Which parasite do you think cartoonists should use to represent Newt Gingrich?

[eppur_se_muova]

No fair trying to guess which one is my favorite!

[ReggieVeggie]

1. a Goa'uld symbiote

[HereSince1628]

2. I rather prefer to think of him as a Tick.

With the tick's multiple host life-cycle seen as different stages in his political career OR

with the tickes multiple host life-cycle seen as his multiple marriages.

Either way, it seems to fit.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Better than mosquito, I changed the poll. nt

[MilesColtrane]

4. A bloated tick sucking the life blood out of the body politic

[lonestarnot]

5. the last one along with noxious large farting bloviating scammer.

[peekaloo]

6. Fleshfly

Fleshflies – Family Sarcophagidae- Most flesh flies breed in carrion, dung, or decaying material, but a few species lay their eggs in the open wounds of mammals; hence their common name. Flesh-flies, being viviparous, frequently give birth to live young on corpses of human and other animals, at any stage of decomposition, from newly dead through to bloated or decaying (though the latter is more common).

Democracy is his breeding ground.

[cordelia]

7. Thank you!

The phrasing of the poll question struck me as hilarious, not to mention wording in the selections.

[DCKit]

8. I'd have said "an ethically challenged, serially adulterous, think-tank welfare child"

But he'd just be lost in the crowd of other (R) ethically challenged, serially adulterous, think-tank welfare children. They're a dime-a-dozen - almost as common as their perverted, kinky closet cases.

Too many of the other choices are nearly invisible.

Nope, he's a big, fat tick.

[woodsprite]

9. I was torn between the welfare child and the trichinoid worm tunneling in pork.

BUT I thought most people wouldn't get the "Repub worm in pork" message.

[KittyWampus]

10. a tumor, lethal in its capacity to drawn lifeblood while sapping strength from hard working organs.

[Historic NY]

11. BED BUG.........he has been known to get under the sheets.