{"id":1825,"date":"2014-01-28T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2014-01-28T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T13:00:04","slug":"welcome-to-the-republican-party-please-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Republican Party. Please Go Away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MLMG104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1826\" alt=\"Welcome to the Republican Party. Please Go away.\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MLMG104.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MLMG104.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MLMG104-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2014\/01\/MLMG104.jpg&amp;name=Welcome to the Republican Party. Please Go away....\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>January 26, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema went off again. This time opining about Muslim people by asking this question: &#8220;Have you ever seen a Muslim do anything that contributes positively to the American way of life?&#8221; Not the first time Agema has gone done that road. <a title=\"Marxist Mexican Muslims Are Touching My Blueberries!\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=670\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s I cartoon<\/a> I did a few years ago. (It&#8217;s one of my favorites.) And <a title=\"Apologetic Dave Agema won't step down, says he's drawn voters to GOP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/01\/apologetic_dave_agema_wont_ste.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the backstory<\/a> on this latest embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The point is, the GOP (at least ostensively) is trying to attract new voters by portraying itself as more inclusive. Agema keeps working hard in the exact opposite direction.\u00a0Fun fact: I originally conceived this comic with Agema in the window looking like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MLMG104-bird-option.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1827\" alt=\"MLMG104-bird-option\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MLMG104-bird-option.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For a variety of reasons, my editors and I decided to go with the petulant little kid approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News January 26, 2014 Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema went off again. 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