Pat Oliphant for August 14, 2012

Brilliant move… for your defeat in November.

“The Crass Menagerie.”Once again, Oliphant shows that nobody can touch him visually.

Romney doesn’t keep his Freudian slips in his off-shore accounts, just his money.

This is brilliant illustration in black and white but I can’t help wishing it was in color.

Won’t last long…or matter.

If we’re unwise enuff to elect them it will be the second incident in recent memory of the VP running the president.

He’s so young and handsome. Aren’t these the most important qualities in a Veep pick? And what great ideas he has! Cut the capital gains tax to 0% and replace Medicare with a voucher program. Sorry, your voucher won’t cover heart surgery but your plan will pay for a sticker of a smiley face to put over your chest…

Pat discredits the knowledge of animals, and insults them.

Ahab, who are these ‘conservatives’, and who did they want Romney to pick?-Christie? Jindal? Pawlenti?

Does Romney think this will energize the “right to life trumps everything” crowd and overshadow the fact that conservative Christians don’t think Mormons are “Christian” at all? On the other hand, it may be that the Republican controllers have decided they are better off kicking Obama around for another four years, than dealing with “being in charge” when everything falls apart due to Republican mismanagement. A Tea Party Congress and Mitt at the helm (Ryan a heartbeat away)… God(?) help us!!

I think your analysis is closest to the truth. I’ve never seen a primary campaign like the one the Republicans had this go round. Some darling that wasn’t Romney would rocket to the top in polling, only to plummet once more was learned about them when the spotlight turned to them. Romney won the nomination after all of the other candidates flamed out, not because he was really wanted. His choice of Ryan is definitely exciting the GOP base, but I can’t see how it’s going to appeal to seniors, Hispanics, minorities in general or the youth. Why didn’t he do what most candidates do once they’ve won the nomination and move more toward the center? I think it’s because he knows that he still needs to consolidate his base rather than assume they will turn out to vote for him in November. I can see why Republicans that are thinking strategically would not be happy with his choice.

This is a great insult to crocodiles, gorillas and the rest of the bunch. They wouldn’t be caught dead in the company of those 2 idiots.

A brilliant Oliphant cartoon..This pick added zeal to the base, but reaffirmed how bland and uninspiring Romney is. The Koch Bros must know that what this is all about now is Ryan 2016.

bob-lezeb said, 8 minutes ago

bob-lezeb commented on Jim Morinabout 5 hours ago

Mr. Ewing: Rome had its Caesar, the Vatican its González de Mendoza and Tomás de Torquemada, Russia its Stalin, Spain its Franco, Germany its Hitler, China its Mao and Gang of Four, Iran its Saddam Hussein, and now we have, right here in America, our own would-be equivalents of Ryan and Romney.

You might find the following useful to make your posts more readable. To make paragraph breaks, between each paragraph on its own line type the break symbol. To represent it here I have to name the angle brackets rather than use them because the posting software would try to interpret them as formatting symbols(left angle bracket) br (right angle bracket)Just leave out the spaces before and after “br.”

The web site seems to be doing strange things today. My previous comment was for bob-lezeb, who originally wrote a much longer post. Weird.

Maureen Dowd had an excellent take on Ryan as the “cutest cruelest Boy Scout.” Maybe Oliphant can draw him in a Boy Scout (or, really, Cub Scout……) uniform.

Nothing attracts the simians like primitive ideas.