Why is the elephant the republican mascot

when they show such disdain for threatened and endangered species?

They should select a new mascot...one that's already extinct.
Like the dodo.

He should be on American Idol.

The elephant always reminds me of British Imperialism so I suppose it suits.

yet another threatened species.

That'd be a good choice.

I wish it weren't, because it is an insult to elephants. I mean that seriously; I really like elephants.

who called themselves "Elephants Against Republicans".

The Republican National Committee has announced it's changing the emblem of the Republican Party -- from an elephant to a condom.

The Republican National Chairman explained that the condom more clearly reflects the Party's current stance, owing to the fact that a condom accepts inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed ....

http://www.loper.org/~george/archives/2004/Mar/831.html

Hilarious! :D

It's so inappropriate...

;-)

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How did Republicans pick the elephant, and Democrats the donkey, to represent their parties? Long Island, New York - 9/5/00

They didn't pick these labels – they got stuck with them! Their origin as symbols for the parties is attributed to a political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, who used the donkey
and the elephant in cartoons drawn for Harper's Weekly in the 1870's. Why Nast chose the donkey and the elephant is a pretty complicated story.

One version traces it to the "Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874," a hoax foisted on its readers by the New York Herald newspaper. The Herald ran a deliberately false story about animals breaking out of the zoo and foraging for food throughout Central Park. Around the same time, the Herald was running a series of editorials against a 3rd term for President Ulysses S. Grant, calling the possibility "Caesarism."

Nast combined these two elements together for the first time in an 1874 cartoon for Harper's Weekly. He had a donkey disguised as a lion trying to scare away the animals in a forest. The donkey was a symbol for the New York Herald; the lion-skin costume was a symbol for a scare tactic , and the animals in the forest were the symbol for the newspaper's hoax about zoo animals in Central Park.

More, and photo at... http://www.c-span.org/questions/week174.htm

That's an interesting article!

platform.

I love elephants. How the hell did we get stuck with the Jack ASS??
:shrug:
Duckie

Here's a website with some interesting info: http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/donkey.html