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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:01:08 -0600, Russ Rose wrote:

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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?

Actually, it's just silliness. The name of the party is the "Democratic
Party," not "Democrat Party." Why the right is doing this is beyond me 
but
it's not correct. No more than "Republic Party" would be...

It seems to have started after the Reagan Election in the conservative 
wing
of the GOP.  Before that I can't remember having ever heard it.

I'll have to revise that to..it seems to have become more popular in the 
conservative wing after Reagan.  Obviously the partisan slap goes back still 
further.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it would have started during 
that time in American history when the GOP was poised to be pushed 
completely out of political control.  Hoover is the man who took 
republicanism with him into 70 years in the wilderness of American political 
marginalism.  Whether he deserves that or not is a different matter.

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/democrats.html