They have been doing it for decades. I’m fairly certain Newt got them to do it as part of his intentional strategy to divide Washington (then, in lockstep, all these fuckers started talking about how “divisive” Obama is, imagine that) with his GOPAC training.

But it predates even that by decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

It annoys me because every time I hear some brat of a Republican in a high position use it, they sound exactly like that stupid kid that knew that “ain’t” is not a word, but they’d say it anyway to annoy teachers (or anyone that knows the English language, really). Or when you hear someone who has probably been corrected a thousand times on words like “supposedly” still say “supposably”.

It just sounds like a defiant jackass demonstrating the Peter principle.

I wish to Zeus that reporters would make a pact to ALL start asking Republicans that do this simple questions such as: “You don’t know the proper name of the DemocratIC Party?” or “Surely you know the name is the DemocratIC Party? Why don’t you say the right name?” or “Do realize how childish your entire party comes off when you cannot even say ‘the DemocratIC Party’?”

Really just shame these motherfuckers. At every chance when they do this. I wish Democratic Senators and Reps would do it on the floor, too. Same with guests on outlets like Faux, because Faux does it, too.

It’s not a huge thing, but the complete childishness of the Republicans ALL doing it nearly uniformly should be pointed out as the childish and juvenile bullshit that it is.