Say it LOUD & Say it PROUD!!!

[kimsterdemster]

We are all (most of us) Democrat's, member's of The Democratic Party!!! :kick:

We must start calling out the Republic's, less THEY GET THE SAME!!!!!!! :9

These jerks KNOW when they are butchering the ENGLISH language (their favorite language) that it is meant to be an INSULT!!! :grr:

GAME ON!!! :dem:

Keep on sayin it, Republic's!!!


I'll be your huckleberry, that is just my Game.

We will endeavor to persevere.

( Tombstone/Outlaw Josey Wales).


:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

We will be showing him (*) the way.

Sen. Webb, thank you. :patriot:

[MADem]

1. Joe Scarborough pointed out the childishness of dropping the 'ic' this evening

I was rather surprised, pleasantly so.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Joe is worth listening to

No, I'm not turning into a Conservative (or -- *gasp!* -- a DLCer). I seek out Conservatives who can articulate their philosophy in a rational, non-psychotic manner. They've been tough to find. But I think Joe Scarborough is emerging as a major Conservative voice during a period when screech-monkey behavior has pervaded the GOP.

Joe knows his party and his ideology are both in trouble, and much of that trouble is well deserved. None the less, he is a loyalist. He has decided to take the "thanks, I needed that!" approach and confront the unpleasant truth that the GOP has turned into a group of screaming, whining, boozing, carousing juvenile gangsta-wannabes. But they're too old to spank, and besides, Joe is probably saving his good arm for the bowling league. So instead, he hosts Liberals and paleo-Conservatives on his program, and we get a clear, concise, multiple-point-of-view discussion-cum-post-mortem of the ongoing Republican Crack-Up.

He still hasn't quite gotten the "ringmaster" timing down, but he's new at it, and not everyone can be as talented as Keith Olbermann. But Scarborough's show is well worth the extra hour being perched in front of the tube (or digital screen, as the case may be).

I'm a liberal, I agree with Joe on very few issues, if any, but I know he will represent the Conservative point of view with clarity and without bile. If this is the NEW face of the GOP, we will be in trouble. Fortunately for us, Scarborough is probably fighting an uphill battle among his own. Even if he emerges as a leader of the Republican Party, it's likely to be a decade or more.

Now, if we can only keep OUR guys from Democratic ritual suicide ...

--p!

[Clark2008]

7. Except Joe now says he's a Libertarian.

I think he no longer wants to associate himself with the Republicon Party.

P.S. That's not a typo. I did write Republicon. :)

[Dogmudgeon]

9. Izzatso?

It's not too surprising, though. But the Libertarians themselves are a mufti bunch and now quite divisive. I do know that a lot of Republicans like to call themselves libertarians because it gives them a hipper caché.

Bill Maher also calls himself, or has called himself, a libertarian. And before the word's appropriation by David Nolan in 1971, it was almost exclusively used by leftists for anti-violence anarchists.

However, the libertarians (capital or small l) have fallen into a number of the Republicans' bad habits. It will be interesting to see how the Scarborough wing of the American political bird helps that eagle soar. (And how many wings can one bird have, anyway?)

Republicon? Makes sense to me! I prefer "Publican", though, for the simple reason that it's in the Bible. But, as Mao used to say, "In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby".

He also said "Let a hundred flowers bloom," but that was before he developed allergies. :)

--p!

[MADem]

12. Well, your way of spelling it is kinder than some!

There's Repiglicking and Repiglicon, and Repiglikkkon, too!

I say call 'em all "miserable baaaaastids" and be done with it!

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

22. I'm partial to repugnantgoon, but it never caught on

nm

[MADem]

11. I understand exactly what you are saying. I do think Joe was taken to the woodshed

by MSNBC, but in a good way. They might have told him that he can't do "O'Reilly Lite" and if he keeps it up, he'll be forced to have Rita Cosby as a co-host AND have at least one Britney or Paris Hilton story a night, like it or not!!!

He's lately been allowed to have his dignity back, and he's making the most of it.

