The RINO Disease
By Mitch Berg
The retroactive spin in GOP circles has begun; some of the people who laid out the losing side’s strategies this past campaign have been backing and filling and trying to phumpher their way out of the realization that while the GOP got smacked on election night, conservatism fared better.
Sisyphus tries to dispel Nih[i]list in Golf Pants’ ongoing shame by poking a big hole in that theory.
In the House, the Republicans in the more fiscally conservative half saw their margin of victory diminish by an average of 2.6 percentage points from the 2004 election. The RINO half saw their margin decline by nearly twice that, 4.9 percentage points. In the Senate the effect was even a little more pronounced with the fiscal conservative Republicans losing 5.4 and the more RINO Republicans losing 12.
He’s got tables and everything. Read it.
