bleeding-heart

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I just think it is a given that the Democratic Party is a pack of big government, bleeding-heart liberal socialists.

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  1. In England, a name of the wall-flower, Cheiranthus Cheiri.
  2. A common name of some species of Dicentra, especially D. spectabilis from China, from the shape of the flowers.
  3. A name sometimes applied to cultivated forms of Colocasia with colored leaves.
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  • I just think it is a given that the Democratic Party is a pack of big government, bleeding-heart liberal socialists. —  LewRockwell.com Blog
  • Philanthropy was portrayed as bleeding-heart, sentimental tosh that science, based on racial skull measuring, would disprove.
  • The people milling about in Hitchcock's train stations and train cars, streets and restaurants, office and hotel lobbies, were replaced, when not by the "GLBTA community," by Aztecs imported by bleeding-heart Body Snatchers and by fathomlessly greedy "capitalists." —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • As a card-carrying bleeding-heart liberal I feel really weird taking s ...... —  Gear Live
  • By that yardstick Gen Pervez Musharraf should come across as a bleeding-heart liberal because, ignoring his ideological differences with Gandhi's worldview, he went to the memorial to offer floral tributes to him.
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