Re: GOP
Posted by ESC on February 23, 2000 In Reply to: Re: GOP posted by bob on February
22, 2000
: : Why does "GOP" refer to the Republican Party?
: It stands for Grand Old Party, a bit of self-congratulation.
"G.O.P. The Grand Old Party got that name around 1880, and the
expression was used derisively at first. It's unclear just who originally
taunted the Republicans with that label, but it made its first appearance
in print in the Louisville Courier Journal (a Kentucky newspaper)
in 1887. Later on, of course, the Republicans adopted the label
as their own." From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins"
by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1977).
But my question is, why was it originally used derisively?
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