They are intelligent. They're GOP.
Needless to say the other party has a perfect fit with their animal...lol.
You mean the Ass Party? :)
Origin of the Democrat's donkey:
President Andrew Jackson was lampooned in political cartoons as "President Jackass," partly for ignoring a Supreme Court order and forcibly removing Native Americans from the American Southeast. A third of those Indians died on the forced march, which became known as the "Trail of Tears." For this, he was depicted with a human head on a donkey's body. Our first genocidal president liked it so much, he made it his party's symbol.