Word: turncoat
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...money handled by the Nixon campaign workers in the tempting form of cash was a far easier allegation of criminality to understand than all of the conflicting claims about possible perjury, cover-up and obstruction of justice. It moved Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott to condemn Dean as "a turncoat" and an "embezzler" and claim that "a man who can embezzle can easily tell lies. It's a very short step down...
...should serve out another four years, Agnew would be a logical Republican presidential candidate in 1976; indeed, he is already planning to run. Before announcing his renewed confidence in Agnew, Nixon revealed his decision to the most often mentioned alternative choice, former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, the turncoat Democrat who is supporting his reelection...
...background is an unstable mixture of war and political unrest. Gandhi has just declared a policy of noncooperation with the British war effort. Now the Japanese are invading India, assisted by an Indian army formed of turncoat prisoners...
...explain it, the overall results of the November elections were decidedly antiliberal and anti-New Left. The G.O.P. losses in Congress were so few as to be utterly meaningless, whereas the chief targets of Nixon and Agnew-Tennessee's ole Senator Gore and turncoat Charlie Goodell of New York -were beaten...
Rawlings, trying to forge a new coalition of blacks, liberals, and old line Democrats, has continually punched away at the theme of party loyalty-calling Byrd a "turncoat" who cynically abandoned the party when the tide seemed to turn against...