Well, they started it. That’s why it’s so funny.
See. No knowledge of American history. No knowledge of America traditions. Most Republicans have absolutely no regard for the institutions that make America great.
This is why Republicans make such horrible leaders. They operate in a complete bubble of ignorance. They just make random shit up because they like how it sounds at the moment.
Perhaps most shockingly, no ability to use Google.
Don’t get me started on that!
I’m pretty sure I’m registered as a Democrat. But the number of fucks I give about this matter is below the detection limit.
Says who? Webster? Strunk and White?
I roll my eyes over the perceived insult of democrat vs democratic, but not a quarter as hard as people insisting that we call those great messy birds Canada geese. That’s not how we name animals - you ever hear of the Africa and India lion? The America bald eagle? The Siberia tiger? The Tasmania devil? No.
Like anything else they say.
Only in the sense that liberals are superior to conservatives, which is a very real sense so far as it goes.
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The difference is we admit that “Tea Bagger” is meant as an insult. The assholes who say “Democtat Party” pretend they mean no offense.
And, we always have the excuse that Tea Partiers used “Teabagger” first, before the dumbasses found out it has another meaning.
*Notable disciples include the late Christopher Hitchens, though he preferred the much more vague descriptor as ‘reformed Trotskyist’ rather than ‘former drooling idolator’. *
With the expulsion of Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Union and the international bounty set on his head, Trotskyists, as they called themselves (don’t call them Trotskyites, it makes them mad as hell) began to push for an international program.
The problem, of course, is that most of Trotsky’s major economic ideas are based in a reality which ceased to exist around the end of the Great Depression. Trying to enact the Trotskyist program in a unified world market powered by computers would have as much affect as implementing the Ron Paul platform (namely, it would be a socio-economic disaster whose equivalent has not yet been dreamed of by any science-fiction author).
The Life and Times of Tony Cliff — Rational Wiki
Yes, of course it does. I am aware of that, which is unlike those who say “Democrat Party”.
How do you know it’s not used, at least sometimes, for that reason? From wikipedia:
Maybe they’re just theorizing like me or maybe they got this idea from actual Republicans. The second reference link doesn’t go to an online source so I can’t check it out.
How is it never used in the way I’ve described?
Wait a minute, aren’t the people saying “Democrat Party” deliberately using a term which bastardizes the preferred term as a form of derision? Isn’t that the consensus of this thread? Those are the guys everyone thinks are assholes, right, the ones doing it deliberately?
So, why wouldn’t they know that it says something about themselves, in the same way that people who say “Tea Baggers” do? I’m sure they think it says something different than you do, but the same is true (in reverse) for those using the term Tea Bagger.
I’m a Republican, and I don’t use the term. It wouldn’t occur to me, and I tend to call people what they name themselves. In other words, I agree it’s a bit childish. And so is calling someone a Tea Bagger. Tim made a great point. Amusing but not surprising, the responses–“It’s different when we do it…”
The difference is we admit that “Tea Bagger” is meant as an insult. The assholes who say “Democtat Party” pretend they mean no offense.
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“*We *aren’t nearly as childish as they are.”
To be fair, I’ve heard of elected officials who are Republicans say “Democrat Party.” Are there elected officials who are Democrats that use the perjorative “tea baggers”? Because I’ve never heard it come from any governors or members of congress.
Chuck Schumer, for one. Obama, for another.
And to be fair, Bush famously called a Democratic party the “Democratical” Party.
Just kidding, but it sounds like something Will Farrell would say when imitating Bush. 
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If you call the members of your party “Democrats” and then are surprised if someone refers to it as the “Democrat Party” you might wish to consider than maybe your name choice was ill advised.
Says historical fact. As in, the name “Democratic Party” has been the official name of the party organization in question for nearly 200 years now. It’s derived from the name of its immediate ancestor, the “Democratic-Republican Party”.
Its political adversaries don’t get to decide that it’s correct or inoffensive to call it something else just because they’ve got some half-assed justification for it based on sloppy etymology.
Odd that elected officials and media don’t seem to have had any particular problem correctly identifying and using the official name of the “Democratic Party” for most of the 150+ years of its existence. Are you suggesting that the Republicans of today are just especially stupid or ill-informed?