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April 18, 2007
Eat My Shorts, Dude
This has to be the lamest use of an outdated catchphrase in a comic strip since Funky Winkerbean's 1986 foray into homosexuality ending with him repeatedly shouting, "Where's the beef?"
But people don't read 'Prickly City' for hip cultural references. They read it for its politics. And what has Stantis been ranting about the last two days? Presidential Campaign Fundraising. Who can blame him? Candidates are raising an obscene amount of dough.
But Stantis should be mindful of history here. George W. Bush -- a man Stantis blindly and arrogantly supported in Prickly City's infancy in 2004 -- wrote the modern-day playbook on campaign finance. Bush was the first major presidential candidate to reject federal matching funds -- which he did in the 2000 primary -- which meant he did not have to adhere to state spending limits. And, thus, could spend as much money as it took in South Carolina to inform voters of John McCain's black baby. And it's been a great seven years and counting since, eh, Scott?
Comments
Did you ever think you'd see the day when Republicans were whining about the Democrats raising so much money? That was the one thing Republicans used to be good at.
Posted by: The Furnace at April 18, 2007 09:47 AM
