The GOP is the now the NTP: The New Tory Party

[berni_mccoy]

From Wiki: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory )

The term Tory (from Irish Gaelic tóraighe, an outlaw or guerrilla fighter, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms — literally meaning "pursued man", see also Rapparee) applied to the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. To this day it is often used as a shortened form for Conservatives. Its usage also applied to the pre-1965 Scottish Unionist Party which operated independently of, although in association with, the Conservative Party in England and Wales.
A similar 'Tory' exists in Canada to describe its Conservative Party. It was also used during the American Revolutionary War to refer to British Loyalists in the colonies. During the American Civil War, supporters of the Confederacy extended the term to Southern Unionists.

Let me rephrase that in modern terms:

The term Republican stands for criminal, literally, and is the Conservative Party of the U.S. To this day, it is often interchanged with the Conservative Party. Republicans are referred to as Loyal Bushies and Red Staters, the remaining hard-core Republican states mainly in the South.