The Elephant is the wrong Animal Icon for the Repubs, how about the Rat?

Or the slug? Or the worm? The snake? The weasel? The vampire bat? The leach? The tapeworm?

Endlessly rolling the shit into little balls.

Who believe in the social welfare of their entire herd.

Slugs might work pretty good. Or tapeworms.

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After all, their long-term game plan is to eat away at the structure of the modern social welfare state from within, slowly eroding it until it collapses under its own weight.

but I think the Guinea Worm is more apropos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_worm

Someone else told me this once and it's utterly fitting:

So mean that if it can't finish an animal it has killed, it pisses on it so no one else can eat it either.

We would also have accepted hyena.

After the story of the scorpion who begs a frog to help it across a stream. "You'll bite me and kill me," the frog says. "If I do that, I'll drown," replies the scorpion. Reassured, the frog puts the scorpion on his back and begins swimming. Half way across the scorpion stings the frog. As it dies, the frog says, "how could you do that, now we'll both die for no reason." "I can't help it," shrugs the scorpion. "It's my nature."

I always had a lot of trouble with the elephant. What a nice animal. I think, anyway. Treated well, it willingly does a lot of very hard work.

Doesn't resonate with the GOP to me.

But then, I've also never quite gotten the whole donkey thing for the Democrats, either. Hey, isn't a donkey a burro? I know they really do some serious heavy lifting themselves, but the way they are kicking, it always looks as if they're suggesting, we're suggesting, that we are actually jackasses. why would we do that?

I guess maybe I have donkeys and burros confused with jackasses and mules?

But mules are very good too. They are very well behaved, and work very, very hard.

So, it must be an image thing that I never quite appreciated.

But they really need to update that.

Rats are very, very intelligent creatures, and we should not treat them as we do. They do not deserve our antipathy, you know?

Something much sneakier. Like, maybe a cuckoo bird? Pretend to be one thing it isn't until its offspring take over your nest, and you spend the rest of your life feeding the baby cuckoo, while your offspring was offed many months before? That sounds good to me.

said almost the same thing!

Great minds think alike...

I was agreeing with yours.

Natch.

killing us all.

It would be an insult to any animal... only man is capable of doing what they do.

Perhaps a Golem/Bush would suffice.

Always annoying, lives on others blood, carries deadly diseases, will do anything to get it's next meal, doesn't care who it bites or if the person will sicken or not, hard to eliminate, nasty in everyway possible.

the species if used in connection with PNAC and the barons and all the stockholders who purposely invest in the corporate benefactors of the PNAC agenda.

I start to write words like rat, but I just can't insult the rat. I always revert to using 'creature'.

Candiru are proof that Intelligent Design is a fraud--not even a total moran would have designed this.

Candiru are inch-long blood-sucking parasitic catfish from the Trichomycterid family--the only vertebrate parasite attacking humans. Attracted to the scents of blood and urea, the candiru is best known for occasionally swimming into a man's urethra to feed on the blood-engorged tissues surrounding it. Its rasp-like suckermouth is not nearly as frightening as the three spines around its head, which it extends and locks once it starts feeding so you can't pull the fish out. The pain caused by these spines is said to be exquisitely intense.

If the candiru is not removed, it will cause a blockage in the urethra that ultimately leads to rupture of the bladder and almost certain death.

If you fuckers aren't cringing yet, you may want to know that the most common way to "cure" a candiru infiltration is penectomy--removal of the organ in which the fish has found itself. Most candiru victims are willing to cut it off themselves. (There's also a drug made from a wild apple that can kill the candiru--but it's injected into the candiru through the walls of the penis and it takes three days to work.)

When Candiru have no dicks to swim up, they feed by swimming into the gill chambers of larger fish and attaching themselves to the gill membrane, an attack which usually either weakens or kills the host.

The candiru has absolutely no enemies because you can't eat the fucking things and they're even more feared than piranha. It is a completely worthless organism that destroys all it touches, hence is the perfect symbol for the Republican Party because they act exactly the same way.

Whew

Isnt the amoeba the lowest form of life?

They are the only animal known that does not shit, and we know GOPs are full of it. Besides, they inject poison into the skin that causes a severe irritation and weeks of itching. They are horrible little bugs that insinuate themselves wherever there is a waistband after they crawl into seams and breaks in clothing.

All the other animals you cited are good and useful creatures. Chiggers are useful only to themselves.

Rats are smart and good with money, Should marry a Dragon (which I have)

I think of them kind of like the creature Gollum in the lord of the rings.

are wise, compassionate and have wonderful memories. So opposite of Republican values!

But what about the donkey for Dems? (while we're on the subject...) I think it's just asking for a 'jackas*' to be kicked!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_worm


Spider Jerusalem could be right, though -- The chest-bursting Alien might be just as good, if not better

The weasel is a pretty animal, so I guess the pubic louse (the crabs) is my pick.

It's a wonderful animial.