Noun

(en noun)

(US, pejorative) A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party.

*1966 , Allan P. Sindler, Political Parties in the United States , p. 70:

*:This hybrid voting behavior may be called "Republicrat ", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics.

(US, pejorative) The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties.

*2001 , Daniel Sinker, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet : the Collected Interviews , p. 290:

*:We need to make people understand that decisions being made on local levels are often far more influential in our lives and probably the only real way — unless we're able to radically change the way our one-party Republicrat system works — to make change.

*2004 , Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States , p. 567:

*:Both wings of the ruling "Republicrat " Party try to outdo themselves in announcing new, ever more draconian measures to restrict, repress, restrain, and eliminate the poor.

*2005 , Holliston Perni, A Heritage of Hypocrisy: Why 'They' Hate Us , p. 4:

*:Rather, we have a single Republicrat party of greedy, self-serving, amoral, power-driven professional politicians...

Noun

(en noun)

A Democrat who resembles ; in recent use, often specifically a Democrat who acts like a Republican

* 2000 December 18, "Sean Ormond" (username), " Re: OK, I'm expecting an announcement about the formation of", in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Usenet :

JMS, you really need to figure out who you support. I seem to recall you giving a thumbs-up to .

*{{quote-news, 2007, March 21, Seth McLaughlin, Virginia Democrat faces blog ire for Allen support, Washington Times citation

, passage=As result, Mr. Lambert is being called a "Liebercrat " after Sen. Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, who won re-election as an independent after losing in the 2006 Democratic primary to Ned Lamont.}}

*{{quote-news, 2008, January 31, Frank Juliano, Amann officially wants to be governor, Connecticut Post citation

, passage=The protesters referred to Amann as an "arrogant Liebercrat ," noting that he voted against civil unions and calling him a DINO, a "Democrat in name only."}}