The spud was named, "potatoe," before the GOP existed. Get a life. Stop spewing shit you know nothing about to cause grief. Your hero does linguistics, ask him, he'll tell you.
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"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word." Andrew Jackson.
He's telling you to get a life too from beyond the grave. If all you have is an alternate correct spelling to make fun of someone, you lose at life.
I had this kid, in a high schiol, make fun of my spelling, "defence," who had a 4.0. She laughed her ass off until her friend said it's an alternate spelling. She shut up. I looked over at her and gave a shit eating grin like Obama always has. It was great!
So you were saying? I can't hear you when you mumble.