June 17, 2005

Raging RINOs


Are you looking for secular conservative, or moderate blogs? RINO's, if you will. Are RINO's an endangered species? How can Conservative bloggers who might not want to drink the Party Kool-Aid on every single issue (ESCR, Schiavo, small government, fiscal responsibility, senatorial compromises, free markets/trade, pandering to Creationists, etc.) find each other? Maybe you're just concerned about rhetorical excesses by "our side." Neo-libertarians and 'little l' libertarians welcome too.

NZ Bear's new "Communities" feature prompted me to organize a community for RINO's, secular conservatives, moderates, libertarians, or whatever people of such thinking might be called.

Here is the full list: "Raging RINOs" - Republicans / Independents Not Overdosed (on the Party Kool Aid)

The community entails no obligations beyond being listed. Please send a trackback if you'd like to join. Email me if you want to be on the RINO email distribution list.

6/24 Update: 58 enrolled.

Image details below the fold.

Use or, even better, download these image URLs:

http://acepilots.com/images/rhino_sm.jpg

http://acepilots.com/images/rhino_med.jpg

http://acepilots.com/images/rhino.jpg

Logos courtesy of j.d. at evolution.

RINO Sightings carnival hosts:

June 27 - Say Uncle
July 4 - Mark Coffey, Decision 08
July 11 - Larry Bernard
July 18 - Andy WWR
July 25 - Counter Top
Aug 1 - All Things Jennifer
Aug 8 - Searchlight Crusade
Aug 15 - open
Aug 22 - open


Posted by Commissar at June 17, 2005 09:51 AM | TraktorBack (50)
Kesher Talk linked with RINOs and DINOs, oh my! on Jul 05
Cadillac Tight linked with Oh boy, here we go again on Jul 05
Kesher Talk linked with RINOs and DINOs, oh my! on Jul 04
Kesher Talk linked with RINOs and DINOs, oh my! on Jul 04
Conservative Thinking linked with Raging RINOs on Jun 28
Indie Castle linked with An Indie's Mea Culpa... sorta on Jun 26
The Strata-Sphere linked with Carnival of The Chillin #2 on Jun 26
Gay Orbit linked with Raging RINO on Jun 26
BlueStateRed linked with New Blog Community on Jun 25
Classical Values linked with Who chooses the choices? on Jun 24
INDC Journal linked with So Darned Independent on Jun 24
Done With Mirrors linked with Raging RINOs on Jun 23
Justus for All linked with Raging Rino's on Jun 23
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. linked with I think, on balance... on Jun 23
Heartless Libertarian linked with A Manifesto, of Sorts on Jun 23
phin's blog linked with Raging RINO's on Jun 22
The LLama Butchers linked with Google Reveals My Inner Schizophrenia on Jun 21
The Jawa Report linked with Durbin's Apology: I accept on Jun 21
Inside Larry's head linked with In my goals to be my own kind of conservative on Jun 21
The World According to Nick linked with What is a RINO Anyway? on Jun 21
the evangelical outpost linked with Outtakes
06.21.05 on Jun 21
the evangelical outpost linked with Outtakes
06.21.05 on Jun 21
Searchlight Crusade linked with Think I want to join the raging RINOs on Jun 21
The Art of the Blog linked with I Like RINOs . . . Some of them Anyway on Jun 21
Arguing with signposts... linked with RINO? on Jun 20
Confessions

That would be me, too. Sign me up!

Extracted from: The Owner's Manual at June 16, 2005 11:34 AM

What the hey - count me in.

Extracted from: j.d. at June 16, 2005 12:01 PM

I came from a country that actually has political commissar and I would hate to see my beloved Party of Lincoln become Party of Stalin. Count me in - I am game.

Extracted from: Minh-Duc at June 16, 2005 12:28 PM

Please add me to your list.

Extracted from: Pigilito at June 16, 2005 12:30 PM

Count me in.

AJStrata

Extracted from: AJStrata at June 16, 2005 01:02 PM

Fits Andrew Sullivan to a T doesn't it? He's been trying to get that "Eagle" thing going for years now.

