Ponder this scenario

[mnmoderatedem]

Under a democrat president, a terrorist mastermind pulls off by far the biggest terrorist assult in our country's history, resulting in over 3000 American deaths.

That democrat president fails to bring that terrorist mastermind to justice in the remaining 7+ years in his remaining presidency.

A republican president is subsequently elected. Within a year and a half, he is able to hunt down and kill the said terrorist mastermind, which the democrat president could not accomplish in his 7+ years. Democrats heap a lot of praise on that republican president, for about 10 for 15 minutes.

Democrats then rabidly attack that republican president over an isolated terrorist incident in an attempt to overshadow that republican president's successful killing of the world's most wanted terrorist mastermind, devoting about a billion more times attention to the isolated terrorist incident than the actual hunting and killing of said terrorist mastermind.

Imagine republican's response to those democrats.

[hlthe2b]

1. Why do you fail to use DEMOCRATIC as the adjective?

You seem to recognize that it isn't REPUB or Republic President, it is Republican President. So why do you fail to use the adjective form of Democratic?

Perhaps you don't realize, but the RW long ago started the inappropriate use of "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" as an intentional slur.

Sorry, but I find it really jarring on a Democratic/Progressive website to do this.


Per Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

"Democrat Party" is a political epithet used in the United States for the Democratic Party. The term has been used in negative or hostile fashion by conservative commentators and members of the Republican Party in party platforms, partisan speeches and press releases since 1940.[1]

Multiple reasons are suggested for the use of the term. A 1984 New York Times article suggested Republicans began to use the term when Democrats used their own party name to imply "they are the only true adherents of democracy."[2] Republicans "feared that 'Democratic' suggested Democrats [had] a monopoly on or are somehow the anointed custodians of the concept of democracy."[3] New Yorker commentator Hendrik Hertzberg wrote, "There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. 'Democrat Party' is a slur, or intended to be—a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but 'Democrat Party' is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams 'rat.'"[4] Political analyst Charlie Cook attributed modern use of the term to force of habit rather than a deliberate epithet by Republicans.[5] Ruth Marcus stated that Republicans likely only continue to employ the term because Democrats dislike it.[6] Marcus stated that disagreements over use of the term are "trivial",[6] and Hertzberg calls use of the term "a minor irritation" and also "the partisan equivalent of flashing a gang sign."[4]

Similar two-word phrases using "Democrat" as an adjective have been deemed controversial when used as a substitute for "Democratic" (as in "Democrat idea&quot ; National Public Radio has banned the use of "Democrat" as an adjective.[7] The term "Democrat Party" was in common use with no negative connotations by Democrats in some localities during the 1950s.[8] The Dictionary of American Regional English gives numerous examples of "Democrat" being used as an adjective in everyday speech, especially in the Northeast.[9]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/03/since_when_did_it_become_the_d.html
There are often several ways to irritate people — some direct, some more cryptic. Republicans have a way of irritating Democrats that also has frustrated some listeners.

They don't like to hear NPR journalists or guests use the noun 'Democrat' as an adjective. --snip--

"When using democratic or Democratic as an adjective, it should be the adjectival form with 'ic' on the end," said Elving. "We should not refer to Democrat ideas or Democrat votes. Any deviation from that by NPR reporters on air or on line should be corrected."

The real sting in the use of Democrat as an adjective goes back to the virulent anti-Communist Wisconsin Republican, Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

"Back in the 1950s, Joe McCarthy and his entourage began using Democrat Party and explaining by way of saying they didn't think the Dems really represented democratic ideas, etc. and should not be allowed to call themselves democratic," said Elving. "Most news organizations quoted his usage but did not adopt it."

Elving said that in the 1980s, former Republican Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich revived the usage of Democrat Party. --snip--

[Demoiselle]

2. I'm with ya, hith2be.

The use of "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" really rots my socks. Perhaps we should call the opposition "Publicans."
Not that there's anything wrong with running a bar....