I can only imagine the outrage if a Republican shot a donkey.
Estakio Beltran, a Democrat running for the House in Washington state, released a new campaign ad this week in which he points a rifle at a pink elephant symbolizing the Republican Party, and shoots off its tail.
“What happens to an elephant that stands around doing nothing for too long?” Beltran asks. He then takes aim at a pink elephant piñata, and fires, clipping its tail. The dramatic music quiets down, and the candidate says:
“My name’s Estakio Beltran,” he says as he cocks the rifle, “and I approved this message.”