PHOTOS: You are NOT ready to gaze upon Mitt's "Made In China" commemorative SLC Olympics pins.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

July 26, 2012 06:00 PM
Narcissism Much? See Mitt's Olympic Pins!

By Nicole Belle

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/narcissism-much-see-mitts-olympic-pin



I honestly don't know what to make of this. I'm pretty sure that this would give psychoanalysts reams of material. (h/t Aravosis)

As head of the Salt Lake Olympics Mitt Romney became the first Olympic executive to approve a series of commemorative pins in his likeness.

Now I know there's this whole pin trading culture. When I took my kids to Disneyland, we were inundated by it, and I understand it was a really big thing at the China Summer Olympics. But really, commissioning a series of pins of an executive? That's just...odd. A mascot? Sure. Maybe even the Queen for the London Olympics, I can see. But an executive? Why did anyone think there would be demand for that?



Doncha just love the manly jawline? The silky tresses? The sexy little cleft? Funny, I don't remember that on the original. Artistic license, I suppose. Wouldn't you know? The pin was manufactured in China. Oh! the irony!

[peacebird]

1. Romney had commemorative Salt Lake City Olympic pins made with HIS likeness on them?!?

Seriously?!

[NYC_SKP]

2. Maybe, one day, America will have the technology to make such beautiful items.

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And, too:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. We can only dream and have faith that day will come.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

3. *Closes eyes and whispers*

Must be The Onion.

Must be The Onion.

Must be The Onion.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Looks like a Ballchinian from Men In Black with a pair of balls on his chin

I knew Romney was an alien.

[smirkymonkey]

5. I actually thought this was a joke from the Onion when I first heard of it.

I just can't believe that he would do such a thing. Well, on second though I put nothing past him. W is becoming a fond memory by comparison.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Some supporting links from the OP which I didn't replicate:

This verifies it, from the book "The Real Mitt Romney"...

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZP3-rXn0H8sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+real+romney&source=bl&ots=Ns2lXka0vl&sig=-VudO7ZhRxY0y0dG-QhL2oZTktA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cl8RUOuGJKe96QHS3IGgCQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=pins&f=false

...and from Buzzfeed: Mitt Romney Issued Comically Bizarre Cartoon-Mitt-Romney Olympic Pins

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mitt-romney-issued-comically-bizarre-cartoon-mitt#HTWF2

...and one more, from AmericaBlog:

http://www.americablog.com/2012/07/abc-romney-commissioned-official.html

Not an "onion" in the bunch.

[RedStateLiberal]

7. "Hey Mitt, We Love You!"...

...say the children who made this pin.

[malaise]

9. That fugger is sick