Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 13, 2012

Have to give Willard credit- he knew what he wanted back then.

Mitt thinks he’s entitled to the Presidency.

This strip assumes that Romney is intelligent and far-thinking.

echo…echo…echo…

I’ve been rejected by people I’ve annoyed – should I run for office?

What, he actually got two?

More women, not more men….

“Of course he had a plan, like father, like son!”πFather George’s plan was nothing like his son MItt’s, and son MItt’s plan is nothing like his father George’s.I was a kid growing up in Lansing, Michigan, living with my family in a previous governor’s mansion only a few walking blocks from the Capitol buildings. Dad was a minister and SDA conference official who knew Gov. George Romney personally. πGovernor George was a rock that didn’t turn over; son Mitt was a flip-flopper that would do justice to a flapjack. πOld saying: “The apple never falls far from the tree.” Well, in this case the apple fell into the Grand River (which runs through Lansing) and bibble-bobbled all the way to Lake Michigan.πMitt was a flip-flopper as Governor of Massachusetts, and, with his background, he will be a flip-flopper as President of the United States — if we voters will elect him and hence let him.πSage advice: Don’t.

Just a tidbit that a former Mormon missionary would probably pick up on that others would probably miss:

Although I knew the first names of my companions, to this day, it seems strange to think of them by those names. People at school that I had known as a missionary continued to call me “Elder Reeder” for years. After returning home, readjusting to using my own first name seemed strange and unfamiliar.

Mormon missionaries don’t normally refer to themselves by their first names, even in private conversations among themselves. My experience in this regard in 1995 Bolivia may have been different from Mr. Romney’s in 1968 France, but I doubt it.

(P.S. Go Mitt!)

44 years later Mitt will be running for Prez and Frenchie will be cursing out the TV when they announce who got the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

Oh, how I wish….

Elder Romney knows just how to kill us with kindness. but make no mistake we be dead. Stockholm Syndrome rules, Demo/Repu/Occupy @ all. hostages bombarded by a bought media,, watching the political American Idol Show while planned assassinations on individuals & conveniently faraway lands go on and on and on. whether the Taliban virgins in paradise or the Celestial marriages of the LDS, snafu. tragic.

I have to say in defense of the Mormon missionaries, they are less annoying than the Seventh Day Adventists.

By riding bikes, they contribute far less to air pollution. And they’re very clean.

The election is getting too close. I am not sure that the debate drama should be a factor, but it would appear to be. One thing about the polls, I have also heard that much of the time one doesn’t know whether or not they are using landline or cell phones in their sampling, which tends to make a difference. More and more folks are using cell phones exclusively, although there are some, like my 91 year old mom, who would have nothing to do with a cell phone. (we tried it.)

“(P.S. Go Mitt!)” Yes, go! And keep going all the way to your untaxed money offshore or in Swiss bank accounts.

What I find really funny is a guy who didn’t go to Vietnam on draft deferments making fun of another guy having a draft deferment. I wonder why Gary T doesn’t make fun of Obama traveling to Pakistan on a foriegn passport?

@DTPi

“Dad was a minister and SDA conference official….”

What does SDA stand for?

Well, once again, we have no evidence that Trudeau SUPPORTED the war, unlike Romney, who did SUPPORT the war! Got it?

I hate it when people don’t get the joke. I know it is a little more nuanced than some people can handle, but if you just had a few more facts to work with, I would think you could get it…

Amusing how some would equate going to Pakistan with supporting a war in which 58,000 Americans died, though you yourself refused to go.

@montessoriteacher

Thanks!

Trudoo reaches a new low. He must be very worried about the current occupant to resort to this kind of crap.

I think the Obama folks always knew the election would grow tighter. Trudeau could do a great arc on the 47% speech that Romney gave a few months ago. GT is just beginning. The greatest thing about the 47% speech is that it is the words that are coming straight from Willard’s mouth. No one has to interpret for him, these are the words that he believes, unfiltered, which is so unusual for Romney. Many of us have loved GT from way back. We can’t wait to see what he has to say each day. It is like opening a new gift every day. If you don’t feel this way, you should probably move along, because GT is not going anywhere. He is a well established and very well respected comic genius.

When asked about the 47% speech, Romney said, he had made the remarks “inelegantly.” Gee, how could they have been stated more elegantly? Wearing a top hat and monocle? I guess that could add elegance, so called…

All right all you partisan/sycophants

DONATE!

Looks like you know who, rolls with the Trolls MC.

Anybody seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdCEJISKWHc It was put out by the Mormon church during Mitt’s formative years.

The Romney/Ryan plan is not secret. It consists of one word of two letters and a puctuation mark: NO!#In fact, that’s the Republican Plan (economic, political and, moral). Very conprehensive and to the point!

