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August 12, 2007
At Least I Know What Peggy Hill Looks Like
Seriously, Peggy Noonan? Stantis had a week to come up with something embarrassing and something conservative that Winston/Winslow had tattooed on his butt and the best he could do is Peggy "Read my lips - no new taxes" Noonan? Sure she writes for the Wall Street Journal and used to write for Ronnie, but aren't there about a hundred other things that would have been a little more, oh, I dunno, current that Stantis could have used? When was the last time anybody actually paid attention to Peggy Noonan? Yeesh.
Knowing Stantis, the other options were Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan. If you're going to go old school on us, could you at least have picked someone people don't have to look up on wikipedia if they're not into politics? Phyllis Schlafly is funny to say and Fawn Hall is hot. What, Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter were too predictable? At least people under 50 know who they are.
I mean the idea behind today's strip is fine. Carmen (and a group of supporters that must be volunteers since Winslow can't pay them - even though Winslow is so stupid he thinks he's in Iowa - sorry, I won't go there this morning) grills Winslow, spotlight and all, trying to get him to admit his dirty little secrets before the press find out. Gee, she's a great campaign manager, ain't she? Might have been nice if she had done that BEFORE the Prickly City primary. Winslow spills on the hysterical Peggy Noonan tattoo (it even says "forever" underneath it! That's funny, right? Right?). However Carmen was looking for an even more devastating revelation: something about a "fuzzy and disorderly" in Cleveland.
You know, in any other strip that might be somewhat humorous. Granted it's usually Republicans that are getting busted for something illegal lately (usually involving gay sex - hear the one about the young Republican who not once but twice is accused of trying to give men oral sex - while the guys are asleep? Gotta love those family values conservatives), but I can go along with a character having something silly like that on his record. But didn't Stantis just spend an entire week establishing that Winslow doesn't know where Iowa is, much less Cleveland? I know Cleveland is the go-to location for punchlines, right up there with New Jersey, but how is that at all in keeping with the character? No reason for it to be in there, but Stantis is so used to ripping off other funnier writers that he slapped it in there thinking it would be a bonus laugh.
I dunno, I guess it would help if Stantis could figure out what kind of comic strip he's writing. That's probably too much to ask from a strip that's been running for over two years now.
