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Rockefeller Republican

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  • noun US, politics a member of the Republican Party of the United States of America, who is fiscally conservative, but not Christian conservative, and politically ambiguous on social conservatism

Etymologies

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Named after the political positions of Nelson Rockefeller

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Examples

  • Remember, there's something that we call a Rockefeller Republican, and that's basically what the tea party is responding to.

    High Tea 2011

  • He's not actually a blue-blood, patrician Rockefeller Republican, he just plays one on TV.

    This Is No Time for Moderation Peggy Noonan 2011

  • In this regard, they are not dissimilar to the right wing Republicans who viewed the liberal, Rockefeller Republican wing of their party as the enemy almost fifty years ago.

    What Progressives Can Learn From the Tea Partiers 2010

  • The district had represented for years by Rockefeller Republican types, like John Lindsay and Bill Green (who was eventually defeated by Maloney) in Congress and Roy Goodman and John Ravitz in the legislature.

    Hillary Lawyer Reshma Saujani to Challenge Maloney? 2009

  • They would pursue a Rockefeller Republican foreign policy, Scowcroft suggested: tough, hardheaded, sort of power politics orientedbut with a relatively low ideological content.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • They would pursue a Rockefeller Republican foreign policy, Scowcroft suggested: tough, hardheaded, sort of power politics orientedbut with a relatively low ideological content.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • They would pursue a Rockefeller Republican foreign policy, Scowcroft suggested: tough, hardheaded, sort of power politics orientedbut with a relatively low ideological content.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • They would pursue a Rockefeller Republican foreign policy, Scowcroft suggested: tough, hardheaded, sort of power politics orientedbut with a relatively low ideological content.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • Not only could Teresa charm the faithful, but she could work crucial swing states where her moderate politics might win over voters if they could be convinced that Kerry, who's struggling at the moment, would give his Rockefeller Republican wife a voice in the White House.

    Kerry's Secret Sauce 2008

  • Not only could Teresa charm the faithful, but she could work crucial swing states where her moderate politics might win over voters if they could be convinced that Kerry, who's struggling at the moment, would give his Rockefeller Republican wife a voice in the White House.

    Kerry's Secret Sauce 2008

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