleveland. And I doubt there will ever again be a ryhmes with who will try and ressurect that one time honored name in American, let alone Ohio, politics.
Of course, as far as the dispatches from the front I’ve recieved I don’t agree with the august view espoused from Blumers perch outside the shining city on a hill above Cinci.
In fact I’ve met John Kasich. He’s a good man, and if anyone can drain that Cleveland swamp AND put Ohio right, he can.
25. Chuck:
Sarah Palin has an easy out for staying out of the McCain-Hayworth race: all she has to do is simply say she won’t get involved in R primary races, and that she will support the nominee in the fall. McCain’s a big boy – why would he need Sarah Palin in the first place? Not to mention McCain’s handlers muzzled her during the 08 Presidential campaign. All she would be doing is more of the same.
All you RINO candidates out there be warned: you better reach down deep inside yourself and find your inner conservative b/c if you get elected, you’ll be tossed out on your ear if you don’t vote that way.
Rush says conservatism wins every time it’s tried, so if you RINOS are thinking of trying something else, be prepared to lose.
If Palin is smart, and I think that she is, she’ll heed that advice and stay clear of the AZ primary. Endorsing McCain adds legitimacy to the RINOs, plus her credibility can be called into question. Here in CA, the drive-bys are in orgasmic glee over RINO Tom Campbell’s abandoning his gubernatorial bid for Boxer’s seat. From the drive-bys’ perspective, it’s Campbell vs. Boxer already, and the primaries are HALF A YEAR AWAY. And yes, we NEED to call out the RINOs, e.g., RINO Tom Campbell, RINO John McCain, etc. Make “RINO” a stigma a la The Scarlet Letter.
#25 Chuck: “Rush says conservatism wins every time it’s tried, so if you RINOs are thinking of trying something else, be prepared to lose…” Another reason why Rush is a big windbag who doesn’t do his homework. Here in Colorado, as I have posted on other threads, far right conservatives have controlled the grassroots of the Republican party for some years.
Under their inept and heavy handed leadership, since 2004, we Republicans have lost the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, a Senate seat, and two House seats. Running on the Bush/Cheney record, as referenced by Phoenix48, didn’t help matters either.
What Colorado needs is many more traditional small government and fiscal responsibility Republicans to run for office, the so-called RINOs, and a lot less of the far right wing nuts. With luck, we’ll see some of those fiscally conservative & socially moderate candidates emerge this year. Same goes for other states.
#32 Phil Byler: thanks for setting the record straight on Senator McCain’s votes this year. Some of the tea party/tea bagger posters here couldn’t do basic research if they were led to it.
#40 Phoenix48: good comments. A nice rebuttal to Mr. Blumer’s commentary that makes much more sense than he does.
#41 Jon: “we NEED to call out the RINOs…..” Wrong. We need to call out and be rid of those who are all for small government until those pesky bedroom issues come up & then they call for big government intervention to impose their religious ideology.
38. skeeziks?Moho?
Hey, just wanted to remind you that your messiah got his start in politics turning tricks for criminal pervert slumlord tony rezko. Yep, he got his knees all dirty as he stepped up to the mic and gave a full throated oration. He didn’t miss a drop of that filthy lucre when it came time to work the streets for his pimp. Just wanted to make sure that you didnt get off today without having that image to think about.
I am a Conservative. I don’t have a problem with RINO’s. Some of them honestly best represent the populace of their areas. However, let’s not confuse crooks with RINO’s. It’s the crooks who are playing the power game. they are doing it to enrich themselves. They are pigs at the trough.
While I disagree with RINO’s on philosophical grounds, they believe their policies are what’s best for the country. As long as they are honest about their positions, fine. I can work with them. I can find common ground.
I find McCain objectionable, but not a total bust. He thinks he’s a Conservative. He is. He’s a Conservative Democrat! He’s also a gross opportunist. He goes wherever the popular wind blows. Right now, it blows toward limited government. So, I can count on him to get religion, and become even more like a Conservative Republican. He won’t be a true believer, but he will fill the role as if he really is one. Same result, even if he is a phony.
Furthermore, he won’t sell out on foreign policy. This is the one area where he refuses to compromise. The Vietnamese tortured any compromise on this issue right out of him. His voice is powerful in the Senate in this area. I just don’t see him as any worse or better than his competitors in the race in AZ. No one really stands out, so I don’t really care.
41. Jon: Couldn’t resist the Palin observation. I really think Palin genuinely likes McCain, despite some political disagreements. It was McCain’s former staffer, the bald headed judas, who went on 60 minutes trying to make a run at boosting his own career. He’s craven and truly worthless.
