Funny (yes, funny) RW joke from an article in the New Yorker this week:

[Richardo]

"A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says "Hello, Mitt."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. A good one!

Thank you for finding it, my dear Richardo!

[tridim]

2. Some generic RW asswipe used that joke at CPAC.

[Richardo]

11. I think that's the context they recounted the joke from...

...the article's about the chaos of the GOP nominating process and how the usual party-elder failsafes no longer work. Excellent piece.

[KT2000]

3. the cover is good too! n/t

[hfojvt]

4. I think that was pretty funny

but as I thought about it, it seemed to me that I would consider that a positive trait. In the joke, it is being used as an attack, because some people want a PURE conservative, just like some other people want PURE liberals. But to me, it is a good thing to be open-minded and eclectic, and also to be able to change your mind. (As in, maybe he was a conservative, but was persuaded to move to the left, or maybe he was a liberal and persuaded to move to the right. Not that I would necessarily like the last move, but it is sorta nice if somebody is open to persuasion rather than standing there like "my mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts or reason."

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Sorry to be a party pooper, but they're forgetting Mormons don't drink... ;)

Funny joke, though...

[saras]

6. Another interpretation...

A conservative, a moderate and a liberal walk into a bar.

The conservative pulls a steel shaft out of his eye socket and falls over, dead.
The moderate encounters a large number of attorneys, and gets bored.
The liberal orders a Scotch on the rocks.

[Odin2005]

7. LOL, it took me a while to get it!

My Aspie-ness made it hard to get different meanings of the word "bar" in that context!

[2ndAmForComputers]

8. I actually think that joke is bipartisan.

It's not like we haven't noticed Mitt's wherever-the-wind-blow-ness ourselves, now, is it?

[RiffRandell]

9. I miss that magazine.

I used to have a subscription, and loved it. I keep saying I need to start getting it again (I loved the articles and got several good book recommendations from it) but still haven't gotten around to ordering again. I always used to cut out the funny cartoons and stick them on my fridge. Thanks for the reminder!

[HopeHoops]

10. Oh my. That just so sums it up.

[Jim Lane]

12. Somebody on DU posted the follow-up joke.

It was along these lines: Romney's company takes over the bar in a leveraged buyout, lays off the bartender, has the bar file for bankruptcy, and walks away with a profit.

Sorry, I can't remember whom to credit.