As Embarrassing as Staging a Call from the Wifey During a Campaign Speech

The GOP just released its new logo for the 2008 Republican National Convention, to be held in Minneapolis of all places. There are a multitude of things wrong with this logo, starting with the color of the elephant. It certainly looks like that elephant is a Senate seat away from nailing '2008' six ways til Sunday mass at the superchurch. The blogiverse is abuzz as well, with people listing off all the subversiveness that exists in the image (prison stripes, wide stance, the idea of getting f*cked in '08, the convention being in MPLS). Talk about peppering yourself in the foot with bird shot. Whoever created this logo should be fired, and then forced to return any payment for services rendered.

Who knows, maybe the person who designed it is the spawn of the brain trust who designed the U.S. Naval Base in Coronado (who may have just been giving props to Buddha)...