"Russ Rose" <russrose@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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"Gandalf Grey" <gandalfgrey@infectedmail.com> wrote in message 
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On the Nov. 17th. edition of Hardball, Chris Mathews interviewed former 
Bush advisor Ron Christie.

Christie was bloviating along, using the usual left-handed slap of 
referring to the Democratic Party as the 'Democrat Party.'

Is that really an insult?

It's the name of the party and the republicans have known that it's the name 
of the party for decades.  It was only after the rise of the radical right 
that the children in the GOP began to issue that childish insult.  And it's 
very, very refreshing to see them get called on it.

It doesn't make sense to me

As so much else probably makes no sense to you.