conservative, or a Republican, but is so disgusted with George W. Bush and his administration that he or she will vote for just about any Democrat who is nominated?

His suggestion is "Liberalated."

Although I appreciate the thought behind it, I'm not sure that "liberalated" is going to make it -- it's just a little clunky and difficult to say. In fact, everytime I try to speak it out loud I end up sounding a little like Tom Brokaw, because the demands on my mouth are just a little too much for comfort.

Some among my Loyal Dozen Readers may have picked up on the fact that a few weeks ago I tried to popularize the contraction "liblog" for "liberal blog", but two factors stood in the way of my doing so:

• (1) It's a pretty clunky word too, and easier to pronounce as "lib log" (which hides its underlying meaning) than as "lib blog"



• (2) It's damn difficult to popularize anything when your blog only gets 16 visits a day, pretty much a working defintion of "unpopular". (OK, "non-popular" might be better, since not enough people read me to dislike me enough for me to be unpopular.)

When Democrats in the South and from the working class abandoned the party to vote for Reagan they were referred to as, simply, "Reagan Democrats". I expect a similar term will be used to describe disaffected Republicans and conservatives driven away by the numerous bad policies and obnoxiously arrogant attitude of the Bush administration, once they actually defect and vote for whomever is the Democratic candidate in the 2004 election.

("Dean Republicans"? Doesn't sound too likely, does it? "Clark Republicans"? Hmmmm.... better.)