RINO is the acronym for Republican in Name Only, and when following the GOP in an election year, it is the most overused, abused acronym out there. Any Republican who doesn't something the beholder doesn't like, well, that guy's a RINO. Or a progressive Democrat. Or a liberal, socialist, communist New-World-Order-favoring traitor.
But when Republicans boo the Golden Rule, that day I'm a RINO.
When Republicans boo a soldier because he's gay, that day I'm a RINO.
When Republicans claim they're for smaller government but try to make our internet more like China's with SOPA/PIPA-type legislation, those days I'm a RINO.
When they keep passing intrusive, Big-Brother-type legislation like The Patriot Act and the NDAA in the name of fighting the neverending war on terror, those days I'm a RINO.
When Republicans say they want the lower and middle classes to pay more taxes, those days I'm a RINO.
When they say they say they're for less regulation but let monstrosities like Sarbanes-Oxley stay in effect, those days I'm a RINO.
When the GOP voters actually think that Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry or Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin would be a good president, those days I'm a RINO.
I wonder if Republicans should act like RINOs more often.
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I'm with you on everything except for the taxes part. "Everyone needs to have skin in the game." That is what Reagan believed, and that is what I believe. Having almost 50% of adults in American not paying ANY income tax, and an alarming number of times getting PAID to have immoral life-style choices is sicking (multiple children out of wedlock, claiming illegal children in Mexico as dependents, etc).
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