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The Grand Old Party at the Garden: The GOP Convention is on all week at Madison Square Garden in the Big Apple. But, what the heck is a GOP? It's an acronym to describe the Republican Party.

It morphed from Gallant Old Party soon after the Civil War to Grand Old Party, which is what GOP means today. Newspaper headline writers loved the label -- GOP in a headline is much shorter than Republicans -- and that helped entrench the handle.

Those who want to follow along with the pundits and polibloggers should get a copy of the new book, Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, by double-tongued word wrester Grant Barrett. Hat tip to Languagehat for the heads-up.

And thank goodness for Convention Bloggers, or we might never find out what political slang terms really mean. Michael Crowley, a professional journalist blogging for the The New Republic's Republican Convention Blog, sourced this at a meeting of the Iowa GOP Delegation.

Soon after Hagel spoke, the acting state Republican chair--an African-American man in a white cowboy hat named Leon Mosley--urged his delegates, "Let's remember what's paramount in our life: God ... This is the GOP: God's Official Party."

Who knew?

Posted by abnu on Monday, August 30, 2004 @ 7:52 AM [ + ]

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