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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 06:00 PM
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The Republican Dictionary, 2008 Edition
A
Ally - A nation that terrorizes it's own people, uses secret and/or religious police, and kills it's own people... but at least they don't hate us
Alternative energy - Looking for new places to drill for oil
Appeaser - A liberal who wants to open up talks with our nation's enemies

B
Balance - To tip something to the right
Bipartisanship - Telling Republicans and Democrats to come together... to enact a Republian President's agenda

C
Class Warfare - Things like the minimum wage
Coalition of the Willing - Forming a coalition with nations that have been duped or forced into joining
Compassion - When Conservatives work against equal rights for GLBT people, economic freedoms for the poor, reproductive freedoms for women, and so on. See Hate
Culture of Life - Something that Republicans don't want the poor, the homeless, non-white people, or the post-born to be a part of

D
Deregulate - To let someone totally rape and destroy a valuable part of the infrastructure
Disgruntled - What your mood is said to be according to Republicans when you feel like telling the truth about them

E
Enemy - A nation that terrorizes it's own people, uses secret and/or religious police, kills it's own people, and hates us
Executive Privilege - A power that the Bush Administration uses frequently so nobody can see what it's doing. See Wiretapping

F
Facts - An invention of the West Coast Liberals and has a strong Anti-Republican bias. Often works with a creation of the East Coast Liberals, known as Reality, in order to do tag team assaults on the Conservative Movement in general
Faith-based - A payoff
Freedom - The freedom for oil companies to drill for more oil

G
God - Money and/or Campaign Donors
Great Communicator - A conservative who wants to open up talks with our nation's enemies

H
Hate - When Liberals make fun of Conservatives. See Compassion
Healing - Pardoning dangerous criminals (Such as Elliot Abrams) who are connected to a Republican's Administration

I
I can't recall - You train for over a month to prepare your testimony in front of Congress and then you get nervous or something... Right...
Interfaith - When different denominations of right wing Christians come together to help enact the Republican agenda
Islamofascism - The GOP's best friend in the 1980's

J
Job Growth - What is happening to repo men, debt collectors, and body bag makers
Judicial activism/tyranny - Making a decision that Republicans disagree with
Junk Science - Science that Republicans say is not sound, much like abstinence education and intelligent design, but they won't talk about those two being junk science, now will they?

L
Liberal Media - Something that, for some inexplicable reason, mysteriously disappeared before the invasion of Iraq

M
Mandate - Getting 51% of the vote
Move on - When a Republican wants you to forget about his illegal or unethical activities
Moral Values - Something that is typically defined by Christian Right leaders, for some reason, it coincidentally matches the social agenda of the Republican Party

Obstructionist - What you get called when you confirm 95% of Bush's judicial nominees, but don't confirm the remaining 5%

P
Pacifist - Someone who doesn't follow a doctrine of burning down villages, capturing and raping all the women your troops find, and forcibly converting the population
People die in war, get over it! - When Blackwater murders Iraqi Civilians. See Terrorism
Persecution - When Right Wing Christians aren't able to force their religious/political views down your throat
Personal Responsibility - Only applies to you if you are poor

R
Rapture - The Christian Right's exit strategy from Iraq
Reality - An invention of the East Coast Liberals and has a strong Anti-Bush bias. Often works with a creation of the West Coast Liberals, known as Facts, in order to do tag team assaults on the Conservative Movement in general
Reform - To destroy

S
Sanctity of Life - Preventing babies from getting aborted, so 18 years later they can go fight, kill, and die in Iraq and possibly Iran
Scott McClellan - Someone who respects and admires Bush, but is accused of being a member of the Obama campaign by conservatives when he says or writes something that is a dissent from the administration
Simplify - To cut taxes for the wealthy

T
Terrorism - When Al Qaeda in Iraq murders Iraqi Civilians
Torture - Like swimming, freestyle, backstroke
Tough on Crime - Putting the poor and/or minorities in jail
Traitor - A person who was right when he/she said Iraq had no WMD, that there was no Iraq-Al Qaeda link, that Rumsfeld was a failure, that things are going to smoothly over there, and so on

V
Values Voter - A voter who is told how to vote according to the "moral values" of their religious leaders
Vice President - An enigma. Has all of the privileges, but none of the responsibilities, of the Executive Branch
Voter Fraud - The crisis of the poor and/or minorities actually voting (GASP!)

W
Wiretapping - If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear, right?
Witch Hunt - Prosecuting members of the Bush Administration
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1Hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 06:13 PM
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1. Funny! Your creation?
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-22-08 06:16 PM
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2. Some. Others I got from others
And they themselves got it from others.

Here's a Daily Kos article where I got some inspiration:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/22/161145/320
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