"Democrat party"

[David Donnell]

I thought that was the original intent. More recently, however, it
might just be that the truncated term irks Democrats.

(Lard knows irking the Dems would be lotsa fun, if I weren't so anti-GOP.)

DD
Missourian @ NYC

At 9:51 AM -0700 5/31/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>As was pointed out here long ago, "Democrat party" seems to have
>been popularized by the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
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>   So far as I know, Democrats don't use it.
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>   As a long-time Fox-watcher sensitive to this usage, my impression
>is that Republican yakking heads say it consistently.  But only
>recently have I noticed the Fox journalists themselves saying it,
>and consistently too.
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>   Previously they mostly said "Democrats."
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>   The seeming motivation, at least among those who know better, is
>to eliminate any possible hint that the Democratic party is more
>"democratic" or more closely connected with "democracy" than the
>Republican party.
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>David Bowie <db.list at PMPKN.NET> wrote:
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>From: Jonathan Lighter
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>>  Have noticed within the past few weeks that Fox News journalists now
>>  regularly employ this designation.
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>>  How fair and balanced of them!
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>It's always seemed to me to be a simple case of analogy: a Republican is
>member of the Republican Party, a a Libertarian is a member of the
>Libertarian Party, a Communist is a member of the Communist Party, so a
>Democrat must be a member of the Democrat Party.
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