leftist slant on the term. This has also been attributed to a routine from the comic Leo_Gallagher . http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/03/r_politics_kurtz071403.htm ===Greenie or greeny=== An Environmentalist or Green party supporter. ===Grit=== ''CAN'': A colloquial term for a member of the Liberal_Party_of_Canada . In the 1870's, an Upper Canada radical reformist party named the Clear