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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:24 PM
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The whole Democrat/Democratic thing...
What's the officially, legally registered name of the Party? It's "Democratic", and if a Republican calls it the Democrat Party, just say, "Well, I don't know if you can't read, can't remember, or just don't understand grammar, but it's the Democratic, not Democrat, Party."
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:25 PM
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1. That always makes me crazy!
Especially when people who claim to be Democratic pundits do it. It gives them away as ringers.
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:27 PM
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2. I fucking hate it when those damn Republics use that term
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:28 PM
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3. http://www.democrats.org/
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:28 PM
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4. Just call them the 'Repubic" Party in return. n/t
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:32 PM
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5. Or the Nazi Party.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:33 PM
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6. Bill Bennett started this to marginalize Democrats & our Democratic Party
We are the Democratic Party.

We are Democrats.

Bill Bennett and his Republican friends at Fox use the term "the Democrat Party" in order to marginalize America's great party of the People.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 07:49 PM
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7. It's a Shibboleth. We ought to use it.
Plus, "Shibboleth" is a Bible Word, and thus, very "sexy" to recent apostates from the Church of the Divine Elephant.

In the 1970s, I remember hearing Libertarians discuss how "we should call them the Democrat Party" because the Democrats were, of course, against Liberty, what with their emphasis on civil rights and wimmin's lib and all that other Hippie Shit. The word "Democracy" could thus be appropriated (and possibly sold to their dictator friends at a profit).

These days, the righties only understand it as a vague way of expressing contempt. They don't realize that it makes them sound like dumbasses and blows their cover when they're posing as (pseudo-) critics.

--p!
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 08:18 PM
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8. Seems we should just ignore it
I don't care if they call it the Democrat Party or the Democratic Party, whoopidiedoo. If we freak about it they'll keep it up. Let it go.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 08:51 PM
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9. K&R, dammit! Do we let the GOP name us???? nt
Edited on Fri Mar-24-06 08:52 PM by DeepModem Mom
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-24-06 09:33 PM
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10. Bush was appointed pResident and you ...........
.....are hereby appointed pResident Grammer king/queen/etc.:bounce:
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