Why is Republican Party called GOP?

Answer 1

The Republican Party started in the 1850's, formed from a split in the Democratic party, whose members, primarily abolitionists, felt the Democrats were no longer representing their interests. They decided to call themselves Republicans because they felt their ideals were very similar to Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party. After the Civil War, the upstart Republicans were perceived as the party that won the war. Now firmly
entrenched in the federal government, they were ironically dubbed the "Gallant Old Party," which soon became the "Grand Old Party," which was soon shortened to the familiar acronym "GOP."


In 1874, it was rumored that U. S. Grant would run for an unprecedented third term. As the rumors were surfacing, there was also a contemporary urban legend that several animals had escaped from the New York Zoo. Thomas Nast, the most popular and influential cartoonist of the time, took the opportunity to combine the two in a cartoon for The New Yorker magazine, representing the Republicans as elephants, docile but
unmoveable when calm, unstoppable and destructive when excited. The cartoon, entitled "The Third Term Panic," depicted the Republican vote as an elephant running inexorably into a tar pit of inflation and chaos. Interestingly, the elephant was running away from the already established Democratic donkey, dressed in a lion's skin. This was Nast's take on the Democrats' view of Grant as Caesar, and their feeling that they had an obligation to play Brutus before
he let the power of his office corrupt him.


The donkey predated Nast by three decades, when it was used during Andrew Jackson's campaign, initially by his opponents, calling him a 'jackass' for his populist policies. Well known as stubborn, however, Jackson decided to co-opt the mascot, and used it to his own advantage. After Jackson retired, he was still looked at as a party leader, even though the party refused to be led, and the 1837 cartoon "A Modern Baalim and his ***" showed him leading
a donkey which refused to follow. However, the donkey image was not popularized until the ubiquitous Nast adopted it, first depicting the party as a kicking donkey, attacking Lincoln's secretary of war Edwin Stanton even after his death in an 1870 cartoon for Harper's Weekly.


In other words, both animals were chosen for their negative qualities, such as stubbornness and *****-nilly destruction, and then adopted by the parties for their positive attributes, and neither party has been stubborn or destructive ever since.

Answer 2

Abbreviation of Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican party in the United States.

Answer 3

Grand Old Party

Answer 4

there have been countless political events going returned very almost to the founding of america. there have been the Whigs, Democrats, Democratic-Republican etc events. Lincoln is credited for truly forming the fashionable Republican occasion. it somewhat is named the Grand previous occasion even though it became into initially called the "Gallant previous occasion". The moniker began in 1874 alongside with the elephant image. The Grand previous occasion designation arose in the early component of the 20 th Century.

Answer 5

It stands for "Grand Old Party" and is a reference begun in a much earlier time.

Answer 6

It means GRAND OLE PARTY, The GOP

Answer 7

it stands for the grand old party. they think they're the best.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Because it has an inferiority complex.

Answer 10

God Ossama & Pureoil - it's about their political views.