Republican In Name Only

RINO stands for Republican In Name Only, a disparaging term for a member of the United States Republican Party whose words and actions are thought to be too fiscally or socially moderate or liberal. It has since replaced the older term Rockefeller Republican to describe Republicans that have a more moderate or liberal slant.

External links

• Definition and citations from The Word Spy website
• RINO Watch from the Club for Growth, with a list as of 2004 of 72 RINOs
• RINO Hunters Club and RINO weblog from the National Federation of Republican Assemblies
• Mommy, What's a RINO?, from Public Broadcasting System P.O.V. Documentary film website
• Death of a RINO, a 2002 column by Robert Novak
• John Nichols, "Hunting for RINOs" published in The Nation, September 13, 2004, p. 30-37.
• SavetheGOP.com A Website dedicated to opposing RINOs in the GOP