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LongTomH

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2. I love it!

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:08 PM

Oct 2012

During the Bush years, Ms. Rowling was becoming very subtly political. The fascism of the Ministry of Magic was reminiscent of what we were seeing from the Bush administration.

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Mitt Romney IS Dolores Umbridge! [View all] backscatter712 Oct 2012 OP

Its quite amazing Romeny is like Unbridge. MassedPole Oct 2012 #1

I love it! LongTomH Oct 2012 #2

Order of the Phoenix strongly reminded me of a genre from my childhood Hekate Oct 2012 #6

Think Florida's Rick Scott will throw his hat in the ring for 2016? backscatter712 Oct 2012 #3

Brilliant! as the Hogwarts kids would say Hekate Oct 2012 #4

Paul Ryan makes a great Draco Malfoy! n/t backscatter712 Oct 2012 #5

Mitt = Draco. To the manner born, Myrina Oct 2012 #16

THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT! I was trying to find the words for glinda Oct 2012 #7

The facial expressions are identical! I'll never look at Romney again without seeing Umbridge! n/t backscatter712 Oct 2012 #15

Also Rove is this guy... glinda Oct 2012 #18

Good evening, fraulein! backscatter712 Oct 2012 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author backscatter712 Oct 2012 #20

I must not tell lies... demwing Oct 2012 #8

+1 glinda Oct 2012 #11

Megyn Kelly is Rita Skeeter! n/t backscatter712 Oct 2012 #9

mitt certainly has the look of Umbrage! Cha Oct 2012 #10

Excellent reads. glinda Oct 2012 #12

Boehner and McConnell are Crabbe and Goyle! n/t backscatter712 Oct 2012 #13

Karl Rove is Peter Pettigrew/Wormtail! backscatter712 Oct 2012 #14

Oh, that is so dead-on. hifiguy Oct 2012 #17