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Valentine's Day Dance With Mitt Romney

Henry Payne | 2.17.2012 7:00 AM

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Brian D 13 years ago

Okay, I laughed.
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Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Who stuck that baby to the wall with arrows? Lucy Liu or Alan Thicke?
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  That's Crispin Glover and it's a deleted scene from Charlie's Angels.
Dekedin 13 years ago

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.
1. The Question of Auban 13 years ago
  
  "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.
2. JD 13 years ago
  
  Paul is the guy who stayed home to read a science book.
  1. The Question of Auban 13 years ago
    
    Of course, that is how he got into medical school and became more successful than any of his classmates.
    1. skippy 13 years ago
      
      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.
      1. MrGuy 13 years ago
        
        "federally reserved". Oh, I see what you did there.
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

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
1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  Being that "Mitt" looks more like Reagan with AIDS, I think the label was a prudent move.
2. WWNGD? 13 years ago
  
  5. Comment from visitor complaining about cartoon? CHECK
JOhnny MAckson 13 years ago

meh

Jess
anon-bot.com
COXSWAIN HARDY 13 years ago

The GOP is a unibrow? Did Mitt meet her on the Women's Tennis Tour?
1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
  
  That might be the reason she's not interested in him
STEVE SMITH 13 years ago

STEVE NOT THINK FUNNY. LITTLE FROG FUNNY. HIM MAKE META JOKE.
Kathleen Sibelius 13 years ago

I'd dance with Mitt.
Fatty Bolger 13 years ago

Still better than a Chapman article.
1. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  "Steve Chapman is on vacation this week..."
  
  Music to my eyes...
Almanian 13 years ago

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 13 years ago

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.
1. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  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.
  1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
    
    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.
    1. Apatheist ?_?? 13 years ago
      
      Hey, I watched Malibu's Most Wanted...
    2. Anomalous 13 years ago
      
      I saw it too. Comedy Central used to run it constantly.
2. The Question of Auban 13 years ago
  
  "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.
  1. Sam Grove 13 years ago
    
    And they had to attach an eco-message to TDTESS.
  2. skippy 13 years ago
    
    counterpoints: Peter Jackson's King Kong and the yet to be made definitive remake of The Omega Man
3. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  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.
  1. Fluffy 13 years ago
    
    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. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    There are still dozens of shitty movies they can make from PKD novels and stories.
    1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
      
      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.
      1. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        I'd agree with that.
sarcasmic 13 years ago

I don't get it.
Brian from Texas 13 years ago

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.
1. St?phane Dumas 13 years ago
  
  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 13 years ago

GOP is hot.
1. Sparky 13 years ago
  
  By John's definition of hot, definitely.
  1. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    John likes women with huge knees?
    1. skippy 13 years ago
      
      Then why would John want a woman with the lower body of a banana slug?
Alice Bowie 13 years ago

I can't see anyone but Romney winning the primary.
1. The Question of Auban 13 years ago
  
  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 13 years ago

Gingrich isn't in the cartoon because he's shtupping her mom in the parking lot.
1. Fluffy 13 years ago
  
  More like her younger sister.
  1. Almanian 13 years ago
    
    EW.....seriously?....SO gross....
    1. invisible furry hand 13 years ago
      
      Makes total sense. GOP is getting on and is seriously sick, after all
Rich 13 years ago

This year, it should be the Saint Vitus Dance.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

I wouldn't call the GOP fickle necessarily. Voters have been pretty consistently looking for someone not Romney.
1. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  I'd call the GOP "Statist Fucks".
  
  But that's just me...
  1. MJ 13 years ago
    
    Maybe, but I am not sure how rejecting Romney is proof of that.
Tonio 13 years ago

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".
Davie Rollins 13 years ago

That looks like a lot of fun dude, I mean like wow.

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Jesus H. Christ 13 years ago

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.
Brandybuck 13 years ago

Cupid use to be an adventurer like you, until he took an arrow in the knee.
St?phane Dumas 13 years ago

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 13 years ago

The GOP is looking very buxom there in that sleeveless dress. 🙂
smartass 13 years ago

What, no President Rum-Nuts?
Jesus H. Christ 13 years ago

I got it! GOP is modeled after SE Cupp without glasses.
Ventifact 13 years ago

You know what's really hilarious? The fact that this exact same cartoon was published five days earlier by another cartoonist.

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