Would you be willing to trade a D.I.N.O. for a R.I.N.O.

[sasquatch]

Poll question: Would you be willing to trade a D.I.N.O. for a R.I.N.O.

Let's pretend you're at a political swap meet and you want to clean your house or in this case party of some unwanted items you don't need for stuff you could use.

If you could name some trades that you would like to make please list them below

BTW for those that are new D.I.N.O means Democrat In Name Only
R.I.N.O. means Republican In Name Only

[ButterflyBlood]

1. I'd say Zell Miller for Lincoln Chaffee

but he's retiring anyway.

a perfect trade last year would be Connie Morella for Ralph Hall, but then Morella lost. Now I'd trade Jim Leach or Chris Shays for Hall easily. Hell, I could probably think of 50 Republicans who'd be better than Hall.

[neomonkey]

2. You took my trade

Zel for Lincoln, definitely a no-brainer.

[QC]

3. Every Republican is part of the problem--

even the nice moderate ones, because even the nice moderate ones vote for the GOP leadership, which allows people like DeLay and Frist to stack committees with loonies, block investigations of the Administration, etc.

[depakid]

4. Not only that, but they line up in allegiance

to whatever the party line is. And if they don't, they know that they'll be punished for their "disobedience."

Today's Republicans are not reasonable people- much of the time they act irrationally and are perfectly willing to risk disaster for the sake of "winning" some "victory" over thier "enemies." It's become a sick, shallow Manichean ideology that knows no ethics or morality. It defines good and evil based on whatever is expedient for its paying clientelle. No matter who it hurts.

The nice Republicans (what we in the NorthWest once referred to as "can do" Republicans) have been replaced by ideologues- as in "can't do" Republicans. The irony is that very people who vote them in, often suffer the worst. Sad, but true.

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. Ron Paul

For Holy Joe.