Code Words/Socialized Medicine–Tax cut

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Socialized Medicine

Theft of corporate and professional profits—Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine; American Medical Association, Operation Coffee Cup

Southern aristocracy, the

White kleptocrats

Southern Strategy

The South will rise again! (Not really, but they won't know that.)—Sen. Strom Thurmond, President Richard Nixon, Sen. Barry Goldwater, President Ronald Reagan, Sen. Jeff Sessions

Sovereignty

The right to reject social programs; formerly the right to reject desegregation, and before that Federal restrictions on slavery and taxes on whiskey

Special interests

The public interest—Dick Cheney

Spread the wealth around

Steal from the rich and give to the poor, rather than create more wealth for everyone (That's crazy talk!), or steal from the poor and give to the rich (Now you're talking!)

Start over with a blank sheet on Health Care

Abandon Health Care—Republicans at Health Care Summit

Starve the beast

No social programs for the poor and minorities—Grover Norquist

States' rights

The right to oppress their own people—John C. Calhoun, Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Rand Paul

Statesman

Naked opportunist

Stimulus

Porkulus

Strict constructionist

One who upholds slavery and exclusion of women and the poor from voting; one who maintains that the 14th Amendment protections for ex-slaves are primarily meant to protect corporations

Such language

as "legitimate rape" or users of birth-control all being "sluts" is of course offensive and reprehensible, no matter how much we agree with the ideas being expressed.—Mitt Romney,"That's not the language I would have used."; Rep. Todd Akin. "I used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that I apologize." See also Inartfully Worded.

Supply-Side Economics

Supply us with all of the money, because that's such a great deal for you.—Arthur Laffer, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney. See also Voodoo economics

Support the troops

Support the Military-Industrial Complex—George W. Bush

Take back our country, take back our government

Throw out the Yankee N*****-lovers!—Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul; OMG, he's Black!

Tax and Spend Liberal

Edmund Burke, once the Father of Conservatism, but no more. He wrote, "Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be necessary for true economy."

Tax cut

The solution to all problems

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