[Cboldt]

I seem to recall it [first use of "Donner Party" as an insult] on an Arnold thread.

Dang - those were darn good flame fests. I fully believe you (and party-pooper nopardons) are right. Sure would like to find some authoritative link to an early use.

There must have been 200 threads. Dang.

And this is no joke, I did a google search for "donner party" / "freerepublic" and the earliest I cam up with were those Miers threads links.

[onyx]

Meirs threads for sure.

[nopardons]

I'm NOT a "party pooper" at all! You just aren't worth the bother. :-)

So why are you now willing to believe onyx, but not me? Howlin said that I was right too! And since you claim to remember the Cal. Gov. race threads and the flame wars thereon, why is it that you can't remember that the Donner Party Conservative term was used, repeatedly, in them? Could it be, that I am correct and all you yearn for, with every fiber of your being, is a stupid flame war with me? LOL