Hayworth disappointed me when he refused to go after Janet Napolitano in ’06. I’ve always admired him and was angry when the GOP cut him off at the knees and let a dolt democrate like Harry Mitchell take him down.
People then said he always was determined to take a Senate seat, hence shying away from a difficult run for gov.
Likewise I am intruiged by what is happeing in your state as well. Campbell & DeVore and Meg Whitman & Carly – plus the Governator’s ongoing dramas – all make for lively theater. Maybe the solid blue in Cali’s voters will finally rise up and say no to ruination.
JD has to convince me that he is more than just solid on immigration before I’m going to climb on. But his timing is right on. At the state level, as much as I want to support Jan Brewer, it’s next to impossible. Theres such a vacumn of any credible leadership.
In Maricopa co (which is about 75% of the entire state electorate) we have an on-going circus ‘war’ between Andy Thomas & Sheriff Joe against just about everybody both left and right(superviors & courts), plus the failure of majority republicans in the state house to work with the appointed rep gov (Brewer) to deal with the financial crises.
Voters are really fed up with just about everyone. So McCain is taking this very seriously – which in a way serves to bolster JD all the more. JD obviously believes he can bottle this discontent and ride it. And it’s not a bad bet for a pretty savvy pol eager to get back in the game. Even if he doesn’t pull of an upset he does rebuild an organization to go after an office elsewhere.
Both the Cali and AZ are going to have a lot to say about how the mid-terms end up.
But most important in these independent runs like DeVore & Campbell there and JD Hayworth here, they will enjoy the national support of contributors who want to send a message.
It explains the rise of these semi-independent run’s. It’s a direct result of the blogosphere changing politics on the ground in real time.
Mr Lucky at 31,
Nice forensic exposure. Moho and Skeeziks two birds of an identical feather. It appears these posters are Media Matters employees and probably the same person.
What does your research on Now and Then, BC, and Vivo reveal? Maybe we are dealing with Cybil? Are they all one Marxist dude/dudess siting in the basement and gadflying Pajamas?
Sharp eye, Mr Lucky. Nice hustle.
Thank you Mr. Blumer for exposing Kevin DeWines nepotism. Mike Dewine is like Obama, refuses to comprehend we don’t like what he’s about and I refuse to hold my nose in another election where my choice is him or the other evil. Husted has to be the better choice in the end. My goal is to continue email Kevin’s email reminding him his cousin is not the best choice for Ohio ( or anywhere,really). DeWine will never get my vote.
Replace RINOs with Unicorns
Sorry, people, but Unicorns are mythical beasts,
like honest politicians; The best you can do is
support those whose enlightened self-interest
trumps their party ideology, and who will change
the course of their charge when they see a cliff
coming closer, and closer, and…
Phoenix, you’re wrong.
46. Samizdat: and Mr Lucky at 31:
Sharp eye, Mr Lucky. Nice hustle.
Here’s the best part of both your posts. We’ve already offered who we are and who we’re not. And yet you still don’t know. This despite what appear to be hours and terabytes spent documenting our elusive identities and statements. I think this is how O’Keefe got busted – comical ineptitude. But hey, keep at it.
Wood Chuck to Grey Squirrel . . . Wood Chuck to Grey Squirrel.
Carly Fiorina stinks to high heaven. She is a fraud and her political position will just be another accessory in her life. I can’t take women like that who, because of affirmative action, have risen to their own level of incompetence and think it was their intelligence that got them there. She will be another RINO who will regards us as “little people” who will need enlightenment from the like of her. Spare us.
For Tom Blumer
Re Fiorina and Whitman. While I have no skin in their campaigns, I can’t quite gather the reason to stress their previous lack of voting. Not voting isn’t against the law, it is not immoral, and it doesn’t make you fat.
My bigger concern, were I a voter in their respective states, would be did they follow the LAW: file/pay their taxes for example.
Closer attention to what really matters makes for good journalism, just pandering to senseless drivel relegates you to a ‘cub reporter’ at best, and a party hack on the down side.
Phoenix48, it is going to be quite an interesting primary that McCain’s going to be involved in. I think the bald-headed Judas was a blessing in disguise: had McCain won, I don’t think the tea parties would have been formed, and independents would not have left the Democrats in droves.
As for CA, Campbell is a political opportunist: anytime he thinks he has an opportunity to win, he goes for it. I have one word for him: LOSER. He loses elections every time he runs! I’m not excited about ANY of the GOP candidates for governor–they’re all RINOs. (Looks like Governor Moonbeam will win that race, but I hope I’m wrong.) I AM excited about Chuck DeVore for Senate–he’s the one true conservative in the race.
