So, is Jon Russell a RINO?

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Usually, the title "RINO" is applied to someone not unlike Jaime Herrera, who co-sponsored and voted for SEIU legislation the past two sessions while voting to strip out the last $229 million from the state emergency fund... or our completely worthless Secretary of State, Sam Reed, who has done nothing to improve election security; nothing to require proof of citizenship to register to vote and who, because it makes his job much easier, has been an advocate of restoring voting rights to convicted felons as soon as they're released... instead of after they've completed ALL of the requirements of their sentences such as restitution and probation.

But there is more than one kind of RINO. There's the opportunistic, far right variety... like Jon Russell.

Two separate sources have confirmed to me that Russell has indicated that he may file as a Tea Party member as opposed to a Republican.

That's kind of bizarre on a variety of levels, but given a review of the record, maybe not so much:

Russell, not all that long ago, ran the Port Levy campaign.

That's right; Jon Russell, alleged conservative, ran the campaign to slam those living in the Port District with the largest tax increase in local history.

That's not very "conservative" of you, Jon.

And telling people you're considering running under some other banner besides that of the Republican Party isn't, well, very Republican of you.

In fact... you could be called a RINO for that sort of thing, couldn't you?

But then... a fine, upstanding young man like Jon would never do THAT... that Florida Governor Charlie Crist thing.... would he?

Nah.

Cross posted at Jon Russell Watch.
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Letterman runs into a smart Tea Party leader.

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I don't have much good to say about David Letterman. I don't watch his show anymore. Like many leftists, morality doesn't play much of a role in his life, and his sexual exploitation of the women on his staff should have resulted in his show being yanked off the air. But that seems to be both typical of the lamestream media and the subject of another post.

Given Letterman's avowed fringe leftism, I was mystified as to how he would have someone in the Tea Party leadership (Pam Stout of Idaho) on. I recognize that since Leno went back to the 11:30 slot, he's been crushed in the ratings, but still, the only motivation besides ratings I could think of was for Letterman to make Pam out to be some sort of idiot.

That said, please go here and watch as Pam gives at least as good as she gets.

Huge hat tip to John Nolte at Big Hollywood.
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