Forget the elephant. The GOP symbol should be the chicken. Maybe a White Leghorn or Rhode Island Red. For good measure, the GOP battle cry should be “The sky is falling.

The opening of a politically-themed bar in Washington, DC, sparked community backlash that forced the owners to remove a Republican symbol from the building’s façade. The owners of Political ...

When it comes to damage control, rule No. 1 is paramount: When in a hole, quit digging. Somehow, this is time-tested best practice that vast elements of today’s Republican Party have forsaken.

The elephant no longer really serves as mascot of GOP Live elephants were ... With all due respect to Becker’s artwork, I’d say we need another symbol for the Republican Party.

For the sake of accuracy and truth, the Republican Party should exchange its elephant symbol for one that is more reflective of today’s GOP. One candidate might be Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

THE elephant and the donkey represent the US party systems since 1828 and 1854. The popularity of the animals rose due to political cartoons at the time to represent the two-party system. ⚠️ … ...

The time has come. The Republican party should make it official: their new mascot, the new symbol of what they stand for, is now the sheep, not the elephant. Should there be any doubt, Google the ...

I think the symbol of the Republican party may need to change from elephant to hippo. For one, many of their state GOP parties are censuring certain principled members who voted their conscience ...

An image of an elephant was featured as a Republican symbol in at least one political cartoon and a newspaper illustration during the Civil War (when "seeing the elephant" was an expression used ...

In 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. In 1916, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected and Republican ...

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Politicians and parties may flip-flop but for more than 100 years, the political iconography of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant has remained unchanged Jimmy Stamp October 23, 2012 ...