The “Democrat” Party
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- January
- 30
A lot has been written about how President Bush dropped the “ic” in the State of the Union address when he congratulated the “Democrat majority” for its victory.
It’s the way he and many other Republicans frequently refer to the Democratic Party—the “Democrat” Party. A lot of conservative bloggers too.
I guess the idea is not to cede any democratic monopoly to the other side.
I’ve always thought it sounded odd, abrupt, cut-off, silly. The adjective is democratic not democrat.
Anyway, Bush says he didn’t intend to do it.
“That was an oversight,” he told Juan Williams of National Public Radio on Monday. “I mean, I’m not trying to needle. Look, I went into the hall saying we can work together, and I was very sincere about it. I didn’t even know I did it.”
That sounds reasonable to me though I can think of many other times when he mispronounced the name of the party.
Last year, the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg wrote about the phenomenon in The Talk of the Town. And it isn’t new.
The history is hard to pin down, he wrote, but its use has been traced back as far as the Harding Administration.
Here’s the “link.”:http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060807ta_talk_hertzberg
Photo from the AP: President Bush delivers the State of the Union speech
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Henceforth all members of the Democratic Party should refer to themselves not as “Democrats” (which they do) and call themselves “Democratics” so that they make clear that they find the term “Democrat” so repugnant.
Talk about making something over nothing….
potato .. potatoe..
does anyone really care?
;-p
No, from here on out we should name the Repugnant Party other names since they don’t have the ability to use the proper spelling and pronunciation that their forebears were well able to use all this time until the past 4 years. Repugs, Republicants, Republics, all are options since the Repukes can’t be bothered to observe the minimal conventions that were observed up till recently. Turn about is fairplay. The Republican jerk that came in and posted a reply here only suggests more changing of the Democratic Party name, but look, ‘Puke, you already have changed the name, no need to find more ways to twist it. Just another reason to despise the Repukes although I grew up in a Repuke family and now have lived to regret it.
It’s all about trying to take control of everything the repukes can take control of, such as slowly changing a party’s name by repetition, until even Democratic party voters no longer recognize the proper name of their own party. Despicable behavior by the Repukes disrespecting the other party’s name, so turnabout is fair play.