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Scapegoat Bob
Commodore
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 Tue May 25, 2004 5:21 pm Why? |
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Why are Demacrats donkies, and Republicins elephants?
We never understood. Elephants remember for a long time, that is good.
Donkies... are stupid and only good for... well, not much, 
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Leo Wyatt
Sweetest Angel
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Location: Investigating A Crime Scene. What did Quark do this time?
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 good one.
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Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
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| Tue May 25, 2004 7:18 pm |
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Because their Jack Asses!! 
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"Rights are only as good as the willingness of some to exercise responsibility for those rights- Fmr. Colorado Senate Pres. John Andrews
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Arellia
The Quiet One
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Posts: 4425
Location: Dallas, TX
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| Tue May 25, 2004 10:38 pm |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Because their Jack Asses!! |
Actually, that is how they got it. At least, one of them...
| Quote: | The earliest association of either critter with a politician was during Andrew Jackson's presidency (1829-37). When his opponents labeled him a jackass for his populist views and his ''Let the people rule'' slogan, Jackson turned the insult to his advantage and used a donkey on his campaign posters.
Political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who usually gets the credit for the donkey, didn't use it in a political cartoon until Jan. 15, 1870.
The one that really stuck in the nation's consciousness was Harper's Weekly's Nov. 7, 1874, publication of Nast's famous cartoon using the elephant as a symbol of Republican voters and the donkey representing the Democrats.
The cartoon showed animals representing various political issues fleeing a donkey wearing a lion's skin. Nast titled the cartoon The Third Term Panic.
More information about the origins of the symbols can be found on each party's website: www.rnc.org/gopinfo/elephant and www.democrats.org (click on ''about the dnc'' at the top of the page, and then on ''History of the Democratic Donkey'' under the Party History heading). |
-http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/action_line/4307264.htm?1c
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