WTF Is It Now?!?

Rethug operative to Dems: please play nice wif us!!
Frank Luntz makes a plea to the new party in power:

I am not in the habit of offering partisan linguistic advice to Democrats. But in the genuine spirit of bipartisanship - seriously - I thought this is the perfect time to convey a simple point to the still-euphoric faces of Democrat activists ...Don't twist the knife.

Democracy is at its best when its practioners use language to unite and explain rather than divide and attack.

Huh - you mean THIS Frank Luntz?

"The ungrammatical conversion of the noun 'Democrat' to an adjective was the brainchild of Republican partisans... apparently due largely to the urging of then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican pollster Frank Luntz, the use of the word 'Democrat' as an adjective became near-universal among Republicans."

"[A]mong those of the Republican persuasion, the use of 'Democrat Party' is now nearly universal thanks to 'Newt Gingrich and his Contract with America pollster, Frank Luntz. While Luntz 'road-tested the adjectival use of 'Democrat' with a focus group in 2001' and 'concluded that the only people who really dislike it are highly partisan adherents of the ... Democratic Party,' he also wrote that Luntz had told him recently that '[t]hose two letters ['ic'] actually do matter,' and that Luntz 'recently finished writing a book ... entitled 'Words That Work.' "

Here are a few more words that work: fuck you, asshat.

"Investigate. Impeach. Indict. Imprison. And hang, if possible." - poster at HuffPoCom.