Political labels

[Marc Velasco]

like Reagan Democrat?

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Mark Peters <markpeters33 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I was thinking about terms like these:=0A=0ASam=A2s Club Republicans
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> ge Judy Republicans=0ASouth Park Republicans=0ADunkin=A2 Donuts Democrats=
> =0AStarbucks Democrats=0A =0AThey're all recent or semi-recent... Is
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>  aware of others like this, old or new?  I'm guessing older terms were
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>  brand-name-focused, but I'm not sure. =0A =0AMark=0A=0A=0A----- Original
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> essage ----=0AFrom: Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>=0ATo:
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> .EDU=0ASent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:34:09 AM=0ASubject: Re: "war"
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> DU>=0APoster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>=0ASubject:      Re:
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> --------------=0A=0AMy problem was that "war" and "four" don't rhyme!
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> ug 2008 10:46:26 -0400=0A>From: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>=0A>Subject:
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> Re: "war" [wor]=0A>=0A>I think Charles's problem lay in the fact that this
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> was written rather than spoken.=0A>=0A>m a m=0A>=0A>On Thu, Aug 14, 2008
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>  10:30 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:=0A>> At 8/14/2008 09:40
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> M, Charles Doyle wrote:=0A=0A>>>Last night the folks at MSNBC were
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> ng McCain's bellicosity regarding the Russia-Georgia conflict, and the
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> ion on the screen read "War More Years."  I was baffled for a good many
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> onds, trying to ascertain wherein consisted the wit of the expression.
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> lly I realized that "war" is supposed to rhyme with (thence substitute
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>  "four."  Was that the point?=0A=0A>>=0A>> I pronounce "war" to rhyme with
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> "four"  (NYC).  Are there regional variations?  (Like as in "whar'? over
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