Republican Party Reptile
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| name = Republican Party Reptile
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| image = Republican Party Reptile.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = P. J. O'Rourke
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Essay collection
| publisher = Atlantic Monthly Press
| release_date = 1987
| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 220
| isbn = 978-0-330-30032-2
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| oclc= 14586585
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Republican Party Reptile, subtitled The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P. J. O'Rourke is a 1987 collection of essays by American satirical writer P. J. O'Rourke.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/books/paperbacks-the-beast-above-the-surface.html|title=Paperbacks; The Beast Above the Surface|last=Lewis Frumkes|author-link=Lewis Frumkes|date=May 3, 1987|work=New York Times|accessdate=22 December 2011}} Some of the works were previously published in
House & Garden and Harper's.{{cite web |title=Republican Party Reptile: Essays and Outrages |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87113-145-4 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=31 May 2021 |date=March 31, 1987}} O'Rourke planned to promote the book at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Though he described himself as a conservative Republican, this was not allowed, reportedly because the GOP did not appreciate O'Rourke's sense of humor.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vOAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hFcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3404,4151687&dq=republican-party-reptile&hl=en|title=People in the News - Book Ban at Convention|date=August 16, 1988|work=The Bryan Times|location=Bryan, Ohio|accessdate=22 December 2011}}
In the essay that gives its title to the collection O'Rourke describes a "Republican Party Reptile":{{cite book|last=P. J. O'Rourke|author-link=P. J. O'Rourke|title=Republican Party Reptile|publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Inc.|year=1987|isbn=9780871136220|oclc=14586585|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0flCYbeBLEC|accessdate=23 December 2011}}
We are in favor of: guns, drugs, fast cars, free love (if our wives don't find out), a sound dollar, and a strong military with spiffy uniforms. There are thousands of people in America who feel this way, especially after three or four drinks. If all of us would unite and work together, we could give this country. . . well, a real bad hangover."
The collection includes the article "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink" which had previously been published in National Lampoon in 1979, and was later included in the collection Driving Like Crazy.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/6209828/PJ-ORourke-a-hellraiser-who-had-to-slow-down.html|title=PJ O'Rourke: a hellraiser who had to slow down|last=Sherwell|first=Philip|date=20 September 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=26 January 2012}}
The essay is the inspiration and namesake of the 1991 Big Country song.