This one made me laugh out loud. Good work!

A. "Bill Clinton!"

B. "Barney Franks!"

C. "Sandy Berger's pants!"

D. "911!"

E. All of the above.

A. "Bill Clinton!"

B. "Barney Franks!"

C. "Sandy Berger's pants!"

D. "911!"

You forgot:

E. "William Jefferson!"

F. "Robert Byrd was in the Klan before any of us were born!"

G."CHAPPAQUIDIIIIIIIIIICK!"

H. All of the above

Damn! The right winger made an appeal to my higher reason. I used to have one of those until, oh, maybe, seven years ago.

Yeaaaaa! Thank you Dan! I'm going to paint Sparky on the side of my Jeep and hope you don't mind the copyright thingy.

Ha.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[Vincent Price-type laugh here]

Very funny, and as good as Tom on a good day. I like it a lot.

But.

The fact that this cartoon needed to be written is so depressing. I hate that I live in a country where this cartoon is funny.

Please print this out and mail it to Tom Delay.

Mark Sheilds made the best point on this issue. If you're a parent you should have a reasonable expectation non-sexual behavior going on in a PUBLIC RESTROOM! It's not about homosexuality.

Your Right - it isn't about homosexuality.

But it also shouldn't be about illegality. In fact, I'm not conviced what Larry Craig did even should be illegal. Women put up with much worse sorts of solicitation than this in workplaces everyday - with the most legitimately legal response being a harrassment suit - and this only if the action is persistant. So - making it an issue of illegality - borders on making it an issue of homosexuality, given the potential double-standard.

No - the issue is plain and simply one of hypocrisy.

As a conservative, I am deeply disturbed by the actions of some of these other so called conservatives who have had allegations brought upon them. At the same time, I realize that there still exists a group of conservatives that stand committed to their ideals and values. For this reason, I hope that you progressive thinkers out here can come to your senses and realize that there will always be a few bad apples in a bushel. Don't pin the actions of these few people on the entire Republican Party. Just as you push forward for eliminating prejudice amongst certain ethnicities, races, and sexes due to certain stereotypes, you should stand opposed of prejudice against conservatives for this stereotyping. Thanks for your time.

mcb1025:Just as you push forward for eliminating prejudice amongst certain ethnicities, races, and sexes due to certain stereotypes, you should stand opposed of prejudice against conservatives for this stereotyping.

Yes, indeedy. In fact, in your concern, you might go on to add: "You're better than that! You don't want to let yourself sink to our level do you?"

Now where did I hear that before, just recently...? Seems like there might have been a penguin involved...

First off - Good answer, bobbyjoe.

Second - Actually, I don't even care that the GOP is full of hypocrites (in fact, one of my favorite quotes comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson - " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds").

What I do care about is that the GOP is full of people who are politically intolerant of gays (and that as a party, it pursues legislation which is intolerant of gays - neither of which you deny, mcb1025).

So go ahead, mcb1025. Be personally intolerant, if you wish. Or even Religiously intolerant. But all of the GOP's political intolerance reeks of bigotry and (far too often), is symptomatic of a conflation of church and state (since more often then not, the bigotry is legitmated with reference to religion).

What, then, does focusing on the hypocrisy accomplish? I would hope that it would at least serve to remind people in the GOP not to throw so many stones. And, perhaps, persuade a few gay-bigoted fence sitters that they might as well vote democrat.

You're right that this is not about homosexuality. But this is not "just" about hypocrisy either. It's also about good judgment. How do you feel about the fact that your senator (male or female--gay or straight) decides that a public bathroom is an appropriate place for sexual activity?

We want politicians to be people with better judgment than this.

Another hypocritical right wing argument and everyday fallback: "It was just a few bad apples making us all look bad!"

How many times are we going to hear that canard from the hypocritical far right? A million?

This guy was in the House and Senate for decades and a pillar of the right wing political establishment. Now, suddenly, he is a 'bad apple.'

Sure took awhile discover that.

That said, the right wing and Congressional attacks on Larry Craig from both parties could also be considered hypocritical. After all, greater crimes are being committed by the entire Congress (not to mention executive branch) on a continual and on-going basis in terms of their common criminal policies of aggressive war on false pretexts - a war crime.

Extreme hypocrisy - Craig's primary crime in my opinion - is an everyday occurrence within the political establishment. The sanctimonious attention this event is receiving from both parties serves as a convenient diversion to the real and much greater criminality that is on-going among the blowhards in the rest of the Congress.

That Republicans have conned millions of people into believing that they have "morals".

I mean, how gullible can you get?

Pubs (in unison): "Suckers!"

mcb1025 enters with a compliment to the point made by a liberal, then does everything in his power to sideswipe that very answer. How sincerely Republican of the guy!

The title of this letter suggests what I think of his logic. What logic?

This reminds me of another segment of the Republican party I dearly luv to put down, namely, the Log Cabin Republicans. Years ago Barney Franks gave a speech in which he not only decried the Republican position on homosexuality, but went the extra mile and attributed the issue generally to the party faithful as a whole--a constituency, mcb1025.

Republicans--here's another great generality that happens to hold good--have made a habit of accepting the most conniving gays just so long as they play by the Republican play book and that includes "Don't ask, don't tell" (you guys apparently don't want anyone realizing that you can work with the self-same people who you elsewhere accuse of taking the country to hell in a hand basket). Just more hypocrisy piled on more hypocrisy. What's truly difficult to swallow about you Republicans is your supercilious hypocrisy!! And YOU, mcb1025, think that since YOU are to be exempted, that the majority of your fine fellows are just peachy? What planet are you from, dude?

People like Andrew Sullivan (i.e. of the Log Cabin bent) make my skin crawl. As if Liberals had nothing intelligent to say about economics or government (that any Republican could vote for even after being separated from moralizing matters). The better way of looking at this isn't that there are a few rare decent Republicans, of course there are. The point might be better taken were we to point out that most liberals don't cotton to the far left, to conspiracy theories, to hating America, etc.--which seems to be the Republican mantra, ergo, all liberals are of a feather. All the same, it takes a Republican to make one nearly embarrassed to say we're Americans...

One last thing. Liberals didn't vote for George Bush. Point taken? Liberals have standards of tolerance and generally informed rationality as their mental platform. As mcb1025 did properly note, we don't care a lot for bigotry and so forth. Republicans who can make an admission such as that ought to wonder why they are Republicans in the first place. By voting for your glorious party you are supporting those folks you wish to be distinguished from. Voting solid Republican supports their platform and makes you a co-defendant. Good godfry, what is it about Republicans and bigotry that you haven't figured out by now?