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  • n  a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
  • n  a supporter of the American Revolution
  • n  a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War

  • Even most of the left-whig Peronista youth, who suspected Isabelita of being too conservative, are now at least temporarily willing to give her a chance.
  • The whole center-right-middle-conservative-pantywaist-progressive-whig thing means whatever Joe wants it to means when he writes it.
  • If anything this looks more like the whig party, except the whigs at least accomplished their goals.
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  • Roy Barnes in Insider Advantage Georgia
    Barnes replied by labeling Poythress "a cheap politician." "I'm fed up with both the Democrats and the Republicans. I'd be a Bull Moose or a Whig if they still had a party."
  • Keith Olbermann in CBS News
    Last month, Keith Olbermann told viewers, "If House whip Eric Cantor is the future of the Republican Party, it is time to register as a Whig, or possibly a Bull Moose."
  • Abraham Lincoln in Salon
    In 1859, shortly before becoming president, Lincoln wrote: "I was an old Henry Clay-Tariff-Whig. In old times I made more speeches on that subject [the need for protectionist tariffs] than any other. I have not since changed my views."

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