Steve: you have it all wrong my friend. By calling out the RINOs, their voting record gets exposed, and they HAVE to take a stand on issues. They get away with not having to take a stand on ANYTHING. No longer. Right now, social issues are way down on the list of important issues. The most important issues are jobs, the size of government, and national security, not necessarily in that order. That’s why the tea parties were formed, to counteract the radicals in Washington wanting to take this country so far left, it would make Hugo Chavez look like a far-right reactionary.
#35 Skeeziks: Stop posting your idiocy until you can learn to do so in complete sentences and w/o profanity.
Profanity = the last refuge of the intellectually vacuous.
Well, let’s see. obama doesn’t like us. That’s ok. We don’t like him either. The RINOs don’t like us. That’s ok. We don’t like them either. Even though the RINOs don’t like us and obama doesn’t like us, let me think……oh, yeah. That’s right. We can make things happen anyway. We don’t need their approval or their permission to exercise our rights (those would be God-given rights). Mmmmmmmmmmmm…..mmmmmmmmmmmmm…..mmmmmmmmmmm.
Phoenix…you’re RIGHT!!
If Skeeziks really is MOHO as many suspect then he is a self confessed PC, MC, Left wing, Green NAZI, Jew hating, Mohammedan Arab. Such a lot of negative attributes for such an insignificant person I know but I find with his type it goes with the territory.
On second thoughts maybe Skeeziks/MOHO/VIVO is just another extension of sex changer Ellie Light.
Carly Fiorina recently told a women’s group that since women make up about half of the electorate then about 50% of elected positions should be held by women.
Equality of outcomes, the basic tenet of the left, and that’s the goal of the Republican Fiorina. Heaven help California.
I hope she crashes and burns — figuratively, that is.
News flash: 103 Trillion unfunded liability facing our nation as entitlement spending drives us to the brink of bankruptcy.
Do we have to storm the Capitol with pitchforks before Congress WAKES UP and reverses course?
#52, not voting for years reflects a high level of disengagement from civic matters, and of not caring about anything going on outside one’s personal or business bubble. So when they weren’t candidates, Fiorina and Whitman were from all appearances Citizens In Name Only (CINOs).
But then, in running for office, supposedly former CINOs Fiorina and Whitman are now contending that they are sufficiently engaged and informed to deserve Californians’ votes, while asking voters to do something for them (vote) that they couldn’t be bothered to do when they weren’t candidates for anything. The terms “chutzpah” and “elitism” come to mind.
To Marc Malone: No, McCain is not a conservative Democrat. There is no place in the Democrat Party for someone as McCain who is pro-life, pro-military and a fiscal conservative. McCain is a conservative and a Republican. Check out McCain’s 2009 voting record.
I live in Arizona and I like JD Hayworth, but I think he is making a big mistake taking on John McCain. McCain has plenty of faults, but he is no RINO. He has always favored a strong national defense and has been aggressive in fighting government waste and excessive spending. I would love to see Hayworth as a senator, but at this time when the future of the country is on the line the last thing we need is two Republicans fighting it out against each other and squandering resources that could be used to fight Democrats and their radical agenda.
Hayworth would have been much smarter to take on Harry Reid for his old House seat or even challenged Jan Brewer (the tax raiser) for governor, but his ego seems to have gotten in the way of that.
“Hey, just wanted to remind you that your messiah got his start in politics turning tricks for criminal pervert slumlord tony rezko.”
I don;t know if you’re familiar with the term fan fiction. Its when fans of media make up their own stories, usually projecting their own fantasies on to the characters in their favorite dramas. Well done.
“McCain ….has been aggressive in fighting government waste and excessive spending.”
Well, he’s been a loser at it, so for that reason alone he should go. I don’t remember McCanin putting the stops to the Bush/Hasteret/Lott era pigfest, serf making debt circus. Besides, the guy is toast. The next Republican Robert Byrd.
GOP, spending/debt fighters? Please.
46. Samizdat.
Maybe we are dealing with Cybil?
In a phrase, Mega Sybil. Moho poses as a Conservative/Republican, and more as well… A new moho base ID will appear soon. It’s getting frustrated. Maybe it’s the money.
Check this out. Speaks for itself. No additional translation necessary.
50. skeeziks
“Here’s the best part of both your posts. We’ve already offered who we are and who we’re not. And yet you still don’t know. This despite what appear to be hours and terabytes spent documenting our elusive identities and statements.”
