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  • So, with all of their congenital vitriol and lunacy these days, what are the chances that Bush will win Leftists over to his causes?

    Sound Politics: Democrats May Be in a Quandary on Iraq 2007

  • Latin American Leftists to trade in new virtual 'sucre' currency

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • He said his problem was with "Leftists" - not Democrats or Liberals, but the (roughly) 10% of the population with extreme Left leanings.

    carinosa34 Diary Entry carinosa34 2003

  • What Europeans would call Leftists are confusingly termed “liberal,” with a small l, in America, while in Europe liberals are what Americans now call Classical Liberals: they stand for the free market, respect for property rights, the rule of law, limited government, and personal responsibility.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • What Europeans would call Leftists are confusingly termed “liberal,” with a small l, in America, while in Europe liberals are what Americans now call Classical Liberals: they stand for the free market, respect for property rights, the rule of law, limited government, and personal responsibility.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • What Europeans would call Leftists are confusingly termed “liberal,” with a small l, in America, while in Europe liberals are what Americans now call Classical Liberals: they stand for the free market, respect for property rights, the rule of law, limited government, and personal responsibility.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • The sixth year anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom (which the Left seems to have thought was called "Operation Iraqi WMD") is a perfect example of the dilemma Leftists face when they hold power.

    Canada Free Press 2009

  • You "Leftists" just don't get it, according to the Right.

    Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous 2009

  • "Leftists," thus identified, are definitely not the sort of folks that one would include in polite company.

    "The Left" 2009

  • Although tens of thousands of working people came to protest George Bush and his suspiciously-named "free trade" economic policies; they were invariably smeared by the corporate media as "Leftists" or "radicals"; eliminating the possibility that they were simply concerned citizens participating in the democratic process.

    Panicky Bush slinks away from Chavez 2005

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