Republican In Name Only is a pejorative term that refers to a member of the Republican Party of the United States whose political views or actions are considered insufficiently conservative or otherwise conforming to liberal positions. The acronym RINO, emerging in the 1990s, is a charge used in campaigns by Republican conservatives against party moderates and liberals.
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Origins [link]
In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt, then-President William Howard Taft, and Senator Robert LaFollette fought for ideological control of the Republican Party and each denounced the other two as "not really Republican".[citation needed] The phrase Republican in name only emerged as a popular political pejorative in the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s.[1]
The earliest known print appearance of the term RINO was in the Manchester, New Hampshire newspaper then called The Union Leader.[2]
Bill Clinton would have been proud of what was happening on the third-floor Senate corner at the State House this week.... The Republicans were moving out and the Democrats and "RINOs" (Republicans In Name Only) were moving in.—John DiStaso , "Merrill Taps Scamman, Strome and a Thomson". New Hampshire Union Leader. 31 December 1992.
Buttons featuring the red slash through an image of a rhinoceros were spotted in the New Hampshire State House as early as 1992.[3] In 1993, former Marine and future California Republican Assembly President Celeste Greig distributed buttons featuring a red slash over the word RINO to express opposition to Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan.[1] The term came into widespread usage during the 2000 election campaigns.[citation needed]
Usage [link]
During Republican primary campaign season, some conservative organizations classify as RINO's Republicans who fail to adopt their right-wing stances. National Federation of Republican Assemblies started the "RINO Hunters' Club", which targets candidates soft on taxes, gun rights, and abortion.[4] The anti-tax group Club for Growth (which supports the National Federation of Republican Assemblies) invented the "RINO Watch" list to monitor "Republican office holders around the nation who have advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies"; other conservative groups published similar lists.
Similar terms [link]
While the term RINO is of recent coinage, the concept of being an inauthentic member of the Republican Party by not representing its more conservative faction is a recurring theme in Party history.
Me-too Republicans [link]
In the 1930s and 40s, Me-too Republicans described those who ran on a platform of agreeing with the Democratic Party, proclaiming only minor or moderating differences.[5][6] An example is two-time presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey, who ran against the popular Franklin D. Roosevelt and his successor Harry Truman. Dewey did not oppose Roosevelt's New Deal programs altogether, but merely campaigned on the promise that Republicans would run them more efficiently and less corruptly.
Let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion which says, "of course we believe all these things, we believe in social-security, we believe in work for the unemployed, we believe in saving homes—cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things. But we do not like the way the president's administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us."—Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) , addressing a Democratic audience in New York, September 1935[7]
From 1936 to 1976, the more centrist of the Republican Party frequently won the national nomination with candidates such as Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. The mainstream of the Republican Party was generally supportive of the New Deal, and the right wing was the more marginalized faction. In the 1950s, conservatives such as Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater, who rallied against "me-too Republicans",[8] were considered outside of the mainstream of the then-centrist GOP; serious consideration was given to leaving the GOP and forming a new conservative party in cooperation with conservative Democrats.[9]
Nixonians, and Rockefeller Republicans [link]
In the 1960s and 70s, conservatives sometimes called moderate Republicans Nixonian. A more widely adopted term was Rockefeller Republican. Neither expression was always considered pejorative.
See also [link]
- Rockefeller Republican
- Nixonian
- Blue Dog Democrat
- Boll Weevil Democrat
- Democrat In Name Only
- Gypsy moth Republican
- Half-Breed
- Stalwart
- Obama Republican
References [link]
- ^ a b Popik, Barry. "RINO (Republican In Name Only)". Big Apple Corner. https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/rino_republican_in_name_only.
- ^ McFedries, Paul. "RINO". Word spy. Logophilia Limited. https://www.wordspy.com/words/rino.asp. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ Landrigan, Kevin (16 December 1992). "Button of the Week". The Telegraph (Nashua, New Hampshire: Terrence Williams) 123 (216): p. 21. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s5lKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aJQMAAAAIBAJ&dq=rino%20republican%20name-only&pg=6245%2C3837269. "Button of the week: It's slowly making the rounds as circulation is small but the "RINO" (pronounced "Rhino") could become a collector's item. Pictured is naturally the animal with a Ghostbuster's slash through it."
- ^ Nichols, John (27 August 2004). "Republican Cannibals: Hunting for RINOs". Agence Global. The Nation. https://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=221.
- ^ Shapiro, Walter (29 October 2002). "Suspense, contrast missing in election countdown". USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/shapiro/2002-10-29-hype_x.htm. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ Blankley, Tony (25 October 2006). "Assessing Last Week's Column". Human Events. https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17702. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ Smith, Richard Norton. "Roosevelt and Reagan: Eternal Optimists". Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies. https://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/?id=C0CA7C53-F153-5D40-EF3F207BB2A677F2&CFID=9282716&CFTOKEN=68294622. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ "Farewell to a Quartet of Kings of the Hill". Time (Time, Inc.). 10 November 1986. https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962804,00.html.
- ^ Perlstein, Rick (21 March 2001). Before the Storm. Hill and Wang. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8090-2859-7. "... the recipe for a new conservative party was plain: one part Midwestern Taft Republican, one part Southern states' rights Democrat."
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Dreams (2004 film)
Dreams is a 2004 Tamil Malayalam romantic film directed by Kasthuri Raja and produced by Saraswathi Srikanth. The film featured Raja's son Dhanush in the lead role with Diya and Parul Yadav playing other pivotal roles. The film opened to negative reviews and became a failure at the box office.
Cast
Production
The project was launched shortly after the success of Thulluvadho Ilamai in 2002, but as Dhanush's Kaadhal Kondein became a large success, Dreams was stalled temporarily as Dhanush's dates became blocked. The film ran into a legal tussle with the makers of his other film, Sullan, with the producers adamant that Dreams was released first although to no avail. The film's delay meant that Dhanush shot ten straight days for the project to complete it, while the delay also had resulted in failings in continuity. By the time of the release, the producer Srikanth and director Kastoori Raja were still engaged in a legal tussle.
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)
"Dreams" is a song written by singer Stevie Nicks, for the group Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours. It is the only U.S. No. 1 hit for the group where it sold over a million copies, and remains one of their best known songs.
Background and writing
The members of Fleetwood Mac were experiencing emotional upheavals while recording Rumours. Drummer Mick Fleetwood was going through a divorce. Bassist John McVie was separating from his wife, keyboardist Christine McVie. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and lead singer Stevie Nicks were ending their eight-year relationship. "We had to go through this elaborate exercise of denial," explained Buckingham to Blender magazine, "keeping our personal feelings in one corner of the room while trying to be professional in the other."
Nicks wrote the song at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, in early 1976. "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio," remembers singer Stevie Nicks to Blender, "I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes."
Dreams (Klaus Schulze album)
Dreams is the nineteenth album by Klaus Schulze. It was released in 1986, and in 2005 was the third Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. The reissue bonus track was released early 2004 in Hambühren as a limited promo CD Ion.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Klaus Schulze.
