Flash: MittBot2008 Deactivated

Mitt Romney is dropping out of the GOP primaries.

At first glance, this appears to make McCain the de facto nominee, and I think that’s how it’ll play out. That said, Huckabee may galvanize the anti-McCain vote now. If religious fundamentalists rally to him, he might still end up as the nominee. Might. Probably won’t.

This does slightly screw up my cartoon for Monday. Damn you, MittBot!

Cartoon for February 7

Barack Obama says he wouldn’t have voted for the Iraq War. Yet he voted, over and over and over, to waste billions of dollars to prolong the very same war. Now he’s running on his theoretical voting record.

Cartoon for February 4

The 2008 presidential primary season began promisingly. But it now seems clear that big political changes–much needed after eight years of do-nothing Clinton and do-too-much Bush–are not in the cards.

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Cartoon for February 2

The rise of the cute-ocracy continues!

Cartoon for January 31

Watching Bush’s last State of the Union Address (OK, his last scheduled State of the Union Address) made me a tad wistful for the arrogant coup leader who threatened a military coup in 2000, suspended habeas corpus, legalized torture and signed himself the right to declare you an enemy combatant and have you murdered by government agents. Such small-bore initiatives! Such a sad spectacle!

If Bush leaves the public arena as scheduled in January 2009, it is safe to say that political cartoonists shan’t see his kind again in our lifetimes. He is what Nixon was to an earlier generation of political satirists: pure gold. Go not gently into that good political night, not-so-gentle fiend!