Mugwumps

"Mugwumps" -- and, doubtless, to defeat him, was a series of transactions exposed in the Mulligan letters.

The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

Did you know the term "Mugwumps" has been used on multiple occasions with different meanings?

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

He rode that reputation all the way to the White House, with important support from the "Mugwumps," leading Republicans who supported the Democrat Cleveland out of disgust with the corruption of politics as usual.

Thomas Bender: Mayors for President 2008

He deeply distrusted the Democratic Party, on the one hand, and he was enraged at the nominations of the Republican Party, on the other; but the "Mugwumps," those Republicans who, with a self-conscious high-mindedness which irritated him almost beyond words, were supporting the Democratic nominee, he absolutely despised.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

Independents within the party, then known as "Mugwumps", refused to support the ticket, and contributed much toward its defeat.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

They were called by their opponents "Mugwumps," and since they believed they were acting for the best, they did not mind being called that or any other name.

Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Lester Pearson 1908

"Mugwumps," as they were called, were as a class so addicted to personal invective that it was said of them with as much truth as wit that they brought malice into politics without even the excuse of partisanship.

The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics Henry Jones Ford 1888

12 Liberal Republican "Mugwumps" like Henry Adams and E.L. Godkin sought to enlighten the whole of

Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem" 1996

But an equal problem is that when someone does play hardball, the rest of the prissy liberal Mugwumps tut-tut them about it.

Dissents: Jack Conway's Aqua-Buddha ad Ezra Klein 2010

There's no need to do a ground-up reinvention of booster technology until the Mugwumps in Washington start providing real money to the program; until then, let's spend our money on PAYLOADS and simply go with a truck that's good enough to haul them.

Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch 2009