Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 21, 2012

Come back Rick Perry, America NEEDS you!!!

(now a Rightwing Patriot)

SOPA has been stopped. Now, chill out. Get yourself a Jack and a Coke.

@leftwingpatriot, don’t worry. They are still of right wing nutjobs to root on.

What you said.…well there is that one Ron Paul guy.

Damn, she’s good! Very, very good! Even got old Sherm blubbering like a fool. Toggle, that’s a wrap!.

Her scriptwriters are worse than Benito, than Adolf, than — gasp — Newt.

Isn’t it a little much to expect Obama to have fixed that all by himself?

The GOP will need to do more than her… perhaps a good old style civil war could rise the furor.

GBT can always hook Sherm by drawing a husky-voiced siren with red hair—-much the way he uses Becca to charm the old men on this blog.

Endlessly repeating keywords alters facts on the ground? Then I could make a few suggestions.

No, you’ve been sold since your birth.

newt got the coveted palin endorsement. she screeched something like this,“look what happens when people aren’t vetted”.

How many “S’s” in Massive? :) And it can’t be that she lisps, otherwise it’d be “endlesss” and “greatnesss”.

Finally! GT puts some truth in his strip…

Face it: where there are LOTS of resources, magical thinking WORKS…“God gave me this land”, so you go take it. Where things are in less supply, the GOP’s mental deficiency exposes itself…truth? you can have anything that’s available.

Recognized resources are getting used up and ‘owned’ so the ‘altering and repeating key words…’ to change the facts on the ground looks funnier to those of us not living on Grand-Daddy’s kind thoughtful trust fund. (But I will! just invite me…I AM a realist, also a magical thinker. Trust me, I’m an expert in constructive fantasy…)

when the stage hands cry, and the pit musicians tear up, you know it’s a good take.

If you are somone who doesn’t get that this is to mock how easily people can be swayed by blatant lies in advertising, then you must be a Republican.

You must admit … GT is very good at what he does … he’s lampooned super pack rhetoric so cleverly that he has the wingnuts believing he has switched his core beliefs.

I compliment you on choosing the right name for your avatar: ignorance and apathy do kind of sum up opinions like the one expressed here. By I’m not fooled. You only post such things to make the anti-Obama look foolish, and you do a great job. Thanks!

“… HE says its all Bush’s fault…” Is “He” Dick Cheney or Carl Rove?

GT is slamming Obama? Ever heard of Stephen Colbert? He’s slamming the door on secretly-funded super-PAC ads.

“Would have been Vetoed”  during the Bush admin.

“its all Bush’s fault…my mistake …” No, you were right the first time.

No Doubt she will later be employed to produce a similar version for the left wing camp, which considering that is her natural leaning will probably outshine this one like a searchlight to a dogend.

Try this: http://www.garyjohnson2012.com

Wow…the first Doonesbury I’ve ever agreed with. Maybe I’ll have to order a print.

Wow, the wingnuts are staining their pants. I guess they have never heard of satire.

Obama has lost Trudeau. His goose is cooked.

Conservative or liberal?

•The task on our part is twofold: First, as simple patriotism requires, to separate the false from the real issues; and, secondly, with facts and without rancor, to clarify the real problems for the American public.There will be — there are — many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings as they have always done — to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses.•Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and groups are seeking to make Communism an issue in an election where Communism is not a controversy between the two major parties.Here and now, once and for all, let us bury that red herring, and destroy that false issue. You are familiar with my background; you know my heritage; and you are familiar, especially in the State of New York, with my public service extending back over a quarter of a century. For nearly four years I have been President of the United States. A long record has been written. In that record, both in this State and in the national capital, you will find a simple, clear and consistent adherence not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the American form of government.•The true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.Never has a Nation made greater strides in the safeguarding of democracy than we have made during the past three years. Wise and prudent men — intelligent conservatives — have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time. In the words of the great essayist, “The voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform if you would preserve.” I am that kind of conservative because I am that kind of liberal.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 1936

Yeah, bring back Rick Perry and then he can pick Christine O’Donnell as his running mate!

Satire is lost on the "right’, or, well, is Newt a satyr???

Matthew Arnold sounded this note of conservative nostalgia in a famous poem:

“The sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full around earth’s shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.But now I only hearIt’s melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world.”

Dover Beach (“shingles” are pebbles)

There should be a law against PR firms doing political ads. If a candidate has something to say, let him/her say it to the masses directly, in their own words.

I’m with toggle, that’s a keeper.

Romney is going to have to postpone the anti-Obama ads and put the anti-Gingrich ads back on the air.

You got that right. America was trashed before Obama arrived.

These guys all deserve Bullsh1t pay. Sort of like combat pay, but for production folks forced to enter the hazardous world of partisan politics…

… almost like someone saying, “there is no heaven”. But, hate to disappoint anyone. Hope God blesses America once again!

and how is this different from russia, etc

First time I heard GT tell the truth. Has he been watching Billy Graham re-runs?