Well?
Indisdubitably.
What was the grammar error?
Would you vote for someone who used the word “irregardless”, regardless of the fact that the appropriate word is “regardless”, and not “irregardless”? 
This is one of my dad’s biggest pet peeves.
For me, it’s something I might consider when voting, but it would hardly be a litmus test. It’s way down on my list of priorities for a candidate (this word alone, I mean. If they constantly talk like an ignoramus or use a lot of non-words, I would refudiate them).
Maybe she’s a vocabulary maverick and we should want to have a beer with her.
She’d probably go all nucular on you.
Why is “regardless” more appropriate than its synonym “irregardless” here?
Why is “reducible” more appropriate than “irreducible” when referring to something that can be reduced?
Yes, some folks think that “regardless” and “irregardless” are synonyms, despite the clear contradiction. Some folks don’t. Who is to say who is right?
If you corrected her , she would probably refutiate you.
witch won is write: regardless or irregardless?
Plenty of people voted for Bush, didn’t they?
Dude. The word is refudiate. :rolleyes:
“…and the challenges is…”
What’s the contradiction? “Regardless” means “without regard to”, and “irregardless” means “without regard to”. Which folks say that one of those means something different?
Do people ever (non-jokingly) use “irregardless” to mean “with regard [to whatever]”? No.
Do people often use “irregardless” to mean “without regard [to whatever]”? Yes.
Chronos is right. “irregardless” means “without regard [to whatever]”, just as “regardless” does.
I don’t vote for people who have their parents endorse them, like Carol Shay Porter and Bill Binnie, and I sure as heck won’t vote for someone because their Grammer says I should.
As for their grammar, the gramatical sin would have to be worse than regardless/irregardless to lose my vote, like a tendency to screw up subject-verb agreement.
The misspelling “grammer” in the thread title was done on purpose, as was the use of “there” in place of “their”. This was meant to tie jokingly with the OP’s view that the use of “irregardless” (as in the thread title) is incorrect.
The prefix “ir” means “not.” So to say that a word means the same whether or not the prefix “ir” is attached is a contradiction. Does “reducible” mean the same as “irreducible?” Really?
Except when it doesn’t. Unless you are the arbiter of the English language. Are you?
As a liberal who occasionally visits less-than-elite web discussions like those at Democratic Underground, I’m all but convinced that my fellow liberals - even the less educated ones, whose English may be far from perfect - make fewer and less serious errors with written communication than conservatives. In particular, they put out fewer unsupported assumptions; they misspell fewer common words; and they don’t engage in capitalization for emphasis. My hypothesis is that they care more about being understood, however angry they are. Flame to taste.