Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 27 February 2008
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.
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