The 2008 Republican Convention Logo
There’s been some extreme snark floating around the blogosphere about the 2008 GOP convention logo - most of it well deserved - and we’re sure that the GOP paid good money to some ad agency (or a 16 year old photoshopper) for a really crappy party ID icon. In the spirit of bipartisanship, we offer our own logo alternatives to the GOP, gratis…
There’s been a lot of titter tatter about the recently released logo for the 2008 Republican Convention in Minneapolis. Interestingly enough, Senator Larry Craig (who will apparently still be in office at that time) is intimately, oh so intimately, familiar with the Twin Cities area. So, perhaps he can offer tour services. It’s already well documented that a certain men’s room stall at the Minneapolis airport has become something of a tourist attraction.
Anyway, a lot of people have been taking shots at the GOP convention logo, and deservedly so. It’s hard for me to believe that the Republican National Committee actually paid cash money for that thing (it’s so bad, I’m not even going to show a picture of the original here - you have to go to Susie’s place for that). In fact, I’m going to offer up the following logo to the GOP leadership, gratis.
I think you’ll agree that it sums up the GOP’s views of the U.S. military nicely, particularly in the wake of Rush’s “phoney soldier” dustup. It just fits the GOP so well:
Ok, so maybe the purple heart bandaided lady isn’t quite your cup o’ tea. How about this (the Vitter / Ryan memorial logo, sure to be a hit with the Louisiana and Illinois GOP delegations)?
(Courtesy of dKos commenter Cantinflas…)
Or, continuing on our Larry Craig / Minneapolis theme, perhaps this would be more appropriate?
(Again, courtesy of dKos commenter Cantinflas…)
Lastly, again honoring the Larry Craig / Minneapolis connection, my own weak effort:
I swear to the gods - this is just too easy. Please, feel free to pass onto your GOP friends, neighbors, and local convention delegates, or pass along a link in the comments to your own logo efforts.
Update: Couldn’t resist adding this one - you can tell the photoshoppers have been having way too much fun in the past day or so…
I’d been saying that the elephant needed stilletto heels with a trussed up Vitter on the floor in front. But yours comes close.
I also think one with a fallen bridge and the words GOP: built to last.
First of all you liberal FOOLS… The elephants name is Tappy the
Wonderphant!!!! Proves how much you bile spewing liberals know!
Just you wait till I become a NeoCon commontator, I’m gonna have you all on my show!!! How… How…. How can ya’ll say such terrible things about our beloved Tappy, I’ll never know. That sweet lovable Wonderphant, if he gets a hold of you he’ll crush you all to a pulp!
Tappy loves pre-emptivly crushing liberals, even before he knows who they are so watch out, you won’t be able to lie your way out of it either!!!
Besides, he wasn’t named after Craig, he had nothing to do with it!
“Tappy” comes from a tap used to tap into oil lines and steal oil from foreign terrorist countries! Everyone knows the lord is testing our will by giving all the oil to the terrorists. And only stupid liberals would buy oil from terrorists, ’cause that makes the terrorists stronger and richer, not like us Republican NeoCons who know better and spread democracy!
Craig did nothing wrong!!! He’s a Senator you fools, he has to try to reach out and touch his constituents!!! He’s not afraid to make contact with the little people where ever he may be! Not like you liberals who are always complaining about your privacy! He’s a real “man of the people” always reaching out and unafraid to touch people.
Ohhhhh…. What’s the use? You guys will never learn.