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1. Can we please stop using the word "conservative" to describe them?

Sat May 25, 2013, 11:11 PM

May 2013

The only thing they're conservative about is preserving and expanding their own wealth and limiting the rights and benefits of others.

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A Word from Our Sponsor | Jane Mayer - The New Yorker [View all] BootinUp May 2013 OP

Can we please stop using the word "conservative" to describe them? DCKit May 2013 #1

vandal grasswire May 2013 #2

Too high-minded to resonate with their base. DCKit May 2013 #3

Wealthy Parasite! BillyRibs May 2013 #6

+1. pacalo May 2013 #4