The "Democrat" party

[auburngrad82]

There is a strategy employed by the republicans right now to refer to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party because they don't want Americans associating democracy with the opposition. We need to come up with a name for the republican party that can legitimately be tied to them that associates negative images with them so that we can fight fire with fire. Jimmy Carter had the right idea when he referred to them as extremists and radicals. Any ideas?

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Well, since they don't know that "Democratic" is grammatically correct

how about "the Illiterate Party"

[NMDemDist2]

2. GOP = Greed Oil Party n/t

[calico1]

3. The Corporate Party.

[Rowdyboy]

4. I believe that Democratic candidates need to LOUDLY correct them

ridiculing their poor grammer. Embarrass them enough and they'll back off.

[ASanders84]

5. Who started this? Fox News?

[Unperson 309]

6. Repuglicans

In said enough times, with an *occasional* "uh... excuse me... republican..." it's subtle, but effective.

The subliminal identification with 'pugnacious' 'ugly' 'repugnant' is perfect. And it can be said often enough "by accident" that it'll stick in the mind of hearers.

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[chiburb]

7. Democratic/Democrat

The 1993 Columbia Guide to Standard American English further reproves those who say "the Democrat party."

Democrat (adj., n.), Democratic (adj.) The proper noun is the name of a member of a major American political party; the adjective Democratic is used in its official name, the Democratic party. Democrat as an adjective is still sometimes used by some twentieth-century Republicans as a campaign tool, but was used with particular virulence by the late senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, a Republican who sought by repeatedly calling it "the Democrat party" to deny it any possible benefit of the suggestion that it might also be democratic.

Thanks to Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/...