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Old 04-15-2011, 08:05 AM   #222 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by EventHorizon View Post
lets assume there is such a thing as the Conservative Party in the United States, and that it is synonymous with the Tea Party.
(for the record, the Conservative Party is a party in the UK which is similar to the Republican Party here in the States)

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so she's british?
There is also the Conservative Party of Canada. Maybe Palin is more Canadian than British, given that Alaska is pretty much a third Canadian territory. Alaska is like Canada's hat...but set at a jaunty angle.

Anyway, there are such thing at capital-C conservative parties. Not sure about the status of one in the U.S. Canada's, on the other hand, is pretty much like the love child of the rightest of Democrats and the leftest of Republicans.
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