A few words about R.I.N.O.'s.........

..... for those of you who think R.I.N.O. is an acronym for "Republicans in Name Only " here are a few good words of advice!

You might be a RINO, o ye who draggeth around the corpse of Ronald Reagan, if you don't follow the Reagan philosophy that made the conservative religion movement the powerful force it is--or was, before said Reaganites In Name Only set out to destroy it.

That philosophy? I'll let the good man speak for himself.

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.“

– Ronald Reagan, An American Life

Oh, how soon those dragging around Reagan’s stiffened corpse forget.

I find it literally jaw-dropping when I read someone invoking the name of Ronald Reagan, while in the same sentence (!) petulantly announcing that none of the candidates are conservative enough and that voting this year is simply not an option. Or even more amusingly, announcing that Candidate X has “betrayed” conservatives or “stabbed us in the back,” while betraying conservatism themselves.

Epic FAIL.

Reading assignment, after your trip to the woodshed: Reagan's autobiography. And then read more about Reagan, from his own diaries and/or elsewhere written by those who knew him best--not written by today's pundits or spoken by today's talk radioheads, most (if not all) of whom are guilty of the same RINO sins. If I made the rules of the world, you would be forbidden from invoking his name to support your arguments before becoming better educated. Or indoctrinated. Converted. Whatever you want to call it.

Commandment XI: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican!

These words of wisdom were written by "bamapachaderm" on Redstate.com. And I think a heck of a lot of Republicans ought to read them before each meal and before going to bed at night. Ole' Pecoz gets plumb tired of hearing "Well if he gets the nomination - I'm just gonna sit on my hands this November!"
That brilliant line of thinking gave us House Evil Stepmother & Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Weasel Dingy Harry Reid. Imagine givin' them control of both houses and the White House.... Three liberal judges want to retire from the Supremes, many more across the country --- If you want Shrillary or Obama to pick their replacements to rule in our courts for the next 25 years -- just sit on your hands Pilgrims!