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In a Bush speech:
The phrase is: "Never put a period where God has put a comma." Which is to say - it ain't over yet, and God may well make it better. So Iraq's bad, but if we trust in God, he'll make it better.

References to the Dred Scott decision:
Anti-abortion activists see themselves as similar to anti-slavery activists. And they take heart that eventually Dred Scott v. Sandford was overthrown.
(Roe v Wade is their Dred Scott)

Calling people who were forced out by Katrina "refugees" instead of "evacuees."

"Family Values" means pro-life and anti-gay.

The Gadsden flag ("Don't Tread on Me)-The Gadsden Flag has been used throughout modern politics as a symbol of disagreement with the current governmment.

Minutemen:
Minuteman Project and its chapters have been called an extreme nativist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center."

Huckabee's dog whistle:
He is fond of talking about "vertical" politics rather than "horizontal" politics.
This is definitely dog-whistle politics -- that is, a message delivered in coded terminology and targeted to a particular subcultural group. Conservative evangelicals often talk about the need to prioritize their vertical relationships with God first and foremost before worrying about horizontal relationships among people. It's the individualized "get right with God" approach of conservative Protestantism.

By linking Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, Republicans tap racist fears of black men and white women.