Serious Question, What is the GOP

[brettdale]

All jokes aside.

There is the republican party.

There is the Republican National Committee. RNC.

What is the GOP? I have been asked this on a NewZealand sports board.

[SlipperySlope]

1. Grand Old Party - N/T

[brettdale]

6. Thanks

Thanks for the info.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. GOP = slang for Republican Party ("Grand Old Party")

[Obiepup]

3. Grand Olde Party n/t

[Stand and Fight]

4. Grand Old Party...

Google it.

[NEOBuckeye]

5. Grouchy Old Pinheads

No, really, it stands for Grand Old Party.

[Big Kahuna]

9. Nominated!

oh damn.. I can't. nevermind :)

[Zuni]

7. "Greedy Old People"

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Ghastly Oppressive Psychopaths. eom

[Marr]

10. It the White Christian mafia.

[mestup]

11. A term still in use by Republicans when they want to distance themselves

from the term "Republicans." It's WIDELY used on billboards and pamphlets as elections near. It's confusing to some (still) who honestly don't know that GOP means Republican.

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12. RNC = Really nasty cronyism

[unrepuke]

13. I'm rusty on this and way underinformed, but, I understood that

back in the days of Whigs and Tories ( our former two party system) they somehow became one party - like the Democrats laying down and assisting the Republicans all the time, now, instead of checking and balancing them out -- so the Government's wiser heads prevailed and established a Government Opposition Party so there would once again be at least two parts, instead of one regime steam rollering over all of us. G.O.P.

Anybody to add / detract this stuff? Be my guest. 7th grade civics class 50 years ago... I think I was into slingshots or yoyos that year.

[Old and In the Way]

14. A Syndicate

Wonder whatever became of organized crime? I think they've taken over the GOP.

[CatholicEdHead]

15. More history on the name

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2000/us_elections/glossary/g-i/651284.stm

"The traditional nickname for the Republican Party widely used in American political reporting.

The party's official history traces the term back to the late 19th century citing an article in the Boston post headlined "The G.O.P. Doomed".

The party website suggests the term Grand Old Party may have evolved from the term used to refer to British Prime Minister William Gladstone - the G.O.M or the Grand Old Man.

In Richard Nixon's 1964 presidential campaign the acronym was used briefly as the basis for the slogan the "Go-Party", but by the late '70s it had become firmly associated with the term Grand Old Party as it is today. "

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. Greedy Oligarchic Pricks.

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17. Greedy Old Pigs

[acmejack]

18. Organized Crime