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Chip Bok | 10.26.2012 7:00 AM

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db 12 years ago

ROMNEYBOT HAS NO COMMENTS
1. darius404 12 years ago
  
  Please, let's not be rude. The newest model's designation is Romnonbot, The EveryMan?.
db 12 years ago

ROMNEYBOT CRUSH MODERATOR HEAD.
db 12 years ago

Romney's got his anglerfish Halloween costume on a little early this year.
invisible furry hand 12 years ago

Hmmm, at least three possible readings of this:

1. The cartoon highlights Romney's failure to crush an awful opponent in the polls
2. The cartoon highlights the media's bias in challenging Romney for his failure rather than take the President to task for his crimes and incompetence
3. The cartoon highlights Chip Bok's inability to be funny

Discuss.
1. WTF 12 years ago
  
  Can I select a combination of all three?
2. RBS 12 years ago
  
  Yes.
3. Ted S. 12 years ago
  
  I visit H&R with only cached images set to load, so I get a bunch of blank gray boxes when I come here. (I have my browser set up with a default gray background; I find that easier on the eyes.) I thought the empty gray box was funny.
4. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
  
  Doesn't #3 always outweigh the others?
5. BarryD 12 years ago
  
  IIRC Ronald Reagan was actually losing in the polls at this point, and his landslide victory was 'unexpected' until it was no longer plausible to deny it, late at night after the votes had poured in on Election Day.
  
  Has Romney failed to beat his opponent? How do we know? This is all just masturbation by the media, waiting for the main event to actually happen, and mixed with some attempts at pro-Obama meme building.
  1. BarryD 12 years ago
    
    BTW I have no idea who is winning. Anyone who claims to have an idea is fooling themselves.
    
    However, if Romney turns the map mostly red on the 6th, all this will seem really stupid. And if he loses, then there is an opportunity for intelligent analysis of what he did wrong, or the GOP did wrong, or whatever. Either way, the cartoon will seem silly.
  2. Stormy Dragon 12 years ago
    
    This is a common myth, but if you actually examine the tracking polls from the time, it is not correct:
    
    http://www.outsidethebeltway.c.....heats1980/
    1. BarryD 12 years ago
      
      I looked at the graph.
      
      There was a lot of overlap towards the end of October, if you actually look, and by no means was Reagan winning in the polls, though clearly after the debate, Carter was done for.
Fatty Bolger 12 years ago

Alright, Friday! A crappy cartoon, and soon, two reviews of the same movie!
1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  Yep, can't have Friday without these things - why, it would be like Morning Links without sarc and John arguing over the appropriate triggers for erections
  1. sage 12 years ago
    
    What a porker!
    1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
      
      Liar, she looks like a famine victime!
      1. sage 12 years ago
        
        That sums it up nicely.
  2. sarcasmic 12 years ago
    
    That reminds me, I haven't posted any John pron lately.
Palin's Buttplug 12 years ago

I love that conservative blogs are all celebrating a Romney victory while the market (and reality based people) all have Obama still at a 3-2 favorite.

Penetrating the brain bubble of a wingnut is difficult but without Ohio that bubble will pop in a very satisfactory way Nov 6th.
1. The Craig 12 years ago
  
  Are you saying you finally understand odds?
2. Bee Tagger 12 years ago
  
  C'mon, take a thread off. Just make fun of Bok like the rest of us.
  1. Bee Tagger 12 years ago
    
    You're still aces in my book, Bok. If anyone still knew who Chris Myers is, I would say "we kid because we care."
  2. Palin's Buttplug 12 years ago
    
    I don't have the heart. This may be his only gig.
    1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
      
      Astonishingly, no. The magic of Google, eh?
      1. Cdr Lytton 12 years ago
        
        He and Helen Thomas are co-authors of a children's book,The Great White House Breakout(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2008), the story of a president's young son and his escapades throughout Washington D.C.
        
