Toon: Republican Strategy

[n2doc]

[Scuba]

1. When you can't win on policy, cheat.

[maddiemom]

13. And will it ever occur to them update their policies to represent anyone other

than the 1%? In the interest of everyone else, let's hope not ---until they go the
way of the Whigs. But, pushing seventy, I hope they do so while I'm still around.

[madokie]

2. I found out my doctor is a pukelican

yesterday. Said that Obama has been trying to get a third term, change the rules whatever it takes. No one besides fox hounds thing or believe that shit and if you watch fox you are a pukelican

[Dustlawyer]

3. It is hard to find a doctor who is not a Rethug, but one that believes Obama is going for a third

term is too ignorant to stay my doctor!
I make a scene when I go to a doctor's office and they have Fox News on. I politely tell the receptionist to change the channel as I do not like to have to watch propaganda while I wait. I have loudly protested a few times when they refuse to change it and in a few instances I walk out. I usually tell the doctor I do not like it and to please put it on a cooking show or something neutral. I get pretty adamant since I spend a lot of time and money in doctor's offices and shouldn't have to put up with it. I ask them, "What if the situation was reversed, would you think it is fair to you?" My Dentist started airing a cooking show after we talked about it. One testing facility took out the TV's and put up large pictures of local photography, my favorite solution!

[madokie]

8. This was at the VA and I was in no mood to cause a scene

All the teevees that I went past were on fox. I raised a stink a couple years about that and they switched to cnn, not that its any better, but in the year I've been gone they had switched back to fox noise.
My doctor will soon be history as he was only trying to give me meds yesterday, was not concerned about one thing he should have been. My blood work comes back as I'm as heathy as anyone could hope to be and I am except I can't walk much due to PAD and can't breath hardly due to all kinds of things like asthma and COPD and a couple others I can't remember this morning what they're called.
Trying to give me meds we've already tried and that did not work for me before and then had the audacity to tell me that no I have not prescribed these before, I've got the pharmacy records pulled up right now. I came home and pulled up the pharmacy records myself and sure enough right there in all their glory is all the meds he tried to push off on me. I said funny I still have the nearly full bottles at home and I'll gladly bring them back to you, asshole.
I used to have nothing but praise for the VA and still do except for this one doctor.

[ReRe]

23. I call this tactic....

... political proselytizing. FOX on all those waiting room TVs is nothing but Republican Party advertizing.

[calimary]

25. If it worked once, it can work again. Write a letter. Put it in the record.

And keep complaining. If they think you won't care, they won't either!

The bank in my neighborhood kept Pox Noise on the TV monitors all day. I complained. Nothing happened. I kept complaining. EVERY TIME I went in there I complained. I complained to the teller I was seeing at any given time. Sometimes I also complained to the manager on duty that day. I don't care! I'm a regular customer and have been for years, and they're gonna bow to MY bidding, too. I won't be silenced on this one. And I didn't mind telling them that as a retired broadcast journalist I am personally insulted by the brand of alleged "journalism" that's practiced by Pox Noise.

One fine day I went in there and saw - CNN on there! And CNBC. Pox Noise was GONE. So I went up to one of the managers at the end of the building and asked, innocently, what had happened? They said "we had complaints." And I played dumb - and thanked them, saying whoever complained, I was happy the management had listened!

I'm mighty proud of that. I feel like I did something good.

[JoePhilly]

5. Play dumb and start asking questions.

Act like you know very little about the political climate, then start asking questions.

Ask if that's what the Ebola threat is really about.

Ask if he saw the convoy of military trucks riding on the nearby highway the other day heading towards DC ... ask if any one else saw it?

Ask if he's noticed a strange flicker on his TV, like it was snapping pictures of you.

Ask what happens after Obama takes over? Should you buy supplies? Dig a storm basement? Move to Montana?

See if you can get the Doc to open up and expand on his theory about Obama.

[Enthusiast]

7. I might be movin' to Montana soon.......

[reflection]

15. love that tune.

