Not that I know of. I don't care either way.
I think AA just wants to keep their membership up so they invented this term.
LOL! Membership. You say that as if there are dues or something. Membership means going to meetings, staying sober and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. How can you have disdain for that?
BTW, I think the people called Bush a "dry drunk" were simply were looking for any pejorative to with which to tarnish Bush.
Bush, in the end, didn't need any pejoratives about being a drunk from the left to describe how poor a president he turned out to be.
George W. Bush is a Great Man and was a Great President. I miss him terribly. If you doubt what I’m saying, take a look at the mess that’s in there now.