Huffingtonpost kinda harps on the blue elephant (0.00 / 0)

to me the stripes look real awkard.  It's clear they are painfully trying to wrap the elephant in the American flag anyway they can. But the star for the elephant's eye looks like the elephant was punched and knocked out(someone should photoshop a donkey in front of this logo). 
I could care less that the elephant is blue, who ever designed this logo clearly had a mandate to incorporate red, white and blue, the flag and the mascot into the logo.  Nice try.  Whatever.  They wasted their money on the trademark, I'd be surprised if anyone tries to copy it, in fact it might be in thier best interest to lift the trademark, to encourage people to hopefully copy it.  But again, whatever, the more the GOP throws money down the toilet the better.  And, I for one, am more than happy to throw them an anvil as they continue to sink.

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by: gaspare @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 15:43:31 PM UTC

I Don't Know About "Creepy", But (0.00 / 0)

I was instantly reminded of the Grateful Dead:

Bush past and the return of the repressed???

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 15:46:49 PM UTC

screw 2008 (4.00 / 2)

looks to me like that elephant is trying to hump something.

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by: samsgrandma @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 15:55:01 PM UTC

With a big 'ol red 2008 d**k (0.00 / 0)

Dream on, Repugs.

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by: knowmeansknow @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 16:58:38 PM UTC

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yeah, F#$% 2008!!!! (0.00 / 0)

good catch

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by: gaspare @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 16:12:19 PM UTC

They should get their money back. (4.00 / 1)

With the ongoing assault on the arts, does it surprise you that they can't get any creative talent working for the RNC?
I can't figure out if the elephant is supposed to be dancing, or fighting. If it is fighting, it is leading with its chin and its hands are down! If it is dancing, well, it needs some lessons - reminds me of Paul Rudd in "Clueless".

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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 16:38:33 PM UTC

It's Doing The Hokey-Pokey! (0.00 / 0)

"You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot in..."

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 16:45:11 PM UTC

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Weird (0.00 / 0)

I guess they tried to do some kind of manimal thing, with the grotesquely skinny neck that would never hold that head. It looks like a disney version of some movie about an 85-year-old punchdrunk fighter's last round, ready to go down for the count. Could the GOP finally be doing truth in advertising?

And look at the tusks -- they just don't fit. They're more like a vector of snot out of the manimal's nose, or the tentacles of some old, dying, horror-story monstrosity. Whatever it's supposed to be, I know if I were a savanna predator this would be the one that gets to be dinner.

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by: DaveW @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 16:44:27 PM UTC

It looks like (0.00 / 0)

cthulhu.

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by: Jack @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 16:48:05 PM UTC

It looks like it was designed by (0.00 / 0)

the designers of the Dodgers' uniforms which, I believe, date back to the Brooklyn days.

They really do lack talent these days.

John McCain--He's not who you think he is.

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by: Mimikatz @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 17:03:53 PM UTC

Dressing it up ... (0.00 / 0)

Okay, so they put a cheap sweater on their zombie elephant.  Now, could they put some PANTS on it?

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by: just john @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 17:11:29 PM UTC

Highlarious! (4.00 / 1)

The elephant looks like its been partying with Jack Abramoff and pissing with Larry Craig.

"It sounds wrong...
     ...but its right."

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by: SpitBall @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 17:28:34 PM UTC

That national delicacy, peppered elephant cheney (0.00 / 0)

That staggering animal looks like it's just been shot in the face, no doubt by Dick Cheney. Ouch, that was your party Dick, that's gotta hurt!

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by: T Maysle @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 17:52:04 PM UTC

ugh (0.00 / 0)

It looks like an elephant on a rampage.  I didn't think it was creepy, it just reminded me of one of those helpless elephants being abused by a circus trainer who doesn't know how to handle and elephant.  The poor thing has been so abused that it goes wild and stomps on the closest person nearby or in this case, the number 2008. 

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by: bendygirl @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 18:21:45 PM UTC

It looks like (4.00 / 2)

road kill to me.  Like the elephant got run over by a humvee.

Stars in the eyes, skid marks down the back.

Someone elsewhere also pointed out that the elephant has taken a rather wide stance.

Maybe it's rearing up to smash another bridge in Minneapolis?

Beyond the wide stance roadkill, its a pretty pathetic logo.

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by: Jerry 101 @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 18:41:30 PM UTC

Maybe it's not a joke (0.00 / 0)

But it's certainly a call for a photoshop competition.

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by: Englishlefty @ Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 23:59:40 PM UTC

Rogue Elephant with Stripes (0.00 / 0)

A rogue elephant is a very frightening thing. They trample and destroy villages and make a horrendous noise.  These are male elephants who have been cast out of their herds.

I don't see the 13 flag stripes in these two lines. They conjure up
  tire tracks on road kill
  the mahoot's whip lashings
  the back of a prison shirt

Not to mention the head that looks like a rodent with a outsized tail.

This has to come directly from the id. No ego would allow it to emerge.

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by: inHI @ Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 09:04:56 AM UTC