Bush didn't intend to insult Democrats: Snow

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[evad]

i just thought saying "Democrat party" was a Southernism. is it?

heh...when Rush uses it, its a term of disrespect.

When W uses it, it's a Bush-ism, kinda like "nukular".

I'm not sure about southerners but I do know this, there is nothing democratic about the democRAT party.

[SpringheelJack]

i just thought saying "Democrat party" was a Southernism. is it?

It is, or at least was a few decades ago, but lately some in the GOP have been purposely using it because they think it sounds grating to the ears --- a kind of subtle Lakoffian slur.

[beelzepug]

Then let them stop referring to the Republican Party as "The Relious Right", right-wing wackos, and neocons. Besides that, it IS the "Democrat" party. There's nothing democratic about it.

[KJC1]

Oh for God's sake.

The DUmmies have been toiling and seething over this perceived slight, and I can't believe it's made it this far.

I'm not surprised to see the MSM repeat this meme, that "Democrat Party" is a slight, though.

And, just for the record:

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Heh heh.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I would have said, "If the shoe fits, wear it, you scumbucket traitors."

[SpringheelJack]

Bush used the term correctly. What are we supposed to say now; examples: "bills proposed by the democratics" or "Nancy Pelosi and the democratics"?

The adjectives for words with a -crat ending usually end in -ic. An autocrat commits an autocratic act. A bureaucrat ties you up in bureaucratic red tape. An aristocrat lavishes himself in aristocratic foppery.

[wideawake]

Everyone in America says: "the Democrats and the Republicans."

No one ever says: "The Democratics and the Republicans."

Democrats say: "I am a Democrat" not "I am a Democratic."

This complaint is beneath nonsensical.

[Howlin]

All the stuff they say about him and THIS bothers them?

[onyx]

I always call them democrat. LOL

[dforest]

Okay, he should never have said anything about it. Snow should have said " In light of the many slurs by members of the Democrat party to the President, I think you all can handle it"

[DEEP_e]

So they are the democratics now, I guess. Sounds like a bad name for a band, but perhaps a good one for a deceitful, subversive movement...

[jbwbubba]

"Bush is a idiot"
"Bush is a liar"
"Bush is a murderer"
"Bush is evil"

"Waaahhh he called us democrats and not democratic, Waaaah"

Yeah thats balance

[reagan_fanatic]

The dims spend the last 7 years hurling every possible insult at the President and we're worried if we insulted THEM!!!??

[rightazrain]

Remember the MSM hissy fit over Newt's complaints about exiting the back door of the plane?

This seems at least as petty, but we won't get a whisper of coverage out of the MSM.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

He should say, "I'm sorry I forgot the "ick" after Democrat."

[KC_Conspirator]

You do understand the real reason the democratics hate this is because there is nothing democratic about them?

[Unmarked Package]

Well, this settles the issue for me. From this day forward, it will be the Democrat Party in all my writings.

I rejoice in the knowledge that it irks the members of the Democrat Party; an organization that has ceased to be an American political party and now resembles a freakish collection of anti-American, anti-capitalist insurgent groups.

[Carolinamom]

Democrat Party is perfectly correct. Democrat's Party is equally correct. But the Party consists of Democrats, so it really is the Democrat Party....a party made up of Democrats. (The party is not necessarily democratic.)

[Cinnamon Girl]

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[MARTIAL MONK]

Bob Dole made a big deal about using it in his 1976 Vice-presidential run to highlight that the Democrats did not have a monopoly on being Democratic. That is where modern common usage starts.