|
Not long ago I heard Pigboy on the EIB (Erection In Bottle) network babbling about how the Democratic National Party should actually be referred to as the "Democrat" party because just as a Republican belongs to the Republican party, then by God, a Democrat must, by extension, belong to the "Democrat" party. Of course, by that logic, Derek Jeter can never be called a New York Yankee. He is a member of the "Yankees", therefore, in Limbaugh land he must be a "Yankees". Peyton Manning is not a Colt, he's a "Colts". But let's put that total lack of logic aside. Shit, we already knew that Rush is dumber than a fundamentalist preacher. No, what strikes me about this issue is the stunning prescience demonstrated by the founders of the Republican party. There is a reason that they made a conscious decision to call both themselves and their party "Republican". With a foresight that Nostradamus can only envy, they realized that somewhere, many years down the road, their party would be hi-jacked by a band of right-wing fools. Those same prognisticators also predicted that anyone who would subscribe to the bullshit that would surely be spouted by the aforementioned fools would certainly be too fucking stupid to know the difference between a noun and an adjective. Better to give the faithful just one word to remember, and not confuse them with any of that pesky grammar stuff.
|