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Brian D|2.17.12 @ 7:14AM|#
Okay, I laughed.
Fist of Etiquette|2.17.12 @ 7:17AM|#
Who stuck that baby to the wall with arrows? Lucy Liu or Alan Thicke?
Bee Tagger|2.17.12 @ 8:31AM|#
That's Crispin Glover and it's a deleted scene from Charlie's Angels.
Dekedin|2.17.12 @ 7:28AM|#
It's funny how Mitt is willing to say anything to get votes, yet doesn't get why that strategy's not working. Repubs would rather have someone like Santorum, who has repulsive yet semi-consistent views, than a flip-flopper like Romney. He's the guy who has a pick-up line for every girl. (Keeping with the dance symbolism) Newt the egotistical jock who just wants to get attention, Santorum is the good Catholic who will stay at least 12 in. away from his date at all times, and Paul is obviously the guy who spikes the punch bowl.
The Question of Auban|2.17.12 @ 8:00AM|#
"Santorum is the good Catholic who will stay at least 12 in. away from his date at all times,"
And try to force his views of the world even if that means getting into fights with the Iranian foreign exchange student.
JD|2.17.12 @ 8:45AM|#
Paul is the guy who stayed home to read a science book.
The Question of Auban|2.17.12 @ 12:17PM|#
Of course, that is how he got into medical school and became more successful than any of his classmates.
skippy|2.17.12 @ 7:21PM|#
How could Ron Paul hope to win the nomination against his more flamboyant rivals? Paul has been such a low-key personality whilst serving in Congress. Paul is just too federally reserved.
MrGuy|2.18.12 @ 10:41AM|#
"federally reserved". Oh, I see what you did there.
invisible furry hand|2.17.12 @ 7:42AM|#
It's nearly midnight, so it must be time to check out Friday Funnies.
1. Labels on everything because the artist can't trust us to work it out?* CHECK
2. Laboured attempt at a joke? CHECK
3. No insight? CHECK
4. Fist of Etiquette is unimpressed? CHECK
* although to be fair Mittens isn't a caricaturist's dream
|2.17.12 @ 8:02AM|#
Being that "Mitt" looks more like Reagan with AIDS, I think the label was a prudent move.
WWNGD?|2.17.12 @ 8:42AM|#
5. Comment from visitor complaining about cartoon? CHECK
JOhnny MAckson|2.17.12 @ 7:45AM|#
meh
Jess
anon-bot.com
COXSWAIN HARDY|2.17.12 @ 7:48AM|#
The GOP is a unibrow? Did Mitt meet her on the Women's Tennis Tour?
invisible furry hand|2.17.12 @ 7:54AM|#
That might be the reason she's not interested in him
STEVE SMITH|2.17.12 @ 7:50AM|#
STEVE NOT THINK FUNNY. LITTLE FROG FUNNY. HIM MAKE META JOKE.
|2.17.12 @ 8:02AM|#
I'd dance with Mitt.
Fatty Bolger|2.17.12 @ 8:06AM|#
Still better than a Chapman article.
Almanian|2.17.12 @ 8:16AM|#
"Steve Chapman is on vacation this week..."
Music to my eyes...
Almanian|2.17.12 @ 8:14AM|#
1) Why is Orson Bean (or is that John Kerry?) creeping around after teenage girls?
2) Why are Orson's (or John's) flowers spewing dangerous anthrax into the air?
3) Why is Punky Brewster so mad?
4) Why are people sticking that baby with lawn darts? And what is a baby doing with a dangerous longbow?
Also, needs moar labels. Thank you.
Bee Tagger|2.17.12 @ 8:17AM|#
Are there no original ideas in Hollywood anymore? I have to think there isn't if they're now resorting to an animated remake of Back to the Future.
Fluffy|2.17.12 @ 8:25AM|#
I would remake BttF in live action, starring Eminem.
He would go back to 1950's Detroit, and get his ass kicked for ninety minutes.
His stories of a future Detroit (mumbled through a mouth with no teeth) would lead the civic leaders, the corporate boards, and the union heads to change their ways, and the timeline would be altered, saving Detroit from its fate.
Bee Tagger|2.17.12 @ 8:29AM|#
Have Jamie Kennedy play Eminem and you got yourself at least one viewer.
Not me, of course. But, the person who saw Malibu's Most Wanted.
Apatheist ಠ_ರೃ|2.17.12 @ 9:51AM|#
Hey, I watched Malibu's Most Wanted...
Anomalous|2.17.12 @ 10:35AM|#
I saw it too. Comedy Central used to run it constantly.
The Question of Auban|2.17.12 @ 8:27AM|#
"I have to think there isn't if they're now resorting to an animated remake of Back to the Future."
Remaking (well done) classic films truly bothers me. The assholes in Hollywood remade "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Manchurian Candidate", and even reedited Star Wars to the point that Ewoks blink and Hans Solo shot first in the famous bar scene. It is ridiculous.
