The Gadflyer: Fly Trap: "Let's start using 'Republican'ts'
Thomas F. Schaller (12:48PM) link
If you listen carefully--or, really, not so carefully--national Republicans often like to refer to the Democratic Party as the 'Democrat Party.' They do this with a straight face but a heavy dose of snark. It's a bully's taunt, schoolyard humor.
A few months back, Steve Benen took up the issue of how the GOP uses this label, linking to a more historical post by Kevin Drum about whether 'Democratic Party' or 'Democrat Party' is technically correct.
Then Benen laments:
Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a Republican alternative for Dems to (mis)use…Air America's Sam Seder likes to pronounce Republican 'RAYpublican,' but that doesn't quite seem to work… do readers have any ideas?
It didn't take one of Steve's readers long to come up with a great alternative, one which I think works especially well now in the post-Katrina, post-Iraq, post-deficits Republican Party: Republicant's.
In fact, I went to register.com only a few weeks before Benen and Drum wrote about this, to see if Republicant.com (and related suffixes) were available. They are not. I was able to contact the guy who owns Republicants.org; fortunately, he is a Democrat. (Note to national party leaders: You ought to get in touch with him about using this site...)"
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