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The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
Sat Mar 15, 2014, 11:00 AM Mar 2014

Language counts

We have to frame the other side and their positions in our terms. The members of the Party known as Republican will heretofore be known a the R word as the connotations that go along with being Republican are unmentionable in civil discourse. As the N word and the F word are used, so shall the R word.
Just as Reagan and Atwater made liberal a pejorative, it is incumbent on us as Democrats to return the favor.
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Language counts (Original Post) The Wizard Mar 2014 OP
Glad to oblige! n/t Paka Mar 2014 #1
They are Republi-CONs libodem Mar 2014 #2

libodem

(19,288 posts)
2. They are Republi-CONs
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 04:52 PM
Mar 2014

And CON-servatives and CON stands for confidence-men and con-victs. They deserve to be CON-demed.

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