Indeed, I looked into it back in the day, it’s not a new term, but I did make it a point that every George Will article that was posted was tagged with “Vichy Republican” ditto Peggy Noonan.
The truest meaning of the term though, is from the Military Blogger who posted in 06 when the Dems were trying to cut off funding for the Iraq War, to me that was the most perfect usage, we should never forget that we were 1 Joe Lieberman vote away from losing that War.
Funny thing is, there are now Dhimmicrat Bloggers call themselves “Vichy democrats”...
Lest we forget that Colin Bowel is a Palm Tree:
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=33229&D=2004-05-17&SO=&HC=2