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You might be a RINO

Here we go! It’s the run-up to the 2010 election — time for the foamy political ideologues and squishy middle-of-the-roaders in both parties to go after each other like hungover weasels in a rabbit hutch.

Fuck it. Civility is for afternoon tea with the Queen. Politics is a blood sport. Here goes:

If you’d rather be in power and actively steering the country in the wrong direction than out of power and pointing in the right direction you might be a RINO.

If you think Sarah Palin is — come on now, honestly — just a bit de trop you might be a RINO.

If you think the Tea Partiers are a muddled, ignorant rabble likely to flare out of control or give the party a bad name you might be a RINO.

If you think defining conservative principles and insisting candidates agree with them is a “purity test” — and a bad thing — you might be a RINO.

If you think it’s okay if the “Big Tent” is big enough to hold two people who agree on practically nothing at all, you might be a RINO.

If you think consensus and comity between members of opposing parties is an important political principle you might be a RINO.

If you think the Constitution is over two hundred years old and a lot has changed in that time you might be a RINO.

Come on, sock an elephant — it’s fun! Got any more? Say, isn’t that David Brooks over there, smirking at your alma mater?

January 6, 2010 — 6:53 pm
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