Me, I'm a proud wingnut who belongs to her local Republican club and central committee, and we never talked about all that BS on the tube.

Extracted from: cassandra at June 16, 2005 03:31 PM

Sign me up!

Extracted from: Rachel at June 16, 2005 03:59 PM

I may have some logo ideas before long.

Extracted from: j.d. at June 16, 2005 04:44 PM

How does one join this conspiracy??? And is there one for LIMOs? (Libertarians/Independents.......)

Extracted from: Rusty Shackleford at June 16, 2005 04:51 PM

How does one join this conspiracy??? And is there one for LIMOs? (Libertarians/Independents.......)

Extracted from: Rusty Shackleford at June 16, 2005 04:51 PM

Rusty,

By leaving a comment, or TB, or email. You're in.

j.d.,

I look forward to that. I sent NZB a simple rhino picture as a placeholder, but it's not up yet.

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 16, 2005 04:59 PM

It may piss off my co-blogger---but I pay for the site so, so be it. Sign me up.

Extracted from: Jeremy at June 16, 2005 05:22 PM

Definitely count me in!

Extracted from: Orac at June 16, 2005 05:59 PM

Can I be an honorary member? hehe..

Extracted from: David Anderson at June 16, 2005 07:37 PM

Ladies and gents: How about a logo?

Extracted from: j.d. at June 16, 2005 07:51 PM

I'm conservative first and Republican...

67 A Valued Customer of Toni's Cannoli Parlor
68 Republican

RINOs, there is no shame!

Extracted from: Lazar at June 16, 2005 07:51 PM

The logo... sweet.

Extracted from: Lazar at June 16, 2005 08:03 PM

No one ever accused me of being moderate, but I am a "'little l' libertarian" and regularly lectured for not drinking the Kool-Aid. But aarggghhh...what a name...Do you have to be a McCain Kool Aid drinker to join?

Extracted from: Tom Hanna at June 16, 2005 08:31 PM

Some of the comments (and email responses) are a little vague. If you want in, pls give me some clear indication. One emailer said "it's okay if you want to count me as a fellow traveler." Is that in or out? (I figured 'out.')

j.d. ---

Khorosho graphic!!!! I have submitted it to NZBear, and am now using it here.

Thanks.

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 16, 2005 09:02 PM

RAGING RINO I am, although I prefer *Bleeding Heart Conservative* :)

Extracted from: Jennifer at June 16, 2005 09:48 PM

David,

Coeme now, my friend, admit that you have sipped a few little paper cups of that sugary summer drink offered up by the Deaniacs and Kossacks, on the other side of the playground. :)

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 16, 2005 10:34 PM

The thing about RINO's is that "maverick" John McCain is one. I would never want to belong to a group that would have him -- let alone myself -- as a member, although I'd like to belong to a group that would have YOU as a member. What to do?

Extracted from: Sissy Willis at June 16, 2005 10:56 PM

Count me in.
Say j.d. and Commissar, may I borrow the logo to link to the group?

Thanks.

Extracted from: Lazar at June 17, 2005 07:14 AM

All RINOs are encouraged to use the graphics.

I'll email all with URLs:

http://acepilots.com/images/rhino.jpg
http://acepilots.com/images/rhino_med.jpg
http://acepilots.com/images/rhino_sm.jpg

Use them freely. Or, even better, download to your site.

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 17, 2005 08:39 AM

Oh my, yes. Libertarian-conservative here. I'm in.

Extracted from: enrevanche at June 17, 2005 09:57 AM

I haven't been writing much political stuff since the election, but I think the group fits me, so I'd like to join if you'll have me. Take a look at my site first if you like.

Extracted from: Eddie Thomas at June 17, 2005 10:33 AM

Commissar, far be it from me to bitch, but the name of my site is just "evolution."

I just don't want to confuse anyone. :)

Extracted from: j.d. at June 17, 2005 11:39 AM

j.d.

fixed

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 17, 2005 11:58 AM

I'm more of a small-l libertarian than an R (-INO or otherwise), but sign me up, too.

