Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 27, 2012

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    Orion-13  over 12 years ago

    Wow. Love the tolerance and civil discourse.Mr. Pot, I have a Mr. Kettle for you on line 2.Orion

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    Bill the Butcher  over 12 years ago

    Roads? I don’t know that much about Paul except that he wants to end both abortions and Empire, so why roads? What’s the deal with roads?

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    MassieVoter  over 12 years ago

    Mr. Gingrich - younger, attractive guys getting all the babes.

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    DylanThomas3.14159  over 12 years ago

    Trudeau is right on target with this strip’s implications:

    • Romney wants fewer regulations and controls so that his financial empire can continue to rip off the American people “legally”.• Dr. Paul wants all roads to be owned by private enterprise, not government, in order to shrink the “government of the people, by the people and for the people” till it is so small and weak that it could, in essence, do nothing about, say, a troll booth that charged vehicles $10, $100, $1000 or “whatever the market will bear” just to pass by. Of course the vehicle owner would have to pay no road tax to “big government”. Yipee!• Santorum wants to outlaw condoms (but not guns) for kids so that high school kids, for instance, who are having sex won’t be able to prevent pregnancy (except by abstinance).

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    rayannina  over 12 years ago

    … commenters on the Doonesbury page.

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    runar  over 12 years ago

    Republicans?

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    DylanThomas3.14159  over 12 years ago

    “There’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed” Nor anything “fixed” — such as honest, strong, effective government — that can’t be corrupted . . . . . . by an out-of-control “libertarian” free market system whose military-industrial-financial corporations buy, own and control both Congress and the Presidency via • making giga-bux campaign contributions and • writing the legislation that frees them from regulation so that they can continue to enrich themselves on the backs of the American people.

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    Doughfoot  over 12 years ago

    “American government isn’t broken. It’s fixed.”

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    Beenthere  over 12 years ago

    Ron Paul “Roads?”

    You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, Trudeau.

    How about Ron Paul being the ONLY candidate who wants to end our policeman foreign policy? Who advocates diplomacy with Iran instead of saber rattling? Who wants to re-establish relationship with Cuba and end the stupid Cold War embargo? Who wants to reign in the Federal reserve that has been enabled the 1% to become rich at the 99% expense?

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 12 years ago

    See, 2015 is within the next term. By that time, supposedly, we won’t need roads.

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    mathteacher678  over 12 years ago

    Ron Paul is not running on a “roads” platform. He is not going to privatize roads. He wants to stop the empire-building and use the money to fund commitments at home (like social security and medicare).

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    smalltownbrown  over 12 years ago

    Hear, hear, Runar!

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Santorum elderly lady clip.

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    Sugie63  over 12 years ago

    Nobody said the obvious answer…POLITICIANS.

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    PShaw0423  over 12 years ago

    You know, I have two male kittens that I’m going to have fixed in a couple of months…oh, wait, that wasn’t what you meant?

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    Malcolm Hall  over 12 years ago

    People should build their own roads. Not the government’s beeswax.

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    flibbertigibber  over 12 years ago

    Give me a break. If Ron Paul had been asked this question, he would have actually said either taxes, wars or debts. Ron Paul’s the only guy running that Obama should be worried about.

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    flibbertigibber  over 12 years ago

    and the real answer: “mass media spin doctors”.

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    Godfreydaniel  over 12 years ago

    This one was absolutely brilliant, the best example of the old saying that “brevity is the soul of wit” I’ve seen in any forum in quite awhile. To distill one viable candidate (Romney) and two crackpots down to their essence in one word each? Amazing!

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    Nemesys  over 12 years ago

    This is why nobody reads Doonesbury any more.

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    jerry100  over 12 years ago

    No, the correct answer is “Folks who just love to dwell on all the problems, instead of getting off their over-fat *sses and actually doing someting.”

    .. see the other comments :-)

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    garyhill  over 12 years ago

    We need better roads, I PAID MY GAS TAX for roads, not stinkin liberal politicians and bureaucrats.

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    plhooboy  over 12 years ago

    He must have left out Newt for a good reason. But his reply would have been ‘closed marriages’.

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    Dtroutma  over 12 years ago

    The singularity “problem” with all the current Republican candidates is that their parents didn’t effectively, before their conceptions, use condoms.

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    Only a sinner saved by grace  over 12 years ago

    I’m willing to bet I might qualify as your definition of a Christian taliban nut. What we have to many of in this country? Fools.

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    basshwy  over 12 years ago

    …Lobbyists. Private funding of political parties.

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    basshwy  over 12 years ago

    Still truncated.Dunno why, but I get the message…there’s lots of billionaires there not sharing the wealth. How much money do they really need? Must get boring making money after a while.

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    DylanThomas3.14159  over 12 years ago

    GOP insiders rise up to cut Gingrich down to size

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iSuYu9SybqnMPjyOmLq7X9_yiL8A?docId=39be07656ff0495190ffe3b51011a3df

    If you wanna use this link, you’re gonna have ta take out the returns at the end of each of the first two lines in order to cut ‘n’ past it in.

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    basshwy  over 12 years ago

    Eat more currants!

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    Doughfoot  over 12 years ago

    “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr. I have also heard it, “Man’s capacity for evil makes government necessary, man’s capacity for good makes government possible,” but I think on reflection that Niebuhr stated it best.

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    DylanThomas3.14159  over 12 years ago

    " … you will need off road vehicles." Yeah, but then you’ll have to pay the guy who owns the “off road” property. Remember, in the Libertarian world, the government (or “the people”) owns nothing. In the strictest Libertarian sense, you could even own WHITE slaves — all legal, of course, of course, because there are no laws. You would have to sleep with a Glock under your pillow.

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