Opinion of this Political Cartoon

[Potatoe]

Stupid as hell, I mean, the reason that the Republicans didn't win the Senate in 2010 was because of Nutjobs like Angle, Buck, and O'Donnell. Also, John McCain is now a Liberal Republican (News to me). (Also that artwork is atrocious.

[SWE]

Is the cartoonist suggesting that Republicans need to support amnesty, abortion, gun control, tax increases, and compromise with Democrats to win elections?

[Maxwell]

Ideology matters less than people give it credit for. The fact is, Liberal Republicans can blow it just as hard as Republicans on outer ideological reaches.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Ronald Reagan was a Tea Partier?

[Maxwell]

Ronald Reagan was a Tea Partier?

His presidency doesn't show it, but based on his rhetoric, he was clearly the original tea partier.

[Deus Naturae]

Is the cartoonist suggesting that Republicans need to support amnesty, abortion, gun control, tax increases, and compromise with Democrats to win elections?

The cartoon references the 1980 election. By that time, Reagan was pro-life and tax cuts were the central issue of his campaign. Immigration was a non-issue, and Reagan was the most pro-gun candidate in the election.

[AggregateDemand]

Nixon also won a landslide so................

[IceSpear]

There's no HC (D) option.

Stupid. But it sounds like the mirror image of people who insist that nominating Dennis Kucinich or Bernie Sanders is the path to victory.

[Indy Texas]

Is the cartoonist suggesting that Republicans need to support amnesty, abortion, gun control, tax increases, and compromise with Democrats to win elections?

The cartoon references the 1980 election. By that time, Reagan was pro-life and tax cuts were the central issue of his campaign. Immigration was a non-issue, and Reagan was the most pro-gun candidate in the election.

And yet he signed tax increases into law and gave amnesty to illegal immigrants.

That suggests that Tea Party ideas and rhetoric might win elections but are wholly useless and unworkable once you're sworn in and have to actually, you know, govern.

[SPC]

Is the cartoonist suggesting that Republicans need to support amnesty, abortion, gun control, tax increases, and compromise with Democrats to win elections?

The cartoon references the 1980 election. By that time, Reagan was pro-life and tax cuts were the central issue of his campaign. Immigration was a non-issue, and Reagan was the most pro-gun candidate in the election.

And yet he signed tax increases into law and gave amnesty to illegal immigrants.

So policies Reagan implemented in 1986 are responsible for his election victories in 1980 and 1984?

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And that's why the budget deficit and illegal immigration have ceased to be problems since Reagan became "serious" and betrayed his campaign promises.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Reagan won not so much because of his ideology but because voters generally thought his opponents either had no solutions or stupid solutions.  In 2008 and 2012, the Republicans were the party without solutions that the voters believed in and it showed in the results.  The Democratic failure in 2004 was in part due to the Democrats picking a candidate whose major issues were not seen as problems by many voters by the time November rolled around.  Incidentally, that's why it's too early to say either party will be favored in 2016.  We don't even know yet what problems the voters will be looking for solutions to, let alone who they will be picking from to provide them.

[bedstuy]

FC. 

I want Republicans to delude themselves into nominating Ted Cruz.

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

FC. 

I want Republicans to delude themselves into nominating Ted Cruz.

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Ignoring the politics (which are moronic), it's an extremely piss-poor comic.

It is essentially a guy spouting his own opinion through his character. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but the artwork is unnecessary and the "punchline" is ... laboured. It's like an illustrated youtube comment.

Also he is accidentally dissing the Tea Party in the last panel. I'll admit that's quite funny.