Jan 30, 2010 – 5:31 pm
“You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
Then moho appears right on cue. Jan 31, 2010 – 11:45 am
63. Kyber Moho sleazits
“I don;t know if you’re familiar with the term fan fiction. Its when fans of media make up their own stories, usually projecting their own fantasies on to the characters in their favorite dramas.”
Fan fiction? Fiction? Lying? Oh well, the cesspool just reversed its orientation again. Up is down and down is up. Don’t in drown Modern Liberalville.
What time is it, and which way is the wind blowing?
“You people”
“Hail Rush, Go Sarah!”
“You have no standing.”
“But I actually knew Jones in his communist days…”
The Lying Modern Liberal Pee Wee – Kyber – moho – kochevnik – Shawn Ondeen – Blovis – American Muslim – Alice Nolin – Whatever Twilight Zone Dummy dog food consumer doesn’t make up stories?
“…make up their own stories, usually projecting their own fantasies on to the characters in their favorite dramas.”
Van Jones, the Red ‘Green Czar,’ Is a Truther Too
September 4, 2009 – by Clarice Feldman
94. Moho:
But I actually knew Jones in his communist days…
Sep 4, 2009 – 8:43 pm
47. Moho:
I do happen to see the name Van Jones a lot in your little communiques. Jesus Christ on a used car lot, man, you must be the only person I’ve ever encounterd that gives a sh^% one way or the other.
Jan 9, 2010 – 1:03 pm
139. Moho.
I could lie about it from here to next Thursday, what difference would it make?
Nov 4, 2009 – 8:01 pm
“Hail Rush! Go Sarah!”
129. skeeziks:
Got a love a man with convictions.
Hail Rush! Go Sarah! Onward Scott!
Jan 28, 2010 – 7:51 am
Now and Then:
Hail Rush, Go Sarah!
Dec 7, 2009 – 5:35 pm
60. skeeziks
I think you have me confused with Sarah Palin.
Jan 29, 2010 – 11:13 am
“You don’t know what Kyber likes, only Kyber does.”
Jan 29, 2010 – 9:05 am
So what about Van Jones? Are you ex-commie tight with him? Do you group tree hug with him? Are you green with envy too?
Whatever. Kyber. Sit Speak. Bark. Kyber.
There’s a way around having to vote for the lesser of two evils: get “None of the Above” on the ballot for every position. If “None of the Above” gets a majority of votes, the seat goes unfilled until the next regularly scheduled election (this prevents party machines from nominating a backfill). Even if an incumbent is running unopposed, “None of the Above” would offer an option to unseat him/her.
We don’t have to accept a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. We can, and ought to, shoot the messenger.
54. Chuck:
Stop posting your idiocy until you can learn to do so in complete sentences and w/o profanity. Profanity = the last refuge of the intellectually vacuous.
Chuck, meet baal:
43. baal:
Hey, just wanted to remind you that your messiah got his start in politics turning tricks for criminal pervert slumlord tony rezko. Yep, he got his knees all dirty as he stepped up to the mic and gave a full throated oration. He didn’t miss a drop of that filthy lucre when it came time to work the streets for his pimp.
Now chuck, why wouldn’t you call out this guy, too? Never mind, I know why. You’re a chickenshit.
Jon #53 “Steve, you have it all wrong my friend. By calling out the RINOs……….”
Jon: I’ll acquiesce somewhat to your desire to call out RINOs if you do likewise to my desire to call out the CINOs (conservatives in name only). My premise is that self-styled conservatives and Tea party adherents have minimal credibility if they are not opposed to out of control spending across the board. It’s a lot more than Obama.
Here’s a link for you to check out: http://www.gao.gov. You’re looking specifically for two studies on weapons procurement programs: GAO-09-431T and GAO-09-326SP.
Basically, the GAO released a report a year ago that studied 94 different weapons procurement programs. GAO found that the Pentagon’s programs were running a collective $295 billion over original estimates; were delayed by an average of 21 months; and delivered fewer quantities & capabilities to the warfighter than originally planned.
Tea Party adherents attack Obama spending; and perhaps rightfully so. But they are silent on Pentagon waste. These massive cost overruns do not support our troops nor do they make citizens feel safer. They simply pad the pockets of defense contractors. In fact, the billions in waste in the Pentagon makes ACORN look like “chump change.”
Where’s the outrage from conservatives over this out of control spending? Answer: it ain’t there, except occasionally from John McCain.
For more, you can see what the retired generals and admirals think of some of these unnecessary weapons systems by visiting this web site: http://www.cdi.org .
