Wed 6 Feb 2008
I know a lot of you avoid Rush Limbaugh like a case of burning genital itching, but there have been odd things coming out of the tarnished EIB microphone of late. Limbaugh, Hannity and the clean, Disneyesque Michael Savage have all been on a rampage to discredit John McCain and talk Republicans out of voting for him.
“Romney is the true conservative” they cry.
“John McCain is more liberal than Hillary Clinton” they wail.
By the looks of it, their gnashing of teething didn’t help Romney on Super Tuesday. The only person Romney is ahead of is Ron Paul.
You got to give props to McCain for his tenacity. The man went from the GOP darling to broke because of his stance on immigration – almost overnight. Most of his staff was laid off – some joked he didn’t have enough money to fill the gas tanks of the Straight Talk Express. But he hung in there – took on step at a time, climbed over the carcases of Fred Thompson and others to emerge as the front runner last night. Super Tuesday was super to John McCain. I also think the moderate GOPers feel betrayed by Bush and now know how ruthless Bush was to McCain in 2000 – there may be some payback.
What really shocks me however is the absolute lack of performance for the talk radio idiots to move Romney up. Could it be after years of lying to the public, the Right Wing woke up and figured out they were being lied to?
Maybe.
When the likes of Ann Coulter endorses her arch-enemy, Hillary Clinton, you know the shit has hit the fan.
P.S. I have made a font change for the strip. Please let me know if it is better than the previous font. Also, this is the first appearance of Mitt Romney.
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February 6th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Heh… funny that you mention Romny’s utter failure. I just got done reading these articles:
Time Article about McCain
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1710280,00.html?cnn=yes
Commentary by Roland Martin about the idiocy about bashing McCain:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/06/roland.martin/index.html
For me, if Clinton^2 gets onto the ticket, I am voting for McCain. That said, it seems to me that the only hope the Dems have of winning this year is if they get Obama on their ticket.
Why? Because McCain has already proven that he can devour the Independant voters. He can pull them in with little trouble at all. If McCain gets on the ticket, Billary will have to fight to not only keep those Dems from switching over…but will have to fight harder to get those indies from McCain. Something that I highly doubt will happen. I mean, there are way too many people are like me who would vote for McCain over Billary.
On a side note, I absolutly love Lou Dobbs. The man is usually spot on and has a good idea of things: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/22/Dobbs.January23/index.html (This is more economy based than Election based – but still a good article anyway)
February 6th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“Also, this is the first appearance of Mitt Romney.”
This strip could be a collectors item soon as this may very well be the Last strip with Romney in it as a Presidential hopeful after yesterday.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I am not loving the new font. “D” looks too much like “O”, and the “U” in “FUND” took me a second to make out. It might just take some getting used to, but at first glance it’s not working.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I like the new font, but it would help if you would loosen the line spacing a bit. The tight lines make it harder to read, especially online.
Your Romney drawing. Would it have been overkill to add one of those goofy foam mitts in the background like you see at some of his campaign rallies?
I think it’s great that the Democratic ticket is still too close to call. Perhaps those of us in these late-primary states will actually have our vote mean something for once.