The first Republican in the debate last night to invoke the deliberately mispronounced epithet: "Democrat Party"?
Saint McCain.
That's when I stopped watching. I'm willing to pay attention to these guys even though I disagree with almost everything they say, but when they embrace a deliberate mispronunciation as a marketing scheme they expose their true identities as well-paid grade school recess dickheads -- internet trolls with speechwriters and a press pool.
Seriously -- can you imagine Senator Obama or John Edwards saying "Re-pube-lickin'"? No. You can't imagine that because it would be childish, pathetic and beneath their dignity.