The use of adjectives as modifiers.
Posted By: see message on 2008-10-17
In Reply to: gourdpainter? You dont think you are just as - divisive with your nasty name-calling?! nm
GP is not alone in her use of the term "rabid republican." Google it and you come up with some 197,000 hits. When used, there are basically 2 ways to interpret the meaning. The most common way would conjure up the image of the extreme right-wingers in the party who foam at the mouth every time they open it with hate-mongering, culture-war declaring, racism/bigotry perpetuating blather and pronouncements. The numbers of these fringe partisans is anybody's guess, but they certainly have made their presence aboundantly known as the election has draws nigh.
The qualification of the modifier sets this group apart from the much larger republican party-at-large, many of whose members can be counted amonst the independents in this race on account of their disillusionment with this party line and their frustrated sense of disenfranchisement, having had their more moderate/centrist/bipartisan views pushed to the sidelines in the wake of all this vitriolic rhetoric and buried under Christian Right party dogma, to which McCain finds himself in the unenviable position to pander along with his VP running mate.
The second, less common interpretation of the term is expressed in self-righteous indignation and protestations of these very same rabid right-wingers, frozen in thier permanent states of denial and utter cluelessness, who take the term to mean a blanket condemnation of the entire party...a fate they have brought down upon themselve and their more sensible party cohorts by stoking the fires of hate and division that will undoubtedly bring their candidate down in defeat.
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