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2007-02-03 Home Front: Politix

'Democrat Party' Is A GOP Slur, A Smear, 'Jarring Verging On Ugly'

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-03 09:13|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'd a swore this was Scrappleface. Reality mirrors fiction. Skeery.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-02-03 09:29|| 2007-02-03 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Theres no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. "Democrat Party" is a slur, or intended to bea handy way to express contempt.

There's no mystery at all - I say 'Democrat' all the time as a slur!

Posted by Raj 2007-02-03 09:59|| 2007-02-03 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Well then, Democrats they are!

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-02-03 10:57|| 2007-02-03 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 "Democrat" with accent on the "rat" just isn't insulting enough. I've been using the term "Quislingcrat" in my blog comments for years...whaddaya think, Rantburgers?

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Albu Babaloo) 2007-02-03 12:56|| 2007-02-03 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Whatever they are, they certainly aren't democratic.

Posted by Pappy 2007-02-03 13:34|| 2007-02-03 13:34|| Front Page Top

#6 OK, folks. How long until they find someway to frame criticism of the Democrat Party to be a hate crime?

Oh, BTW, Asshole Arkin, in his "apology" piece after he called US troops mercenaries, wrote the following:

They hide behind the constitution and the flag and then spew an anti-Democrat, anti-liberal, anti-journalism, anti-dissent, and anti-citizen message that reflects a certain contempt for the American people.

Huh. Why aren't any lefties hyperventilating over that? Probably because they're too busy shaking their heads in agreement with everything else he said.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2007-02-03 13:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-02-03 13:53|| Front Page Top

#7 "OK, folks. How long until they find someway to frame criticism of the Democrat Party to be a hate crime?"

Figure about two years from now; Hillary Clinton will put the Fairness In Speech Act before Congress less than a week after her inauguration, and it will be quickly passed by the House and Senate (with all 82 Senate Democrats and all 393 House Democrats voting yea). The only debate will be over whether enforcement authority should be in the hands of the FCC, which will honcho the New Fairness Doctrine (like the one we used to have, except on steroids + PCP) to kill conservative talk radio, or whether it should devolve to the new Federal Fairness Enforcement Administration, which will be created to ensure that everything is always fair, for everybody, everywhere, in every way, that all outcomes are equal and that nobody is unequal to anybody else (except for those who are more equal, of course). Barbara Boxer will try to get her pet project, the new Gender Equity Administration, involved, but will not succeed.

All of this, naturally, will be done For The Children™...

(Just thought I'd share the nightmare... heh, heh. Think it can't happen?)

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-02-03 16:52|| 2007-02-03 16:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Dem-o-crats!
Eat fried rats!

Posted by Mike 2007-02-03 17:10|| 2007-02-03 17:10|| Front Page Top

#9 So, how are they going to make me listen w/this "Fairness Doctrine?"

I guess I shouldn't buy and radio stocks.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-02-03 17:32|| 2007-02-03 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm telling you people, DemocRAT and just plain 'Rat are hurtful and offensive terms that cause those offended to withdraw from all discussion. I much prefer the less inflammatory and more inclusive term "Rodent Party."

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-03 17:35|| 2007-02-03 17:35|| Front Page Top

#11 GWB just joked in a meeting with members of Congress - "I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party." Apparently the meeting went pretty well.

Posted by KBK 2007-02-03 19:49|| 2007-02-03 19:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh balls! That was brilliant! I never thought about what making the same gaff would do to the word republican!

Posted by Mike N. 2007-02-03 20:26|| 2007-02-03 20:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Calls for another case of ammunition.

Posted by SR-71 2007-02-03 20:32|| 2007-02-03 20:32|| Front Page Top

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