Joe McCarthy was the first to use the “Democrat [sic] Party” misnomer. However, its use became much more pervasive when Newt “Divorces his wife on her cancer treatment recovery bed, is a deadbeat dad, but still calls himself the ‘Family Values’ poster boy” Gingrich, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh practically made it mandatory in the ranks of the GOP. The President, Ken Mehlman, P.J. Heartly, LaVar and LaVarr and even Doug Wright, among many others, have all embraced this touching bit of McCarthyism.

Maybe we should set aside the pretensions and start calling them the “People’s Republic Party.”