Is Donald Trump A New Kind Of RINO?

By definition Donald Trump is Republican In Name Only. When that term is tossed around talk radio or the blogosphere, it is never a compliment. The connotation is that a RINO lacks principle or integrity. Perhaps even worse, they are seen as lacking courage and resolve. The Doles and McCains and Romneys have done a wonderful job in cementing the RINO doormat reputation (Can you mix metaphor better than that?)

Whatever else one might say about Donald Trump's principles or his honesty or his character, it is hard to take issue with his courage or resolve. It is not insulting to say that he is a comic book figure. His every action is more suited to a six panel a page setting than anything we are accustomed to.

Trump's confidence is infectious. So too, is his passion. Like Ronald Reagan, Trump makes the listener feel good about himself and his country. Can you imagine the Donald traveling to Egypt to apologize for his country's very existence? A genuine love for the homeland is always advanced, no matter what is being said.

Passion and confidence are two qualities missing in other RINO's. Maybe if there were more RINO's like Trump, RINO would not be considered a derogatory term.

Herd of RINO's

Mitt steps aside and two Democrats in drag take his place. Are these like those lower life forms that you can break in half and instead of subtracting one from the equation, we get two organisms?

Pro-abortion, pro gun control advocate George Pataki is back with the blessing of would be kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. Ideology aside, I level the same criticism against Pataki that I level against Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Gary Johnson and Rick Santorum. You stay home when you could have been a contender against a Democratic Senate incumbent in your home state.  It's called being a team player. Pataki is not the ideal candidate but I will take him over New York's current Senate duo. But if he won't get off the bench....

A guy who had a bright future if he played his cards right was John Kasich, governor from Ohio. This guy was a strong VP candidate but then he started singing the praises for Obamacare, even citing Scripture to justify the 2, 700 page abomination. Thanks, but no thanks, Ohio.

Has Bob Dole formed an exploratory committee yet?

We All Get Fooled Again.

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2010/07/12/figures-rino-scott-brown-to-vote-for-frank-dodd-wall-street-takeover-bill/

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2024427220100521

http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/12/scott-brown-says-hell-support-financial-regulation-bill/

rightwingnews.­com/­2010/­07/­financial-­regulatory-­bill-­includes-­race-­and-­gender-­quotas/

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/et-tu-scott-brown-.html

http://iamtheteaparty.net/news/scott-brown-bans-the-tea-party-from-posting-to-his-fb-profile


http://www.mediaite.com/online/facebook-blogosphere-take-on-traitor-scott-brown/

Boycotting The Benedict Arnolds, The Judas Iscariots, And Republican Driftwood.

I am so sick of hearing that the Republican Party "lost its way." BULLSHIT!
DOUBLE BULLSHIT!! They could not wait to stick both of their middle fingers in our faces and tell us "You want fiscal sanity? Vote Democrat!"

From 2000 to 2006 the GOP was keenly aware that they had a license to plunder, and plunder they did. They ran up some of the biggest tabs in history. Worse, they surrendered the moral high ground that comes with fiscal responsibility. They gave our current Comrade-In-Chief license to pillage on a scale never before seen in this country.

The GOP was all too swift to award plum jobs to their favorite hacks: Tommy Thompson, Michael Powell, the McClellan Brothers to name but a few. We can argue the necessity of their various positions but it is hard to defend the records of any of these appointees. If we accept the premise of Health and Human Services we must still admit that it is one of the most bloated agencies in the Federal Bureaucracy. Perhaps more than any other Beltway tar pit, HHS promotes spending on programs of dubious merit. So if one cares to mount a defense of Tommy Thompson's record, one would at the very least point to the cost cutting measures the esteemed Secretary inacted. Good luck, Perry Mason.

We have already bashed Tommy Thompson at this site.
http://obotomy.blogspot.com/2010/02/rino-endangered-species-only-in-our.html
No apologies. He is the problem. So I was pleased to see this item in the Associated Press.

In Wisconsin, a half dozen tea party groups from around the state decided to boycott Thursday's rally in Madison because former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson was among the speakers.

"We do feel it's important that people know this is not who we would ever align ourselves with," said Kirsten Lombard, organizer of the Madison-based tea party group Wisconsin 9/12 Project. Tim Dake, organizer of the Milwaukee-based GrandSons of Liberty, said: "Tommy is representative of the old boy network way of doing things."


You can see the entire article below. I posted the quote because AP articles have a way of disappearing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100416/ap_on_go_ot/us_tea_party_rally

This humble blog has good reason to be humble, I suppose. However, I believe the previous anti-RINO post might have influenced the Thompson boycott. It's hard to track the course for memes but I do monitor quite a few sites and I don't remember anyone denouncing Wisconsin's favorite hack before us.

The GOP was run out of DC because they stopped listening. The Dems might get chased out of town for the same reason. But if the Republicans insist on recycling flotsam like Tommy Thompson then the message is clear that they still have not learned their lesson.

Will we see six more years of Feingold?