"Nigga" untrademarkable?

[sagehen]

>>I think it was Bob Dole who started this small-d democrat.
>
>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".
>
>L
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FWIW, my  feeling about this use of "Democrat"  where "Democratic" would be
expected was meant to  suggest that "democratic" was unearned & therefore
should be denied by right-thinking Republicans.  My impression is that it
goes back farther than Dole, but I can't pin down my first awareness of it.
A. Murie

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