Why RINOs matter - Republicans in Name Only

[KurtNYC]

So here we are. The eve of the RNC. It may come as a surprise givent he hysterical media coverage but not everyone who is unhappy with the RNC is non-republican. There is a group which plans to protest other republican whom they refer to as RINOs - Republicans in Name Only.

Among the RINOs are Rudy Giuliani (pro-choice, gay friendly), Arnold Schwartzenazi (pro-choice, orgy afficianado, drug user, hollywood-type) and many other prominent Republicans. These GOP hard cores have a message for America: "What is on the stage at the RNC does not represent the true Republican party."

They want America to know that the GOP is much farther to the right than these keynote speakers. And that is a message I can support (from a very safe distance mind you).

[judge_smales]

1. OK>

How can we help these folks to get the message out?

[CrispyQ]

2. Republicans, take back your party, please!

by Thomm Hartmann

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1024-02.htm

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The Republicans of 1872 didn't think that anybody should be appointed to high office just because he was a party hack or the son of the Secretary of State. Instead, they wrote in their platform, "Any system of civil service under which the subordinate positions of the government are considered rewards for mere party zeal is fatally demoralizing; and we, therefore, favor a reform of the system, by laws which shall abolish the evils of patronage, and make honesty, efficiency, and fidelity the essential qualifications for public positions."

They didn't think corporations - particularly big ones - should get the kinds of freebies that corporations today regularly demand for moving into a community. Instead, resources owned by We, The People should be held in trust for, or given to, human beings, as they wrote in their platform: "We are opposed to further grants of public land to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the national domain be set apart for free homes for the people."


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In the years since then, the Republican Party has been seized by Ayn Rand utopians, Pat Roberson fundamentalists, and the largest and dirtiest of America's corporate elite. They've trashed the values of Lincoln and Eisenhower, rejected Jesus' words in Matthew 25, and turned our commons into a dumping ground while using our nation's treasury as a honey pot.

At the same time, there's a growing concern that George W. Bush's projected quarter-billion-dollar campaign war chest, and demonstrated willingness to use Big Lie techniques and October Surprise wars, will be enough to induce national amnesia in 2004, destroy the last vestiges of a civil society, and permanently turn our nation into the land of the observed and the home of the worried-about-the-terror-alert.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1024-02.htm

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Putting lipstick on the Greedy Oily Pigs.

:evilfrown:

[LuminousX]

4. Alan Keyes needs prime time speech

And if I were a Republican, I would be dismayed that a Democrat would get such a notable position at my convention - why aren't the hard working Republicans who have kept the party in check and successful like Tom DeLay not given the time and prominence they deserve?

Should the well spoken and well thought of Newt Gingrich get some attention?