GOP to call Dem leaders Deanocrats, ask them to defend themselves.

[madfloridian]

I am so about to crack up over this. From Berman at The Nation.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13&pid=2220

** "Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, detailed his party's strategy for attacking DNC chair Howard Dean in a fundraising pitch to supporters this week. "The leadership of the other party are no longer Democrats," Reynolds wrote. "They are 'Deanocrats.' And that's what I'm going to start calling them. And you should too...Make them say publicly they are not 'Deanocrats.' If they won't, then you know where they stand, and that they don't deserve to be in office." Reynolds & Co fit a slightly different, retro moniker: Plutocrats."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

1. Check your watches...

Call it.

Game over.

The Republican Party is officially out of ideas.

[Arkana]

2. This is SO going to backfire

Even more than "Blueneck" did in Freeperville. With Dean in the chairman's seat, people will take pride in being "Deanocrats".

[aden_nak]

3. It Tom Reynolds were a 6 year old, that would be a great joke!

[LeftCoast]

4. Name-calling children. It's time for an adult party to be in charge again.

:eyes:

[liberal N proud]

5. They are sure afraid of Dean

They spend so much time and effort trying to smear him. You would think he is the next Bill Clinton.

[UdoKier]

6. Proud Deanocrat here.

I wonder how proud they are of being "Bushlickans"...

[blm]

16. Don't fall in with their BS. Call this what it is - CHILD'S PLAY.

Democracy is serious business and needs serious attention.

[UdoKier]

21. This is nothing new.

First there was the disgusting display at their convention...



Then there was these stupid halloween getups - an attempt to ridicule Kerry for duck hunting



And then the tacky GOP display at the SOTU to gloat over the sham election they staged in Iraq...





Infantile gestures are par for the course with this people. Expressing outrage over it hasn't done a bit of good. You expect OUR MEDIA to treat this in a grown-up fashion?

Pshaw. Best to embrace our man, and embrace the name - that will defuse it quicker than anything.

[blm]

27. Dean intends to reframe the name DEMOCRAT. It does him no good if people

are making the party about HIM and not about the issues.

Nicknames are forms of dismissal for your serious intentions.

Everyone using Deaniac or Deanocrat should drop it and become as damned serious as Dean and others in the Democratic party looking to preserve democracy and defeat the Republican agenda.

If the name-calling didn't work in focus groups, the Republicans wouldn't be using it. Treat their approach as childishness.

[madfloridian]

30. We ARE deadly serious. I posted this to call attention to their BS.

I resent your implication that we are not serious Democrats. I resent it a lot. I posted this because the other side is so damned stupid, and it is just amazing to me that Kerry did not stand up to them.

I am sorry, but he did not. Over and over, he did not. Do not lecture on the Deaniac stuff.

When a party was so obviously out of touch and doing ignorant things, and when Bush was so vulnerable.....our side wimped out.

Do not lecture me on Deaniacs. We did not wimp out. Now there is at least a place at the table for all of us in the party... Dean will at least try to do that. He may not succeed at all, but he will give it a hell of try. I am on board with the DNC, donating and working locally, but sticking like glue to DFA.

I have seen what this party did, and many of us are fully prepared again for the Social Security wimp-out, and other things as well.

[blm]

38. What the heck are YOU talking about? I replied to another poster who

wanted to promote the use of the name Deanocrat. That was NOT your post.

What's with the chip on the shoulder and gratuitous slam at Kerry? Either you read my posts STRAIGHT as written the way I read yours, or don't bother. The exaggerated sensitivity is unhelpful.

[Kota]

7. They worry to much about our parties chair. Do we care about

who they choose? Dean must scare them.

[bowens43]

8. What a freaking nut job.

[aquart]

9. Funny. Dean's chairmanship makes me feel calm and secure.

First time I've felt that in years.

[LuminousX]

11. Yes

I suddenly feel like there is someone manning the steering wheel again.

[alphafemale]

10. ....huh?

They've regressed from bad middle school manners and humor to...4th Grade now?

"whisperwhisper ______ makes me mad. I think he's a poopoo head. Let's everybody call him a poopoo head."

[smoogatz]

12. Oh yeah well you pooped in your pants.

Did too.
Did too.
Didtoodidtoodidtoo!

[KittyWampus]

13. I'm Rubber And You're Glue. And This Dean O'Crat Knows A Jackass

when she sees one.

[NYCGirl]

14. I don't have a problem with that...

:evilgrin:

[Guaranteed]

15. That's right- give them a new, clean name to work with.

Very little political sense in this guy Reynolds.

