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March 04, 2008
Is Admiral Stockdale Still Alive?
Even though he declared a few weeks back that he was running as an independent candidate for president, Winslow is back to pondering whether or not he should run as an independent. Yeah, Stantis sucks.
What makes it even worse is the reason why Winslow is supposedly going to stay in the race: to act as a spoiler. Who exactly would the liberal Democrat Winslow be hurting? I doubt he's going to draw a lot of votes from St. John McCain. So Winslow, a guy who's gotten all of two votes (one his own), is going to play spoiler - and ruin it for the Democrats? Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense.
At least it means Stantis going back to what I thought he'd talk about when Winslow first declared his independent bid, and that's who his running mate will be. Will Stantis make it someone we already know or - gasp - create a new character? I'd say that there's no point in making somebody up since that person couldn't help his campaign, but we're talking about Prickly City here where logic doesn't apply.
So who will it be? Does Winslow beg Conde Rice in hopes that all that time on the campaign trail will lead to some nookie? Maybe he'll court Ross Perot since he was the last actual spoiler - and there are plenty of jokes from the 90s Stantis can rehash for that. This will probably mean some more fat jokes at Bill Richardson's expense, and maybe a few "John Edwards is a fag" references since Stantis is about as funny as Ann Coulter.
The really depressing part? I don't think anybody cares at this point. This might have been a decent storyline if Stantis had pursued it when he originally mentioned Winslow running as an independent- back on February 10th. But he was too busy obsessing over Bill Clinton's penis to give it much thought. With everybody else wondering what's going to happen in the big primaries today in Texas and Ohio I doubt there's much interest in Winslow following up on something he first mentioned almost a month ago yet hasn't talked about it since then. Unless this is going to lead to a few days of Ralph Nader bashing, it's pretty much a waste of time.
So it's perfect for Prickly City.
Comments
I thought today's strip was a rerun. This is the same joke as when Winslow originally decided to run as an independent.
Setup: Winslow examines the status of his failed candidacy. Carmen looks at a blank sheet of paper and informs Winslow of his poor showing in the primaries/polls. She can see that the only sensible thing is to drop out of the race.
Joke: It almost looks like Winslow agrees, then HA! HA! - he somehow thinks he should continue running as an independent and choose a running mate.
PS - Did anyone notice that Stantis seems to think that "Independent" and "3rd Party" are the same thing?
Posted by: John at March 4, 2008 01:56 PM
It seemed like Nader-bashing to me too. Stantis attacked Nader more overtly in an editorial cartoon back on February 26:
http://blog.al.com/stantis/2008/02/nader_locust.html
I am also puzzled as to who Winslow's running mate might be. It's hard to tell when the cast of characters consists of one Republican, one Democrat, and no supporting cast.
"Did anyone notice that Stantis seems to think that 'Independent' and '3rd Party' are the same thing?"
You bet I noticed. Personally I think he means "independent" at this point because "third party" would imply that he actually had a platform, and moreover that he actually had a party backing him (i.e. Radical Meadow Party of "Bloom County"). Of course, Stantis can barely manage to convey what he means half the time, so why would be able to express the difference between third parties' and independent candidates in the strip?
http://tumbleweedtown.blogspot.com/2008/03/time-to-pick-running-mate.html
Posted by: Chris at March 4, 2008 03:48 PM
By the way, what was wrong with Shrubville around 10/9c this morning? I kept getting notices that this website didn't exist or was not available, and that it could not be displayed. Technical glitch on my end or yours?
Posted by: Chris at March 4, 2008 03:50 PM
