Rick Davis Has A Suffix Issue

When Republicans want to disrepsect Democrats or raise money off of them, they drop the suffix "ic" from the adjective form of the party's name.

Here's Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, writing in a fundraising solicitiation today:

If Barack Obama is the Democrat nominee in the general election, the American people will have a clear choice between two different visions - Senator Obama's liberal, elitist philosophy and John McCain's faith in the small town values that continue to make America great. John McCain will not forget them or write them off. Neither should Barack Obama.

(I could quibble with several things about the paragraph, including the "small town" values slam, which betrays a bias against the estimated 232,000,000 Americans who live in what the government considers to be an urban area.)

Anyway, the branding of Obama has begun.