Name your favorite 'snollygoster'!

[babylonsister]

Hey, new word for me; thought it might be fun to match a face to your favorite 'snollygoster'.

I guess Specter might have applied, Lieberman definitely. I'll throw Ben Nelson in there even though he didn't change parties (he should).

Now, if I could only figure out what 'talknophical asumnancy' means. :evilgrin:


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/07/30/more_political_words.html


snollygoster


A politician who will go to any lengths to win public office, regardless of party affiliation or platform.

One of the earliest references comes from the Columbus Dispatch in October 28, 1895 which defined the term as “a fellow who wants office, regardless of party, platform, or principles, and who… gets there by sheer force of monumental talknophical asumnancy.”

According to Vintage Vocabulary, President Harry Truman revived its use in 1952. Talking about politicians who like to make a show of public prayer, he said, “I wish some of these snollygosters would read the New Testament and perform accordingly.”

Time notes Truman’s tone “left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant.”

[UTUSN]

1. K&R #4 n/t

[Initech]

2. Does Megabucks Whitman count?

[bvar22]

3. Oh Boy...Let me add:

Summers
Geithner
Vilsack
Salazar
Emanuel


You wouldn't be able to tell they were Democrats without the "D" after their names.
Policy-wise, they would be just as happy in the Republican Party.

Rahm Emanuel was recently overheard crowing about how Republican the Democratic Party leadership really is!

"In a Thursday interview, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel argued that rather than recoiling against Obama, business leaders should be grateful for his support on at least a half-dozen counts: his advocacy of greater international trade and education reform open markets despite union skepticism; his rejection of calls from some quarters to nationalize banks during the financial meltdown; the rescue of the automobile industry; the fact that the overhaul of health care preserved the private delivery system; the fact that billions in the stimulus package benefited business with lucrative new contracts, and that financial regulation reform will take away the uncertainty that existed with a broken, pre-crash regulatory apparatus.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B2F85DDF-18FE-70B2-A835FE1E7FA8D74C

[Festivito]

4. I imagine that should be Snoly-ghosters. As in So-no(t)-(a) holy ghoster.

Short for a hypocrite posing as a Christian.