Morphing the GOP into the FAT Party

[Fly by night]

The party of (F)ear, (A)dultery and (T)heft.

I can picture the logo
as the traditional elephant,
but with a belly so HUGH
that its feet don't reach the floor.

Of course, the name-change comes with an
already installed national spokes-blob,
who even has his own radio show.

What say ye?

[Fly by night]

1. one self-kick and on to a hot bath

[bain_sidhe]

2. I'll kick you too!

I think it's a great image to promote. The acronym needs work, though...

[Fly by night]

4. I can think of several options for the (T)

Theocracy

Thuggary

Tea-Bags -- bingo

How's that?

[bain_sidhe]

20. I still like "Greedy Old Plutocrats"

Keeps the GOP, re-makes the image. But, I love the image of the Elephant with a belly so large its legs can't reach the ground - it's a metaphor for so much - as in their greed makes it impossible for them to move forward. Or their greed causes them to lose their footing, or... well, something like that.

[tblue37]

3. Well, but a lot of perfectly nice, decent people are overweight (even very overweight), so I

am not really comfortable with using "fat" as a pejorative like that. (I am carrying a bit of extra poundage myself, I must admit.)

[Fly by night]

5. I hear you, though I think "fat" has so many meanings that it would be a shame to lose its use here

I do hear you -- and I'd love reactions of others to this issue.

Thanks for raising it.

[DainBramaged]

6. Been there.....

'mmmmmmmmmmk

[Fly by night]

9. Yes, you were my inspiration

[DainBramaged]

10. Wow, you mean, you like me, you really like me?

:rofl:

[Fly by night]

13. Why yes, I like (and am inspired by) you and other pithy DUers, ....

... unlike those pith-poor trolls in our midst.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. I predict that the chamber of commerce will morph into the Republican party.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. If so, Rushie boy is perfect as the leader

:D

[Lorien]

11. A belly so Hugh?

[Fly by night]

12. Yes, as in "Hugh Moran", a long-running joke here at DU

You know that, right?

[Brickbat]

14. Meh. Your symbolism needs work.

A fat elephant doesn't make me think of fear, adultery and theft. Fear, adultery and theft are much better things to attack the GOP for than "fat."

[Fly by night]

15. You've got it bass-ackwards.

But I heard (upthread) the concerns about the imagery and I don't want to insult anyone in our midst. The concept just gave me a chuckle when another left-neck friend of mine suggested it.

[Missy Vixen]

16. Wheeee! Let's stigmatize the fat even more!

All the cool kids are doing it!

:sarcasm:

[Fly by night]

17. Arf. (and dupe)

I guess I could have called it the "CORPULENT" party, but I don't have time to think of the words to fit that acronym (and, of course, that might also offend you, if you know what the word means.)

What I was stigmitizing was fear, adultery and theft -- not overweight people. (I don't hate or want to ridicule myself, after all.)

[Caliman73]

18. I would change the "A" to Avarice.

I have strong personal opinions about Adultery, but I would not necessarily write off a politician or other leader for that flaw in their personality or character as it were. If so then Kennedy, FDR, Martin Luther King Jr., and others would be pariahs, not celebrated leaders. As much as I have a personal dislike of the behavior of being unfaithful to a spouse or partner, what really pisses me off about Republicans is not that they succumb to infidelity, but that they are complete hypocrites who condemn others for behaviors in which they engage. The infidelity is personal, but the hypocrisy is social.

Anyway, the "A" for Avarice seems to fit them better. Republicans are the party of Greed. They are the party of the corporation. They have followed the same policies that lead us to all of the Depressions and Recessions we have had in our history. They preach that enriching the few will somehow give everyone a better life. They keep preaching that crap despite being shown repeatedly that it is not true. They appeal to the greed of their followers and fool them into thinking that they can join the ranks of the wealthy so that they vote against their self interests.

That is why I say Avarice fits.

[Fly by night]

21. (F)ear, (A)varice and (T)ea-bags!!

I likes it.

And I agree that they are also the party of greed, hypocrisy and blasphemy at a scale that any belief system should withdraw from. As the bumper-sticker I saw the other day said:

"Jesus, please protect me
from some of your followers."

[dusmcj]

19. leave the elephants out of it, comparing them to Republicans is an insult to them /nt