Republican Elephant: If Obama succeeds, I'll jump! And crush you all! Man: We better hope Obama doesn't succeed. Tom: Maybe that's what the hope poster meant. American Politics c. 2010.
The only reason the elephant can get away with its threat is that the people below remain directly under where it would fall. If they moved - and, not even that much - in either direction, the threat would be completely empty.
^ I’ve been on a few walkabouts with elephants in the bush and we’re told what to do when an elephant charges: nothing. Usually they are bluffs.
I did a quick search to confirm my naturally good advice (‘cos I’m an African and we all know what to do in these situations. :-| ).
Here is even better advice <- Click here.
Doc- having experience with grizzly, and black bears, and cougars, along with other “outside critters” this is usually true. I would NOT however trust that to a Holstein bull!
It is not the”wild” animals, but the domesticated ones, like party faithful, wiling to accept any ignorance, that are most dangerous to us.
It is wise to keep THEIR numbers down. So to mime their crowd “Jump, Jump, run, Sarah run”!!
The last time I checked, the elephants were in hiding. Why are the Libs afraid they’ll jump? Answer: Because they are not afraid of the Elephants: they are afraid of the people who will vote for the elephants.
Next question, and maybe even more important: Why are they afraid of the people voting for Republicans?
Wow, Scott, how appropriate to use as your avatar the only Prez to ever shut down freedom of the press. I suspect the elephant is going to jump because he sees Palin coming.
If Palin runs, she’ll have to get through the nomination process. That means debates, against people who agree with much of what she says, but by no means all. All those Republicans who’ve treated her with kid gloves because she’s an effective lightning rod for Democrat sputterings are going to “suddenly discover” that she’s “not what they’d thought.” She’d have to deal with “gotchya” questions from her own side of the aisle. Probably, she’d be toast before the convention. Alternatively, she splits the party and either she or the top moderate opponent runs as an Independent, resulting in another win for the Democrats.
There was a Horsey cartoon during the 2008 election pointing up the uneasy split in the GOP caused by Palin’s performance. A man is sitting across the table from a woman. The man is dressed in a bow tie and wears wire-rim glasses and is sitting straight as a ramrod in his chair, with his folded hands on the tabletop. Basically, he looks like George Will.
“Doesn’t it concern you that Governor Palin seems a trifle, er…underinformed?”
The woman is leaning over the table, shaking her fist in the man’s face, with wild eyes, and projecting spittle from her gaping mouth.
“WHATTYA MEAN, ’UNDERINFORMED’?!? SARAH PALIN IS GOD’S CHOSEN VESSEL, HAND-PICKED TO LEAD AMERICA IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!”
When charged by a raging bull elephant
Standing your ground may be eloquent
But I think you’ll agree
That climbing a tree
Is the only procedure that’s relevant.
kennethcwarren64 about 14 years ago
??? I guess this is a anti-GOP cartoon, or maybe it’s just saying that a elphant says it’s going to jump you shouldn’t try to catch it.
aardvarkseyes about 14 years ago
The only reason the elephant can get away with its threat is that the people below remain directly under where it would fall. If they moved - and, not even that much - in either direction, the threat would be completely empty.
OmqR-IV.0 about 14 years ago
^ I’ve been on a few walkabouts with elephants in the bush and we’re told what to do when an elephant charges: nothing. Usually they are bluffs.
I did a quick search to confirm my naturally good advice (‘cos I’m an African and we all know what to do in these situations. :-| ). Here is even better advice <- Click here.
JerryGorton about 14 years ago
Thanks omQR, LOL.
bradwilliams about 14 years ago
What does it have to do with what is happening? It nearly a direct quote from the GOP leadership.
riley05 about 14 years ago
Aw, Scott is insulted by the actions of the Party of No.
leipsicbob about 14 years ago
Poor Scottie is rebelling against a Reality Surge …
Remember to pray for him.
Dtroutma about 14 years ago
Doc- having experience with grizzly, and black bears, and cougars, along with other “outside critters” this is usually true. I would NOT however trust that to a Holstein bull!
It is not the”wild” animals, but the domesticated ones, like party faithful, wiling to accept any ignorance, that are most dangerous to us.
It is wise to keep THEIR numbers down. So to mime their crowd “Jump, Jump, run, Sarah run”!!
rekam Premium Member about 14 years ago
Should she run, and I pray not, think I’ll move to Canada. Was born there but lived most of my life here.
treered about 14 years ago
as Max said: What’s going to happen’s going to happen. Just make sure it doesn’t happen to you. i.e., let him jump and just get out of the way!
NoFearPup about 14 years ago
The last time I checked, the elephants were in hiding. Why are the Libs afraid they’ll jump? Answer: Because they are not afraid of the Elephants: they are afraid of the people who will vote for the elephants. Next question, and maybe even more important: Why are they afraid of the people voting for Republicans?
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
Wow, Scott, how appropriate to use as your avatar the only Prez to ever shut down freedom of the press. I suspect the elephant is going to jump because he sees Palin coming.
d_legendary1 about 14 years ago
The elephants are in hiding, yet they are getting all this press.
How left wing is the media again? I keep forgetting…
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
If Palin runs, she’ll have to get through the nomination process. That means debates, against people who agree with much of what she says, but by no means all. All those Republicans who’ve treated her with kid gloves because she’s an effective lightning rod for Democrat sputterings are going to “suddenly discover” that she’s “not what they’d thought.” She’d have to deal with “gotchya” questions from her own side of the aisle. Probably, she’d be toast before the convention. Alternatively, she splits the party and either she or the top moderate opponent runs as an Independent, resulting in another win for the Democrats.
There was a Horsey cartoon during the 2008 election pointing up the uneasy split in the GOP caused by Palin’s performance. A man is sitting across the table from a woman. The man is dressed in a bow tie and wears wire-rim glasses and is sitting straight as a ramrod in his chair, with his folded hands on the tabletop. Basically, he looks like George Will.
“Doesn’t it concern you that Governor Palin seems a trifle, er…underinformed?”
The woman is leaning over the table, shaking her fist in the man’s face, with wild eyes, and projecting spittle from her gaping mouth.
“WHATTYA MEAN, ’UNDERINFORMED’?!? SARAH PALIN IS GOD’S CHOSEN VESSEL, HAND-PICKED TO LEAD AMERICA IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!”
Dtroutma about 14 years ago
“free” not the only one- the Bush’s did too.
d_legendary1 about 14 years ago
<======That’s right infidels! God’s on my side!
Tolestoy about 14 years ago
If scotfreitas could draw his thoughts he’d be the funniest cartoonist ever.
doppyeast about 14 years ago
When charged by a raging bull elephant Standing your ground may be eloquent But I think you’ll agree That climbing a tree Is the only procedure that’s relevant.