Really, Republicans are pathetic. They had their chance, they failed, the people spoke, and they're out.
Now they're retaliating they only way they know how by passive aggressive partisanship. They're promoting an antiquated and grammatically incorrect insult to the Democratic party.
In recent months, media figures, including news reporters at CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and the Associated Press echoed Republicans by employing the word "Democrat" as an adjective to describe things or people of, or relating to, the Democratic Party -- including referring to the "Democrat" Party itself, even though that is not the party's name. The ungrammatical conversion of the noun "Democrat" to an adjective was the brainchild of Republican partisans, presumably an attempt to deny the opposing party the claim to being "democratic" -- or in the words of New Yorker magazine senior editor Hendrik Hertzberg, "to deny the enemy the positive connotations of its chosen appellation."
I'm not impressed. Maybe this is a sign. If this is the best they can do maybe they're destined for a decade of pathetic ineffectual powerlessness like the Democrat party just had.
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This is an old trick. Back in the 90s, on internet discussion groups, the Bosnian Muslims discovered that if they referred to Serbs as Servs constantly and consistently, they'd throw the Servs and their supporters into fits of rage.
It was good fun because you had to carry it to ridiculous levels, and served to demonize and ridicule the Servs so that we could bomb the shit out of them when the time came.
Don't laugh this off. It's not a bad strategy for people that are warming up the ovens.
10:44 AM, December 01, 2006
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