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Sean Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:27 PM
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Can we now call the Republican Party the Republic Party?
Now that FOX and the rest keep calling US the Democrat Party?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:28 PM
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1. I call them the Plutocrat Party.
Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 02:31 PM by BurtWorm
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:29 PM
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2. The Totalitarian Party -- the Bushevik Party
They don't believe in Republics.

Too many ways for liberals and other "undesireables" to give voice to their views and have them heard by others.

Nope, I don't see anything in the recent post-Coup incarnation of the Totalitarian Party that indicates their belief in Republicansim, except as more bullshit whitewash to keep the sheep asleep.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:30 PM
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3. In honor of Clarence Thomas
how about we call it the Pubic Party!
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:30 PM
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4. Yes, do it.
Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 03:22 PM by Bleachers7
And tell them that God is a Democrat. :freak:
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:44 PM
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9. And we can remind them of this:
Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey :dem:--not an elephant! This means God is a Democrat!

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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:31 PM
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5. my coworker
always say the "democrat party" so i told him "can i call you a member of the "republic party". He didn't like that, and it's an instructive example, so I say we start using that. Goddamn fascists, they think that their evil "below the radar" tactics like this will go unnoticed. Rot in hell Murdoch.
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eek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:38 PM
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6. Yes. We need to control language just as they do.

I recall hearing some politicians from the Republic Party commenting that this "democrat" stuff was an intentional denigration.
We must counter with the same use of language.

Being called "Liberal" didn't used to be a slur. We gotta turn their stuff into slurs - sauce for the goose, dontcha know.

Thus, I always make a point to refer to bush-types as "the far right" or "neo-cons". I've noted that these terms are being used more and more in the mainstream which means somethong is working!

Using angry, snotty, jokey terms like "busheviks" will not help us.
It'll just push the middle ground away.

(OK, I refer to gwb as 'aWol" most of the time now, but always casually as if it is understood that everyone calls him that.)

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ameriphile Donating Member (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:39 PM
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7. Let's be reasonable, now
Call them the Lying Neocon Fascist CEO Billionaire Old White Warmongering Motherfuckers Party.

:)
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SnohoDem Donating Member (915 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 04:07 PM
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13. Or just the Lying Motherfuckers for short. n/t
n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:40 PM
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8. Tory bastards
They are trying to undo not just the New Deal, but the whole damned American Revolution!
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DieboldMustDie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 02:47 PM
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10. Banana Republicans
:evilgrin:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 04:02 PM
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11. I call them Republicanites
because if they want to take away one of our syllables, I get to give them an extra one!
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 04:07 PM
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12. NO!
We don't use bad English. Unlike the rich GOP kids,who could pay someone to take exams for them, we actually had to take our own English tests and pass them.

We should really write Faux and suggest that they hire a grammar editor to catch these obvious errors that anyone with a real journalism degree wouldn't make.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-03 04:09 PM
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14. Ha. Good One, Sean!
:hi:
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