[tanyev]

17. Oooh, hurt me, baby.

[mindem]

18. Rumor has it the repukes

have plans to start wiping boogers on door knobs too. They are just vicious!!!

[Clark2008]

19. Well, as a Clarkocrat, I think this whole thing is stupid.

Who cares what Tom Reynolds thinks? I've never even heard of him until just now.

[Old and In the Way]

20. So can we call Republicans, Mehlmancrats?

I kind of like that association. Deanocrats vs. Mehlmancrats.

[ck4829]

22. They can call us whatever they want

Because they are Traitors

[Squeech]

23. Why should I

have to defend myself against your abuse of the language?

What, were you raised in a barn, with those manners?

Or are you an exemplar of America's bourgeoning literacy crisis?

[jpgray]

24. Their response to Dean's chairmanship is childish name-calling?

Any reporter who asks "are you now or have you ever been a Deanocrat?" seriously should never be treated with respect as a journalist again.

[latteromden]

25. We... elected him. I think they know where we stand.

But let them do what they want - I think it sounds kinda nice, personally.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Self-Delete

Posted this to the wrong thread somehow. Sorry about that.
GAC

[Spirochete]

28. Deanocrat? Ouch!

That's certainly going to leave a mark...:eyes:

[ComerPerro]

29. I'd rather be a Deanocrat than

a stupid, pathetic, sycophantic moron who supports a juvenile, insolent, alcoholic asshole with the mental development of a three year old child.

[fishwax]

31. the GOP is stupid

they'll waste all their time with childish games attacking Dean (who the general public doesn't have much reason to care about) and meanwhile Dean will attack the issues.

I love having Dean as chair, and at just the perfect time too: The GOP, firmly in power but running out of ideas, running out of leadership, and with numerous party divisions over Iraq and numerous other Bush policies having been quick-rigged with duct tape for the sole purpose of the last election, I honestly think the GOP could very well explode in the next three years. So I say let 'em call us all the childish names they want. :)

[Guaranteed]

33. This is exactly what we want, anyway. Thanks for helping

us shed that DLC-skin, neocons.

[fishwax]

35. Amen and good riddance (n/t)

[Edgewater_Joe]

32. I'M a Deanocrat, YOU'RE A Deanocrat, HE'S a Deanocrat, SHE's a Deanocrat -

-- WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE A DEANOCRAT, TOO?

Be a Dean-o-crat! BEEEE - Beeee a Deanocrat!

C'MON AND SING!!!!

Be a Dean-o-crat!

BEEE -- Beee a Dean-o-crat!

[Just Me]

34. Screw the GOP CORPOROCRATS!!! THEY have some explaining to do.

Why did they fund a male HO to throw softballs during WH press conferences?

Why do they engage in the spread of deceptive propaganda to manipulate people into handing over their lives, their money and their country to a bunch of greedy bastards?

Why do they so loathe real American values and real Americans that they are willing to destroy both?

EWWW! They make me so damn mad!!!! :argh:

[meow2u3]

36. Two can play that game

If Reynolds Wrap wants to call Dem leaders Deanocrats, we can call Repuke leaders Busheviks--in public.

Let's write letters to the editor denouncing Busheviks like (insert Repuke leader here).

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

37. here's the person who is going to run this campaign

[CindyDale]

39. Geez, I'm happy. Already he's under their skins.

What fun! They are all going crazy like they deserve.

And Dean is saying all the right things.

[Sparkly]

40. Could you imagine a fundraising letter saying, "Republicans are Bushbots!"

"And that's what I'm going to start calling them. And you should too... Make them say publicly they are not 'Bushbots.' If they won't, then you know where they stand, and that they don't deserve to be in office."

Maybe there's a better example... "DickHeads" for Cheney? "Rovicans" for Rove-followers? "Newters" for Gingrich disciples?

[buddysmellgood]

41. The more they say Dean, the more they promote him. More will just rally

around Howard. Their fear has a great stink about it.

[JackD76]

42. Stupid Republicans

Republicans are idiots. I am proud of dean. Go Dean!

[elshiva]

43. Deanocrats? Oh, Who cares? Like that is suppose to

be a putdown? Not even original.

[cally]

44. Delayocrat, delayocrat, delayocrat

Neenie, neenie. Just respond the same way and let them defend Delay. Should be fun.

Very few outside of RW circles hate Dean as much as they think. Dems do not even if they didn't initially support him. He has a reputation as an honest politician and one who thinks.

Go after Delay. The best defense is a good offense.

[JackD76]

45. So what do we call the republicans?

I think retardicans but that is an insult to retards.

[cally]

46. Delayocrat!

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