I'm curious....Who/How started this idiotic "Democrat" Party junk?

[HardWorkingDem]

Was this an idiotic Rove stunt? What's the history on this infantile goofy shit.....

[Captain Hilts]

1. First by Tom Dewey. Revived in the 70s by R pollser Lance Tarrance.

PLEASE tell the Guardian to STOP this usage. It drives me nuts and I've e-mailed them repeatedly on it.

[Hannah Bell]

4. dewey? seriously?

[Ian David]

2. Joe McCarthy. n/t

[jpak]

3. Probably Rush or The Manatee - they have trouble with big words

:evilgrin:

[MineralMan]

5. Wikipedia has an article on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(phrase)

[bluestateguy]

6. Bigger fish to fry

You ask them to stop and they meekly apologize, promise not to do it again. They stop for awhile, and then go right back to saying "Democrat Party" in a few days again.

[TankLV]

7. It appeared in a repuke campaign ad against the democRATs...

and they damn well intend it as a slight...

[FSogol]

8. Newt Gingrich used it as a slur since crat and rat sound the same.

He encouraged its use.


The best defense is every time you see or hear its use, to write or email the program and ask how do their experts have any credibility if they can't even get the name of one of America's two major political parties correct? Call them out every time.