With the Republican National Convention descending on New York from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, the blue tarps will be painted with Democratic slogans that will be visible to conventioneers flying in from those "red" Republican states around the country.

"More than metaphors," should be the Democratic slogan in 1992.

The Democratic slogan was not "Dukakis/Bentsen" but "Punch 40," an appeal to mark the ballot line that would register a vote for the entire Democratic ticket.

"Oh, a new direction," the president said in response to a reporter using the term - a favorite Democratic slogan - as his lips pressed slightly in a smirk.

He campaigned for reelection in 1916 under the Democratic slogan "He Kept Us out of War."

That should be the only Democratic slogan needed to win in 2012, both presidential and congressional.

By replacing the Democratic slogan, "Spend and spend, tax and tax," with their own formula: "Spend and spend, spend and spend."

This Democratic slogan is said to be the invention of the elegant Mr. Van Buren whose candidate for governor is expected to defeat the Whig candidate.

"It's the economy, stupid,"was the Democratic slogan in the midst of a relatively slight recession in 1992.

One reason he failed to produce a widely usable Democratic slogan was that from the moment he started running for President, he was severely constrained by the rhetorical unpopularity of the word government.