Fun with Vocabulary: Right wing catch phrases translated for liberals and progressives.
Activist Judge: Any judge attempting to protect the rights of minorities or the disadvantaged, particularly homosexuals
Alternative Energy Resources: deregulated federal parks, forests and wilderness areas and any other new place to explore for oil
Bible based: Anything in the Bible supporting the right-wing agenda
Civil Liberties: Unnecessary privileges – especially those sought by God-hating, baby-killing, elitist liberals who love socialism
Civil Rights: The guarantee of equal rights to everyone as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (excludes those invoked by gays, women, minorities and the poor and otherwise disadvantaged)
Class Warfare: Any attempt to raise minimum wage or taxes on the wealthy
Energy Independence: the wildlife relocation program
Faith Based Initiative: Payoffs to the Conservative Christian Right
Free Markets: No-bid contracts to Halliburton and other friends of the GOP and Tea Party
Gun Control: Your trigger finger
The Homosexual Agenda: Homosexuals exercising free speech; destruction of the planet earth as we know it
Liberal Media Bias: The facts do not fit our narrative
Pro-Family Politician: Any divorced congressman late on child custody payments who is against gay marriage and gay adoption
Pro-Life: The strongly felt belief in the absolute sanctity of human life beginning at conception (or before if you live in Arizona). However, this belief is suspended for the lower class when they reach the age of military service, for abortion doctors, or pinky liberal socialist commies from Kenya (not saying any names…..)
Religious Freedom: The right to spread conservative held literalist Biblical beliefs
The Return to Traditional Values: Restoration of classic beliefs such as public lynching and women’s servitude
Shared Sacrifice: Lower salaries and benefits for the working class and lower taxes for the wealthy
Staying the Course: Doing the same thing over again expecting the same results
Traditional Family Values: Marriage is a man and a woman only, gays cannot adopt, women should be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen
Voter Fraud: Any significant voter turnout by minorities, women or the poor
Women’s Reproductive Health Services: A deeply personal medical decision made between a woman and her legislature
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