Code Words/Great White Hope–Immorality

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Great White Hope

Racist call for a White boxer to beat Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing champion, in 1909; play and movie, both starring James Earl Jones; call for new leader of Republican Party in 2009—Rep. Lynn Jenkins See also Inartfully worded

Greatest country in the world, The

The United States—in the early 1950s, when Jim Crow was still the law, gays were firmly in the closet, abortion was illegal, and even most teenagers knew their place.

Habeas Corpus

In the Original Intent of the Founders, does not apply to riff-raff like Blacks and furriners

Health Care Plan, Republican

Don't get sick, but if you do, die quickly—Rep. Alan Grayson

Health Care providers

Health Care deniers—Frank Luntz, noted by Ralph Nader

Healthy Forests

No Tree Left Behind

High value detainee

Someone of high political value, someone we can torture a useful confession out of—Dick Cheney

Hippie

Drug-using N*****-lover

Honest politician

One who stays bought

Honesty

Plausible deniability

Human rights

Rights of corporations; Property rights. Well, guns, too.—Project for the New American Century, NRA

Human Rights come from God alone

Governments cannot grant Abortion or Gay rights. Those would be Human Wrongs.

Ideology

Democrat ideas; Socialist central planning—Sen. John Cornyn R-TX; Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

I don't recall/I don't remember

I could tell you, but then they'd have to Tea Party me.

Illegal immigrants

Immigrants; Natural-born Latino citizens; illegal, n. "A term used by descendents of European immigrants to refer to descendants of Indigenous Americans"—ricardomath on Daily Kos; children of illegal immigrants, if we can get rid of that pesky 14th Amendment birthright citizenship clause

Immorality

Sex education—John McCain

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