Musing on Amusing Images for the 2012 Presidential 'game'

When Mitt Romney was compared to an etch-a-sketch, it seemed to me that the Nut Gingrich was like a smooth round white yo yo.
Sure enough, I cam across just such an image.  I had imagined a red outline on a white yo yo, but a white outline on a blue yo yo is almost as good:

In that same line of musings, Michele Bachmann is just like the old Chatty Cathy dolls; they are of the same approximate vintage, and neither has left the 1950's.  Both have the same plastic hair, fixed plastic smile, unexpressive face, the same oddly staring eyes, the same fashion sense.  Apparently Marcus Bachmann dresses her just like a doll too, picking out her little outfits.   Every time someone give Bachmann money and a microphone, they get to pull the string and the same old same old pre-recorded factually inaccurate sentences come out.

Whereas I think Rick Santorum would have made either a great Mister Potato Head, or possibly a political version of the game twister.  Or maybe the GOP is saving that for selecting the Vice Presidential candidate?

Apparently I was not the only one to think so about the Potato Head toy:

Aide: Santorum Will Turn into Mr. Potato Head after Convention

Posted on March 24, 2012by Your Intrepid Blogger

NEW ORLEANS – When asked today if presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s fierce right-wing rhetoric will hurt him among independent voters in the general election in November, one of the candidate’s campaign advisers responded, “No, Mr. Santorum can just turn into Mr. Potato Head,” referring to the popular children’s toy which features stylized body parts inserted at random into various orifices in a plastic potato.

In the course of coming across the Nut Gingrich yo yo, I came across a few other lighthearted takes on the political right in 2012.



I find the intensity of the last image at least slightly less creepy and a whole lot more justified than the odd and surreal and just plaing weird ads being run by Herman Cain for no apparent purpose other than to torture goldfish and simulate cruelty to rabbits.

As uncomfortable as Nut might be with the humor at his expense, it must ... pardon the pun, PALE... compared to having bounced a check for $500 to file for the Utah primary. Or to file bankruptcy, stiffing all those creditors. In that context it was not so long ago that Nut and Calista abandoned their staff and the campaign to take a luxury cruise to the Greek Islands, on top of their expensive visit to Tiffany's for all that expensive jewelry - an estimated half a million $, far more than the $500 for the primary, and well over the amount owed to an assortment, if not all, of the campaign creditors. One has to wonder if pale and chubby faced Nut will have the yo yos to still claim he is a fiscal conservative as he soldiers delusionally forward in the race, as a running joke more than as a running candidate. I couldn't get past all of the statements Nut made about people not liking Mitt Romney, when they clearly liked him far far less than Mitt, and not as much as Saint-orum either.