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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 05:56 PM
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Don't like being called "Loony Left"?
Call them the "Recreant Right".
:)
All said and done, I'd rather be loony than recreant.:)


2 entries found for recreant.
rec·re·ant Audio pronunciation of "recreant" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rkr-nt)
adj.

1. Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause.
2. Craven or cowardly.


n.

1. A faithless or disloyal person.
2. A coward.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 05:58 PM
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1. Nice, but noboy knows what recreant means.
Loony is obvious.

How about Revolting Right? Rapture Right?

Bake
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:02 PM
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4. Make 'em look it up!
They need the practice;)

I think the results could be hilarious if you were to call someone that and they had no clue what you were talking about. Heh!
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Imalittleteapot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:02 PM
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17. They are not into research.
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 05:58 PM
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2. True. There's a defense for insanity.

But there's no excuse for ignorance and denial.

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:01 PM
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3. Miscreant also works:


1. An evildoer; a villain.
2. An infidel; a heretic.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:03 PM
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5. Loony is better than RABID.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:05 PM
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6. Risible Right
that to me is more to the point. These people are laughable in their blind stupidity. You know the chimp could come out tomorrow and call for the burning of all witches and just less than half the country and all of the lame stream media would spend the next year telling us why it's such a great plan.
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:01 PM
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16. So you find them... wisible? hmm?
I have a vewwy good fwiend in Washington named Biggus Bushus... ;-)
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:38 PM
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25. He has a wife , you know
Edited on Tue Jan-31-06 07:39 PM by jimshoes
You know what she's called? :)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:05 PM
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7. No, just call them what they are
"party conservatives." There is no need to stoop to a conservative's level. He's happy there and doesn't require our company. Just don't let them tell you they're moderates.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:16 PM
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12. How about Ratfink Right?
Edited on Tue Jan-31-06 06:55 PM by calimary
Every time we're dissed as "loony lefties" or as tucker carlson puts it - "loony-bird left" I think we need to throw one straight back at 'em. TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE.

Greedy conservatives.

Cheating conservatives.

Sneaky, lying republi-CONs (emphasis on the last syllable there - because theirs is NOTHING BUT A CON JOB).

The BALONEY Boys (and The GRINCH GALS).

Cheap-skate conservatives.

Reckless republi-CONS.

Coward conservatives.

Chickenhawk conservatives.

Radical Wrong.

Actually, you can play with allteration and consonance, OR you can just attach ANY pejorative in front of the word "conservative" and just keep repeating it. EVERY TIME there's a "loony left," STRAIGHT BACK IN THEIR FACES with an epithet of our own. When THEY stop, WE'll stop. And not until and unless.

BTW - I've been hit with some sanctimonious people who try to slam me for "name-calling" and how low and useless and oh-you're-so-screwed-and-so-wrong-because-you-have-to-resort-to-name-calling. Here's how I respond to that: "my dear, have you taken this same complaint to the republi-CONS - who've been calling people who think as I do a LOT worse names than this, for a LOT longer than I have? Have you told any of THEM to stop it, too? When THEY stop, I'll be happy to. In the meantime, I'll call them whatever the heck I want, because they deserve it, they've earned it with the way they've trashed the Constitution and our country's standing in the global community, AND in the eyes of God, and because they need a taste of their own medicine, so perhaps SOME of them might discover what it feels like. Meantime, you be sure to hurry on over and correct THEM for it, too, like you just did to me, okay? Good for the goose, good for the gander, too. Fair and balanced, dontchaknow?"
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:07 PM
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8. I don't mind loony
but I'm not that far left. Manic Moderate, maybe?
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:03 PM
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18. Mephistophelean Moderate? Naah... too harsh... good for the Alito 15
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:59 PM
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26. Yeah, I'm a bit
left of mephistophelean.
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:08 PM
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9. Unfortunately the Recreant Right will not be offended
they'll only look at you funny with a slightly tilted head like a golden retriever and wonder what the word means
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dusmcj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:09 PM
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10. by the loony right ? Who gives a fuck ? They don't set tone. nt
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:13 PM
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11. How about "Corrupt Right"? n/t
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:17 PM
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13. Rabid Right
works for me!
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1620rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:24 PM
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14. The criminal right. n/t
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 06:57 PM
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15. Criminal! Good one! Criminal conservatives.
Throw it straight back in their faces. Eye for eye. Truth for (their) untruth. Taste of their own medicine. When THEY stop, WE will. And not until then.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:03 PM
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19. Sticks and stones may break my bones..
but name-calling by insecure people will never hurt me.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:06 PM
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20. what do you say when a 'DUer' calls you that?
Edited on Tue Jan-31-06 07:17 PM by G_j
I've heard that a few times too.
:shrug:
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:36 PM
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24. Same thing.
At least, that's what I did.:)
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:10 PM
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21. If you have to define it, it's a bad slogan
Period.
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cigsandcoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:11 PM
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22. I just call them "wrong."
I'm tired of the grade-school level banter with politics. Over the last few years (at least it seems so to me), "neener neener" jabs have replaced meaningful political debate. I think it's high time Democrats reclaimed the adult high ground and left the GOP teary-eyed in the recess yard.
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Catrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 07:15 PM
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23. I've had fun calling them names like 'off-shore half-beaks' ~ or '
Edited on Tue Jan-31-06 07:16 PM by Catrina
'fat-lipped diagramas'! :rofl:

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raysr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 08:07 PM
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27. Consider the source
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 08:17 PM
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28. There are few sounds as beautiful and haunting as the call of a loon.
So call me loony, I don't care. The heavens love to hear my voice.

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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-31-06 08:44 PM
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29. Regressive Right, Retarded Right, Restrictive Right,
Repellent Right, Redundant Right, etc

Take your pick.
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