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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Are Parasites Like Bed Bugs. They Serve No Useful Purpose/Impossible To Get Rid Of
The GOP mascot should be a bed bug. They are like this creature. They suck everything's blood and breed uncontrollably. As hard as you try to exterminate them they always come back. They contribute nothing to the country except misery.
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Republicans Are Parasites Like Bed Bugs. They Serve No Useful Purpose/Impossible To Get Rid Of (Original Post)
TheMastersNemesis
Oct 2014
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Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)1. I think they are lot like kudzu.
The plant that ate the south.
niyad
(113,245 posts)10. kudzu actually has medicinal and culinary uses.
see post 2 in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025708702
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. True
Atman
(31,464 posts)3. They are the rotting cucumber at the bottom of your fridge.
Or something.
What was the point? I can't stand rotting cucumbers and would never vote for one.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)7. Or that really moldy bit of cheese
at the back of the fridge - you know - the one that has grown a Young Elvis pompadour of fungus.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)4. Good one
Just as bedbugs hide from the light in cracks and crevices in your house. Republicans hide behind freedom and the Constitution to suck the blood of everyday Americans.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)5. No. You can actually exterminate bed bugs from a house.
Republicans are like flies.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)6. SO you are a Republican!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)8. An excellent and apt analogy.
BKH70041
(961 posts)9. Less coffee. More fiber.