1. This was drawn by Tim Eagan.
2. The key objects in the cartoon are the giant robot head that is supposed to represent Mitt Romney, the running elephant, who's supposed to represent the Republican party, and the giant man, who's supposed to be Newt Gingrich.
3. The cartoon uses ridicule and caricature to portray its meaning. The Republican nomination candidates look like ominously large imposing people who seem to be the object of the 'elephant's' nightmares. It mocks the Republican party for choosing nominees who are literally the party's worst nightmare, by literally making the nominees the object of the party's nightmares. The caricature of the elephant is also mocking because it's scared and doesn't really know what to do or how to escape the nightmare.
4. The cartoon deals with the race for the Republican nomination for presidential candidacy, and the terrible nominees that are running for the role and the terrible position that the Republican party is in because of all this.
5. The cartoon is trying to say that no matter where the Republicans turn, they aren't finding a solution. Their main two nominees are terrible, and they have nowhere else to turn. At the end of the cartoon, the elephant looks rather dejected and annoyed, which I'm sure is how the Republican party is feeling right now.
6. The cartoonist's point of view is hard to determine. The cartoonist appears to almost feel sorry for the Republican party because literally no matter where they turn a nightmare is staring them in the face. The cartoonist appears to think that Gingrich and Romney are unsuitable candidates and that they're imposing and persistant and won't give in.
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