New eponym

[Baker, John]

        Is "Lynch" the kind of thing you're looking for?


John Baker


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Subject: Re: New eponym

At 5:59 PM -0700 8/11/09, Mark Peters wrote:
>Lindsey Graham coined a vivid expression recently, saying, "My message
>to my Democratic colleagues is: We made mistakes in Iraq, let's not
>Rumsfeld Afghanistan. Let's not do this thing on the cheap."
>(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/09/ftn/main5227993.shtml)
>Political eponyms--like Clintonista, Jeffersonian, Bushism--are pretty
>common. I can think of plenty of nouns and adjectives, but can anyone
>think of political eponymic verbs that work like Rumsfeld? I'm doing a
>column on Rumsfelding this week, and I appreciate any leads. I just
>hope I don't Rumsfeld the article. Mark

Would "boycott" count?  It certainly has political applications and it's
also pretty clearly eponymic.  And of course "pander", although that one
had a non-political origin.

LH

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