Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:33 pm
Watch CSPAN-2 you guys. 

I don't have cable. What are they saying?Xanadu wrote:Watch CSPAN-2 you guys.
Very good! Republican nominee John McCain represents what the Democrat party used to be in my grandfather's day.Xanadu wrote:He's working on changing the republican party back to what it used to be by educating peeps.
Very scary!ElfDude wrote:Very good! Republican nominee John McCain represents what the Democrat party used to be in my grandfather's day.
They're Republicans and Democrats, not Republics and Democratics.Big Blue Owl wrote:They named themselves the "Democratic party." Unless it's correct to say, "Republic party."![]()
BTW, nude pic of Sarah Palin in the Adult section.
Yeah, I guess it's not important. Just feels like a righty slighty.ElfDude wrote:They're Republicans and Democrats, not Republics and Democratics.Big Blue Owl wrote:They named themselves the "Democratic party." Unless it's correct to say, "Republic party."![]()
BTW, nude pic of Sarah Palin in the Adult section.
The party of the Republicans and the party of the Democrats.
The Republican party and the Democrat party.
*shrugs*
It shouldn't... unless there's shame associated with the word "Democrat".Big Blue Owl wrote:
Yeah, I guess it's not important. Just feels like a righty slighty.![]()
And from WikipediaKenneth G. Wilson (1923?). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
Democrat (adj., n.), Democratic (adj.)
The proper noun is the name of a member of a major American political party; the adjective Democratic is used in its official name, the Democratic party. Democrat as an adjective is still sometimes used by some twentieth-century Republicans as a campaign tool but was used with particular virulence by the late senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, a Republican who sought by repeatedly calling it the Democrat party to deny it any possible benefit of the suggestion that it might also be democratic. Other nations also have political parties with the words Democrat and Democratic in their names. The uncapitalized words democrat and democratic have to do with believers in and supporters of government based on majority rule, the principles of equal rights, and the representative procedures developed to permit these principles to operate. Capitalize only the proper noun and the adjective when it refers to the Democratic party.
As for "Book of Mormons" or "Books of Mormon", it depends on what is plural there. Are there multiple books or were there many Mormons who were involved in keeping the records that later became the Book of Mormon? Since the missionaries are talking about multiple books not multiple men, it is properly "Books of Mormon."Initially calling itself the "Republican Party," Jeffersonians were labeled "Democratic" by the opposition Federalists, with the hope of stigmatizing them as purveyors of democracy or mob rule.[72] By the Jacksonian era, the term "The Democracy" was in use by the party; the name "Democratic Party" was eventually settled upon.[73] In the 20th and 21st centuries, "Democrat Party" is a political epithet that is sometimes used by opponents to refer to the party. The current official name of the party is the "Democratic Party."