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grantcart

(53,061 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 11:55 PM Mar 2012

From the Romney "people", "Toons for Romney" = idiocy you have to see to believe. [View all]

From the "How Stupid Do These People Think We Are?" Department;

The Romney campaign is getting roasted in editorial cartoons almost since its inception so out pops MittFitts.com: "Toons for Romney – is a grassroots effort to support the candidacy of Governor Mitt Romney for President in 2012."

First some examples from people who are working to get Romney elected:









Here is the entire gallery: http://mittfitts.com/mittfitts-cartoon-gallery/

Now the site's owners state that they are an entirely 'grassroots' campaign with 'no' affiliation to the Romney campaign. The site has high expensive production value, sophisticated lay out and archeticture, elaborate RSS feeds, elaborate guest tracking, sophisticated legal advise, professional comic book artists formerly working for DC Comics and now illustrating for the LDS Church.

They purport to be 'grassroots' with no connection to the Romney campaign. All net proceeds from the site go to "are donated to the Romney for President campaign or affiliated Political Action Committees."

Right. No affilitation with the campaign.

In any case two mind numbing alternatives.

The first is that this is (98% probability) the off shoot of one of their PACs brainstorming sessions with their PR/Advertising people and they think that this kind of crappola is the kind of stuff that is going to get any traction with the American public at all.

The other is that this is (2% probability) the result of a bunch of guys from Romney's actual 'grass roots' campaign getting together.

Either possibility and the actual exeuction of the site is nauseating in either interpretation, ridiculous in their conception, profoundly idiotic in their substance, devoid of any humor at any point and if widely distributed absolutely counter productive to getting normal Americans to support their candidate.

Just how stupid do they think the American Public is?

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OMG. denem Mar 2012 #1
Try on-demand astro-turf and I think you'd be closer to the truth. ~nt 99th_Monkey Mar 2012 #13
It's not a dichotomy jberryhill Mar 2012 #2
Romney grassroots :- denem Mar 2012 #3
LOL! Skittles Mar 2012 #41
One word: ProSense Mar 2012 #4
Very nice. I'm officially stealing this, right now. ~nt 99th_Monkey Mar 2012 #14
In the Bubble! Icicle Mar 2012 #5
These suck. They just HAVE to be parody. Bucky Mar 2012 #6
Not parody, the artist works for the LDS Church. grantcart Mar 2012 #7
the artist works for the LDS Church. AlbertCat Mar 2012 #28
google "MittsFitts" you will see all of the Romney groups patting themselves on the back grantcart Mar 2012 #30
I don't think you've ever seen comics by religious prosletyzers... JHB Mar 2012 #17
they usually so ham-handed that they are parody to any non-beleiver. AlbertCat Mar 2012 #29
Romeny in a codpiece krispos42 Mar 2012 #8
lol grantcart Mar 2012 #23
Consentrate on the cape! AlbertCat Mar 2012 #31
Wow, that's pretty WTF AtheistCrusader Mar 2012 #9
Gawd, what lame astroturf toons :-/ trusty elf Mar 2012 #10
LOL +100 nt 99th_Monkey Mar 2012 #15
OMG, this photoshop is TEH AWESSOAM! BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #43
Hey Blanche! Yeah, it's one of mine. trusty elf Mar 2012 #45
Wow! you got some madskillz, boy-eeeee!! BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #47
Thanks for taking the time to look, Blanche, trusty elf Mar 2012 #56
I'd be careful. the Etch-a-Sketch is made of Kryptonite. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2012 #11
OMG They are all so unbelievably bad! JNelson6563 Mar 2012 #12
Hate to break it to yah ... GeorgeGist Mar 2012 #16
That last one forgot to have "rationality" bouncing off malthaussen Mar 2012 #18
" Just how stupid do they think the American Public is? " DFW Mar 2012 #19
Just how stupid do they think the American Public is? pangaia Mar 2012 #20
Did anypne read the 2 comments? pangaia Mar 2012 #21
OK sorry for all the posts.. pangaia Mar 2012 #22
good catch grantcart Mar 2012 #24
This one is just hillarious! LiberalLovinLug Mar 2012 #25
Craps! Thanks for the memories. DippyDem Mar 2012 #26
It is a reallly twisted world that they live in. grantcart Mar 2012 #27
OK, it's just cheerleading Jack Rabbit Mar 2012 #32
In history there have been lots of groups that acknowledge Jesus as the Christ but grantcart Mar 2012 #33
I'm a non-trinitarian, too Jack Rabbit Mar 2012 #37
So I am I, now a Buddhist. I just think that Christians should be able to define and label their grantcart Mar 2012 #39
Huh? AlbertCat Mar 2012 #34
Yuck! Look at the Bulge in "Mitt of Steel's" diaper! Number23 Mar 2012 #35
That the ™ LDS underwear denem Mar 2012 #38
Do they have one of him winning any state Ruby the Liberal Mar 2012 #36
This reminds me of Iwillnevergiveup Mar 2012 #40
HAAAA!!! HAA HAA!! *gasp* HAAHEEE >>what<< *snort* >>do you mean<< BWAAAHHHH BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #42
lol grantcart Mar 2012 #49
.... BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2012 #50
Why am I laughing at the cartoons and not with the cartoons? marble falls Mar 2012 #44
Pathetic. sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #46
Truly epic stoopid. hifiguy Mar 2012 #48
FAIL liberal N proud Mar 2012 #51
the rwingers are utterly bereft of a sense of humour Whisp Mar 2012 #52
The site is down alfredo Mar 2012 #53
nah its still up for me grantcart Mar 2012 #54
It's working now. alfredo Mar 2012 #55
Gone again. /nt mwb970 Mar 2012 #57
No its up its just that your browser has a minimum idiocy bar that doesn't allow really grantcart Mar 2012 #58
Ha ha! Very hokey. Are they sure "Man of Steel" isn't just emanating stuff instead? /nt MatthewStLouis Mar 2012 #59
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