Does this mean Rush Limbaugh hates America???

[Spino]

A very astute summation from a very astute guy:

Thus the Republicans, arguably, are in something of a death spiral. The more conservative, partisan, and strident their message becomes, the more they alienate non-base Republicans. But the more they alienate non-base Republicans, the fewer of them are left to worry about appeasing. Thus, their message becomes continually more appealing to the base -- but more conservative, partisan, and strident to the rest of us. And the process loops back upon itself.

Bah, more of the same blend of apocalyptic alarmism and wishful thinking from the ideological left. The notion that the average pleb has abandoned conservatism for liberalism is ridiculous. Most of the moderate plebs that voted for Obama couldn't name his running mate, let alone his cabinet appointees. Most people vote with their wallets and/or vote with the herd. Right or wrong GW Bush was everyone's whipping boy on everything from Iraq, global warming to the credit/mortgage crisis. McCain did incredibly well in the election considering the economic conditions and how badly Bush's name tainted the GOP.

The Republican party now finds itself in the same exact position the Democratic party occupied during the first Bush administration. As with the Democrats these Republicans won't learn their lessons and won't change their ways. All they need to do is bide their time, fight the majority and wait. This massive recession leaves very little room for error and the population is not nearly as patient, hard working or 'hardy' as it was back when the Depression hit. Mark my words, over the next 4 years Obama and the Democrats will run wild with their insane spending and zany antics only to find themselves cast into the wilderness and taking up residence in the same log cabin of shame & irrelevance the Republicans currently occupy. Wash, rinse repeat.

[Lemur]

The Republican party is in the exact same position the Democrat party has occupied a couple of times over the past 30+ years.

Grammar note: If it's the "Democrat party" then it should also be the "Republic party." Find some consistency, man.

[Spino]

Grammar note: If it's the "Democrat party" then it should also be the "Republic party." Find some consistency, man.

I HAZ GRAMMARZ!

[Xiahou]

Grammar note: If it's the "Democrat party" then it should also be the "Republic party." Find some consistency, man.

Democrat party members are Democrats. Republican party members are Republicans. Democratic party members would be Democratics. It's simple- see?

[KukriKhan]

If they had just let him buy the St. Louis Rams, or be on Monday Night Football, or keep that gig on ESPN, he'd have been too busy to be a pain in the side. That's all the boy ever wanted: some grid-iron love.

But, spurned love has driven him to his second choice: bugging LIB-ruhlz, and making them squirm. Now he, and the rest of right-wing talk radio, have a built-in cause to bring up anytime they need to fill air-time; the "Fairness Doctrine", and how the evil Dem's will try to shut them up.

Rush, Hannity, Beck, Savage, O'Rielly... all of them mention something about that within their 3rd hour of talk, everyday.

[Lemur]

Democrat party members are Democrats. Republican party members are Republicans. Democratic party members would be Democratics. It's simple- see?

At moments like this, I have to wonder about you, Xiahou.

Do we need to go over the difference between an adjective and a noun again? For a guy who's such a stickler when he hears something he doesn't like, you show a shocking laxity when it comes to pushing bad info. Here, let me Google that for you:

Definition and proper usage of "democratic." That wasn't so hard, now was it? What do you know, it's a real word and it applies to the Democratic Party.

No matter how much you disdain the Dems, why not do the right thing and use the correct term? Do a favor to grammar and usage, and make yourself seem like less of a purely partisan creature at the same time. Double bonus!

[Lord Winter]

At moments like this, I have to wonder about you, Xiahou.

Do we need to go over the difference between an adjective and a noun again? For a guy who's such a stickler when he hears something he doesn't like, you show a shocking laxity when it comes to pushing bad info. Here, let me Google that for you:

Definition and proper usage of "democratic." That wasn't so hard, now was it? What do you know, it's a real word and it applies to the Democratic Party.

No matter how much you disdain the Dems, why not do the right thing and use the correct term? Do a favor to grammar and usage, and make yourself seem like less of a purely partisan creature at the same time. Double bonus!

and the point of this grammer lesson is?

[Lemur]

and the point of this grammer lesson is?

Ask the people who refuse to use the language correctly.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The whole lot should be turned out and each one replaced by one of their constituents selected at random from the list of registered voters.

Most of these folks, being regular people, would simply gasp -- responding as they would if it were their own checkbooks -- and lop about half of the federal budget off.

[KukriKhan]

The whole lot should be turned out and each one replaced by one of their constituents selected at random from the list of registered voters.

Most of these folks, being regular people, would simply gasp -- responding as they would if it were their own checkbooks -- and lop about half of the federal budget off.

Rofl.

Right on.

Errr, I mean: Commie.

[Xiahou]

Do we need to go over the difference between an adjective and a noun again?

No, but apparently we need to go over proper nouns with you.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Congrats to Michael Steele. First step in the right direction for the G.O.P. in a while.

[Lemur]

No, but apparently we need to go over proper nouns with you.

If you're going to base your argument on proper nouns then you're still wrong. If the Dems choose to call themselves "Democratic," thus correctly mirroring the word's usage when placed as an adjective, who are you to amend them? What a person or group choose to call themselves is their business, surely, and not really the province of their sworn ideological foes.

You're wrong on grammar, wrong on usage, wrong on courtesy, and wrong when you frame the argument in a way that you mistakenly think is in your favor. I find it quite amazing that you're sticking to your guns on this one. If you are incapable of admitting a simple grammatical error ...

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I see Wikipedia has an entire article about your verbal tic.

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Found another article about your pet malapropism.

There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. “Democrat Party” is a slur, or intended to be—a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but “Democrat Party” is jarring verging on ugly. [...] “Democrat Party” is standard jargon on right-wing talk radio and common on winger Web sites like NewsMax.com, which blue-pencils Associated Press dispatches to de-“ic” references to the Party of F.D.R. and J.F.K. (The resulting impression that “Democrat Party” is O.K. with the A.P. is as phony as a North Korean travel brochure.) The respectable conservative journals of opinion sprinkle the phrase around their Web sites but go light on it in their print editions. William F. Buckley, Jr., the Miss Manners cum Dr. Johnson of modern conservatism, dealt with the question in a 2000 column in National Review, the magazine he had founded forty-five years before. “I have an aversion to ‘Democrat’ as an adjective,” Buckley began.

Dear Joe McCarthy used to do that, and received a rebuke from this at-the-time 24-year-old. It has the effect of injecting politics into language, and that should be avoided. Granted there are diffculties, as when one desires to describe a “democratic” politician, and is jolted by possible ambiguity. But English does that to us all the time, and it’s our job to get the correct meaning transmitted without contorting the language.