The Tea Party are the RINOs. Go start your own party, we're keeping ours for those of us who are sane.
YOu mean those of you who are actually LOLberal, right?
You guys shut down the government so you could throw a hissy fit, when you
knew it wouldn't work or accomplish anything in the first place. That's not the conservative way of doing things, that is the very essence of the crazy liberals!! Stomping your feet having emotional melt downs over ideology! You Tea Party loons can't see past your own noses. You want what you want, because you want it, and you want it now. You don't even care if the majority of Americans want it. You don't give a rat's ass about democracy. You have no respect for our mode of government, designed to ensure government by the consent of the governed. You think you're the only ones who matter. You think that you're magically able to simply dictate to the rest of the country what is best for the rest of us, and that we should just trust you that the country will be better off if you cram your own agenda down the throats of the other 85% of the population. You are some of the biggest entitlement junkies in I've ever seen, and are the most tyrannical group of people to be part of our government since George III.
True conservatives are pragmatic reasonable. We realize that the world isn't perfect, and that life is not always fair. But instead of whining about it, we move forward productively.
We behave with restraint and dignity. We realize that reducing spending is going to take
compromise with the Democrats. It's not going to happen overnight, but that if we're going to get serious about getting it done we have to start by showing good faith and a willingness to sit down at the table with them. We realize that all the gripes about social issues is pointless and is NOT the place of government. We believe government avoid telling people how to live their personal lives. Sure, there are things that people do that we may not approve of personally. But at the end of the day it's their lives, so let them suffer their own consequences.