October 03, 2007 05:01 PM
GOP Unveils RNC Convention Logo
The Republican party yet again provides unintentional comedy. As you may or may not know, next year's Republican Convention will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the location of Larry "Bathroom Scandal Senator" Craig's arrest.
Yesterday, the GOP unveiled the official logo for the convention: (h/t Colin McEnroe)
Is it me, or does that elephant have a wide stance? Not to mention, the year "2008" looks seriously in danger of being mounted. Damn, I love how clueless Republicans can be...
His eyes look blazed.
Those must be knife marks in his back.
It looks as if his palm is up....
That's the first time I've seen an elephant beg.
do they make tap shoes that big?
To me? It looks like a dead elephant that's been thrown under the bus. See the tire tracks? Very fitting.
I think they have enemy combatants within their PR department.
The GOP is killing irony.
Remember the Dem convention in (I think) 1984 when the balloon drop failed. It was a metaphor for where the party was that year - this is the same thing. The R party can't even buy a clue these days.
a dead elephant, how fitting... cheney was right, the insurgents are in the last throes... love the elephant road kill!
They may be clueless, but they sure know how to steal elections.
The Republicans: Our tails are up our ASS in 2008!
Well, the RNC is the party of self-loathing homophobic homosexuals. I think it's a perfect logo for them.
Curtilingus @ 10:
Yeah, that's what it looks like to me. Just what is that elephant doing with its own tail?
self-penetration, lashes across the back, and stars in the eyes that make it look like it's gotten chloroformed. Sounds like the RNC to me.
It looks like the circus is back in town. I am not sure if the repuglican candidates are circus clowns or clowns from hell.
The design is missing a crucial element......a crumbled bridge underneath the feet of the beast.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Does anybody think it's weird that the elephant is blue?
Does that qualify as cross-dressing?
is our troops dieing ... $1.5+ Trillion Dollars
is our childrens learning ... < $5 Billion Dollars
the acts of a logo elephant mounting the year 2008... Priceless.
That's a wide stance, with a tinkle of an eye.
Someone needs to get stickers of this logo and add "Wide Stance" in red letters above the elephant's head, then carefully place the stickers on all of the stall doors of Larry Craig's favorite Minneapolis bathroom, just like they hang stars on celebrity dressing room doors.
"Can you feel that, 2008? Hunh?!?"
Plus it looks like the elephant, when it takes a dump, and it will, it will land right on Minneapolis.
haha.. they trademarked it! Like anyone would intentionally use that POS for anything other than burning.
The damn elephant is sleep-walking. There should be a thought bubble saying, "The surge is working," or "I love my wive, I am not gay, I have never been gay..."
Don't forget the prison stripes... :-)
Thats the Republicans saying "fuck 2008"
A "star" for an eye is a classic toon representation of having been knocked out.
Not only that, blue is OUR color. The elephant should have been red, from embarrassment if anything else. Jeez.
If the Dems have a logo even half as ridiculous, I hope they go back to the drawing board. :)
I like the toilet paper stripes...
Rotate the elephant CCW 120 degrees and replace the star with an 'x'.
Now it's perfect.
Pachyderm somnambulists stumbling towards the exits...look out now!
Are those prison stripes?
Damn, you guys are funny.
well all you left wing liberal lunatic kook fringers(these things happen i.e. Larry Craig in LIBERAL TOWNS)
Which one of you clever folks can animate this graphic? Be sure to have 2008 throw tears of blood!
LOL Who designed this thing? Are they sure they don't have a secret democrat in their midst who has a hell of a sense of humor. Besides its wide stance, cartoon dead eyes and it's blue color, it looks like it has its tail up its ass. I guess that's better than having its head up its ass, as is the Republican way.
The elephants head looks like an image of a cat placed sideways. Freudian for pussy perhaps?
soothsayer @ 6:
LOL! There's nothing else to say.
This symbol beggs to be photoshopped.
My bet is that the best one will be related to larry craig.
How many times do you see Elephants on their hind legs? Unless they are at the circus or attacking something. Is that Nancy on the ground? They are so rude.
Ramone @ 26:
You may be closer to the truth on a subconscious level. I'm more concerned not about the guy that came up with that logo, but the one that approved it, and imagine all the hands and eyes that got a look at it before it was released.
It looks like a cartoon character had died. How amazingly fitting.
I think Dumbo looks stoned. Just saying.
Wow. That airport bathroom is going to be busy.
The dems sould come up with a logo of a donkey laying back laughing his ass off and this little rep elephant logo on the wall in front of him.
