Mammuthus jeffersoni

In an effort to be clever the name for this blog comes from the Mammuthus jeffersoni (aka Jefferson Mammoth). The Jefferson Mammoth is similar to the woolly mammoth. Since the GOP logo is an elephant I originally thought Elaphas maximus would be a good name, but quite frankly, I do not just want to be a GOP cheerleader.

From what I remember mammoths are the only elephant like creature to have roamed the US, but now, like Republicans with Jeffersonian principles, they are extinct. Hence, the name. Ok, not all Republicans have abandoned the ideals of smaller government, free markets, and individual liberty, but we seem to be outnumbered.

"I know my own principles to be pure and therefore am not ashamed of them. On the contrary, I wish them known and therefore willingly express them to everyone. They are the same I have acted on from the year 1775 to this day, and are the same, I am sure, with those of the great body of the American people." - Thomas Jefferson