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January 30, 2007

Oh Dear God Now There Are Two Of Them???

TODAY'S STRIP

Today marks the beginning of the soon-to-be-legendary "Carmen of Two Minds" storyline that CJo hinted at last week.

It seems as though Carmen has been exposed to a synthetic kryptonite that has split her very person into two beings, one most likely "good" and the other "evil," and she'll have to fight herself in a junkyard to determine which will win out. Oops, I'm sorry, that's the plot of Superman III.

Ahem.

Instead Stantis is setting up that after the November elections most Republicans are torn about what they really stand for nowadays. Let's leave out that Stantis flip flopped on issues long before November 7th for the sake of this strip making any sense at all - the idea of four Carmens with battling agendas will drive us insane.

So which way will Carmen lean? We're already seeing her take the Rush Limbaugh stance: I didn't really like these Republican candidates but I voted for them anyway, and now that they're losers I can finally admit that I was just carrying the water for them all year long. But it's really tearing me up inside that I can't decide which way I SHOULD have gone before the elections.

I wonder if Stantis will finally admit that Bush and Co. are dragging the Republican party to the extreme right while ignoring the basic principles of the Republican party. It's only interesting because Stantis has been in lock step with Bush all the way, so will he say that Bush is too far right even for him? Or that moderate Republicans aren't truly Republicans anymore?

What I think bothers guys like Stantis is that they're being left behind (so to speak). They don't realize that the Democratic party, which is the big tent party, is more than happy to greet moderate conservatives and take them in. Over the past decade the Democrats are the ones who want a smaller government (no more comfy positions for cronies and Rove lackies), want to stop all of this wasteful government spending (last check on the cost of the war in Iraq: $1 trillion), and want people to have the right to choose what they do with their lives instead of having the government tell them what to do (let's face it: gay marriage is a Religious Right issue - true conservatives wouldn't want the government telling them who they can and can't marry since that's an issue of privacy).

I think Carmen is of two minds because her Republican party is suffering a breakdown. Moderate Republicans want to go back to spending less and less government. Radical Religious Right Republicans - like Stantis - want the Bible and George W. Bush to show us the way. And Stantis is stunned that his half of the Republican party got their asses kicked in the November elections.

What will become of our little flip flopper Carmen? Will Stantis have her become even more of a Radical Rightie? Or will she move closer to the center like Senator Chuck Hagel? Carmen will eventually have to do what other Republicans are doing - say that anyone who disagrees with their President is a traitor and wants the terrorists to win. Will little Carmen be able to live with herself once she admits that she questions the almighty power of Dear Leader?

Of course she will. In the end she'll discover that she's not really of two minds. It was an evil Democratic clone that Winslow built, or it's Winslow dressed up as Carmen, trying to get into her head and fill it with all of these eeeevil Democratic beliefs. Like that we're all created equal and the government doesn't have the right to spy on us and deny us habeas corpus and torture people.

Then next week Carmen and Stantis will go right back to flip flopping on the issues depending on which way the political winds are blowing in Prickly City.

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Posted by: The Furnace at January 30, 2007 10:27 AM

Posted by: Sacki at January 30, 2007 03:35 PM

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