What is a “Progressive Conservative?”
confused.
John McCain? Lindsey Graham? Arnold? New Newt?
It's like a RINO, only worse.
A big liar.
Was your question was a serious one?
“The party adopted the “Progressive Conservative” party name in 1942 when Manitoba Premier John Bracken, a long-time leader of that province’s Progressive Party, agreed to become leader of the Conservatives on condition that the party add Progressive to its name. Despite the name change, most former Progressive supporters continued to support the Liberal Party or the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and Bracken’s leadership of the Conservative Party came to an end in 1948. Many Canadians still simply referred to the party as “the Conservatives”.” (Wikipedia)
It worked for a while—Diefenbaker in the 1950s. But then Pierre Trudeau blew away the Tories in the mid-1960s and the Conservatives tried to be nothing but Trudeau-lite and lost every election for the next 16 years.
So, yes, it is a lot like RINOdom, but with a difference: RINOs keep claiming to be real conservatives when they aren’t. Canadian Progressive-Conservatives were honest enough to admit that they wanted to be Trudeau-lite.
Fools.
I believe we call them RINO’s..
That's Canadian for "RINO".
This is an indeed an apt description of the Newfoundland premier. Progressive policies for his subjects and the fruits of conservatism for himself, his family and friends.
Micheal Moore would also be considered a progressive conservative.
An oxymoron.