Why does Bush have to say "Democrat Party" ?

[oberliner]

I understand that kind of crap coming from Rush Limbaugh, et al, but Bush is supposed to be the President. He claims to want to work in a bipartisan fashion and yet he deliberately uses the phrase "Democrat Party" rather than Democratic Party.

That just really gets to me for some reason. Minor in comparison to other things, but just really irritating.

Quotation: "It was a thumping," Bush conceded at the White House. "It's clear the Democrat Party had a good night."

Citation: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_on_el_ge/election_rdp

[Lautremont]

1. I wondered that too.

Code for "I may be forced to sound nice, but that doesn't mean I really like you"?

Really it just makes him come off as a childish quasi-bully, like most everything else he does.

[liberaldemocrat7]

30. THE REPUBLIKLAN PARTY

If you want to stop Geo Bush and his REPUBLIKLAN PARTY from calling our party this nasty name then fight back. Spread the word.

They do not want to get associated with the Ku Klux Klan despite alot of them appear unreconstructed confederates, exploit workers for cheap labor and act as racists.

Fax the white house email the white house and demand that Geo Bush call our party the Democratic party or we will make a concerted effort to call his party the REPUBLIKLAN Party.

I even have REPUBLIKLAN party t shirts at http://www.zazzle.com/maximus7

If you will not fight back and do this then don't expect many Republicans to stop this nasty reference to the Democratic party.

[sfwriter]

2. Which part of asshat don't you understand? (eom)

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

29. Ding, ding, ding, correct answer.

Chimpy delibrately uses that term as do all the rest of the Pukes.

:mad: :mad:

I know I misspelled in this post, but I'm too tired and slightly buzzed to correct it.. Peace

[MADem]

3. Code to his base that he doesn't mean what he says. I saw it live, and it was DELIBERATE.

Eh, whaddaya expect from a fucking repiglican.

[Phredicles]

4. My guess: He's just too lazy to say that additional syllable.

[Robbien]

5. the same reason he says eye-rack

It is a rude putdown and Bush enjoys his rude putdowns.

[Webster Green]

6. He's an asshole!

That isn't likely to change either.

Fuck bi-partisanship with him. Take him down.

[UofAWildcatJoanne]

7. Because he's

a moran...:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

8. Because he's not sincere about wanting to play 'nice'. He knows it. nt

[Zynx]

9. Focus groups.

Democratic tests more positive than Democrat, so "Democrat Party" it is.

[NewJeffCT]

32. That's the reason

Democratic tests better, so they've made an effort to redefine the party as the "Democrat" party.

[kentuck]

10. Why doesn't someone correct him?

He knows he's wrong.

[cboy4]

11. He's too busy typing his ranch into "the google" than to look

up the correct usage of words on the internets.

[lonestarnot]

12. Because he is a stupid fuckwad up to nutfuckery!

[PretzelWarrior]

13. Pelosi should remind him in front of cameras

that most normal Americans who habla English know they are the Democratic Party. No amount of childish "I refuse to say it" semantics will change it and it just makes him look that much smaller when he utters it.

[oberliner]

14. I think that would be great

No one ever seems to call anyone out when they say Democrat Party instead of Democratic Party.

Majority Leader Pelosi would be a great person to remind everyone what the name of the party is.

[jgraz]

18. ohplease ohplease ohplease ohplease

I would pay good money to see that

[mcctatas]

15. If he can't bring himself to say DEMOCRATIC...

couldn't he at least use "party of the democrats" or better yet...THE MAJORITY PARTY? :)

[LynnTheDem]

16. 1) bush is leader of the Republic Party and

2) bush is THE stupidest MFer on the planet.

[lpbk2713]

17. He's fairly ignorant.

He doesn't even know people from New England don't talk like Texans.

[codjh9]

19. The latest thing the ignorants do is to leave off the last syllable of words -

It ain't just 'Democrat Party'. Just listen to sports morons and how often they'll say things like 'I don't take it personal', or 'I take it serious'. What the hell happened to the LY part, folks? Like PERSONALLY, SERIOUSLY.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. Because it's the institutionalized Republican way of belittling us.

Like if you want to be called "Edward" and not "Eddie", but the schoolyard bully says "Hey ED" while mussing your hair every time they see you, to fuck with you and see how far they can go.

It has to be policy since all Republicans from Bush to Rush Limbaugh do it.

It is a further lowering of political discourse to elementary school level that is new to the Bush era.

It's so ingrained now that even in ignominious defeat, he still does it.

The party leadership has allowed this to go on by not calling Republicans on it.

[Shakespeare]

21. It IS institutionalized, compliments of Gingrich back in the early 90s.

There's a memo out there somewhere with a do-list of how to talk about democrats in the media; it came from Gingrich when he was building the framework for the 1994 "revolution."

It's completely deliberate (nevermind that it's grammatically incorrect), and it's even seeped into usage by the MSM. And it absolutely infuriates me.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. Yeah I figured Newt was probably the original source, since he placed

so much emphasis on the linguistics of how to label your opponent.

Fuck him gently with a chainsaw.

[TahitiNut]

23. That's right. It's "Bullying 101"

Junior betrays a small, petulant, dessicated spirit every time he disrespects others by imposing his own names on them.

[NMMNG]

24. He's an idiot?

:shrug:

[BrightKnight]

25. Dean should send a letter to media organizations

reminding them that this is the "Democratic" Party. The Repugs may wish to charge the party name but it has not changed.

[AJ9000]

26. Because Rove tells him to. n/t

[LittleClarkie]

27. The fewer the syllables the better

He has enough trouble as it is.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Because it is what a vulgar ignoramus calls the Democratic Party

Bush is a vulgar ignoramus. Therefore, he calls it the Democrat Party.

[WinkyDink]

31. It goes back at least to Bob Dole, speaking at a convention about

"Democrat wars".

[bluedogyellowdog]

33. Goes way back

Herbert Hoover and Alf Landon used it when attacking FDR. It's an old slur the Repugs have recently revived.