A Republican is an American.
A RINO is a creature claiming to be a Republican who acts like any other Rodent.
Rodents are creatures which have befouled America since it's inception and who are now openly fascist and proud of their hatred for America.
RINOs are usually easy to spot. They pretend to be Republicans, but not only claim Trump lost the election but insist it's his fault.
I'm going to disagree, here, and ask only that you let me explain.
What everyone, under the assumption that the GOP is the Conservative Party, has forgotten, is that the only way the GOP is "conservative" comes from being a bit more conservative than the Democrats, not from getting enough Conservative Merit Badges to become an Eagle Scout.
What y'all (and, admittedly, I, too) have been calling "RINOs" are actually the patent model for the brand. The Party ushered itself into power by military conquest of the Sovereign States which did not vote for it, against their will to dissolve the compact, and proceeded to pursue that conquest to the great economic benefit of the Mercantile and Banking groups in the North, who mercilessly looted the remains.
It's why I have never attended a Lincoln Day party; my ancestors would rototill their graves.
All of that, however, is completely independent of Conservatism, the Constitution (which was trod upon mercilessly during the War and afterwards), and is only an opposition position taken in order to maintain power in the decades long back and forth for those reins of power and finance, done in spite of, contravention to, and to the ultimate destruction of the Constitution. This is the path we have been on since the GOP eschewed its last Conservative candidate for President, just as happy to let LBJ steal that election, but even that is the inevitable result of decades where lip service to Conservatism is only a route to maintaining power, with minor dribbles tossed to the rubes and ever tightening chokeholds on the rights and prosperity of he American People.
Personal Liberty is a necessary casualty in that pursuit, and despite the lip service paid to conservative ideology and the Constitution, to fiscal sanity, to real military strength instead of sweetheart contracts let as a bone to toss the voters back home and not out of real advancement in armament, and inevitably jobs on K street or kickbacks and perks none of the voters could dream of.
Those people don't live a life anything like what ordinary folks do, where delivery drivers can no longer deduct mileage or the cost of keeping a vehicle running, not even the fuel to make their job happen, but the Congress and Federal Employees can. It's a two tiered world, baby, and ordinary folks are on the bottom rung, I don't care how good you are, how hard you work, or even how well regarded you are in your profession, ordinary people don't matter as much as a pimple on their ass, and you're being treated that way.
THAT is why I don't donate to campaigns, National Committees, or even respond to the "polls" which only care if the return envelope contains a donation, not one whit what you think. I don't even open that crap any more, just chuck it.
The only time the constituents matter is during the run-up to casting ballots, sucking money out of the suckers for a campaign (with no cheap motels on the itinerary, only joints with a few stars), living out of a bus for the cameras that most people can't dream of affording, or they'd live in a nicer house. Stand on the stump and tell us another one. Fertilized has a decided greening effect, but that 'green' is going into their pockets.
Go ahead, prove me wrong.
But here's the fun part:
Both sides fit that description. Both sides want your money, your liberty, YOU as a bond servant to the banking cartel that lends the wholly created and unbacked "money" they piss away to get more lucre for themselves, to enhance the perks and to raise their "class" another notch above the ordinary people on the hook for their lifestyles. Twenty five thousand dollar freezers full of $13/pint ice cream when most of America is happy to buy the cheap stuff on sale as a treat and shove it in the top of the fridge. It's just one more emphasis that YOU, Mr. and Mrs. America, are NOT
them, and they are your rulers.
Marie Antoinette should have had it so good.
No, the ones being held out as true Republicans while the others are called RINOs is just completely backwards.
It's the RINOs who are true to form, and the Conservative exceptions who are not.
I agree the pejorative "RINO" is crap, but only because we've been using it all wrong.
At this point, it should not be a pejorative, at least if you are a Conservative, because the GOP, by and large isn't Conservative except in lip service a few weeks before an election.
And like the frog that gave the scorpion a ride across the wash, we shouldn't be surprised when we get stung.
It's a scorpion, after all, just doing what scorpions do.
As is the GOP.
Now, I noticed this some time back, even though I have used the term RINO to refer to non-Conservative members of the GOP, but it really isn't fair to expect the GOP to change its stripes and become the Conservative Party we wish we had. They (The Republican Party) never really were,
except in comparison to the Democrats, who just keep sliding down the slippery slope to Marxism on their path of playing 'victims for votes'. We've long expressed our disgust for the concept of moral relativity, but there it is, writ large, with political power, (if the GOP will use it something they have failed at miserably, and by all appearances, intentionally).
People like Ronald Reagan (who, while not completely Conservative, is about as close as we have hit in the post WWII years) are the fliers in the pattern, it is the the group that is off target, at least for those of us who really love the Constitution, the concept of a Constitutionally limited Federal Government, and Liberty.
