AND THE WINNAH IS (DRUM ROLL, PLEASE) . . . THE OHIOAN FOR NOT ONE BUT THREE TERRIFIC ANALOGIES, OUR FAVORITE BEING: Today’s Republican Party is like the guy who trained his Doberman Pinscher to protect the family only to find the Doberman didn’t understand the concept of “family”. (Please email me at [email protected] with your mailing address and we’ll send out your prize ASAP.)
In a recent Politix Update post, I used the image of “a streetwalker who turned her last big trick years ago and now bends over for anyone with the price of admission” as an analogy for the sorry state of the Republican Party. Commenter roseyrey took issue with my analogy, noting that “hooker and street walker are generally considered offensive language to use for sex workers, and the whole construct of politicians as slutty women who are paid for their bodies is meant to be offensive to both politicians and sex workers.”
Roseyrey was correct, but how then to best analogize the sorry state of the Republican Party without stooping to sexist, chauvinistic or misogynistic references? To that end, we are hereby announcing The First and Last Annual TMV Republican Analogy Contest.
The creator of the best analogy as determined by an impartial panel of judges — my goldfish, a little old lady in England who sees UFOs from her loo and myself, of course — will be awarded a pristine copy of The Rogue: Searching For the Real Sarah Palin, the classic of Palintology by the late great journalist Joe McGinniss.
Entries should read:
Today’s Repubican Party is like . . .
Multiple entries are okay. But please keep it clean, folks.