We are using the Republican Glossary.....

[KensPen]

and it's hurting us...

we are allowing them to set the terms,
Bush Hater,
Elitists
etc.

WE need to start working on a glossary and push it to the forefront.

Neocons - sounds like a cool name, I would like to be a Neocon. shortening it to Neo is more dissmissive

Bush 41 and Bush 43 - How bout "Bush The Lesser" for the pretender in the throne.

[mrgorth]

1. I like it

we also need a counter to "democrat party".

[KensPen]

2. I would rather.....

let that run off like water off a ducks back.
names are only effective when you let them get to you.

Look how we allowed them to create "liberal" into a negative thing.
I would rather let the insult slide, but correct them for their poor grammer.

[reachout]

3. Matrix

I think Neo has a little too strong of a positive cultural identification at this point.

/half joking

[aquart]

10. Yeah. Con is much more apropo.

The whole Bush administration is a con job.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Yes, these choices would be so much better to incorporate into

your letters to the editor and articles:


McJobs...let's invent a language
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=111&topic_id=12822

[LuminousX]

5. You are on the right track!

Actually, throw away the term neoconservitive entirely... they are actually corporatists. Their philosophy isn't conservative in nature at all.

Bush the Lesser is a great reference, I'm going to use it.

[Cheswick2.0]

6. Kenm what a great idea!

I like that idea of calling them neos.

Hey come join us in the lounge for the FEEL THE LUUUUVVV THREAD.

[LuminousX]

7. Start using GOP as a verb

To GOP something is to 'run it dry' or 'leach from it'.

Medicare got GOPped. Bush is going to GOP social security. Our treasury has been GOPped.

[aquart]

8. Exactly. NEVER USE THEIR TERMS. REDEFINE AND THEN TALK.

Tax and spend is really pay as you go. The Bush policy is Borrow and spend.

Pre-emption is aggression without provocation.

Liberal is humane.

Conservative is non-applicable to Bush as he conserves nothing and spends like a drunken sailor buying trinkets for his whore while his family starves.

NEVER USE THE REPUBLICAN TERMINOLOGY.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. I say, let's use Webster's.

Let's call things what they are and skip the loaded buzzwords. Let's win with better ideas and honesty instead of trying to out-Republican the Republicans.

They'll always lie better than us.

[aquart]

11. When they say "grassroots" they misuse the term.

One of us here called it astroturf and that's pretty correct in my book. We ain't lying. We're exposing the lies.

[HawkerHurricane]

12. I've been using 'Bush the Lesser' for years...

for other things....

Use 'Cons' for conservatives. 'Corperate Cons' works.

Never use 'Pro' for any of thier positions. Bush isn't Pro Life, he's anti-choice. How can you be 'pro life' and support the bombing of innocents?
So, when a repuke says 'Bush is pro business' correct them and say he's anti-worker.
Bush is anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-veteran, anti-police, anti-teacher, anti-reason and anti-anything but Bush money.

[KensPen]

13. agreed with "pro life"

I am pro life... in that I think it's the better option.
But I am pro choice in that I think the choice belongs to the woman.

so to make it clear, they truly are "anti choice".

[truthspeaker]

14. chickenhawks

... is one of my favorites

terms for Republicans:

Autocrats
Bush crime family
Bush Mafia
henchmen
cronies
con men
neofascists
thugs
bullies
Hooverites
warmongers

government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich, paid for by the middle class

for the Religious Right (Falwell, Robertson, et. al.):
Pharisees
Religious Reich
theocrats
Crusaders
American Taliban

[truthspeaker]

15. two more!

I forgot:

Bushlickers

Freedom-haters

[ACK]

16. borrow and spend Republicans

I like that one.

Every time a Dem talks about a repuke the word radical and/or righ-wing should be tied in the phrase. Worked good for Clinton with Dole.