Well folks, no sense fighting for the President any longer...

[brooklynite]

Mitt Romney Cockroach Beats Barack Obama Bug In Presidential Cockroach Derby

Mitt Romney could be crawling to a White House victory if the efforts of a namesake cockroach are any indication.

Every four years, the New Jersey Pest Management Association holds a "presidential cockroach derby" that picks two Madagascar hissing cockroaches to stand in for the Republican and Democratic nominees and races them on a three-foot-long track.

This year marked the 16th Running of the Roaches and pitted a Romney roach against a Barack Obama bug, each with a tiny caricature of the nominees taped to their backs.

Leonard Douglen, association executive director of the NJPMA, admits the race is a publicity stunt for the organization, but still thinks the roach race can be a good indicator of who will win the real campaign come November.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, good grief.

Sorry, but this is bullshit.

[demgrrrll]

2. Really.

[freefallinrefugee]

3. isn't that animal cruelty somehow?

[davidpdx]

8. Yes, call PETA

*squish* whoops too late

[RedStateLiberal]

4. It's not over until an octopus calls it.

[limpyhobbler]

5. Funny, weird, gross.

[Island Blue]

6. Was Romney's cockroach strapped

to the top of a car at the time?

[GallopingGhost]

7. between

the OP and this comment, I cannot stop laughing.

oh, calamity...I'm going back to bed.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. LMAO

[GallopingGhost]

10. Romney and Ryan bug me.

[GallopingGhost]

11. They are really *running* a *scurry-lous* campaign.

[csziggy]

12. But when the lights came on Rmoney's roach ran under the cupboard!