WHY DEMOCRATS JUST ABSOLUTELY HATE BEING CALLED .....

Nealz Nuze/WSB Radio ^ | 20 September 2007 | Neal Boortz

[Suzy Quzy]

I call them Democrat-ICK Party.

[thefactor]

i saw this book in a store and wondered if you had it.

[Enchante]

Yes, in the 18th century terms like “democrat” and “democratic” and “democratical” (commonly used then, though not now) were almost always terms of abuse — implying irrational mob rule and demagoguery. Virtually all of the founders thought they were creating a “republic” not a “democracy” due to the problems that are exemplified by our contemporary demagogues: frenzied and irrational appeal to the passions, reckless depravity, etc.

btw, while Joseph Ellis is supposed to be a fine historian, he is also the guy who fabricated a whole section of personal biography over the years to puff up his early years:

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http://hnn.us/articles/8656.html

For nearly a decade, in his classes at Mount Holyoke on Vietnam and American culture, Ellis would enrich the course content by recounting his own experiences in the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement. In 2000, in an interview with the Boston Globe, he made a number of claims. He said that he had served in Vietnam in 1965 as a leader and paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division. He said that he had worked on the staff of General William C. Westmoreland in Saigon. He said that he had been active in the civil rights movement and in the peace movement.

A little research subsequently revealed that he had lied. As an undergraduate he served in the R.O.T.C at William and Mary, emerging from the program in 1965 as a second lieutenant. Instead of serving in Vietnam, as claimed, he had attended graduate school at Yale. He was not active in either the civil rights movement or the peace movement. After he graduated with a doctorate in 1969, he began active duty, but he served not in Vietnam but as a history professor at West Point, where he remained until 1972, when he finished his duty as a captain.

To many it was a shock that Ellis would risk so much for so little.

[Arrowhead1952]

One Democrat became angry with me for using the word “Democrats”.

Just to tick them off more, ask them what do they call themselves in a group. I asked several democrats just that.

"If you are in a meeting, are you a group of democratics?"

That will make them spit nails.

[George W. Bush]

Oxford dictionary:

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ORIGIN late 18th cent.(originally denoting an opponent of the aristocrats in the French Revolution of 1790): from French démocrate, on the pattern of aristocrate ‘aristocrat.’

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[eureka!]

LOL. Too funny. I hope it gets widely circulated...

[ZGuy]

Someone should make a change on the Democrat Party entry in Wikipedia to note the history and meaning of their name.

[wjcsux]

They want to go back to their “roots” but shouldn’t their name be the Democratic-Republicans then?
Thomas Jefferson would hang all of them for treason.

[Betty Jane]

I’d like to know when they became the Democratic party. It sure wasn’t around in 2000. I don’t remember if they had started using it yet for 2004. Anyway, I still call them the Democrat party, when I can’t call them what I want.

[SMARTY]

The negative association for the word Democrat/Democratic goes back to the French Revolution... it was directly associated with the extreme revolutionaries who murdered the king and queen and all the aristocrats they could find... These extremists made a truly everlasting name for themselves by some of the absolutely grisly things they did in the name of the ‘revolution’. The ‘terror’ of the guillotine was not the least of it. One of these wild beasts, once the young lady was beheaded, publicly cut out her heart and ate it in front of the crowd. Of course he was cheered but the ‘revolution’ was a tainted whore from that time forward... no matter the political gains. Crowned heads and aristocrats all over Europe hated the word ‘democrat’ forever after. I remember reading that the human head once severed from the body, yet retained some consciousness. As one unfortunate man was beheaded, someone in the crowd immediately picked up the head and held it facing the headless body lying on the guillotine so that the bodiless head could see its own headless body before losing consciousness. Democrats then did charming things like that...in the name of change.

[Ancesthntr]

I know Democrats that go (more) insane when Bush does that.

I think that it'd be even funnier if Bush referred to either "Democraps" or the "Democrapic" Party - by mistake, of course. :>)

[MrB]

Bush did not use the exact term by accident.

[maine-iac7]

I doubt that’s the reason Democrats dislike the term, for the simple reason that

they are card carrying Socialists

it is likely few of them are aware of its meaning at the time of the Founding.

we are not a democracy in the first place - we are a REPUBLIC.

We have forgotten this - or, for those 'educated' in our gov't schools in the past 3+ decades - have not been taught it.

Fred is re-educating us.

[veritas2002]

I would like to start a movement to have the Republican Party change their name to the “Pro-America Party.” What do you all think?

[nanetteclaret]

Why we are a Republic: democracy = mobocracy

[MrB]

I don’t think you’ve got it yet...
It’s not any historic reference that they’re ashamed of.

It’s the here and now. Just like communism/socialism/liberalism/progressivism - the label comes to mean what it is referring to.

The Democrats are like any other group that exhibits behaviors that are sub-par. They keep changing their label because everyone eventually associates the label with the behavior.

[maine-iac7]

I tell them that when they start idetifying themselves politically with “I am a Democratic, not a Republican”, I may consider it.

Perfect

[K-oneTexas]

Deserves enshrinement somewhere prominent.

Maybe a 'Tomb of the Unknown DemocRAT'

Or possibly a road sign with arrow pointing to the 'Swamp of Corruption' 1 mile

Or at the 'Pantheon of Misery and Idiocy' just above the door in 6 foot high letters.

Could be at that special "hole" in the Border Fence saying 'Private Entrance - Democrats Only'

I know I've missed some highly rated and prized tourist/tourista locations.

[MrB]

“Liberal” WAS a good, grand term. It meant someone who believed in maximal individual freedom and liberty AND the requisite accompanying personal responsibility.

Communists and people who wanted to be dependent on the work of others sullied the term.

[maine-iac7]

One would expect an organization’s name would be a noun (something) rather than an adjective (a mere modifier of somethin).

but what can we "expect" from a party that uses the jackass as a mascot?