rssHere Comes the ‘Democrat Socialist Party’
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 9:48 am
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Roger Simon confirms that the Republican National Committee will vote on, and probably pass, “a resolution rebranding Democrats as the ‘Democrat Socialist Party,’” even though weakened RNC Chairman Michael Steele has warned it “will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans.”
In a totally unrelated development, Richard Posner has written that “conservative intellectuals now have no party.” Certainly, the chances that Democrats will officially rename the GOP “the Conservative Intellectual Party” are pretty slim.
Update: The Democratic National Committee isn’t really reacting to this, and spokesman Hari Sevugan reiterated the initial response to rumors of this resolution: “When you’re devoid of leadership and devoid of ideas, it’s not surprising that your more fringe members take center stage.”
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12 Comments
Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 7:09 am
What's interesting to me, is that they continue to call themselves the “Cheney-Gingrich-Limbaugh Party.” For our part, we should brand them–loudly and continuously–as the “Republican” Party. It's unfair to the Republic, but it carries all the weight and baggage that they need to deal with.
Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 7:53 am
This strikes me as roughly equivalent to Coca Cola making it official corporate policy to call Pepsi “Urine Cola.” Hey, it's their call, but they basically just look stupid. It's actually worse, because they're now elevating socialism to the level of an acceptable alternative to conservatism. Well over half the country really likes the socialist leader! This does not seem like the direction they would want to go.
Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 7:57 am
It's Richard Posner, the judge, not Gerald Posner, the journalist.
Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 8:00 am
The GOP is going down in flames and the best that the Republicans can do is to call names?
Sad.
Just, truly sad.
Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 10:35 am
They can call the name it “Democrat Socialist Party” if the Dems get to call the GOP “National Socialist Party”. Quid pro quo.
Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 10:40 am
“The Conservative Intellectual Party”
Well played, sir. Well played…
Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
face it Obama and his administration are well on their way to taking this nation to the gutter,,Yes they are the Democratic Socialist Party
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Comment posted May 13, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
Right on Marsha! We can't allow these “democrat socialist” to keep destroying our country! With this country's national debt in the 11 trillion dollar range, we can't waste any time! Of course, thanks largely to another democratic president, George W. Bush. Oh wait………..
Comment posted May 18, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
Fortunately, the Democrats have enough class to refrain from rebranding the Republicans as the “Republican Fascist Destroyer-of-Economies and Incompetent-Policy-Maker Party.”
Comment posted May 18, 2009 @ 11:29 pm
Fortunately, the Democrats have enough class to refrain from rebranding the Republicans as the “Republican Fascist Destroyer-of-Economies and Incompetent-Policy-Maker Party.”
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