We're safe from a future with Scarborough in political life, I think. There's that messy divorce that started up towards the end of his career, and immediately preceded his decision to quit Congress, and that "dead woman in the office" thing that gets shopped around every so often. I don't know about the dead woman, and I don't know the details of the divorce (and rather HASTY subsequent marriage) but I do know that he's got some sort of political weakness there. I am guessing that just a little oppo research might dig up something, if not ugly, certainly not "family values," there.

[Morgana LaFey]

20. I agree with you

If there HAS to be conservatives around (and there does), then Joe Scarborough's not bad. And I'll take Lou Dobbs too. I watch Joe every night and am increasingly pleased with his willingness to not parrot the party line. Now, were he back in office I doubt that would be the case. But he's not, and I think it's WONDERFUL to have a few conservative voices around that aren't echoes.

And yes, I remember about the Lori Klau.... (can't remember her whole name, if I ever knew it) case. And yes, I disagree with him about a gazillion things, and always will. But stil.......

[Marr]

14. Did he mention that the president does it?

My favorite instance was when he said (paraphrasing), 'we need to work together in the spirit of bipartisanship with the Democrat Party'.

[MADem]

15. He was talking specifically about that line in the SOTU, actually. NT

[Marr]

18. Well that's interesting.

Thank you very much for the info. You don't often see such vague insults called out.

[MADem]

24. He pointed out that it was a shame that the Monkey chose to use that

childish reference, forsaking the "-ic." He noted that it was decidedly anti-bipartisan, which was the tone he was trying to set with his "Madame Speaker" opening. He made no bones about it, and KO and Tweety agreed.

[calimary]

2. Completely agreed, and Welcome to DU!

I subscribe quite frequently to the philosophy of "taste of their own medicine. See how they like it."

I think we should deliberately, and repeatedly, fuck with their party name. I like "republic party," or "republi-CON party" ('cause all they offer is a CON job. My husband went me one better and made it "repugna-CON party."

If and when they object, the follow-up is "I'll be happy to say your party's name correctly when YOU do the same with MINE."

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Might I suggest Republiklan. n/t

[lonestarnot]

10. Repuklicons.

[northofdenali]

3. NO quarter!! Don't give up, don't give away and

DON'T GIVE IN!!

kimsterdemster, if you're the quality of folks who are "joining up" at DU after the Rout of Repukes in November, the nation has a LOT of hope and relief! Welcome to DU! :hi::dem::kick::dem::hi:

[kimsterdemster]

23. Thank You...

Not sure if people read these things this late into it, but I feel bad for not replying back to people after I started this thread. Had to catch the man up on how great it was and watch it again (TIVO).

[malaise]

5. KO and Tweety

hit Bush hard for saying Democrat Party. They said he cannot be talking about bipartisanship while deliberately being childish by renaming the Democratic Party.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. They are exactly right.

It's childish and idiotic and they ought to do something to pay him back for it like cutting his fuel money for AF1.

[MADem]

13. It was SCARBOROUGH who actually raised the point. He was being interviewed

via remote by KO and Tweety from the House, where he had just left the members' cloakroom. He said that Bush should have given them the two 'ic' letters if he meant to be bipartisan, and KO and Tweety agreed with the point. But credit does go to Scarborough for bringing it up.

[yurbud]

16. we should give them one less syllable than they give us to make it more obvious:

"I would like to thank my repuh colleague, however I respectfully must disagree..."

[Eurobabe]

17. RepubliCONS is a very effective rebuttal

with an accent on the CONS.

[goclark]

19. "tis a beautiful name for them nt

[badgerpup]

21. I saw somebody put it this way on a similar thread...

...about how if you're too lazy, stupid, ignorant, incompetent, illiterate or uninformed to know the difference between a NOUN (Democrat) and an ADJECTIVE (Democratic), then you should at least have enough self-respect not to go calling attention to it as though it was something of which to be proud...

HEY, LOOKA ME! I'M SHTOOPID!

Here's your sign...

And if you assure me that no, you're doing it ON PURPOSE, to show DISRESPECT (boy,that'll show those DemocRAT LIEbruls! :eyes:)... don't be surprised when the voters have quit buying what you're trying to sell.

Guess you haven't caught on that the attitudes and attributes of laziness, stupidity, ignorance, incompetence, arrogance...
or projecting the appearance of being illiterate, uninformed, and intentionally rude are passe...so 2006 GOP anymore...