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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEverytime I hear the term "The Democrat" candidate I am reminded how
Flush Flembaugh has infected the MSM.
LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)wonder just how progressive they really are, doesn't it?
malaise
(269,004 posts)Dems aren't rats but they have more than a few thugs in that racist party starting with their candidate Don the Con.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Does that explain it to you? I am a proud Democrat who is a member of the Democratic Party.
Limpballs is just too fucking drugged up to know the goddamn difference.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)republican propagandists have been using this for over 90 years:
The history of Democrat Party is hard to pin down with any precision, though etymologists have traced its use to as far back as the Harding Administration. According to William Safire, it got a boost in 1940 from Harold Stassen, the Republican Convention keynoter that year, who used it to signify disapproval of such less than fully democratic Democratic machine bosses as Frank Hague of Jersey City and Tom Pendergast of Kansas City. Senator Joseph McCarthy made it a regular part of his arsenal of insults, which served to dampen its popularity for a while. There was another spike in 1976, when grumpy, growly Bob Dole denounced Democrat wars (those were the days!) in his Vice-Presidential debate with Walter Mondale. Growth has been steady for the last couple of decades, and today we find ourselves in a golden age of anti-ic-ism......
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William F. Buckley, Jr., the Miss Manners cum Dr. Johnson of modern conservatism, dealt with the question in a 2000 column in National Review, the magazine he had founded forty-five years before. I have an aversion to Democrat as an adjective, Buckley began.
Dear Joe McCarthy used to do that, and received a rebuke from this at-the-time 24-year-old. It has the effect of injecting politics into language, and that should be avoided. Granted there are diffculties, as when one desires to describe a democratic politician, and is jolted by possible ambiguity.
But English does that to us all the time, and its our job to get the correct meaning transmitted without contorting the language.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/07/the-ic-factor
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Had no idea this shit went back that far.
FarPoint
(12,395 posts)Hate, racism, bullying..normal day for republicans.