Steve, I’ll grant that there is a LOT of waste in the Pentagon. Example: buying a coffee making machine that would normally cost $20 for thousands of dollars when the $20 machine will do. And I’ll admit that conservatives haven’t been outraged enough over wasteful spending at the Pentagon. Being a true conservative means calling out wasteful spending ACROSS the board, from useless government programs at Education to useless government programs at the Pentagon, and everywhere in between. So I’ll join you in that endeavor.
#61 Phil Byler – I understand what you’re saying, but I stand by my assessment of McCain. He is a Dem. However, you’re right. There is no room for real Dems in the Dem Party anymore, so they become Indies or Lib Pubs, like McCain and Giuliani.
#68 SteveB – As a Conservative, I echo #69 Jon. I oppose fraud and waste in Defense spending. I want to get literally as much bang for my buck as possible. This is why I couldn’t support Hunter in the Pub primaries. The American taxpayers Union gave him a rating of 54 because of his defense pork for his district. Also because he lacked large exec experience.
As to other comments, I think the problem is the definition of the term RINO’s. I primarily classify them as those who are NOT fiscal hawks. If they are not, then very often, they are way off base in other areas, as well. These are usually the crooks. Hunter was one of the rare Social Cons who was not also a Fiscal Con.
If we insist on fiscal hawks, we will get a lot more Social Cons, and be more credible in the long run. Focus on the money, and most everything else falls into place. Speaking of money, that was my 2 cents.
You’ll never get anywhere hammering on cutting defense spending. Instead, speak of saving money on defense. We want to cut out waste and streamline the DoD, increasing lethality and decreasing overhead. We should be providing incentives for the likes of CAPT Abrashoff (USN, ret.) who saw the foolishness in purchasing iron girders that rusted so quickly they had to repaint the ship every other month. He sent a bunch of sailors to Home Depot, bought tens of thousands of stainless steel girders, charging them to the ship’s credit card, and ended up saving lots of time and money from not having to repaint the ship for a few years after replacing the girders.
Dont know why everyone gets so worked up about RINO Neal he was great in Love Story and good to Farrah Fawcett.
RINOs exist to suppress democracy by preventing meaningful electoral choices. They are the Bushite”oligarcchy on the installment plan” minios of plutocracy/globalism,while Obama and the demtards differ merely by favoring a quicker approach.Like the democrats, RINOS seek to destroy the middle class,and turn the nation into a Mexican style corporatist state,under 1-party rule.Tea baggers need to sandbag these pukes, and seize control of the nomination process,and where they can’t start a third party.Effective,middle-class-led,political activism is a mortal threat to these RINOS,BUSH,DEMTARDS,GEORGE SOROS,Wall street,and their puppet:OBAMA.
Mr. Blumer,your’e not kidding! They even infestPJM.See Mauro(the mauron’s little screed defending Obama’s foreign policy,on this page.
“Bottom Line: I’ll settle for anything that stops Obama and the other ego maniacs that are in charge right now. As a nation we came way too close to a horrible destiny this time”
I suppose those who consider themselves true Republicans are still patting themselves on their backs for voting against McCain in 2004! I suppose I am a RINO., I don’t want any political party of members there-of, judging me based on their uber religious attitude. Their beliefs are not my beliefs; neither do I consider them particularly American beliefs. If I wanted to join one of their “churches” or to go to ziegler’s seminars, I could. We Americans still have that right. I honestly don’t know how long that freedom would last if the non-RINO Republicans took over our government.
Give no money to the RNC!!!
Only give money to candidates who are true conservatives. If there are no true conservatives in your district, give money to true conservatives in other districts and vote straight Republican in your own election. When the RNC begs for money, tell them “Not until the RNC changes its leadership!”
Money talks; moreso in politics than in any other aspect of life. Starve the Rino; it will eventually die!
Compromising is for losers! The Republican “Big Tent” has filled up with quasi-liberals, loonies and agents-provocateurs. The Republican party no longer knows what it stands for, and so it stands for nothing. Republicans need to rediscover conservatism, believe in it and refuse to compromise with liberals.
If Conservative Reupblicans give people a reason to vote for them, they will! “We’re not Obama” is NOT a reason to vote!
Recent developments in the Attorney General race saw another TEA Party alternative for ORPINO DeWine – That is until Secretary of State Bunner got involved. Read more at my post:
http://www.parcbench.com/2010/03/08/ohio-secretary-of-state-jennifer-brunner-up-to-her-old-tricks-again/
Here is an interesting RINO video.
Marty Lamb, Mass 3rd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmGVYfZk0mk