Horsey cartoon. GOP meets with base, tries to reason.

[madfloridian]

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R..nt

[Gothmog]

2. Great cartoon

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Horsey gets it!

K&R

[madfloridian]

20. Yes, he does.

And not afraid to say it.

[nomorenomore08]

4. How is it that millions of Americans are so utterly detached from reality (and sanity)?

And why is this phenomenon not seen on anywhere near the same level in any other Western democracy?

[Demeter]

8. My aunt, for example

She was always a weak-minded woman intellectually, but stubborn as a 100% Pollack could be. She fell in love with a rw whacko, and even though he's dead now, promoting the Right Wing propaganda fills her days and defines her life.

For a woman raised Catholic, she's amazingly intolerant and un-Christian....

[nomorenomore08]

10. Every religion has its dark side (even Buddhism).

Calling such people "un-Christian" - while I don't disagree with the sentiment - is a bit of an oversimplification, I'm afraid.

Though I should note that, despite being a non-believer (maybe not "atheist" per se) my own political views have certainly been influenced by the more progressive, social-justice-oriented wing of the Catholic Church, having gone to Catholic school all my life (aside from college).

[Demeter]

12. That's just it

She's not into social justice, or progressive change, or any of the good side. She's truly evil, and smug about it. You should SEE the stuff she forwards to me!

She's more Old Testament than the Jews.

[nomorenomore08]

17. The God people like her worship is certainly a very Old Testament one - fire and brimstone and

lots of smiting, especially if you happen to be a sexually active woman or a non-heterosexual man.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Anti-intellectualism has often been celebrated in the US

going back to at least the 50s when Ike ran against the pointy-headed intellectual Adlai Stevenson. While there are definitely strains of it in countries in Europe, it's never grown like it has in the US... at least not since before WW2.

[nomorenomore08]

18. I mean, Canada has Alberta, Germany has Bavaria (the rural parts anyway) and Northern England

(aside from Liverpool and Manchester) is known as a bit of a backwater. Yet none of these other countries, overall, have the pervasive knee-jerk ultra-conservatism we see in much of the U.S. (and even in the rural areas of blue states). Millions of people who are utterly ignorant and hateful, and proud of being so.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

33. Have you actaully been to Alberta?

I have been working in Calgary for almost a decade and I have still yet to experience this supposed hotbed of right-wing extremism. If Calgary and Edmonton are hotbeds for anything it is a particularly irritating variety of hipster.

[nomorenomore08]

34. To be perfectly honest, no. I've just always heard it referred to as the most right-wing part

of the country. Which, in Canada's case, is probably quite relative.

[abakan]

24. inbreeding....nt

[nomorenomore08]

32. LOL!

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

[customerserviceguy]

6. Ha! The guy with the cap

is drinking "Coors Lite", perhaps a bit of a pro-microbrew slap?

Good job, Dave!

[ErikJ]

27. Isnt Coors an extreme RW corporation? nt

[customerserviceguy]

36. Perhaps so

All I know is that craft beer is quite progressive, much more often than not.

[IkeRepublican]

7. Bullshit

Wishful thinking if there ever was.

The GOP establishment is dedicated above all other agendas in assuring their base is chock full of nonstop aggressive moron tomfuckery. The goofier their zombie followers get, the more dependable they are in getting to the booth.

And that's a fact, jack.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

35. They're looking at the demographics and realizing if they don't dial down the fuckwittery a bit...

...they'll never be able to court the growing demos they need to continue competing. Continuing as they have been can only be countered with election fraud, voter restrictions, and gerrymandering for so long before the numbers overwhelm them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Eventually....

[AAO]

14. Did that guy survive? That's one hell of a left hook!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Yeah, but now he wears a tricorner hat.

[hueymahl]

23. LOL - Good one!

[AAO]

13. What have they wrought upon this earth?

Someday, I hope they ask for forgiveness.

[madfloridian]

19. Good question.

No good answer.

[alfredo]

15. +1

[Enthusiast]

21. Kicked and recommended!

One day when I was going through radio channels, I listened to a random Fundamentalist preacher for less than a minute. He insisted that Islam was just another part of the Hindu religion. I thought, "No you dolt, Islam is an Abrahamic religion."

[Solly Mack]

22. The GOP set that table....let'em choke on the food.

[calimary]

26. Yep!

As we were saying around our house during the whole cliven bundy circus - "hey, GOP, YOU climbed into bed with him. Now he gets to fuck you!"

[Solly Mack]

30. Exactly. No need for them to pretend they are different from those they court.

[madfloridian]

31. ....

[Android3.14]

25. The GOP dilemma

What do you do when your strongest supporters are so obnoxious you wouldn't take them to a dogfight?

[MrScorpio]

28. Horsey knows them exceedingly well. nt

[blackspade]

29. well played