Jeff @ 33:
You mean like Bob Allen (R-Merritt Island) trying to get laid in a city park in the RED county of Brevard? Oops. Shall I name more....??
The beast is a Rouge! Look at it's eye(s)....stoned to the max!
well folks i can see by all the comments that you liberal democrats have some real important things to get off your chests(as per normal)
All I noticed was the stripes of a jail uniform.
I prefer this one:
http://thumbsnap.com/v/kA6kpyWk.jpg
Dr. Matt @ 44:
or bill clinton playing swallow the leader and demoralizing the
Office of the President of the United States
Prison stripes, wide stance, mounting, twinkling eye.....yup, definitely a reich-wing trademark.
That has to be the campest elephant I've ever seen. . .
We laugh when something is funny and this is definitely funny as hell. It's not our fault that a repub thought this was the best they could come up with in the logo dept.
Jeff @ 49:
ROFL!!! Clinton!????? LOL!!!! Jebus, sport, it take long for the reich-wing to bring up Clinton. Thanks for the chuckle.
Looks shoe tracks in the back of the elephant. Maybe that's a hint to where the GOP is headed in 2008.
I think the elephant got a hold of Ted Haggard's male prostitute's meth stash. Looks like he's tweeking pretty hard.
So, if the elephant isn't thrusting its head and trunk into the air its eye would actually be a pentagram?
I mean, if it were standing normally that is...
Just sayin'
Jeff @ 33:
Did you learn English from GWB?
is that an indian or an african elephant???
Dr. Matt @ 53:
it take??did you graduate kindergarten?
With the elephant against a white background, it is too easy to flip the elephant and make it dead, with tracks to boot. SO easy even I could do it using PhotoShop Elements.
Jeff @ 49:
At least he didn't have to pay for it. And it was straight sex, and legal...should I go on.
Whoa, to go from a bizarre logo to President Clinton in a single leap? Superman has nothing on that.
What are those, semi tractor trailer tire tracks across it's back? Elephant road kill seems strangely prophetic going into 2008.
I was wonder why the Minneapolis airport was installing new men's room stalls...
zugzug @ 18:
Ding ding ding!!! Good one.
It looks like the elephant is about to onload a lot of repub talking points right(LOL) out of its ass.
Q: How many Republican politicians can you fit in the closet?
A: Evidently, all of them.
That's pretty limp. Is he pushing a shopping cart? Oh wait, I see it... he's standing up to shit on the constitition.
And the caption below should read:
Mount me in your nearest airport bathroom!! This is comical. It's as though they have a death wish.
hadenuf @ 57:
yeah and I like those weapons of mass destructionation, riding around my red pickup truck and jockeying around the bar-b-q
I am reminded of a list of worst jobs in science. One was elephant semen collector.
Thinking of this sort of thing is one of the reasons I get passed for promotions.
What? Even the Republican party is turning "blue"? Does this mean that the Republicans are going to vote for Democrats?
Mad cow disease springs to my mind. . .
Strawberry @ 61:
sex with another woman while married is legal? what world r u livin in pal?
Jeff @ 33:
"Did you graduate kindergarten?" Or, like a typical reich-winger, are you just raping the kiddies in kindergarten?"
Or another caption:
"Yeah, like Senator Larry Craig, I have a wide stance, too"....all the better to tap you with for my next gay sex fix!
Strawberry @ 61:
The straight, legal part is what really pisses off the repugs.
Just to make sure everybody, I am not the capital letter Jeff.
I am the small case jeff who thinks that Bush etal all the worst thing to happen to America.
or bill clinton playing swallow the leader and demoralizing the
Office of the President of the United States
Oh yes. That's why we elected W. To bring back honor and integrity to the Oval Office.
W has managed to demoralize this entire friggin' country and break our Army to boot. Bu what's the use trying to explain that to a fucktard like yourself?
He has very small ears for an elephant. Does that tell us anything?
Can someone please forward this to the Daily Show crew so they can create a suitable 'wide-stance' graphic? I think the meme has to get rolling.
Jeff @ 49:
I'd like to know where in the Consitution cheating on your wife in the Oval Office is listed. In what article are these morals you speak of? You see, the Craig and Allen incidents were illegal. Illegal being the key word here.
Jeff @ 74:
Apparently not the deluded, perverse, and clouded world you are living in.
Speaking of clueless, how about all the Democrats who voted to condemn MoveOn's Petraus ad? Great leadership there...
Curtilingus @ 10:
Is that a tail? Or is it a toilet seat? (Hint: Fill with blue in the space between the left leg and the toilet rim.)
