90 politically-loaded catchphrases I wish would die

[SortaSavageLike]

Stolen from another website:

$hrub
Anti-Choice
Arab Street
Axis of Evil
Big Oil
Blame America First
Blogosphere
Bloody Shirts
Blue State
Bring To Justice
Bu$h
Bushistas
Chimperialism
Christian Nation
Class Warfare
Clinton News Network
Cop killer bullets
Culture of life
Cut and Run
Deathocrats
Defeatocrats
Democraps
Democrat Party
Demo****s
DemonRATS
Dhimmicrats
Dhimmicrats
Dim-o-crats
Dittoheads
Dumbocrats
Eurocrat
Evildoers
Family Values
Fascism
Faux News
Feminazi
Flip-flopper
Gaystoppo
Global test
Gloom-and-Doom-o-crats
Gun Grabbers
High-powered rifle
Hippiecrats
Hitlery KKKlinton
Hollywood Elitist
Homicide Bomber
Intelligentsia
Islamofascism
Ivory Tower Intellectual
Judicial activism
Lefty
Liberal
Marxism
Nanny State
Neocon
Never Forget
Organic Food
Political savvy
Post 9/11 world
Pre-9/11 thinking
Pro-Choice
Pro-Life
Red State
Repiglicans
Repubelickans
Republikkkans
Repuglicans
Reverse Racism
Rhino
Righty
Sexism
Sheeple
Small Government
Socialist
Spendocrats
Stealing our jobs
Support our troops.
Swing State
Taxachusett Liberal
The Man
The Shrub
They hate us for our freedom
Think of the Children
Tough on Crime
Unborn Child
Upperdown Vote
War on Terror
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Weapons of Mass Murder
White Males

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

Stolen from another website:


Anti-Choice

If the "pro-lifers" can call pro-choicers "pro-abortion" then I think Anti-Choice is wide open for use.

[bretonbanquet]

Some of those are pretty much just words - Marxism, Feminism, Liberal etc - I mean having a problem with words is a bit weird. Have a problem with the concepts, by all means.

"Unborn Child" - what's wrong with that? What else do we call it? Mind you, lots of those wind me up too, particularly "Think of the Children" and anything ending with "thinking". Like "Blue Sky Thinking"... god, I hate that.

"Never Forget" ?? Is there some "Anti-Mac Thinking" going on here?

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

Some of those are pretty much just words - Marxism, Feminism, Liberal etc - I mean having a problem with words is a bit weird. Have a problem with the concepts, by all means.

some phrases are so overused that they become meaningless and trite. it's not weird to be annoyed with their overuse. 60-odd years ago, george orwell wrote that people have lost the ability to use language and instead string together endless quantities of meaningless catchphrases instead of thoughtfully crafting sentences to express thought. the prevalence of these (often obnoxious) phrases in contemporary rhetoric illustrates how right he is.

[bretonbanquet]

Originally Posted by carrie721

some phrases are so overused that they become meaningless and trite. it's not weird to be annoyed with their overuse. 60-odd years ago, george orwell wrote that people have lost the ability to use language and instead string together endless quantities of meaningless catchphrases instead of thoughtfully crafting sentences to express thought. the prevalence of these (often obnoxious) phrases in contemporary rhetoric illustrates how right he is.

That I will agree with, but it's not the fault of the words, which are perfectly sensible and appropriate words when used in their correct contexts. It's when they're stretched by intellectually challenged individuals, drenched in platitudinous drivel on a daily basis and used in place of words those people haven't learned yet, that they become annoying. But then we don't have to listen to those people. Words are only as fine as the people who use them.

[irishgrl]

Im sorry but this:

Chimperialism

is AWESOME!