Extracted from: Fred at June 17, 2005 12:37 PM

Bless me father, for I have sinned.
May I join too?

Extracted from: Tom Wigton at June 17, 2005 12:49 PM

TTLB's taxonomy classifications still don't go far enough down for me.

"I'm a Rascally RNA strand in the TTLB ecosystem!"
would be about my speed, right now.

Extracted from: The Sanity Inspector at June 17, 2005 01:16 PM

A thousand times yes. Please count me in.

Extracted from: Ken at June 17, 2005 07:14 PM

I am SO in. right-thoughts.us

Extracted from: JimK at June 17, 2005 07:24 PM

Everyone should be in. Ken and JimK will show up wihtin two hours.

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 17, 2005 07:34 PM

Could you change the text of my link to "Strange Fictions"?

Extracted from: Lazar at June 17, 2005 07:46 PM

Lazar,

Sorry, I can't. The title is fed from NZBear's Ecosystem, and he gets it from your blog. Check out the Ecosystem pages; I think he describes what you have to do. For most bloggers, this is all automatic. I see you have an unusual URL; I don't know if that's part of the issue or not. Or you can email NZBear (but he's kinda swamped).

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 17, 2005 07:50 PM

Thanks Commissar, I'll have a look.

Extracted from: Lazar at June 17, 2005 08:31 PM

Hell Yes! Count me in.

Extracted from: Scott at June 17, 2005 11:23 PM

Just a regular visitor, but please add me to the contact list. I agree with many regarding the name, but at this point, I don't care what its called.

Tom

Extracted from: Tom CT at June 18, 2005 12:53 AM

Sign me up, dude.

Extracted from: Richard Bennett at June 18, 2005 06:00 AM

What a great idea! Sign me up for the email too...

Extracted from: Allan Guyton at June 18, 2005 08:24 PM

See here.
Also here. (Anyone in NYC area want to join our social group, email me.)

Extracted from: Yehudit at June 18, 2005 09:03 PM

Y'all flatter yourselves. You're as much on the kool-aid as the rest of 'em. Give it up! And remember, Libertarians are first graders who never grew up - there are 6 billion other people on the planet - deal with it!

Extracted from: Greg at June 19, 2005 02:00 AM

I'm definitely in.

Extracted from: The Unabrewer at June 19, 2005 10:54 AM

Oh you can sooo count me in. This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for.

Thank you thank you thank you!

Extracted from: Kat at June 19, 2005 02:32 PM

Arrrhhhg! Decisions. Decisions...

I'm a libertarian Liberal, reg'd Dem, who wants Voinovich to have a chance in, er, well, DC to womp on Hilary... Arrrhhhggg...

I'll just keep reading for now...

Extracted from: MBains at June 19, 2005 09:05 PM

So, do you have to be an atheist to be a RINO?

Extracted from: bryan at June 19, 2005 09:55 PM

No, but it helps if you wanted to projectile vomit when Bill Frist said that people who disagreed with him on a Senatorial procedural rule were "enemies of people of faith."

Extracted from: The Commissar at June 20, 2005 02:27 PM

Looks like an blog-alliance I can honestly join. Forgive me (and let me know) if I do the Trackback Wrong. Forgive me for being a new blogger.

Extracted from: Dan Melson at June 21, 2005 12:02 AM

I sent a trackback but it didn't appear.

I still think John McCain sucks block nuts, but I'm down with the rest of it.

The Art of the Blog

Extracted from: J at TAotB at June 21, 2005 12:03 AM

So I suppose if I'm a Republican that doesn't want to join you I'm an overdosed Party Kool Aid drinker?

Nice divisiveness play. Nice insulting the potential converts. Have you been taking lessons from the Dems?

Extracted from: DSmith at June 21, 2005 06:36 PM

"... but it helps if you wanted to projectile vomit when Bill Frist said that people who disagreed with him on a Senatorial procedural rule were 'enemies of people of faith.'"

Then I definitely want to join.

Extracted from: phin at June 22, 2005 09:19 AM