The GOP should change their party symbol from the elephant to Yosemite Sam

So, in case you missed it, here's what Pro missed: 1. The current elephant symbol is patriotic, wearing stars and stripes...Where's your US flag pin, Yosemite? 2. Elephants have an irrational fear of mice, something that won't threaten national security, just like republican god Ronald Reagan feared the number 666, which also is not a threat. In fact Ronald Reagan would be an awesome symbol for the GOP, irrational fears and all. 3. It's not that Yosemite has been inaccurate shooting his pistols. Watch any time Sam has shot the guns. Nothing gets hit...nothing. We don't even know if the pistols actually do anything...seriously, watch any of the episodes in which he fires pistols, he never hits ANYTHING, let alone his adversary...that should scare off adversaries. 4. Pro keeps complaining "the fact that he has pistols which makes him a better fit for representing the GOP than an elephant, which only has tusks. " Look at the image of the elephant that Pro provided...do you see any tusks? No? Because the elephant has not tusks...thus using it as a detriment to the symbol is irrelevant. Yosemite's pistols are comical and very noticeable in the pictures provided. You wanna mess with a red headed spastic little person yielding toy pistols that don't ever hit anything? Yes. I could sneeze and blow Yosemite over. Watch the clip of the elephant that I provided...try blowing that over adversaries! Now for some particulars... Pro speaks in falsehoods: "[Yosemite Sam] requests [adversaries] to say their prayers right before executing the death penalty on them." My response: So the death penalty is performed by the government, and this is actually at the heart of the death penalty issue associated with the GOP. Yosemite Sam cannot perform the death penalty, because he is not the government, and it is this particular characteristic of the death penalty that the GOP finds to be justice...our judicial system allowing for the governmental murder of a criminal. It's not just street-style executions. Also, Sam has not executed ANYONE EVER. I have an apology to make... I'm sorry that I wrongly associated the GOP with conservatism, and further, that I associated conservatism with protecting ideas and symbols of the party. Oh wait...What does the verb conserve, the basis for conservatism, mean? To hold on to and protect things. If you conserve your money, do you change it for something else? If you conserve your traditional values, do you change them for something else? If you wish to apply your conservatism to a symbol that has been representing your conservatism for over 100 years, do you change the symbol? Pro wants you to think that I'm somehow "derailing" this argument. Except that Pro themselves said that the symbol should better represent traditional values. One cannot ignore that in a party of "holding on to things," that "holding on to things" is one of the values. It's not derailing; it's completely damning to Pro's argument. Pro trying to point a "derailing" on my part is the desperate attempt of which Pro describes. Is conserving something a traditional value for the GOP? Then my argument is relevant. If the party that is suspect of change were to actually progress and decide to admit that their over 100 year symbol is not the best, they would need a perfect symbol. So Pro, whatcha got? "Yosemite Sam certainly isn't 'perfect' in representing every value of the GOP." -Pro Since one would need to change the mind of the unwavering steadfast to simply change the symbol, the symbol needs to be near perfect. Remember, loyalty beyond reason is not an easy thing to break. Yosemite Sam is not "perfect" enough to do such a thing. Conclusion: Really? Yosemite Sam is what the GOP should abandon their loyal symbol for because he's white, holds fake guns, and says "say yer prayers?" The elephant's size and actual ability to fend off adversaries, without being bombed, appeals to the GOP way more. Yosemite is comical, not substantial.