My intention was to write a new diary explaining why using the noun “Democrat” as a adjective, as in Democrat Party, instead of DemocratIC, is considered a pejorative. When I did a search for “Democrat Party”, however, I found a 2006 DKos diary which had done all the work for me. So not knowing how to revive a 10-year old diary to make it currently visible, I’ll taken the lazy way out and share the link below:
"Democrat" vs. "Democratic:" A quick history lesson from the Propaganda Machine
Read it and remember: Secretary Hillary Clinton is *not* a rat! And neither Newt nor Sen. Joe McCarthy were the first American politicians to use the term (it goes back to before the turn of the 19th century, and first used in England referring to the American Democratic Party).