democrat[ic] party

As someone who believes language is central to winning political campaigns, I'm dismayed that the phrase "Democrat Party" is now becoming more common in the mainstream media. This phrase has been commonplace for conservative talk radio for years, but its now being pushed heavily into mainstream, and if the Democratic party wants to maintain its identity, it would counter this tactic.

What the language shift does is rob democrats of their entire platform: that they stand for democratic principles; it's an effort by the right wing to lay claim to the one thing democrats all over the world stand for: democracy. We've heard countless political speeches by the right about creating democracy in the Middle East (when we all know they're probably going to be closer to corporate fascist states, but that's besides the point) and the destruction of the term democratic to describe the Democratic Party. Conservatives are now trying to claim they're the party of democracy.

I've begun tracking the proliferation of the term "Democrat Party" along with "America" by searching for it on google. As of today, there are about 897,000 entries. Watch for this number to go up if the left doesn't counter the "Democrat Party" shite. I'll update this number some time in the future.