Jeff @ 74:
Uh dude, what law are you talking about? Name it please.
It looks like the pachyde(R)m is tiKKKling its own ass.
Not that there's anything wriong with it! :lol:
Dr. Matt @ 75:
why lookin for a good time?
Four legs good.
Two legs better.
Reich-wingers think the following are completely acceptable:
*Homosexual sex with underage pages
*Sex with prostitutes
*Picking up men in bathrooms
*Homosexual sex in public parks
Reich-wingers think the following is completely unacceptable:
*Heterosexual relations between two consenting adults
Why is this republican elephant blue instead of red with yellow stripes and lots of $$$$$$?
Jeff @ 74:
Show me the ordinance against cheating on your wife. There are lots of things in this world that can be considered immoral by one person or another than are perfectly legal. And there is a reason for that. Because we all live under one law. The very reason the law exists is because if we adhered to morals rather than laws, religion would not be free.
Jeff @ 88:
Sorry, I'm not your type. I'm over 18 and of the same gender.
Dr. Matt @ 83:
thank God for that!
I hear that they are giving away free Cheetos over at little green footballs. Someone here might want to run over and grab some. ;) Don't worry, we'll take good care of your little elephant logo while you're gone.
Dhalgren, thanks for my word of the day. Fucktard! Great one.
That's not cool, you guys. I spent the entire six months they gave me to finish work on their logo design passed out on my couch surrounded by used up cleenexes and used heroin needles. I managed to throw together the final design with Karl Rove just three feet away from my door. I was under tremendous pressure, you see, because it's really hard to draw an realistic elephant that fits in that little circle that they give you and doesn't look like a mutant freak. Quite frankly, you guys are lucky just to get that; if I had had more time I would have scrapped the design entirely and gone with the words 'VOTE REPUBLICAN '08' on a blue button instead.
I don't think this will fit into the average Public Bathroom Stall ....
Actually, that elephant looks like it's getting ready to mount & mate...
Jeff @ 59:
Actually, using proper subject-verb conjugations is optional by executive order of the preznit.
Jeff @ 94:
How dare you thank God!!!!!!! That's illegal in my world!!!
Oh wait. It's not. Nevermind.
I couldn't resist - I had to take their logo and complete it with the badly-missing toilet:
Jeff @ 94:
Sooooo, you do live in a deluded, perverse, and clouded world. Is that the truth of the repubs spilling out in a Fruedian slip?
Is it just me...or is that elephant wearing a stripey vest with stars in his eyes?
Looks to me like that elephant is standing up to get a better look over his toilet stall into the next one.
Good for you, jeff.
Other Jeff-ya got nothin. Slink on out and think up some new justification for your fellow Repugs' crassness (look it up).
Poodles are known for standing on their hind legs and flipping their paws up and down while begging for food or toys or whatever. I'll bet a small amount of money that the artist who designed this logo owns or has owned a poodle.
zugzug @ 100:
I say you deserve a Medal of Freedom for that courageous act of grammatical execution.
who can turn the world on with her smile . . .
"The logo was designed by New York City-based Creative Director Robert Matza. Matza has overseen many aspects of creative development for a broad range of corporate identity clients while at Landor Associates, including Morgan Stanley, GE, Pepsico, Computer Associates, New York Stock Exchange, Lenovo, Verizon, and Nielsen Media Research."
His father must be proud.
Glenn Murphy Jr.
National Chairman of the Young Republicans
Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party
(July 28, 2007)
The Crime: Murphy got a fellow Young Republican drunk and then spent the night at his house. The other young man woke up in the middle of the night to find Murphy giving him mouth-to-penis resuscitation. After this incident, a 1998 sexual battery report came to light in which Murphy was alleged to have done the exact same thing.
Bob Allen
Member of the Florida House of Representatives
Florida Chairman of John McCain’s Presidential Campaign
(July 11, 2007)
The Crime: Offering an undercover cop $20 to allow Allen to blow him in a men’s room in a public park. After being arrested, Allen tried to explain that he only offered to blow the cop because the cop was a “burly black man” and he “didn’t want to become a statistic.”
Larry Craig
U.S. Senator
Senate Liason for Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign
(June 11, 2007)
The Crime: Soliciting sex from an undercover cop in an airport bathroom
Ted Haggard
Leader of the National Association of Evangelicals
(November 2006)
The Crime: Paying male prostitutes for sex and snorting crystal meth.