        Paging Barfman!
        
        Ted S. 12 years ago
        
        So they re-wrote Roman Holiday?
      2. Restoras 12 years ago
        
        It hasn't heard of Google. If it had it would acutally know soemthing about the state of the economy.
3. WTF 12 years ago
  
  reality based people
  
  I do not think that means what you think it means.
  1. CampingInYourPark 12 years ago
    
    It's not those people that keep up with the Kardashians?
    1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
      
      Kanye West?
      1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
        
        Cornell West?
        
        Restoras 12 years ago
        
        Adam West?
        
        invisible furry hand 12 years ago
        
        Mae West?
4. Mike M. 12 years ago
  
  Better keep desperately clinging to that InTrade liferaft as though your life depends on buddy, because it's all you have left. We're going to be laughing at your dumb ass so much in a week and a half, it's going to be great.
  1. Drax the Destroyer 12 years ago
    
    Regardless of what happens, my cup will runneth over with salty ham tears. It will be sweet. And depressing.
5. Appalachian Australian 12 years ago
  
  Obama is spending time in Toledo. TOLEDO. You don't think that smacks of desperation?
The Craig 12 years ago

I just watched the "Lie Back and Think of Mother England, America" Obama video and now this.

Why do hate us Reason?
1. The Craig 12 years ago
  
  Fuck me.
  1. CampingInYourPark 12 years ago
    
    The video must have worked then
    1. The Craig 12 years ago
      
      I remember my first time voting. I felt really dirty. I vowed to stay home next election day and pleasure myself instead.
      1. darius404 12 years ago
        
        So the video's an accurate metaphor, then?
Bee Tagger 12 years ago

Some people raise their eyebrows when asking a question, Lehrer collapses his temples.
1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
  
  Maybe his head is imploding? A couple more frames and his head would be replaced with a mini-black hole.
  1. Loki 12 years ago
    
    Are you implying that his brain has been replaced with a singularity?
Palin's Buttplug 12 years ago

Also, more Americans feel better about the economy than at any time in the last five years (+4).

http://www.gallup.com/poll/158.....ially.aspx

This is a serious repudiation of the far-right claim that the economy sucks.
1. WTF 12 years ago
  
  Because feelings trump facts every time!
  1. a better weapon 12 years ago
    
    Can't argue with someone who has a PhD in Feelings.
    1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
      
      I can't resist
2. VG Zaytsev 12 years ago
  
  I know proglodytes are desperate when I see them celebrating a 38% positive poll number.
3. Restoras 12 years ago
  
  This guy is such a clown he can't be taken remotely seriously. It's by far the worst "recovery" (dead-cat bounce) in 100 years and according to this skidmark that means the economy doesn't suck.
4. Night Elf Mohawk 12 years ago
  
  Also, more Americans feel better about the economy than at any time in the last five years
  
  Of course they do, with Obama's pending loss.
5. Jordan 12 years ago
  
  Yes, clearly U6 isn't really 16%.
6. Loki 12 years ago
  
  BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
  
  Shorter Shriek: People are economically illiterate morons who believe stupid shit, so it's all good!
CampingInYourPark 12 years ago

You know who else blew billions?
1. Longtorso 12 years ago
  
  Monica?
2. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  Anna Nicole Smith?
3. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
  
  Lily von Stumpf?
  1. db 12 years ago
    
    No thank you. Twenty-seven is my limit on Schnitzengruben.
    1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
      
      Yeah, I heard she was tired, too.
    2. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
      
      Vhy don't you admit it? He's too much of man for you. I know. You're going to need an army to beat him! You're finished. Fertig! Verfallen! Verlumpt! Verblunget! Verkackt!
      1. Restoras 12 years ago
        
        One of the best movies ever. The 70's may have been awful for somethings but at least that movie was made - because it would never be made now.
        
