"-istas"

[Charles Doyle]

Well, the legions of Bush ARE fighting irregular wars against the right-wing Taliban and various right-wing Islamic movements in the Middle East.  Does that make them sort of left-wing?

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:55:20 -0800
>From: "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM>
>Subject: Re: coincidentally = ironically = also

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>On Friday 02/02/07at, when else, 12:07 AM Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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>"For anybody who missed The Daily Show last night, I recommend watching the early-evening rebroadcast tonight--specifically "our White House correspondent" John Oliver's hilarious satire of Bush and the Bushistas' etc. etc."
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>"Bushista" is an interesting expression.  It comes of course from Hispanoamerica, where it is used in "Zapatista" and "Sandinista" and others that I can't think of at the moment to mean "armed follower of", with, I am fairly certain. the connotation of "left-wing guerilla"  (e.g. those oppossed to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua were not the "contradistas" or "Somozistas" but simply the "contras".)
>Therefore you connote that George W. Bush is the leader of a left-wing guerilla movement!

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