This dumbing down of language reminds me of the Republican party's habit , esp. Bush and DeLay recently, of using only the noun Democrat rather than the adjective Democratic. They didn't want the Democratic Party to be called by its name... the Democratic Party. Now they have promoted the misuse so much that I've even seen the grammatical error used in BBC news reports.

"Democrat as an adjective was still sometimes used by some twentieth-century Republicans as a campaign tool but was used with particular virulence by the late senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, a Republican who sought by repeatedly calling it the Democrat party to deny it any possible benefit of the suggestion that it might also be democratic." - wikipedia

Sorry for the bit of thread drift, but it irks me when people deliberately assume the language should change because they think people are too ignorant to use grammar correctly, or for manipulative reasons like Democrat for Democratic.