Mark Foley
U.S. Representative
(September 28, 2006)
The Crime: Sending sexually laced, gramatically challenged instant messages and e-mails to teenaged boys in the Congressional page program for more than 10 years.
Is that elephant tapping it's feet?
jeff @ 103:
Apparently reading comprehension is not one of your better traits. Thanks for proving that to all of us.
BTW, who is "Frued"?
I think I'll print up a few hundred of these and stick them in every restroom I can find...
Hell, you can design something as lame as this and be employed by a big NYC design company? Send me an application.
who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile . . .
pissed off patricia @ 106:
greg white @ 99:
Somebody over at Kos pointed out that the ONLY time an elephant gets up on its hind legs is for sex...unless he's in the circus...either way doesn't seem well thought out, does it?
It kinda looks like an origami elephant made from Israel's flag
Stop, Dr. Matt; you're getting them hot.
This is FREAKING funny!
Elephant with legs wide open. Craig are you here?
:-) :-) :-)
joshdavis @ 92:
Well to start with ordinances are a form of local laws governing cities, we are a nation of many laws ...not just one! Laws should have a moral center and they exist as a method of managing this chaos in which we live
So I start laughing out loud after reading "Is it me, or does that elephant have a wide stance?"
My teenage daughter in the next room says what's so funny Dad?
I showed her and now were both laughing our loud.
will somebody please photoshop some toiletpaper to his foot?
No no no, you've all got it wrong.
It's a rampaging elephant.
It must be a commemorative logo, in honor of the last 7 years.
Oh, come on, you're making a dirty joke over nothing. Let's not stretch things into rabid wingnuttery land. Elephant rampant: you know, about to charge.
Although "2008" does look a wee bit phallic in that location.
joshdavis @ 108:
joshdavis @ 108:
I'd settle for a tattoo of the elephant on my ass.
But seriously, lets stop making fun of this before they change it. I really really don't want them to realize how crappy it is.
that's the funniest thing i've ever seen!
Curtilingus @ 10:
A little anal stimulation for our sexually repressed Repugs.
Jeff @ 121:
In otherwords, you can't get laid and use the law as a cover.
Kal@107
My sentiments exactly.
lary craigh will be autographing sheets of toilet paper for his many fans at the airport, come on into his stall and give him a howdy!!!!!!
91!
Yellow stripes - I was waiting for that one. The General would be proud.
The obvious thing missing on the elephant, as with all Reslugs, is it doesn't have any balls and is dickless.
That's one Angry *ss elephant.
I think it's missing it's AK-47.
and another howdy and another ooohhhh god yes yes
JudyLou @ 105:
(look it up)....is that like "GOOGLE IT"
Ronin Tetsuro @ 5:
I like your assessment.
:)
Now is this the position the repugs want from their members... or from everyone?
Is the message "Look out behind you!" ?
Yes, the yellow-bellied, chickenshit stripes say it all.
Late to the thread ... maybe not the first one to say so ... but I'm thinking that you're just dirty, Nicole. Take a few moments to spend some quality time with the "bunny ears" and maybe you'll stop seeing sex in everything. Not that that's a bad thing ...
Coffins draped with flags @ 72:
Personally I’d like to see every republican turn blue!
pissed off patricia @ 62:
They've always been jealous of the Clenis.
Is the RepubliCON elephant wearing prison stripes??? With so many RepubliCONs in jail (or should be in jail) this is the perfect outfit for their elephant.
Is this frisky GOP elephant inside a toliet stall and tapping on the wall to get his neighbors attention? Is this Larry Craig in elephant drag?
Jeff @ 121:
I didn't ask you what an ordinance was or for a civics lesson. I asked you where the law is saying cheating is illegal. Can you name one?
Also, laws do not come from any moral viewpoint. Laws come from the people who vote on them, given that they adhere to a set of rights set forth in the people's constitution, which they also vote on.
Morality in law is a cumulative thing.
And any law that says you can't cheat on your wife I ask you to name.
Uh, oh, remember Burma?
NOOOO, I don't want to leave this thread!
The logo is meant to embolden repub men and stimulate repub women.
Sorry if I'm repeating someone else but isn't a star as an eye a symbol of being knocked out?
joshdavis @ 144:
In Idaho, fornication can get you a $300 fine and six months in jail. But that’s a piece of cake compared to the penalty for adultery -- up to a $1,000 fine and three years in the state pen.
joshdavis @ 144:
Well I know that millions of spouses a year get convicted of adultry in our legal system (jeez I dont know if that means anything?)
"There's nothing wrong with running from elephants"
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