Best description of Repug Convention

[miamimama]

Art Spielgelman on C-Span 2 this weekend called the convention a "Reptilian Event". That phrase has such a great ring to it - and is right on the money. Now, every time I see a repug, I think REPTILE.

[soothsayer]

1. Love it!

And they prolly really ARE reptilians anyway...

[punpirate]

2. It reminded me of...

... Orwell's Animal Farm.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. That or a Hitler youth rally

[gauguin57]

4. They're like The Visitors from that '80s TV miniseries ...

... human on the outside ... but turn your back and they shed their skin and swallow mice whole!

[miamimama]

5. Is eyeworm the word for a picture that

keeps appearing in front of your eyes. Your shedding skin description is now my eyeworm.

[gauguin57]

6. CommonDreams: "Cheney Speaks to the Reptilian Brain"

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0817-13.htm

"... But then, in a brilliant coup de grâce, Cheney spoke directly to his listener's reptilian brain, the part that most powerfully controls our behaviors because it constantly is vigilant to maintain our survival. "Those that threaten us and kill innocents around the world," he said, arousing the reptilian awareness of threat, "do not need to be treated more sensitively, they need to be destroyed."

To reinforce this message to his listener's most primitive instincts, Cheney continued to invoke the word "sensitive" a half-dozen more times, always wrapping it in surprise and survival.

Not only is this among the most sophisticated of psychological warfare operations, in this case it was also one of the most immoral, since Cheney was quoting Kerry out of context and, thus, basing his entire premise upon what was essentially a lie. ..."