In an email thread I’m on, I was asked (since I missed it the first time):
So, I will ask again, What is a true conservative? What is a RINO?
Here was my brief answer – in two parts:
Here in NH, a RINO is someone that votes contrary to the principles of the NH GOP Platform 70% of the time. Votes that violate the major precepts of nominal GOP stances (less taxes, less government, more freedom, adherence to the Constitution) on multiple occasions warrants that title as well.
I am willing, at times, to give passes to our representatives on bills that have "traps" in them set by the opposition, whereby a vote that is seemingly cast against the platform was done to keep a worse evil from happening.
A conservative hews to traditional political values known as Constitutional. Further, traditional cultural values are in the forefront of a conservative’s actions and mindset – which also includes those values stemming from our traditional Judeo-Christian national heritage.
There is the political – AND, in this time of a concentration on fiscal policy and laws made contrary to the Constitution, there is the social.
Go ahead, explain how being a fiscal conservative also allows for such an expansive liberal mantra as our burgeoning welfare / entitlement State? I posit…
that you cannot. Thus, I cede no ground in the social arena – for as we have seen, ALL Progressive / Liberal social agenda items always come back to one thing – fiscal policy (or rather, the lack thereof).
Why is this so? Mostly because Progressives too cheap to yank their own money out of their own pockets! They do believe in Obama’s "collective salvation" – none of us are saved individually – salvation is dependent solely on the actions of the collective.
And that, my friends, is heresy when compared to traditional Christian orthodoxy (as opposed to the "social gospel").
I have no problem in waging war on RINOs – been doing it for a while and have not earned a lot of love doing so. But I also learned a valuable lesson the hard way – don’t take out your allies, or folks that could be your allies, in the process.
