RINOs

 

This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us

Zoo time, is she and you time?
The mammals are your favorite type, and you want her tonight
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
You hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants, and tacky tigers
This town ain't big enough for the both of us
And it ain't me who's gonna leave

Should we be hunting stampeding RINOs?

There has been a call for an open season on the hunting of RINOs, which are supposedly Republicans In Name Only. While the Republican Party has a disagreement on the size and role of government with the Democratic Party, both parties vie for the election of Constitutional officers who will swear an oath to support and defend that Constitution. Thus there should be no difference between the parties in the form of government. When Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government that the founding fathers gave us in the Constitutional Convention, he  famously said “a republic, if you can keep it.”  A republic is not the only from of government that could have been possible. Monarchism or authoritarianism are alternative forms of government. If those who support authoritarians are calling themselves Republicans, then they are truly rINOS, because they do not support the republican form of government.

Those who support a limited, but republican, form of government are the only Republicans worthy of the name. Those who support an authoritarian government are rINOs and are either oath breakers, or potential oath breakers, since they have no intention of honoring the oath to support the Constitution. Those complaining most loudly about RINOS are probably themselves rINOS and it is time for Republicans to take back their party. The commandment to not speak ill of fellow Republicans should not include those rINOS who are only pretending to be Republicans.