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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 01, 2012
Transcript:
Mike: "Dear guys: given your long lead time, is it difficult to comment on the primaries? Best, Carl P., Atlanta." Mark: You bet it is, Carl! That's why we have a team of professional prognosticators on staff! Mike: A crack team! Mark: Even so, there's always a risk... Mike: So true, Mark! As good as we are, there are lots of unknowables! Mark: For instance, we have no idea if Perry won Florida. Mike: None. But we're going with it anyway! Fingers crossed!
BE THIS GUY about 13 years ago
âŠand Cain won the South Carolina primary.
Orion-13 about 13 years ago
Not Palin?
rayannina about 13 years ago
But Bachmann is still leading in the delegate count.
DylanThomas3.14159 about 13 years ago
What about McCain? Didnât he win the GOP nom?
tigre1 about 13 years ago
Those steers have already been jerked. Come out of the silo, guys.
chris_weaver about 13 years ago
Well, see you at Ron Paulâs inauguration!
MassieVoter about 13 years ago
Why donât 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 â that would get the endorsement of most Americans!
Astolat about 13 years ago
@MassieVoter Or you could copy our British election system. Two months is considered a long campaign, and you are not allowed to buy airtime â each party gets half a dozen five minute âparty election broadcastsâ for free and thatâs it. Total expenditure by ALL parties im our last parliamentary election was under $50 millionâŠ
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member about 13 years ago
Love the British for they are a clever lot.
Hey! Where is Perry?Doofenshmirtz evil incorporated!(Hope Disney doesnât go after me for that.)
Coyoty Premium Member about 13 years ago
Thatâs okay. Perry has no idea if he won the Florida primary either.
celeconecca about 13 years ago
trudeau winks at us
Carl P about 13 years ago
Great strip today! Carl P
ajnotales about 13 years ago
I believe the current system of two-year campaigns and perpeptual fundraising was devised by TV comedians to give them perpetually ready material â and it works! Stewart and Colbert will never suffer job security issues (unlike politicians).
Doughfoot about 13 years ago
Christie has done some good things, and sneering at somebody for his weight is certainly unworthy. But youâre wrong about âsuccessful centrists that do what they say they will doâ being hard to malign. After all, thatâs a pretty good description of Obama, and heâs certainly been maligned a good deal, from the right AND the left. And youâre 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 anotherâs 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.
cdward about 13 years ago
Itâs the same reason fiction books take much longer to write than nonfiction â 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 isnât available (vacation, sicknessâŠ.).
yuggib about 13 years ago
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, âWhat if they gave a war and nobody came?â My question: What if the Republicanâs (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.
Spamgaard about 13 years ago
Christie a centrist? I missed the memo. Just because he doesnât hate âthe gaysâ or âthe Muslimsâ as most of the right-wing windbags seem to be doing these days, doesnât 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 thereâs the 2012 budget that guts funding to Medicaid and NJFamily Care⊠so much for poor and working class parents and their children. But thereâs a budget shortfall⊠heâs 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 youâre a family of 3 making over $5,300, you can afford your own health care! Heâs 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, heâs a real centrist!
LingeeWhiz about 13 years ago
Appears to be a butt crack team to me!
GTphile about 13 years ago
DTpi Yesterday you had a great ride. Thanks for the chuckles.
GTphile about 13 years ago
And todayâs strip is a great comebackâŠis he unflappable?
Whitecamry about 13 years ago
No, that was General William Tecumseh Sherman.
lemon868 about 13 years ago
I think Trudeau is being entirely tongue-in-cheek with this set, myself. I think heâs spoofing his own âprognosticatorsâ
kaffekup about 13 years ago
I think Sarah is in AZ, feathering her nest.As for the Republicans running Nobody, I thought they already wereâŠNot 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?
Greg Johnston about 13 years ago
Probably because editors insist on editing the comics for âsuitabilityâ, and so want them well in advance. Whereas political cartoons, besides not being sequential, are readily substituted â if the editor doesnât like what the staff cartoonist came up with on a given day, they just run one by a different cartoonist.
kaffekup about 13 years ago
What Romney said is the Republicansâ main goal: Not getting the economy moving. Not keeping America safe. Not improving peopleâs lives.
âWhile we celebrate this victory, we must not forget what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama.â
A few Democrats and African-Americans may vote against him, but not that many. When people see the Râs are all about getting the rest of us back into Bushâs 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.
Bill Chapman about 13 years ago
Itâs because the media see editorial cartoons as opinion pieces and âregularâ strips as entertainment(or at best art).
Goyeshiva about 13 years ago
Wait⊠Perry DIDNâT win?! Oh, their goes my weekend.