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Re: Quiet in here
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:19:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > There's a Mugwump party? What's their platform? :-) Yahoo came up dry
> > when I searched on Mugwump...
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> > Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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> > > Bruce
> > > (sometimes Democrat, Green, Libertarian, Mugwump, Free Silver, Bullmoose, • and
> > > Whig, but never Nazi, Communist, or Republican) ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Larry Pieniazek - lpieniazek@mercator.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
> > http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
> > fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet.
> >
> > Note: this is a family forum!
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> Idunno if they actually went by that name or if that was what everyone called
> them. It refers to fence-sitting on issues: their "mug" was on one side of • the
> fence, and their "wump" on the other. In any case, I was a registered
> "Mugwump" for a brief period.
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> Bruce
Found this:
mugwump
from Algonquin 'chief'
In US political history, a colloquial name for the reform Republicans who voted
in the 1884 presidential election for Grover Cleveland, the Democratic
candidate,
rather than for the Republican nominee James G Blaine. Blaine was accused of
financial improprieties, and the reform-minded mugwumps were partly responsible
for
his defeat.
The term has come to mean a politician who remains neutral on divisive issues.
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| (...) and (...) Idunno if they actually went by that name or if that was what everyone called them. It refers to fence-sitting on issues: their "mug" was on one side of the fence, and their "wump" on the other. In any case, I was a registered (...) (27 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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