My Plea to all speakers at the Democratic Convention who read DU....

[RagAss]

PLEASE;

In all of your speeches and interviews at and around the Democratic convention next week.

Do Not call them Republicans.
Do Not refer to them as the GOP.

Call them what they are...the Tea Party...Tea Partiers or Tea Baggers. Look at their platform and listen to all of their attacks. They do not deserve the right to claim the name of a legitimate party with a place in American history. They are a heavily funded insurgent organization and need to be clearly tagged as such.
Please consider this suggestion.

[RagAss]

1. ..

[RagAss]

2. well, I still think this is a good idea.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. It's an interesting idea.

But I think that if we want to take the high road, we need to refer to them as the Republican Party.

That is their official name, after all.

[FSogol]

4. Count the number of times an official speaker says "Democrat Party" during the GOP convention

and use the term "tea party" that many times.

[Bake]

5. Now there's an idea I can get behind!

Well done!

Bake

[Bake]

6. They, of course, will always take the low road.

And the high road, I'm afraid, leads to defeat. I think we should call them what they ARE, my dear Peggy!



Bake

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear Bake!

I'm more than sure that we can take the high road, and STILL win!

I hear ya, though!

[lpbk2713]

8. They are obstructionist traitors. And don't forget it.

They would rather bring our country to its knees, as they have already done, than to
do anything that might be interpreted as making a Dem administration look good.

[lovemydog]

9. I think the tea party and its extremism & racism

should be mentioned. I'd still call them all republicans though.

Primarily I'd emphasize what the democratic party is doing to improve the economy. And what obstruction is coming from the republican party, which is beholden to tea party racism and trickle down nonsense.

I think your idea of consistently tying the republican party to the tea party is great, because its true. No matter how many republicans try and deny it, the republican party is absolutely tied to the tea party.

[RagAss]

10. Thank you.

[Cleita]

11. Or, GOOPers, the Grand Old Obstructionist Party. n/t