Whose economic plan does The Wall Street Journal consider the most impressive and conservative of the Republican presidential field?ġ8. Which candidate was cited by the Pew Center for running the “best-managed” state, hailed by Forbes magazine as the “most fiscally fit” and ranked first in the country for job creation?ġ7. Which candidate was ranked by Cato Institute in 2008 one of the most fiscally conservative governors in America?ġ6. Which candidate attacked Steve Largent, Tom Coburn and other conservatives as “the Perfectionist Caucus,” while giving his last speech as speaker in support of Dick Gephardt and Dave Obey’s colossal Omnibus Bill of 1998?ġ5. Obstructionist conservatives can always find reasons to vote no”?ġ4. Which candidate said of the Medicare prescription drug plan that was the largest expansion of entitlements since the Great Society, “Every conservative member of Congress should vote for this Medicare bill. Which candidate told Planned Parenthood that he supported the “substance” of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Which candidate bragged to CNN that he’s “the most seriously professorial politician since Woodrow Wilson”?ġ2. Which candidate is the only GOP presidential contender to come out in full support of the Ryan plan?ġ1. Which candidate went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and called Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan “radical” and “right-wing social engineering”?ġ0. Which candidate has consistently supported the type of individual mandates for health insurance that conservatives are trying to overturn through court challenges to Obamacare? (Trick question: Two of three are correct answers.)ĩ. Which candidate told Planned Parenthood that he supported state funding of abortion?Ĩ. Which candidate bragged about not being a Republican during the Reagan presidency and promised that if elected he would not “return to Reagan-Bush policies”?ħ. Who was paid $312,000 by ethanol interests and then said ethanol is good for national security and for the economy?Ħ. Who once famously said, “I don’t line up with the NRA”?ĥ. Who starred in a 2007 global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi that was sponsored by Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection?Ĥ. Who bragged about being a moderate with this comment, “There is a new synthesis evolving with the classic moderate wing of the party, where as a former Rockefeller state chairman, I’ve spent most of my life”?ģ. I am not going to change pro-choice laws in any way”?Ģ. Who said, “I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose. based on voting records, candidate quotes and facts! (Shocking, I know.)ġ. So as a public service to POLITICO readers, I, your humble conservative servant, have put together a “Who is the Real RINO?” test. But if he refuses to spit out angry screeds against Obama, he’s dismissed as a RINO, the facts be damned. Jon Huntsman, on the other hand, can have a stellar conservative record as Utah’s governor, be anti-abortion and adored by the NRA. A candidate like Newt Gingrich can get away with supporting the biggest socialist scheme in American government over the past 30 years because he says nasty things about the press and calls Barack Obama a Marxist.
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