Noun
Liberal Republican (plural Liberal Republicans)
(US politics, dated) A member of the Liberal Republican Party, a third way party that existed briefly in the 1870s.
But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters. Stephen Harper
Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican. Mark Hatfield