@snood,
Quote snood:
Quote:Moderate or not, their loyalties are still going to fall with the ass backwards tax cutting, NRA worshiping, obstructionists.
Actually, one of the first moves the Tea Party made was to give moderate Republicans the boot by calling them Republicans In Name Only, (RINOs). For instance, in late 2011 what is left of the moderate Republicans were pleading and begging the Tea Partiers to agree to raise the debt limit so that the United States did not default on its debts, even for an hour, and totally bankrupt the world's monetary system. The Tea Partiers stood fast that massive cuts must happen to the budget. Finally Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, had to make a last minute call to John Boehner and make some promises and concessions to save the world from a deep Depression.
Point is, the moderate Republicans can usually be worked with-but now they've been almost completely kicked out of the Republican Party. Please take a look at this anti-RINO manifesto by the immortal Ted Nugent. Reprinted from the conservative Human Events in 2008:
RINO Season Is Now Open
by Ted Nugent 11/12/2008
Like any entity that abandons basic quality control, political parties rot from within. It happened to the Democrats long ago, and now has become the case with the Republican Party, which has strayed from its conservative underpinnings.
There are really only four things I have a strong aversion to: unloaded guns, dull knives, banjos, and Republicans in Name Only (RINOs).
The Nugent family simply doesn’t allow any of those things in our lives.
RINOs are Fedzilla punks who feign support for conservative principles only when it serves their political interest. RINOs are also known for their moderate positions such as supporting tax increases, federal “bailouts”, “comprehensive immigration reform”, advocating more counterproductive gun control that guarantee more innocent victims, opposing the death penalty, and growing and sustaining Fedzilla and all its toxic mongrels by going along with the liberals. RINOs have forgotten President Ronald Maximus Regan’s admonition that government is the problem, not the solution.
RINOs reach across Fedzilla’s aisle to cut deals and build consensus with the liberals. Consensus building means compromising values and cutting deals with the socialist prankster punksters whose goal it is to turn America into EuroAmerica.
Consensus building is for wimps and soulless people who stand for nothing. Compromise is not about being tolerant: these days, it’s about giving up conservative principles.
As the Republican Party begins to retool, rebuild and return to the “less government is best government” conservatism that makes America work, the first thing the GOP needs to do is to lock the RINOs out of the discussion. Heavily armed with an abundance of conservative attitude, my hunting buddies and I will provide security to ensure RINOs are kept downwind from the discussion. If allowed to participate, RINOs will continue to rot the Republican Party from within and diminish it in the eyes of the public. Enough is enough.
John McCain has been a RINO on campaign finance, immigration, global warming and other issues and look what happened to him. He had reached across the aisle so many times to cut deals with the liberals that he had to pick Governor Palin, a true conservative, to try and lure disenfranchised and disgusted conservatives back into the fold. Didn’t work. Senator McCain was the wrong candidate at the right time. RINOs lose elections;
conservatives win them.
Should President-elect Obama implement his wrong-headed economic policies, our economy will continue to slide into the abyss and America’s debt will continue to soar to unsustainable levels. Conservatives must hold the line at all costs and call out all RINOs who support President-elect Obama’s economic kamikaze plan.
Make no mistake, conservative values and ideologies are embraced by Americans. The polls all indicate Americans are fed up with the Pelosi-led, do nothing congress, and do not support more government programs and control. Sounds to me like we have a conservative revolution brewing.
Conservative leaders and thinkers such as Newt Gingrich, Jed Babbin, Governor Jindal of Louisiana, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Governor Sarah Palin and others need to turn up the heat and bring this less government, more individual freedom and strong national defense revolution to a boil. It is time.
My specialty is making Fedzilla punks squirm and turn into a puddle of sweat and drool. Therefore, in the spirit of famous butt kickers Generals Chesty Puller and George Patton, I say we launch an attack on all fronts. Uncle Ted hereby declares it is open season on RINOs. No bag limits or permits required. Conservative ideas, arguments and votes are the weapons we will use. Hunt them down and shine a blazing light on these RINO turncoat cockroaches. Zero in the “we the people” crosshairs of your voting assault weapon and aim for the RINO pumpstation. Double tap center mass. Whack em and stack em, track em and hack em, pack em and give em no slack. Let’s do to the RINO beasts what we did to the passenger pigeon. Force out of the Republican Party out the subspecies known as RINOs.
We must not make the mistake of keeping the GOP tent so big that there’s room for RINOs. They are in the business of producing conservative defeats. Instead, join me in the new Conservative Revolution. Let’s go out and win another one for the Gipper.
[Editor’s Note: Ted Nugent is H.E.’s first licensed RINO hunter.]
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The reason that "independents" now vote against the Democrats is not that the country is turning Republican, but that the moderate Republicans got kicked out and so were rated as "independents" although they retained many of their conservative ideas. But when they got kicked out, or the Republican rank and file got so put off by the Tea Partiers, many of these new conservative "independents" also began to modify their views somewhat and became often reachable by Democratic candidates. That's why Obama won despite losing the "independent" vote both times. Most of the "independents" who voted against Obama are actually former Republicans who felt pushed out by the Tea Party. If the Tea Party hadn't taken over the GOP, they would have stayed in, voted Republican without anyone being surprised. The traditionally independent voters whose views were actually somewhat in between the Democrats and Republicans to begin with mostly voted for Obama.
