"Nigga" untrademarkable?

[Jerome Foster]

I don't know who started it but in my memory the most prominent user of
"Democrat party" was, of course, Sen. Joe McCarthy.

Jerome Foster
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>>I think it was Bob Dole who started this small-d democrat.
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> Even if it was (as it appears) around before him, Dole did a lot for
> the usage, especially in his hatchet service as vice-presidential
> candidate when he railed about WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam
> conflict as "Democrat wars".
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>>On 3/18/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>>>  Right-wing politicians and hate-radio ranters seem to assume
>>>  that using "Democrat" as an adjective or attributive noun
>>>  ("the Democrat scheme," "Democrat candidates," even "the
>>>  Democrat Party") will be deemed especially derogatory
>>>  (thence preferred to "Democratic").  The same, of course, is
>>>  the case with the word "Jew" ("Jew merchants," "the
>>>  international Jew conspiracy").
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