"Repugnican" = repugnant Republican

[Herb Stahlke]

And then there's one I heard in the wild.  Back in the early '90s I
was at an EDUCOM conference in Atlanta.  The keynote speaker was Jimmy
Carter.  There must have been about three thousand of us in the large
auditorium, and Carter stood at a lectern stage left with a large
screen behind him showing him speaking with closed captioning.
President Carter was describing the bipartisan work of the Carter
Center, pointing out that he worked with "Henry Kissinger, Gerald
Ford, and other prominent Republicans."  The captioner heard that as
"other prominent rubble cans."  The audience reaction left Carter with
a momentary puzzled look on his face.

Herb

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:06 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: "Repugnican" = repugnant Republican
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> This is a fairly common term on DailyKos and in TPM comments. To make
> it even more interesting, "repugs" is even more common--235K raw ghits
> vs. 16.2K raw for "repugnican".
>
> The are several mentions (and entries) for repug(s) on UD, the
> earliest appearing in a 2003 entry for "Frenchie":
>
>> A pathetic attempt at insult used by _Repugs_.
>
> It gets better. Here's the list of all the UD "repug-" entires
> (judiciously culled of IMO irrelevant terms):
>
> Repug
> Repugged
> Repuglican
> repuglican't
> repugly
> Repugnican
> Repugnicant
> Rebugnicunt
> Repugnivisionist
> repugosphere
> Repugs
>
> Then it goes on to variation of Repuke (and is preceded by variations
> of Repub-, starting with my personal favorite, Repube).
>
> VS-)
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Garson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>> ... Repugnican ...
>>
>> Barry Popik investigated this term in a 2009 post. He found it "cited
>> in print from November 1994".
>>
>> http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/repugnican_republican_party_nickname/
>>
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