Worst Figure of Speech Ever

From an article about the $1 million missing from Republican Congressional campaign funds:

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf," said retiring Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.), who chaired the NRCC for four years earlier this decade.

I am stunned that an actual Republican member of Congress has actually compared his own party to the 2007 contaminated pet food disaster, which was estimated to have led to the deaths of approximately 40,000 cats and dogs in the United States and Canada.