Moonbats and Wingnuts

[August]

Will they eventually replace the Elephant and Donkey as official Dem/Repub nicknames? Quite possibly me thinks...

What say you?

[SteamWake]

:rotfl:

[Tribesman]

What say you?
No , simply because they are interchangable

[Digital_Trucker]

Why not just call them both "lying at the bottom of the Mariana Trench" and we'll all be better off.

[August]

No , simply because they are interchangable

Maybe to a foreigner like yourself.

[Platapus]

I just wish that the political parties would spend more time working for the country/citizens than they do for their parties. :nope:

[August]

I just wish that the political parties would spend more time working for the country/citizens than they do for their parties. :nope:

Me too, but i'm beginning to believe it has gone too far for that.

[Platapus]

I fear you are correct. And if so, this aint good for our nation. :cry:

[August]

I fear you are correct. And if so, this aint good for our nation. :cry:

No it isn't. I fear a lot of blood will be shed.

[Tribesman]

Maybe to a foreigner like yourself.
Think about it , the only people who use either of those words specificly to describe the fruitcakes of the opposing party are generaly fruitcakes themselves . So for anyone who isn't a space cadet the words are completely interchangable to describe the muppets on the lunatic fringe of either party .

[August]

Think about it , the only people who use either of those words specificly to describe the fruitcakes of the opposing party are generaly fruitcakes themselves . So for anyone who isn't a space cadet the words are completely interchangable to describe the muppets on the lunatic fringe of either party .

The problem with your theory is that the elephant and the donkey both originated in the same manner, yet over time they became mainstream symbols used by everyone. So too will these.

[Tribesman]

The problem with your theory is that the elephant and the donkey both originated in the same manner, yet over time they became mainstream symbols used by everyone. So too will these.
No they didn't, that german fella didn't create the elephant pictures as a derisory symbol for his own favourite party he used it to symbolise what he saw as the strength of his grand old party .

[Platapus]

German Fella = Thomas Nast :know:

[August]

No they didn't, that german fella didn't create the elephant pictures as a derisory symbol for his own favourite party he used it to symbolise what he saw as the strength of his grand old party .

Um wrong. It's from Nast's cartoon in Harpers Weekly showing the donkey clothed in a lions skin (representing an anti-civil war faction) , scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of these animals, the elephant, was labeled "The Republican Vote", which is hardly the complementary depiction you claim it to be.

[Tribesman]

Um wrong. It's from Nast's cartoon in Harpers Weekly showing the donkey clothed in a lions skin (representing an anti-civil war faction)
Copperhead the donkey wasn't representing an anti civil war faction it was representing a confederate faction

[August]

Copperhead the donkey wasn't representing an anti civil war faction it was representing a confederate faction

Um, wrong again.

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

The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. The name Copperheads was given to them by their opponents, the Republicans, because the venomous, although not usually deadly, copperhead snake can strike without warning (unlike a rattlesnake).

[Tribesman]

Um, wrong again.
Not in the slightest , since the political faction was a pro confederate faction, they were only "anti war" because they supported one side in that war .

[August]

Not in the slightest , since the political faction was a pro confederate faction, they were only "anti war" because they supported one side in that war .

Again you are wrong. The Copperheads were not pro-confederate, they were anti-republican in the same way modern day democrats could oppose Bush but not be pro-Al Quaeda.

During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions. Some Copperheads tried to persuade Union soldiers to desert. They talked of helping Confederate prisoners of war seize their camps and escape. They sometimes met with Confederate agents and took money. The Confederacy encouraged their activities whenever possible.[1] Most Democratic party leaders, however, repelled Confederate advances.