"I think it's paranoia between libertarians and the hard left that is unjustified, " Graham said.
Governing from the hard left sunk Democrats in 2010 and would cost them again in 2014.
The oddest development and, for the Muslim establishment, the most worrying one has been the alliance with the hard left.
So Mr Zapatero may have to look elsewhere, to the hard left or the Catalan nationalists, for backing.
In other words, if the Dems do take the House, the Hard Left Dream Team will be in charge.
Vigorous anti-monarchism was associated with the hard left, and has atrophied with it.
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When he challenged Mr Ortega, whose politics remain those of the hard left, he was kicked out of the party.
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He resisted that tendency, and was often criticized by the hard left.
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The hard left will be cheered by Reckless owing to their equally dim view that Wall Street, deregulation and greed drove the housing boom.
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The new pontiff has walked a fine line politically in a country that has often been sharply divided between hard left and hard right.
And that is because whenever the hard left has come to power, they have enforced their utopian vision of society by means of a reign of terror.
Regrettably, the push to undo the Patriot Act is being mounted by more than hard left-wing civil liberties and pro-Islamist organizations and their standard-bearers in the Democratic party.
In Britain in the 1980s it was clear, even to him, that handing the Labour Party to the hard left would not stop the working man voting for Margaret Thatcher.
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He came to office as GLC leader in 1981 as the nominee of a small clique of the same hard left which almost broke up the Labour Party in the early 1980s.
The first would involve depending upon the manufacturers of the Airbus, EADS - a European consortium whose workforce is represented by hard left unions with records of hostility towards the United States.
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But his attempts to push this policy agenda were drowned out by his battles with the hard left and what were seen as his ineffective and stumbling performances on television and in the Commons.
The hard left two varieties of Communist and still proud to call themselves so was in tune with the pacifist mood of the anti-war street demonstrators: no assistance whatever, be it bases or even airspace, for the war.
But the "hard left" remained a problem and its champion Tony Benn - regarded by Mr Kinnock's supporters as a "clear liability to the new model Labour Party" - was seeking the Labour nomination for the Chesterfield by-election.
Instead Obama got 1.3% economic growth rates, the economy teetering on the edge of a double dip, an unemployment rate over 9%, and shrill claims from the hard left that mere near trillion dollar deficits simply are not enough.
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As you gaze out at parliament from the office of the finance minister, the outer glass pocked by a bullet-hole from some forgotten demo in Syntagma Square below, the grim prospect is of a hard-left government vying against hard-right law-enforcement.
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Apart from the two biggest parties in the incumbent coalition (which will govern until a new team is formed), the other winners were the Green Left (who doubled their votes to 7%) and the hard-left Socialist Party.
And the hard-left junior partner is deeply uncomfortable with the austerity it is being asked to endorse.
Everyone from Defense Minister Ehud Barak to hard-left, post-Zionist retreads like Shulamit Aloni and Avrum Burg says it does.
Horn said he'd be a hard worker and then, to prove his intensity, hit the wall so hard it left a dent.
This is not the only parallel with the rise of Syriza, the hard-left party in Greece that opposes that country's bail-out programme.
Syriza, an opposition hard-left alliance, stands every chance of gaining support.
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He started in Honduran politics as a radical activist and was one of the founders of the hard-left People's Revolutionary Union, which had links to Honduran terrorists in 1980s.
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