Am I comparing the above films to "Back to the Future?" In a way, yes. Back to the Future is in a VERY different genre than the movies I mention above - you need to look at it in context. But in its own genre it is just as classic - it does what it intends to do brilliantly.
Sam Grove|2.17.12 @ 1:01PM|#
And they had to attach an eco-message to TDTESS.
skippy|2.17.12 @ 7:24PM|#
counterpoints: Peter Jackson's King Kong and the yet to be made definitive remake of The Omega Man
Fatty Bolger|2.17.12 @ 8:44AM|#
Did you know they're was a remake of Total Recall coming out soon? I guess they're running out of Philip K. Dick stories and have resorted to recycling.
Fluffy|2.17.12 @ 8:55AM|#
That's not that offensive to me; Dick seemed to do that himself.
"Didn't I just read this in Valis?" is a thought that occurred to me on more than one occasion on my way through his oeuvre.
|2.17.12 @ 8:59AM|#
There are still dozens of shitty movies they can make from PKD novels and stories.
Bee Tagger|2.17.12 @ 9:08AM|#
Off the top of my head, it seems movies inspired by PKD have a better track record (Truman Show, Matrix) than movies based on his books/short stories.
|2.17.12 @ 9:33AM|#
I'd agree with that.
sarcasmic|2.17.12 @ 8:20AM|#
I don't get it.
|2.17.12 @ 8:26AM|#
The Convention is certainly going to end up brokered. None of these guys is going to Tampa with enough delegates. I like Romney will end up being the nominee but hopefully Paul will by then be in a position to influence the platform and even the VP candidate choice.
|2.17.12 @ 8:56AM|#
That look almost like that prediction of that GOP strategist who was on the former show of Judge Napolitano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StQr-dlxaBM
Joe M|2.17.12 @ 8:26AM|#
GOP is hot.
Sparky|2.17.12 @ 9:10AM|#
By John's definition of hot, definitely.
Zeb|2.17.12 @ 10:51AM|#
John likes women with huge knees?
skippy|2.17.12 @ 10:42PM|#
Then why would John want a woman with the lower body of a banana slug?
Alice Bowie|2.17.12 @ 8:37AM|#
I can't see anyone but Romney winning the primary.
The Question of Auban|2.17.12 @ 8:41AM|#
Who is actually supporting Romney qua Romney and not because they (wrongly) think he is the only candidate who can beat Obama? Tell me that?
Tim|2.17.12 @ 8:40AM|#
Gingrich isn't in the cartoon because he's shtupping her mom in the parking lot.
Fluffy|2.17.12 @ 8:56AM|#
More like her younger sister.
Almanian|2.17.12 @ 9:06AM|#
EW.....seriously?....SO gross....
invisible furry hand|2.17.12 @ 9:08AM|#
Makes total sense. GOP is getting on and is seriously sick, after all
Rich|2.17.12 @ 8:45AM|#
This year, it should be the Saint Vitus Dance.
Fist of Etiquette|2.17.12 @ 8:53AM|#
I wouldn't call the GOP fickle necessarily. Voters have been pretty consistently looking for someone not Romney.
Almanian|2.17.12 @ 9:06AM|#
I'd call the GOP "Statist Fucks".
But that's just me...
MJ|2.19.12 @ 8:35AM|#
Maybe, but I am not sure how rejecting Romney is proof of that.
|2.17.12 @ 9:14AM|#
Not a bad cartoon, especially by H&R standards. However the woman representing the GOP is dressed more like a sixties feminist (minus the GOP t-shirt, of course). And I realize that Payne may have chosen to draw her with a t-shirt in order to make the labelling less painfully obvious, but something more permed, middle-aged and pants-suited would have sent the message just as well and obviated the need for a label. Or if you absolutely had to go there you could have used an elephant instead of the letters "gop".
|2.17.12 @ 11:30AM|#
That looks like a lot of fun dude, I mean like wow.
www.anon-dot.tk
|2.17.12 @ 11:44AM|#
One of Payne's better efforts. Although, instead of having a sado-masochistic cupid the arrows could be bouncing off "GOP" and hitting others. This would be better as a tableau of odd couples, brought together by cupid's ricochets.
|2.17.12 @ 12:48PM|#
Cupid use to be an adventurer like you, until he took an arrow in the knee.
|2.17.12 @ 6:21PM|#
It could be interesting to imagine an editorial cartoon where Santorum have a skeleton named unions in the closet from what I read at http://biggovernment.com/bshap.....ervatives/
Then the conservative girl, then Romney tried to convince, seeing that and said to Santorum: "Say it ain't so!".
Starchild|2.17.12 @ 8:51PM|#
The GOP is looking very buxom there in that sleeveless dress. :-)
smartass|2.17.12 @ 11:54PM|#
What, no President Rum-Nuts?
|2.18.12 @ 3:57AM|#
I got it! GOP is modeled after SE Cupp without glasses.
Ventifact|2.18.12 @ 10:51AM|#
You know what's really hilarious? The fact that this exact same cartoon was published five days earlier by another cartoonist.