What the Repug character, not true conservatives, have done to our nation and the world since Reagan is simply not elephantish. An elephant herd leader doesn’t thump around with a snarky smile and run for an underground bunker when jumped by mice. Then through lies and propaganda start a war with camels.

True elephants do have excellent memories, but I when I think of Repugs, I don’t see elephants living the attack daily and still bellowing about it eight years after the event. When I see fake smiling, selfish Repug NIMBYs who will destroy anything in their path and could care less what happens to others as long is they get theirs, I don’t envision elephants plodding along bothering no one. I do envision pigs feeding at a trough ignoring anything or anybody until they have sopped up as much dirty slop as possible. And, as one who fed a lot of farm pigs in my childhood, it seems to me, pigs are always smiling especially just before twice daily making their own trough their worst enemy. Their benevolent feeder, me, would have been trampled too if the pigs hadn’t been penned in and I could feed them without entering it.

I hereby initiate a one-man campaign to change the Repug party animal to a pig.

The inspiration came to me when I read this Alternet headline, Why Goldman Sachs Is the Greediest and Most Dastardly of the Wall Street Pigs. Had they used elephants vice pigs, it just wouldn’t have worked for me. I’ve never met any greedy and dastardly elephants. I have met many pigs that were very greedy. I can’t vouch for dastardly. If someone has a dastardly pig experience, please share it with us.

I realize that pigs are going to be very upset with me because pigs are only dirty due to the conditions they are raised in. It is not their fault that hereditary genes make them go crazy when feeding in a group. I don’t think Repugs have such a gene although their crazy view of the world and extreme selfishness does get passed from generation to generation, so possibly I am wrong.

Repugs really don’t have long term memory like elephants. How hard is it to remember how you have lived every day of your life? Anyone can daily observe with awe Repug leader memory loss when their candidates and congress critters totally contradict themselves, sometimes in only minutes. Lying doesn’t seem to be a part of any animal characteristic, although if we understood their sounds better, I might be proved wrong. So the fact that Repugs are such skilled and experienced liars is not relevant to the choice of an animal symbol.

Have you ever picked up a pig especially by their hind legs? They squeal and scream and fuss from the moment they leave the ground and will not stop until once again resting on terra firma. Isn’t that just like a Repug when somebody dares to try and change their world? The fact that the world could be better for everyone is dismissed as unpatriotic because it requires change. And just by threatening change, a governor pig might get so mad that he wants to secede from his own government that has allowed him to prosper greatly. Naw, not even a pig-in-the-air would be that crazy. Now if you promised to give that pig eleven million to fix up his pen, that pig might stop squealing long enough to get the money.

Greedy feeding pigs never seem to get enough. That has to be why pigs have been so maligned and why we use them as adjectives to describe behavior we don’t like. It is also why pig so aptly describes Repug behavior. Single payer is clearly the solution to provide the best and least expensive universal health care. Even Barack Obama said so when he was running for the senate. But when he came up with a campaign platform to run for president, he recognized that the drug and insurance industry had so many Repug congress critters feeding at their trough, that he dismissed it as impossible. Too many Democratic critters are making asses at the lobby trough as well. They use a variety of disguises and excuses, so it is harder to see through to their piggishness.

I thought of some other animals that might work for the Repugs. The zebra color scheme would remind us about how so many of these Repugs should be behind bars for the crimes they have done to truth, rule of law, international law, our constitution, civil liberties and the hundreds of millions of people suffering all over the world. The ostrich because the Repugs will stick their head either up their asses or in the sand so that they can keep their ears plugged and minds closed to any logic or humane actions. The octopus because they love to entangle their foes in their dirty deeds, throw a dark cloud around their minds and scoot away when threat approaches. I can’t think of any animal that is a coward or could possibly reach the level of cowardliness as The Dick has achieved. There are too many animal species who will screw everything in sight to set them apart from the other animals and do viagra extreme screwing at the quality level of The Dick.

Vampire bats, vulchers, a pack of hyenas, forked tongue snakes, sharks, maggots also come to mind when I envision Repugs. What comes to your mind? I’m sure it isn’t an elephant.