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I was a liberal until I learned to read, got a job and was mugged by weak-willed tax and spend regressives aka progressives and naive acolytes.
Sean Parnell Pushes Changes to Alaska’s Controversial Energy Tax - Vladimir’s blog - RedState 2010
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I was a liberal until I learned to read, got a job and was mugged by weak-willed tax and spend regressives aka progressives and naive acolytes.
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I was a liberal until I learned to read, got a job and was mugged by weak-willed tax and spend regressives aka progressives and naive acolytes.
Obama, Organizing Our Community - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009
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This is why I call them "regressives": they want to abandon and abolish all the REAL progress we've made, everything that makes us civilized and shining.
Living the Dream 2007
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Given these criteria, and that we do and should describe ourselves as progressives, I propose that one of the easiest and smartest single moves we can make toward winning the political war in which we are engaged is to start calling our opponents 'regressives' instead of conservatives.
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Then we’ll see how serious the regressives were about them.
Think Progress » Vitter introduces frivolous amendment to deny federal funds to dissolving ACORN. 2010
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Actually, I refer to the left/progressives as "regressives" because they want to take us back to a "lifestyle"/government type that regressed every nation/people it ever touched ….horrendously. bmcelrath - April 7th, 2010 at 7: 59 pm
ChronWatch - Articles External Article 2010
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The proponents of this type of duplicity, the secular progressives ( "regressives," as I prefer to call them), are working hard to destroy the true foundations of our erstwhile great nation.
unknown title 2009
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RT: So are you taunting or challenging "regressives" as you call them?
Dandelion Salad 2008
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She has been making the serious argument that the abdication of this issue in the political realm by the progressives left the field -- the field on which the political struggle over "family values" has been played out -- to the "regressives" in America, and thus helped pave the way for the political success of those values that did have political champions -- the traditionalist, paternalist, punitive and dominating values -- at the expense of those democratic family values.
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