When a Repug goes on a media outlet and calls it "the Democrat party" ...

[zbdent]

what the response from the Dem, if allowed, should start off with:

"First off, how credible can X be when he/she doesn't even know the actual name of the DemocratIC party ..."

or ...

"I don't know who X is lying about ... he's/she's referring to a non-existing party ... there's no Democrat party. There IS the DemocratIC party ..."

[Cosmocat]

1. No ...

when you are explaining, you are losing ...

return fire and force the jaggoff to be the one to bring it up ...

R douchebag - "the democrat party ..."
D with actual nads - "the republic party ..."
R douchebag - "YOU ARE NOT CALLING OUR PARTY CORRECTLY! ba wa, ba wa ..."
D with actual nads - "get the democratic party straight and I will get the republican party straight"

[zbdent]

2. have the Dem slip and call it the Repugniconvict party ...

[Dinger]

3. K & R, And A Little History:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(phrase)

Ruth Marcus, from 2006 (good article):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112101223.html

[progressoid]

8. Gots love the Wikipedia.

History of usage

"Democrat Party" has been used from time to time by opponents of the Democratic Party. The history of the term has been traced by scholars and commentators to the early 20th century.<3> The earliest known use of the term, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was by a London stock-market analyst, who wrote in 1890, "Whether a little farmer from South Carolina named Tillman is going to rule the Democrat Party in America – yet it is this, and not output, on which the proximate value of silver depends."<4> The term was used by Herbert Hoover in 1932, and in the late 1930s by Republicans who used it to criticize Democratic big city machines run by powerful political bosses in what they considered undemocratic fashion. Republican leader Harold Stassen later said, regarding his use in the 1940s, "I emphasized that the party controlled in large measure at that time by Hague in New Jersey, Pendergast in Missouri and Kelly-Nash in Chicago should not be called a 'Democratic Party.' It should be called the 'Democrat Party.'".<2>

The noun-as-adjective has been used by Republican leaders since the 1940s and appears in most GOP national platforms since 1948.<5> In 1947, Republican leader Senator Robert A. Taft said, "Nor can we expect any other policy from any Democrat Party or any Democrat President under present day conditions. They cannot possibly win an election solely through the support of the solid South, and yet their political strategists believe the Southern Democrat Party will not break away no matter how radical the allies imposed upon it."<6> President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term in his acceptance speech in 1952 and in partisan speeches to Republican groups.<7> Ruth Walker notes how Joseph McCarthy repeatedly used the phrase "the Democrat Party," and critics argue that if McCarthy used the term in the 1950s, then no one else should do so.<8> The Dan Smoot Report throughout the 50s and 60s used the phrase, almost without exception.

In 1984, when a delegate of the Republican platform committee asked unanimous consent to change a platform amendment to read the Democrat Party instead of Democratic Party, Representative Jack Kemp objected, saying that would be "an insult to our Democratic friends." The committee dropped the proposal.<9>. In 1996, the wording throughout the Republican party platform was changed from "Democratic Party" to "Democrat Party". In August 2008, the Republican platform committee voted down a proposal to use the phrase "Democrat Party" in the 2008 platform, deciding to use the proper "Democratic Party". "We probably should use what the actual name is," said Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the panel's chairman. "At least in writing."<10>

The term has also been used on occasion by other opponents of the Democratic Party, such as Ralph Nader.<11>

[elocs]

4. This is a correct buy silly point. Why clue the freepers that it bothers you, that why they do it.

It's like kids: when you let another kid know that some name bothers you then they will call you it all the time. It's stupid, but the more that Democrats complain about Republicans calling it the "Democrat" party, the more they will continue to do it.

[mwb970]

5. As in the earlier response, merely begin referring to "the republic party".

The first time I did it I would throw in as an aside "Apparently we're leaving off the last syllable of each other's party name today". I then would refer to "the republic party" throughout the rest of the interview no matter what the wingnut said.

Passive aggressive? You betcha!

[zbdent]

11. Better yet, mention Sanford, and refer to the Pubic party ...

[Ian David]

6. As long as they say "Democrat Party" we should pronounce John Boener's name the way it's spelled.

In fact, we should call them The Boener Party.

Or The Republick Party.

[90-percent]

7. I find

I find it offensive that they use it, because they are using it as a slur or put down.

It is also an incorrect grammatical usage, but Republics revel in their wrongness so much it's invisible to them.

It broadcasts the lack of civility and knowledge of the user.


-90% Jimmy

[struggle4progress]

9. Frickin Publicans

[Gregorian]

10. Leave it alone. Let them hang themselves. That's what Obama did during his "talk".

When the furniture saleswoman (with all due respect to qualified furniture salespeople) stood up and rambled on at Obama, using the Democrat term, he looked stern but did not anger nor reproach.

Whether you are a Christian, athiest, or whatever, what Jesus did was most damaging. He said to love your enemy. And by doing so they'll end up fucking themselves over. Well that is a slight paraphrase.




Here is the key- By being neutral, it gives nothing for the opponent to focus on. It goes against our nature to not be angry. But by doing so, it makes us the target.


Let them hang themselves.

[zbdent]

12. That "meeting" was all about one thing ... Boehner putting the "plan"

in Obama's hands ... it was the photo-op.

After that, yes ... they hung themselves, by actually opening their mouths on camera. They thought that they were in Congress where you have to ask permission to refute your opponent when the opponent lies to your face for the camera ...