I think he applied the same method toward his Republican nomination.

I am not a Mormon, however, mocking an individual’s relgious beliefs

Trudeau is in lockstep with the other Obama campaign surrogates to highlight any negatives regarding Mormons. Why not discuss Frank Marshall Davis’ mentoring relationship with Obama? Illustrate the young high schooler snorting coke and learning materialist dialectic while sitting on Davis’ knee? Please don’t roll your eyes and scoff… I have family members (by marriage) who spent years in the Gulags of Soviet Russia.

Perhaps Obama should take a hint from my St. Louis Cards. Man, those guys can be down 6 runs, down to one strike and just stay calm and do what has to be done to win.

Does anyone know whether “wdgnas” is a real person or a random sentence generator? The comment from yesterday has a question that is completely unrelated to his/her/its latter remarks (or my previous remarks, for that matter).“are we not all god’s children? and don’t spin it to make it sound like all christian religions are different from one another. they thrive on guilt…”.I’d like to see wdgnas’ argument that Martin Luther King, Billy Graham and C. S. Lewis were guilt-trippy.

Do Mormons get virgins in heaven too, or is that just Muslims?

Most media folks did agree that Biden stomped on Eddie Munster. The right wingers were the only ones who didn’t believe it.

Is it safe?

Well, i don’t know much about the Giants, though I will admit I love SF. One of my favorite places to visit. What a beautiful city. I loved visiting this past summer when it was 100+ degrees here in the midwest… Some folks warned me it would be cold there. Ha! It was great, 55-60 degrees after dealing 100 + temps is ok by me.

There are plenty of media folks who are not left wingers.

Quite interesting your take on Mitt’s early spiritual journey. I’m hoping you’ll also give your take on Barack’s early spiritual journey with Reverend Jeremiah Wright! I just checked him out on Wikipedia and am sure it’ll be far more interesting and entertaining than poor Mitt annoying the French. Don’t let us down.

Yeah right. Just like it is too bad someone is holding a gun to your head to read Doonesbury.

Of course its secret; no one wants to hear that it will take us 20 to 40 years of austerity to first balance the budget, and then pay off the bulk of our debt. Even though anyone with a hand calculator can figure out the rough numbers.

If we removed every unearned entitlement from the Federal Budget, it just might be a start.

Hey! Doonesbury has a plan too.Hope you can see that!

I am sure it is confusing for you, since you are assuming there is a one to one correspondence involved here. However, when the prez had a bad night, liberals were honest about it. The same could not be said for conservatives in regard to Ryan.

Doonesbury is a popular strip, but I don’t really think GT has quite as much influence as some would assume apparently.

“My dentist is a 7th Day Adventist. He’s never had a cup of coffee. He has the steadiest hands I’ve ever seen.”<π>Prolly the whitest teeth too.

" “Most media folks” are left wingers."<π>If they wrote anything to the left of Atilla the Hun, their corporate owners would fire their behinds.

“Too bad Trudeau doesn’t care about Obama being a socialist who hates capitalism.”

“socialist” ≠ the capitalist who’s made millions off of our free market that is the GT of Doonesbury.

I guess I probably shouldn’t try to make predictions about how the story will turn in Doonesbury, but I could swear I saw this latest one coming (in the back of my mind somewhere) and I really hope he does something with the 47% comments in front of the rich folks in Boca Raton.

“Try a bit more bong.”

How much do you charge, Skep?

@DTPi

“SDA = Seventh-day Adventist”, SDA ≠ Seventh Day Adventist."

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Thanks ~ As a compulsive proofer, I like to have all the details, even though (like montessoriteacher) I’m not the happiest typist. (And I;m just getting the hang of typing on this site.) Speaking of those details, how come the little doodads on either side of your pi spacer thingie? Is that Mr. Ed’s doings?!

@DTPi

Sorry; didn’t mean to misrepresent.

@DTPi

Why in the world would anybody flag an apology?

@DTPi

Well, that’s a characteristic that is not lacking hereabouts!

@DTPi

Other than the polar ones, I suppose they do.

@DTPi

Would "Don’t sheathe your rapier’ be anything like “Put not up thy sword”?

Mitt, get ready (with your history of weathering it) in a few weeks for a whole packet of rejection, at the polls. Unless Karl can find a way for his election contractors to finagle the counting. They’re experienced now.After all, it was Uncle Joe Stalin who said (variously paraphrased), “Those who vote don’t count; those who count the votes decide elections”. If anybody wants you to vote by mail or computer (or absentee, unless it’s the only way you can), hold onto your wallet and run the other way.

Well, if $hitt’s plan was to humiliate himself on a world stage and then lose a presidential election, he’s halfway there!

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”Josepf Goebbels