The RINO Revolution

RINO, Republican In Name Only, is a term applied variously by hardline social conservatives, hardline fiscal conservatives and hardline foreign policy hawks, to Republican politicians who do not share that view. Very recently indeed, it has been loudly applied to all of John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Ron Paul by at least one of those sections of the Republican coalition, and to all but Paul by at least two of them. Even if McCain wins, the Republican Party will be extremely lucky to outlive him.