Both Doonesebury and our friend Darrin Bell’s Candorville take on the “DemocRAT” issue in today’s Sunday strips.
In addition, Bell has turned blogger at his www.Candorville.com site and has been providing additional commentary about his various strips. Today he writes, in part, as a companion to his Sunday toon that though George W. Bush refers to it as the “Democrat Party”…
An alternative view is that it’s called the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party itself takes this view, and many nonpartisan authorities agree.
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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.
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[N]o doubt there are plenty of others who say “Democrat Party” just to needle the other side while signaling solidarity with their own””the partisan equivalent of flashing a gang sign.
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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.
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[N]o doubt there are plenty of others who say “Democrat Party” just to needle the other side while signaling solidarity with their own””the partisan equivalent of flashing a gang sign.
Both strips follow in full…
Just another bullying technique for the bullies. Just ask “Pootie Pooh”.
It was no less than the President of the Confederate states, the southern decider in chief, who upon being corrected for misspelling a word, retorted:
(Jefferson Davis). And lest we forget, listen to other geniouses:
(Alburt UrineStein).
Shouldn’t that be “Urinestain”?
And I am fond of calling them Re-PUBIC-ans as they are so obsessed with things sexual.
Cromulant #3
Ok, Alburt Urinestain it is!
Dredd:
That means Dan Quail was just being presidential when he misspelled Potato.
That Davis quote is a classic!