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The Last Word: Week of July 15

Come up with your own caption …

 

Here are this week’s winners:

“Mitt told me to travel light on this campaign train. He said just bring two years worth of tax returns.”
– John Gianfermi, Santa Rosa

“Sorry, Mitt, my shoulder already hurts. I can’t handle your additional baggage.”
– Mark Bowman, Santa Rosa

“I can take a joke as well as anybody, but you’ve got to be kidding!”
– Mark Berube, Santa Rosa

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Every week, we’ll post a new cartoon on Watch Sonoma County and invite you to write the caption. Enter the contest by posting your caption below. Vote for your favorite by clicking “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” on each entry.

PD staff will select several winners and publish them every Friday on the Forum page in the Empire News section. Want a shot? Leave your real name and your email address for verification.

The cartoons are drawn by Gary Varvel, who has served as political cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star since 1994.

Click here to see last week’s winners.





52 Responses to “The Last Word: Week of July 15”

  1. Michael Sheehan says:

    Momma didn’t raise me dumb…I’m not going near that DC cesspool of waste and corruption.

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  2. Chuck G says:

    That’s ok Boreock and Shelly, we can still be friends when I move into the White House.

    How am I so sure of that, when people finally wake up and realize that nothing has changed, and only has become worse for our economy, and the US overall, they will wake up!

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  3. Jean Anderson says:

    Sorry, but after seeing the horrible economic and national security decisions made by Obama, I’m moving to a more stable country, like Greece or Egypt.

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  4. MOCKINGBIRD says:

    I’ve learned a lot from my last excursion with a Republican President. Once was quite enough, thank you. I want a life.

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  5. Dale Stout says:

    I’ve got Mittens in the bag…and it’s purrfect.

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  6. Mark Bowman says:

    Sorry, Mitt, my shoulder already hurts. I can’t handle your additional baggage.

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  7. Will Lee says:

    “Vice Rice sure does sound nice, but Mitt is just not the right fit!”

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  8. Hank Freitas says:

    ” I’ve got copies of mitt’s tax returns here in my bag. Wonder what the Obama-camp will pay for them?”

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  9. Tom says:

    Last time the press massacred a republican female. Let’s see if they can massacre a BLACK republican female

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  10. Eddie Loupy says:

    Imagine me, a President.

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  11. Chuck G says:

    Ok, I accept your offer Mitt. I can’t wait to redecorate the White House with winning colors.

    I will even help Boreock and Miss Shelly pack up!

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  12. Dale Stout says:

    Does Mitt think I’m Bush League?

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  13. Richard Smith says:

    Hillary , I hope when you leave office, you get something better than a overnight bag with your name on it!

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  14. John Gianfermi says:

    “Mitt told me to travel light on his campaign train. He said just bring 2 years worth of tax returns.”

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  15. Dan J Drummond says:

    Sing along. Rice-A-Romney the Re-pub-li-can treat!

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  16. Dan J Drummond says:

    Sorry Mitt, I’m mildly pro-choice.

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  17. Dan J Drummond says:

    I’ll be your running mate, if it helps me to get my real dream job – NFL commissioner.

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  18. Dan J Drummond says:

    Don’t call me a Mama Grizzly! I never married and have no kids!

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  19. Dan J Drummond says:

    Booooooooo!

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  20. Dan J Drummond says:

    Bain there, done that!

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  21. Will Lee says:

    “Weapons of mass destruction? Yeah, I’m one-but I’m super busy right now!”

    Thumb up 5 Thumb down 13

  22. Jean Anderson says:

    No thanks…I’m too educated, pro-American, and business savvy to lower my standards to the level of Barack “Blame-Bush” Obama and Joe “Gaffe-machine” Biden.

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  23. Chuck G says:

    I may look dumb, but I’m not stupid! I will pass on any offers to be the Vice President!

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  24. Eric Edenfield says:

    Dibs on the Lincoln Bedroom!

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  25. Eric Edenfield says:

    Ok, I’ll do it, as long as Ann Romney doesn’t call me “Sister-Vice”

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  26. Mark Bowman says:

    Yo, yo, yo! My name is Condi Rice!
    I’m sharp as a tack and I look real nice.
    He’s running for Prez and he needs a VP,
    Well, sorry to say, Mitt, it can’t be me!
    Roe v. Wade he wants to overturn,
    But I can’t go there, my sisters I won’t spurn.

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  27. Western Cluebird says:

    Better a Condi than a commie.

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  28. Julie Ambrose says:

    Do you really think I look like Whoopi Goldberg?

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  29. Mark Bowman says:

    Some said I was the right person to run with Mitt, but I don’t think I’m right enough.

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  30. Bob Charbonnier says:

    I’ll give it to her. She got more miles on her with the
    State Department.

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  31. Bob Charbonnier says:

    The only Mitt’s I’m interested in are the one’s worn in

    baseball.

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  32. AL COHEN says:

    Mitt considered me for Vice President after he found out he could not outsource that job.

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  33. AL COHEN says:

    I’m somewhat steamed, and a little fried at this cartoon picture of me.

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  34. Julie Ambrose says:

    I should have run, I could have beat Romney with Sarah Palin as a running mate!

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  35. Jean Anderson says:

    We elected a Con in 2008, so why not a Condi in 2012?

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  36. Michael Sheehan says:

    I believe our country is finally ready for an intelligent, honest, accomplished black person in the White House…too bad about we’ve got now.

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  37. Janice says:

    No way would I want to be V.P. it’s President or nothing!

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  38. Mark Berube says:

    I can take a joke as well as anybody, but you’ve GOT to be kidding!

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  39. Richard Smith says:

    Romney’s V.P.? Me? Really? My name is Rice, not LOSER!

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  40. steve humphrey says:

    Who wouldn’t like a little “R” and “R” !

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  41. I don’t have a car elevator in my garage or multiple vacation homes or a bunch of tax free accounts hidden over seas……but I do have a designer purse line that might qualify me for the ticket!

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  42. Julius Orth says:

    The White, Male, Straight Republican Party…..They like me!!…they really really like me?

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  43. Western Cluebird says:

    Even charicatured as buck toothed and cross eyed,I still outclass Dumbo and double-wide by a mile.
    Let’s compare college transcripts for starters.

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  44. Christian says:

    If you had depicted Obama in such a ridiculous fashion all of the Left Wing Progressives would be up in arms. That picture is both racist and sexist.

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  45. Jim Bennett says:

    If Michele wasn’t jealous, I’d still have my old job.

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  46. AL COHEN says:

    When Romney was asked would he be interested in Condo? He said only if it’s in foreclosure.

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  47. Jim Bennett says:

    I’ve done everything I was told…
    they still won’t let me in the Grove.

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  48. Richard Smith says:

    “Fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice? Not a chance!”

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  49. Richard Smith says:

    V.P.? Me? After all I had to put up with under Bush? Ha!

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  50. Bush I, Bush II, Stanford University, Standard Oil, I will travel to where ever the money is.

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  51. Kellie Ambrose says:

    Hey Mitt, I’m available.

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  52. John violin says:

    Make Up… tons of Make Up…Don’t leave home with out it.

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