        invisible furry hand 12 years ago
        
        i utterly adore it. Currently my Twitter profile text is "My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention." "Ditto."
4. Suki 12 years ago
  
  Bettie Page?
  1. Ken Shultz 12 years ago
    
    Bettie Page did not blow billions.
Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago

Is this where Romney tries to subtly remove the cheat-sheet handkerchief from his breast pocket? Shouldn't this show Lehrer sound asleep? Obama, too, come to think about it.
Longtorso 12 years ago

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!?!?! I NEED LABELS!!!!!
1. sarcasmic 12 years ago
  
  My sentiments exactly.
Mike M. 12 years ago

Hey Reason, you guys broke the mobile commenting system. Fix it please, if you would be so kind.
1. Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago
  
  You can have that or you can have ampersands. You can't have both.
2. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
  
  They don't read these comments, or they would have sacked Bok ages ago. Email malissi@reason.com
3. Cdr Lytton 12 years ago
  
  Not broken here. Preview still works too.
  1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
    
    Show off.
    1. Cdr Lytton 12 years ago
      
      No way. Show off would be &.
Suki 12 years ago

Yawn
VG Zaytsev 12 years ago

Needs more labels.

Without labels I don't know who or what is in the drawing and where it is supposed to be taking place.
Tim 12 years ago

POTUS: What the hell is going on man, WE HAD A DEAL!

ROMNEY: I'm as surprised as you are. I let Benghazi go, figured that was more than enough.

POTUS: It wasn't. Let me be clear: I need you to dial it back right now, today.

ROMNEY: Look I have my "major economic address" planned, it's just forty minutes of platitudes and evasions.

POTUS: I need more, a deal's a deal man. I want you to announce Sarah Palin is under consideration for a high cabinet post.

Romney: Nobody'll buy that, it could blow the whole deal. Why don't I do some freestyle on abortion, maybe say rape is God's punishment for a sinful lifestyle?

POTUS: That... could work. Letterman, all those guys would eat it up. You know what? Go with that. I'll call you Friday. Take care.

ROMNEY: You too.
1. generic Brand 12 years ago
  
  Now that's funnier than Bok's attempt. Have you thought about selling your ideas to cartoonists?
  1. Ted S. 12 years ago
    
    The pig should say, "My wife is a slut."
  2. Tim 12 years ago
    
    It's not made up, for throwing the race Romney gets gubmint funding to turn Utah into one gigantic solar panel.
Ken Shultz 12 years ago

Why hasn't Mitt closed the deal, yet?

What if it really did have something to do with the 47%?
1. Stormy Dragon 12 years ago
  
  Obama is a terrible president. But I don't hate him as a person. Romney's one of those people that just completely pisses me off no matter what they're doing.
tagtann 12 years ago

Never really thought about it like that man. Wow.
http://www.Surfin-Anon.tk
Lord Humungus 12 years ago

You know who else couldn't close the deal?
1. sarcasmic 12 years ago
  
  Your mom?
Romulus Augustus 12 years ago

It would be nice to blame Romney's failure on "closing the deal" on Gary Johnson's surge in the polls, but unfortunately I detect no such surge. In fact, where is the GJ campaign?? I'm a life member of the LP and was a delegate in Vegas for GJ yet I have not been solicited once either by phone, e-mail or snail mail to make a contribution to the GJ campaign. Good to know he's running in 2016; maybe a four year campaign can actually get some infrastructure in place to do something valuable.
1. Ted S. 12 years ago
  
  That's because they know you're voting for GJ.
2. Appalachian Australian 12 years ago
  
  I keep putting off going by a local greenhouse to pick up a free GJ sign. And I should be more motivated, my wife keeps bugging me to get it done.
  
  Such is the enthusiasm of Libertarian Party voters.
  1. Bobarian 12 years ago
    
    Free GJ?
    
    Is someone holding him prisoner?
invisible furry hand 12 years ago

well I know who couldn't seal the deal

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