Time to fire it up.

[Enthusiast]

20. I used to try to figure out what the strange album cover art meant.

And the strange lyrics, for that matter. Never could get a handle on the cover art. Looks like someone had been having sex with a grapefruit.

I've got two copies on vinyl, one CD4 discreet and one stereo. I'm sure the stereo one is clear worn out. Been worn out since the 1970s, lol.

[madokie]

9. Joe its done too late

My plan is to ask for a doctor change and even if that isn't granted I won't see him again until next year about this time

[Warpy]

24. Thanks to age and renal disease, I'm slowly losing my filter

and "Where did you hear a silly thing like that?" would have been asked.

And I'd have painstakingly explained the process to overturn a constitutional amendment and the chance it would have in being ratified.

He'd likely not have believed me and would never look it up, but anybody else within earshot would have.

[Gothmog]

4. Great cartoon

[Enthusiast]

6. Great toon, n2doc!

Thanks!

[B Calm]

10. Fewer polling places in Indiana this year. Republicans say they are saving thousands of dollars. .

[RoverSuswade]

12. which will go right into the pocket of...

....mike pence!

[Cosmocat]

26. Why ... The ... Fuck ...

Do people put up with this kind of bullshit.

I just don't get it.

Here in PA, the Rs have pushed this Voter ID law that has now effectively been shot down by the courts, but they have went out of their way to push this thing, and working a poll, we have lost voters because of it, and in a republican district, more Rs than Ds.

I had it out with our state rep, and R over this, and he didn't even care. People who have voted for him being pinched out, and it didn't faze him one bit.

But, this voter ID law did not even register on for people outside of Ds ...

They just know there is some evil, big spending liberal out there.

[mountain grammy]

11. Excellent cartoon. The thugs know if working people

subsisting on poverty wages ever voted en masse, they'd be goners. Republicans only want power so they can legislate ways to keep it.

[LiberalArkie]

14. That is the way it was always done in Dixie land. It changed for a while but you know what they said

"The South shall rise again". Yep Jim Crow laws use to be about "the colored", now you replace "the colored" with those not in the top 10%.

[chervilant]

16. I've noticed that few are talking about the easily-hacked,

questionable electronic voting devices that have been pushed on us of late. I wonder just how big a role these devices played in Dubyah's 'win' over Kerry. I remember when I went to bed (about 11:00-11:15), the push polls showed Kerry winning. I actually went to bed expecting Kerry to have triumphed over Bush.

Imagine my surprise (AND dismay) when Bush was declared the winner the next morning. I have wondered since then if Kerry knew what was really going on when he asserted, "we cannot win this election."

[DFW]

29. My brother does hi tech projects for DARPA

He said ten years ago that with a decent laptop and a cell phone, he could make any of those electronic voting machines give any result you wanted it to.

[ffr]

17. It's true, but it only drives votes down by a percentage.

In Nevada, it wouldn't explain why 4 out of 5 voters aren't showing up for EV. That goes for Republis as well. It's as though voters don't care about mid-terms, when mid-terms give them the greatest bang-for-the-buck voting power, 5x the voting power, in fact.

When you can't encourage eligible American voters to take a few minutes from their day to exercise their constitutional right to elect people and pass ballot initiatives of their own choosing and given that when they do in a mid-term, their one vote has the power of five and they still refuse to exercise that constitutional right, it's more than gerrymandering that's the root of the problem.

GOTV 2014!

[SoapBox]

18. True...and it should be criminal.

[JNelson6563]

19. K&R!

[99Forever]

21. Give people something REAL to vote for...

... and these Rethug "strategies" fail. Get into office on false populist promises then act like Republican Lite and they work.

Reality 101

[kairos12]

22. Rethug strategy in two words-Dark (money) and Disenfranchisement.

[MontyPow]

27. And every time Republicans win through cheating

The Democratic leadership moves party to the right as lessons learned.

[Release The Hounds]

28. Don't forget union busting

Limiting opposition funding