TOM TOMORROW: The Forever Campaign

[Hissyspit]

DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/05/02/1521554/-Cartoon-The-forever-campaign

[homegirl]

1. Brilliant

spot on, as the Brits say.

[Martin Eden]

2. It can get very tiresome, even for the politically engaged

Makes me wonder if the intent is to make voters tune out and disengage.

[gordianot]

3. Done, I intend to enjoy visiting my brilliant 2 year old Grand Daughter.

My cats are at the back door wanting to be fed. I am also working on my atal atal inventory for my next craft fair.

Time to disengage.

[robbob]

7. I think the intent...

...is to pump as much money through the electioneering machine as possible. Money flows from corporate coffers into super PACS and then right back into corporate media outlets. Such an obvious money trail yet none can see it...

[Martin Eden]

11. You may have a point there

The longer it goes on, the more money pours into it, the more influence that money has. Viewed as the normal process, this legalized bribery is hidden in plain sight.

With a much shorter and more sane process, huge piles of cash would be more noticeable.

[FairWinds]

4. Not only is the coverage interminable, . .

it's also pathetic in its fixation on the "horse race" aspect
of the Forever Campaign, and its studious avoidance of
substantive issues and down ticket races.

I do believe it is deliberate - an effort to demobilize the
American people by disgusting them with the political
process.

And, oh yes, it is also no accident that Ms. Clinton received at
least ten times the media coverage as Bernie.

[saidsimplesimon]

5. Loved this one, thanks Hissyspit

I came, I saw, and --uh--I forget the third one.

President Obama, during the Correspondent's Dinner, gave an amazing comedy/satire performance. Larry Wilmore commented that the President should get out of his lane.

[longship]

6. Meanwhile, here on DU, the 2016 election began in 2012.

No wonder that we are fractured here. What the UK and Canada do in weeks, we do in so fucking many years. Of course, the only folks who gain by that are those who promote and profit by the horse race. But even a horse race lasts only a couple of minutes.

It is sad! And DU has become very sad because it has bought into the idiotic perpetual campaign narrative.

You fools!

[rpannier]

16. The 2016 campaign began in the media before 2012

I am deciding whether I am going to run in 2028 so I can get a jump start
I've probably already fallen too far behind to be viable in 2020 or 2024

[Gothmog]

8. Great cartoon

[Deadshot]

9. I'm pretty much burned-out from this election cycle.

And we don't vote for another 6 months!

[afertal]

10. Clever, BUT....

...we cannot afford to grow weary of the battle and become complacent!

[Cassiopeia]

14. That's why we have the candidates we have.

If they can't kill enthusiasm through length of contest they will do so with the players.

[suffragette]

12. Oh, Canada! And they got Justin Trudeau at campaign's end!

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Two year long campaigns are ridiculous

We need six months, with the primaries happening at the same time. The fact that early primaries influence the later primaries is ridiculous.

[reflection]

15. I wonder if he meant

To give that guy in the last panel a tinge of Cruz in his face.