Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 01, 2012

…and Cain won the South Carolina primary.

Not Palin?

But Bachmann is still leading in the delegate count.

What about McCain? Didn’t he win the GOP nom?

Those steers have already been jerked. Come out of the silo, guys.

Well, see you at Ron Paul’s inauguration!

Why don’t the Republicans throw in the towel and decide not to nominate anyone for President? No more political ads on TV, polls conducted by phone, or nationwide embarrassment that this was the best they could come up with – that would get the endorsement of most Americans!

@MassieVoter Or you could copy our British election system. Two months is considered a long campaign, and you are not allowed to buy airtime – each party gets half a dozen five minute ‘party election broadcasts’ for free and that’s it. Total expenditure by ALL parties im our last parliamentary election was under $50 million…

Love the British for they are a clever lot.

Hey! Where is Perry?Doofenshmirtz evil incorporated!(Hope Disney doesn’t go after me for that.)

That’s okay. Perry has no idea if he won the Florida primary either.

trudeau winks at us

Great strip today! Carl P

I believe the current system of two-year campaigns and perpeptual fundraising was devised by TV comedians to give them perpetually ready material – and it works! Stewart and Colbert will never suffer job security issues (unlike politicians).

Christie has done some good things, and sneering at somebody for his weight is certainly unworthy. But you’re wrong about “successful centrists that do what they say they will do” being hard to malign. After all, that’s a pretty good description of Obama, and he’s certainly been maligned a good deal, from the right AND the left. And you’re right, we could learn a lot from Europe where social mobility is now greater than in the US, and where many fewer are driven bankrupt by medical bills, and where they accept the fact that there are more categories of people than RICH and FAILURE. We could also learn from Europe that in a financial crisis like this, austerity measures will often only make things worse. Might also learn at last that we are all so tied together now that we are all effected by one another’s decisions, good and bad. That when we wash our hands of one another, we injure ourselves as much as we injure those whom we turn our backs upon.

It’s the same reason fiction books take much longer to write than nonfiction – commenting on an event in a single panel cartoon is hard work but can be very fast. Creating a storyline with all the fictional characters and subplots takes more time. Editors want a supply of the cartoons ahead of time for times when the artist isn’t available (vacation, sickness….).

While I was in Vietnam, my roommate had a poster on the wall of one of those large eyed waifs, in uniform and helmet, with a flower coming out of the barrel of his gun. The caption was, “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” My question: What if the Republican’s (this time) held an election, and nobody came? Personally, Mitt seems to be a nice guy, but he is not his father, who I was a campaign volunteer for when he was running for Michigan Governor, but the entire Rep. field appears to be clueless and lame, (Sigh) And I use to be a Republican.

Christie a centrist? I missed the memo. Just because he doesn’t hate “the gays” or “the Muslims” as most of the right-wing windbags seem to be doing these days, doesn’t make him a centrist. His unconstitutional 2011 budget that defunded poor and working class neighborhood schools to benefit the well-off is just one exemplar of his partisanship. Then there’s the 2012 budget that guts funding to Medicaid and NJFamily Care… so much for poor and working class parents and their children. But there’s a budget shortfall… he’s gotta save a few million on helping the poor and working class so that he can give an additional $150 million to the rich suburban schools. Hey, if you’re a family of 3 making over $5,300, you can afford your own health care! He’s also a vindictive SOB. Cross him and you lose funding (2011 budget fiasco, Office of Legislative Services and a fellowship program run by Alan Rosenthal to name a few). Yeah, he’s a real centrist!

Appears to be a butt crack team to me!

DTpi Yesterday you had a great ride. Thanks for the chuckles.

And today’s strip is a great comeback…is he unflappable?

No, that was General William Tecumseh Sherman.

I think Trudeau is being entirely tongue-in-cheek with this set, myself. I think he’s spoofing his own “prognosticators”

I think Sarah is in AZ, feathering her nest.As for the Republicans running Nobody, I thought they already were…Not that they have anybody better, but I think the ones they look at as Messiahs are all laying low until the 2016 race, since they must think Obama is a shoo-in for 2012. And who am I to disagree?

Probably because editors insist on editing the comics for “suitability”, and so want them well in advance. Whereas political cartoons, besides not being sequential, are readily substituted – if the editor doesn’t like what the staff cartoonist came up with on a given day, they just run one by a different cartoonist.

What Romney said is the Republicans’ main goal: Not getting the economy moving. Not keeping America safe. Not improving people’s lives.

“While we celebrate this victory, we must not forget what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama.”

A few Democrats and African-Americans may vote against him, but not that many. When people see the R’s are all about getting the rest of us back into Bush’s ditch, while they drive by in a Lexus, independents will vote to continue the recovery Obama led. With your ilk screaming and crying for the "good old (white) days.

It’s because the media see editorial cartoons as opinion pieces and “regular” strips as entertainment(or at best art).

Wait… Perry DIDN’T win?! Oh, their goes my weekend.