Good idea. This way the term “socialism” becomes equated with regular Democratic stances and it loses its taboo with the American public. Shocking that these people are incapable of winning an election.

A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”

When I asked if such a resolution would force RNC Chairman Michael Steele to use that label when talking about Democrats in all his speeches and press releases, the RNC member replied: “Who cares?”…

Steele wrote a memo last month opposing the resolution. Steele said that while he believes Democrats “are indeed marching America toward European-style socialism,” he also said in a (rare) flash of insight that officially referring to them as the Democrat Socialist Party “will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans.”

I can not express the sheer level of fucking stupidity this reaches. Not only will Republicans be seen as desperate and petty (even as they’ve been making headway with Independents), but you take the edge off of the idea of socialism. People will see it as much more mainstream and reasonable than it is, equating it with the ideas of your average Democrat. Unfuckingbelievable.