Crossposted at Blogging For Michigan
(Sorry for the short diary, but I'm up past my night shift bedtime).
Many of us on the left have sought for a word to counter the right's use of the phrase "Democrat Party". We've experimented with some, such as Publican, Republican American Community, and others, but we couldn't get them to work because they didn't roll off the tongue and were too obvious.
But Republicon works. It's every bit as subtle as "Democrat Party", and rolls off the tongue easier than "Republican American Community". But the slight change of one letter implies that the Repugs are con artists, evil, and after your money.
So the new word, my Democratic friends, is REPUBLICON.