{"id":2399,"date":"2016-03-10T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:44:37","slug":"not-you-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"Not You, Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?attachment_id=2400\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2400 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA025.jpg\" alt=\"Not You, Mitt.\" width=\"560\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA025.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JPA025-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2016\/03\/JPA025.jpg&amp;name=Not You, Mitt....\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I was watching <em>Animal House<\/em> a few days ago, a movie near and dear to my heart. (My wife and I had our first date at a toga party. For you Flint Powers grads, yes, the infamous Mike Kushuba toga party.) It occurred to me that there was a metaphor there for the current presidential race, specifically the Republican flavor.<\/p>\n<p>Consider Dean Wormer and the Omegas to be the Republican establishment. Consider the Deltas to be Trump supporters. Now I know what you\u2019re thinking, \u201cI like the Deltas! I don\u2019t want them to be the Trump supporters.\u201d Hang with me. I would submit that the Deltas by themselves are fairly loathsome: self-indulgent, somewhat racist, certainly misogynistic, willfully stupid, but they do speak their mind. (Does this sound familiar?) The only reasons we like these guys is (1) they are entertaining and (2) Dean Wormer, and the Omegas are even more loathsome. It\u2019s fun to see somebody (anybody) stick it to the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it\u2019s not a perfect metaphor. I would cast Karl Rove as Dean Wormer, Mitt Romney as\u00a0Greg Marmalard (the Omega leader), and Ted Cruz as Neidermeyer (because nobody on the Omega side could stand Neidermeyer either). Beyond that, it kinda breaks down. Although I can imagine this scene:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump: [after the Republican establishment has conspired to take the nomination away from him] \u201cWhat? Over? Did you say &#8220;over&#8221;? Nothing is over until I\u00a0decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporter 1: \u201cGermans?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporter 2: \u201cForget it, he&#8217;s rolling.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was watching Animal House a few days ago, a movie near and dear to my heart. (My wife and I had our first date at a toga party. For you Flint Powers grads, yes, the infamous Mike Kushuba toga party.) It occurred to me that there was a metaphor there for the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}