... please send us an opposition party that includes worthy, intelligent opponents. Thank you. Amen.

P.S. The Blue Dog Dems don't qualify either.

Thus summing up everything Palin herself ever said.

"God bless Tom Tomorrow."

that intelligent commentary on american politics can only be found in a cartoon. but when reality is warped past any humor, further twisting is the only path to sane discussion.

complaining that the press has a "different standard for me," I'm convinced she'll quit the GOP and run for president as head of Sarah Palin's Pity Party.

If you get sued over suggesting that she shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, you got a lawyer gratis.

In what respect, Charlie?

Uh you're missing the point. This is really a news reporting service with more actual facts than Fox Nooze or CNN. You think Tom is making this shit up? He just reports the actual mindset of the Republican base. Think we're kidding ....drop over and pay a visit to RedState.com

Many conservatives will tut-tut and opine that "they" got to Sarah and hounded her and her family into leaving office-incredibly, there is a widespread belief that liberals FEAR Sarah Palin and her special brand of Alaska Wackdoodle.

That rumbling sound you hear is Jack Kemp, spinning in his grave. Oh, wait-you can't hear it because we're all too busy laughing our asses off at the notion of Sarah Palin as a presidential contender.

I hang my head and cry!

Hillary Clinton was treated so poorly by the MSM and the Republicans. They even picked on Chelsea which should be out of bounds.

When the Republicans are flocking to such as Sarah Palin to lead them, and "family values" leading lights are traipsing off to Argentina, it is challenging for a satirist to do better than to hold up a mirror to such a reality.

He succeeds brilliantly in showing us the absurdity of the Right - if that is "one-note" then, Tom, play on!

The message boards on the St. Pete Times are generally negative about Sarah Barraquitter, but I notice that supporting messages are being posted by people who identify themselves as being from other states. So I'll guess that the Republican boiler-room operations are busy this morning. Their justification is that the press was mean to her.

Let's see, Texas Governor Anne Richard was the target of Karl Rove's rumor campaign that she was a lesbian. Janet Reno was accused of same for trying to do her job in an even-handed manner (as well as being accused of causing the shooting of a man's wife by federal agents at Ruby Ridge, ID, even though that was Poppy Bush's administration). And Chelsea Clinton was accused of being ugly by Rush Limbaugh and by John McCain.

Same old same old. The Republicans can dish it out but they sure can't take it.

Tom,

Didn't the last election teach you anything? She's a maverick. She does things her own way. This is going to go over like gangbusters. Why wouldn't you want her to have personal access to the nuclear codes?

This is how we separate the wheat from the chaff. I heard a rumor that Obama is trembling because of this, but I know, in my heart of hearts, that McCain knows that he made the right choice, before God and Country.

Better luck next cartoon,

HIAW

There was a sketch on SNL back in 1992, actually probably early 1991, about the democratic primary candidates paniced over running against then seemingly unstoppable George W. Bush, statesman, war hero, victorious military leader.

In turn each character (Sentator Franken played Paul Tsongas) gave an empassioned plea for why they shouldn't be chosen as the Democratic front runner, a talented young man playing Bill Clinton made a point to remind us about his sex scandals and how he'd be the worst possible choice for the Democratic Nominee.

Although the scene now seems absurd, at the time, it all made sense. George W. Bush had won the War in Iraq in record time (thanks to the keen advice of his trusted advisor Dick Chenny not to go into Bagdad and getting caught in a quagmire)and looked pretty undefeatable.

There was a real though that who ever got to be Dukakis II would enjoy the same political success as Dukakis I after their inevitable defeat, so it wasn't surpriseing that there might be ambivilence towards the role.

Right now, with regard to 2012, you've got a similarly seemingly unstopable president, and while I am sure that none of these folks are intentionally taking themselves out of the running, one can see a certain logic to it.

Whomever gets the nod in 2012 has a good shot of becoming the Republican Dukakis, a political joke not forgotten until long after the return from the wilderness for the party.

No one wants that job, so running 2012 is just a bad place to start from.

Of course 2012 could be for the republicans what 1992 was for the democrats, but right now, it's pretty bleak, but then again so was it in 1991.

...but it's pretty much the truth!

And so I'm quitting, because not quitting would be the quitter's way out

One can justify anything with this kind of logic. Perhaps this is why the country is so screwed up today.

Um... it's a cartoon, dude... were you expecting James Joyce?

Does anything show the total vapidity of the Republican party more than so many Republican pundits supporting a total airhead like Palin? Can you imagine a Democrat as ignorant as her getting any support at all? It would never happen. The Republican party truly is the party of the dumbsh!ts. They've made America the laughingstock of the world.

BTW, another great cartoon!

"... 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?