Priceless - Fell of my chair laughing.

Obviously, that was George H.W. Bush who ran in 1992, and had a trusted military advisor named Dick Chenney. I don't know how I made that mistake.

Closer... but it was Baker, not Cheney, who was the chief architect of the Gulf War. No doubt Cheney spent the whole time he was at the Department of Defense scheming for the day when the whole show would be his to run, and he'd get a chance to show them all how real men fuck up.

Obviously, that was George H.W. Bush who ran in 1992, and had a trusted military advisor named Dick Chenney. I don't know how I made that mistake.

Neither does Poppy Bush.

Sarah Palin is obviously the Republicans' messiah, unless of course, they can find someone even more ignorant to run.

Sarah Palin inspires mavericky sayings - like:

Palin is a cover without a book.

And VP isn't even close to the 2nd most powerful job in the US, BTW. Still, she could have said, "Wall (or Wasilla) Street Journal." Something.

"What newspapers do you read?"

"All of them."

Palin/Bachmann 2012 & 2016. (After that, they're too wrinkly to try to be elected.)

I don't think Euripedes was trolling per se, just pointing out that rather than being satirical, Tom's comics have basically been 'here's what happened' which is 'lazier' than satire. Though as another person pointed out, when reality is already his insane, how do you satirize it?

And in regards to the idea that Obama is unstoppable, or even seems that way, he isn't. Not by a long shot. It's waaay to early to declare anything of the sort. But, um, in the off chance he's beaten, it sure as hell won't be by Sarah 'You Betcha' Palin.

I would like to call Tom on just one thing about this strip though. A lot of GOP pundits didn't try to spin her resignation. Even Pat Buchanan was all WTF? and he's usually pretty good at pulling a reasonable sounding explanation out of his ass.

... for including perhaps the greatest line any country singer ever wrote.

Maybe the problem is that she showed up to play basketball carrying a football and trying to pass it with a hockey stick. I think that makes a better analogy for somebody running for the 2nd-highest office in the land who can't name what magazines or nerwspapers she reads.

...my only concern being that, as a graphic story-teller, (and not having a Washington, D.C. dateline), you're not being taken as seriously as you should be.

Oh, well. No one could make this stuff up, and I applaud your wit and incredibly strong stomach in presenting us your version of the truth week in and week out.

The horror...

Maybe, or perhaps the problem was that she showed up to play B-ball wearing a tutu and then when asked what play to run, she suggested, "All of them."

Or maybe another drug arrest/pregnancy/ethics investigation has her convinced of the need to work on her free throws while the whole thing blows over.

Seriously, good metaphor - almost there.

What about the simple truth. which is that Palin decided that commando basketball is not her game? The refs were ignoring the players hanging on her back while calling an infraction on every player who even touched Obama. Maybe the refs were confused by the fact that her own team was fouling her while letting Obama score freely. ;)

Palin - "If there is one thing I've learned, it's that LIFE is about CHOICES."

Well, I suppose quitting is a choice...

If the famous Liberal Media chased Eyeglasses McMongoloid and her band of backwards redneck associates and relations out of politics, then I guess I owe someone in LA or NY a Thank-You Card.

All of us should be glad that this dimwit is diminishing as a threat for national office almost daily. That goes double for anyone who has any interest in a stronger GOP.

My fondest hope is that Alaskans are pissed that she quit her job for national reasons, and she becomes unable to win even a race to the front of Wal-Mart. I'm sure she'll make a great grandmother to her 'lil bastard, but here's hoping she doesn't get too much more ambitious.

Hit the road, concern troll. Every time someone rolls up in here with that "TT is so mean/coarse/unerudite/unrefined" type whine, that's always proof Tom's arrows have hit home. :P

She could have been educating herself on policy and concentrating on her job at the same time, rather than hitting the speaking circuit in the last few months. She hasn't got the interest or intellectual curiosity. She also thinks that if she were President, something she calls the "Department of Law" in the White House could look at any "baseless allegations" against her and "throw them right out." There is no Department of Law," of course. There is a "department of Justice," but it isn't based in the White House, and its mission isn't to protect the President from allegations, baseless or otherwise (hasn't this woman ever heard of a guy named Clinton?) George Bush, of course, managed to subvert the system by firing honest prosecutors and replacing them with toadies, but even he couldn't do that without paying a price. Sarah Palin should have read about that when she was reading all those newspapers.

The Republicans need a face. Sarah needs about 6 months time to become conversant on the issues. There is no upside remaining as Governor. The Republicans also want to secure their position in Alaska by having a Governor that can be re-elected

Obviously, that was George H.W. Bush who ran in 1992, and had a trusted military advisor named Dick Chenney. I don't know how I made that mistake.

"... we're all too busy laughing our asses off at the notion of Sarah Palin as a presidential contender."

I'm old enough to remember when that was by far the most common reaction whenever the name of Ronald Reagan was uttered. Same for both Georges Bush. It's enough to make one nervous. Especially when you ask yourself why it was that the republican party sachems picked her as a running mate in a doomed presidential campaign. It couldn't have been to bring her to national prominence and create name recognition and TV-Q for her, could it? Why might they have wanted to do that for a vacuous beauty queen who could probably be very easily coaxed into following instructions?