Dick Locher’s ability to capture the absurdities of life through political cartooning culminated in his winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and garnering top honors from the Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists in the same year.
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dtroutma
said, 7 months ago
This cowboy will shoot them, just like any truth, to keep them from straying. He’s also pushing them into the lion’s home territory, and telling them to lie down there, ’cause lions will only lick the ticks off your back.
onguard said, 7 months ago
GOP has never been more united. Obama is the one trying to herd Cats.
MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago
Anybody remember that “Cat Herders” commercial from EDS? Funniest bit of advertising I’ve ever seen. Yeeeh-Haw!
Radish
said, 7 months ago
“They (voters) want to know what’s the truth. They’re not interested in a chameleon.”
~Michele Bachmann, criticizing Mitt Romney’s flip flopping, speech in Florida, December 2011
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“He’s not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says ‘well let me think about it.’”
~Romney supporter Sheldon Adelson, describing his new favorite Presidential candidate as a weak man who can’t make decisions, Jewish Journal, March 28, 2012
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“Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in
the country to put up against Barack Obama.”
~Rick Santorum, calling Mitt Romney the worse Republican anyone can possibly pick to be the nominee, Racine, Wisconsin, March 2012
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“Gov. Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim? And was it U.S. jobs created for United States citizens?”
~Sarah Palin, Hannity, January 2012
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“I’ve never seen a guy change his position so many times, so fast, on a dime.”
~Rudy Giuliani, MSNBC, December 2011
onguard said, 7 months ago
@Radish
Drag out Hillary and Bill on Obama….Now that’s a hoot.
Radish
said, 7 months ago
@onguard
That was just five out of 56 comments top Republicans made against Romney.
Radish
said, 7 months ago
“[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay.” He’s “given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.”
~Newt Gingrich, Des Moines, Iowa, January 4, 2012
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“Now I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips — whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital with all the jobs that they killed, I’m sure he was worried that he’d run out of pink slips. There is something inherently wrong when getting rich off failure and sticking it to someone else is how you do your business and I happen to think that’s indefensible. If you’re a victim of Bain Capital’s downsizing, it’s the ultimate insult for Mitt Romney to come to South Carolina and tell you he feels your pain, because he caused it.”
~Rick Perry, South Carolina, January 9, 2012
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“I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.”
~Rick Perry, referring to a local photo-album manufacturer in Gaffney where 150 jobs were cut when Bain assumed control, January 10, 2012
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“I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.”
~Mike Huckabee, describing Mitt Romney in a 2008 campaign ad.
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“I don’t think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.”
~Former Reagan OMB Director David Stockman, on Romney’s job creation experience, Fox News, May 2012
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“All we have to do is replace Obama. We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become President of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”
~Grover Norquist, calling for conservatives to elect a weak President they can use as a puppet, CPAC, February 2012. NOTE: While Norquist did not specifically mention Romney, other Republicans on this list have noted Romney’s weak leadership skills and his lack of spine in standing for what he believes in. Bryan Fischer stated in an earlier quote that Romney would be a pushover as President, which is exactly the kind of President that Norquist wants.
Eryx
said, 7 months ago
@onguard
United in defeat, and traitorous with it.
Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago
@Radish
Good comments, well referenced. Enjoyed the education.
Thanks,
C.
Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago
As one who spent two weeks on an uncle’s ranch finding out that being a cowboy is very hard work and sitting in a saddle for hours at a time chasing calves and cows out of the woods is not as much fun as riding with friends, I should point out the cowboy’s job is, ultimately, to drive his herd to slaughter. Rotating them from food source to food source and to water is also part of it, but in the end…the beef is destined to fill the bellies of those who want and can afford it.
Where is Romney taking his herd?
C.
DrCanuck said, 7 months ago
And Conservatives haven’t even noticed that Romney has already abandoned them in his move to the middle.
dtroutma
said, 7 months ago
C Downs: having also moved cattle, nothing can quite match being on a determined cutting horse chasing a cow into catclaw acacia, with YOU on his back!
The ’toon also reminds me of “buffalo jump” where the natives used to drive huge herds of bison off a cliff to gather their grub.
Tigger
said, 7 months ago
Slow and steady wins the race
braindead08 said, 7 months ago
@Radish
“They (voters) want to know what’s the truth. They’re not interested in a chameleon.”
~Michele Bachmann, criticizing Mitt Romney’s flip flopping, speech in Florida, December 2011”
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The problem is that Republicans/Fox “News” viewers are absolutely NOT interested in the truth.
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The only “truth” they know is that they hate Obama. They don’t even like WIllard. They don’t care that he is a ChickenHawk.
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They don’t care that Willard can not explain his tax “policy”.
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They went to great lengths to rationalize Willard’s 47% comments, then saw Willard shake the etch-a-sketch and say that he was ‘completely wrong’ and now wants to be president of 100% of the people.
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Willard supporters know that he has NO intention of being president of all the people and do not care in the slightest that he is lying.
churchillwasright said, 7 months ago
@Radish
Are liberals like you so desperate that this is what you’re reduced to? Talking points from Primaries? Are you so burned out that you don’t remember the Democratic Primaries in 2008? 3am phone calls? Obama should be carrying our bags? Obama wasn’t born in the US? Those are just off the top of my head, and they’re just from Hillary. There was a whole slew of Dems in the Primaries, including Biden. Want the tapes?
Funny thing is, all Obama’s challengers were right… Zero wasn’t ready for Prime Time, and any one of them would have made a better President.