True Blue

The Conservative salvo at a 72-year-old widow of a man she called a "true-blue" Conservative quickly spread through blogs, newspapers and television. ❋ By SERGE SCHMEMANN (2011)

After a wild romp, Daisy trots home to curl up with her new, true-blue best friend. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2012)

Jill Carr would then declare Tim a hero and a true-blue American and plant a pink-lipped kiss of gratitude on his manly, whisker-stubbled cheek. ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2011)

Finally, stewing in the background is the sense that true-blue policies are repeatedly compromised by the need to keep the Lib Dems sweet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yes - true-blue AMERICANS - NOT befuddled and hypnotized lemmings blindly following the empty suit Obama! carlo ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gyllenhaal is also appealing as the love interest, but it's the mellowing Duvall who gives the film extra ballast and seasoning playing Wayne, the true-blue friend who helps Bad get clean and sober. ❋ John Farr (2012)

My grandfather, a true-blue Tory of the old school, would have been disgusted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If one of the three remaining true-blue social conservatives emerges with the preponderance of that vote in South Carolina, the pressure on the other two will become intense to pull out.'' ❋ Neil King Jr. (2012)

But he is a true-blue American with close ties to the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such proclamations have aroused suspicions that Mr. Alesi intends to switch party affiliations and run for re-election as a Democrat, a suggestion he quickly disputed, describing himself as a "true-blue Republican." ❋ Erica Orden (2011)

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of true-blue Oregon, who once supported the individual mandate, has seen the h andwriting on the election ballots and flipped. ❋ Merrill Matthews (2011)

But she teases that Teresa's motivations run deeper than being just a true-blue hero. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thanks Bush and Cheney, you are both true-blue Americans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"He's a wooz, a true-blue, dyed-in-the-wool wooz," Doctor Jackson chanted, with the medico's delight in a novelty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you're a true-blue monarchist, you have to feel for Albania. ❋ Thomas Vinciguerra (2011)

As of this writing, Erik Millett, the principal of Belleisle Elementary School, is still away from his job, having been pitilessly hounded, vilified and threatened by what amounts to a national lynch-mob of true-blue patrioteers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I will die like a true-blue rebel," he told his comrades. ❋ Mark Lewis (2011)

Its post-World War I successor, the gold-exchange standard, provided none of the semi-automatic balancing functions of the true-blue, prewar original. ❋ James Grant (2011)