Mitt Romney’s Etch-a-Sketch Disaster

I’ve been thinking about this all night: Eric Fehrnstrom’s etch-a-sketch gaffe yesterday may go well beyond a momentary embarrassment and become a campaign-defining disaster, much as John Kerry’s “I voted for it before I voted against it” gaffe–which came at almost exactly the same point in that campaign, as Kerry locked down the nomination–was in 2004. This is true for several reasons:

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Comments

[Tykete]

03:40 PM on 03/24/2012

This will only remain an issue on HP, it will not effect Romney at all. However, Santorums comments will definitely effect him negatively.

[SueMVetforObama2]

09:20 PM on 03/24/2012

Apparently, you don't read RedState.

[Conservative PitBull]

10:24 PM on 03/23/2012

Notice it comes with a left and right button. Draw it anyway you like, Romney will be the nominee. And then you can draw him sitting in the White House.

[Tykete]

03:36 PM on 03/24/2012

LOL, love it conservative pit bull....fanned

[a man]

10:17 PM on 03/23/2012

This "gaffe" was caused by an aide----not by Mitt Romney himself. I said it before the Republican campaign began and I will say it again----Mitt Romney will win the nomination because he is the best qualified and most trustworthy of the Republican candidates. People across the country were mad that I wasn't supporting Newt Gingrich. But look at what he has done----nothing. Ron Paul? The same. Rick Santorum has kept all of the lections close, but he has lost almost every important and large one. As for who will win the presidential election, that is up in the air right now.

[paintshirt]

05:33 PM on 03/23/2012

Get your BLAH BLAH BLAH Etch-a-Sketch shirt here:

http://www.cafepress.com/paintshirts.631175376

Ron Paul 2012!

[LondonTownNY]

03:56 PM on 03/23/2012

NEWS ALERT - Geppetto's Workshop, Disney World Friday, March 22nd 2011

In a hastily called press conference, Pinocchio has withdrawn his endorsement of Republican Presidential Candidate, Mitt 'Etch-A Sketch' Romney. Addressing a throng of International media, Pinocchio stated: "I have known Mitt Romney for a long time. I had long considered him a protege of mine despite the fact that the workshop he came from was in the closed confines of Salt Lake City's pointed Mormon Temples. While Mitt appears wooden just like me, his shape-shifting sugggests that the claymation figure came from a Pottery Barn of some kind enabling a level of deception that frankly I am uncomfortable with. Lying is one thing, what Romney is doing is quite troublesome and maybe even Satanic.".

[LindaG-Denver]

11:10 AM on 03/23/2012

Sigh...if we only had an Etch-a-Sketch that could erase all the mistakes President Obama has made the past 3 years. Romney's going to be fine in spite of all the negative news media hype against him.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

11:49 AM on 03/23/2012

In your opinion, Romney's favorability has plummeted since the start of the primary, he's between 35 and 43%, President Obama even beats him in Virgina by 10 points, put Bob McDonnell on the ticket Romeny loses Virgina by even more. Your hatred of the President is just that, your hatred, along with your FOX consuming right wing friends, this Etch-a-Sketch visual is deadly and Romeny's senior campaign manager provided the weapon.

[LindaG-Denver]

04:07 PM on 03/23/2012

I do not hate President Obama, in fact I like him. He's just a lousy president. I get most of my news from CNN and some FOX---certainly not MSNBC, who never met a liberal they didn't like.

[triplettam]

03:22 PM on 03/23/2012

What mistakes? RomneyCare? What else? Killing bin Laden (I know you guys hated that)? Saving the auto industry (Again, a terrible mistake for Romney supporters)? Tell us Linda: We're waiting.

[LindaG-Denver]

04:13 PM on 03/23/2012

Geez, I don't have the time to educate you on Obama's numerous mistakes! We'd be here forever! Look it up on the Internet, there's a plethora of material if you are have your mind open and really want to know. Hint, don't bother to go to biased websites such as Media Matters.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

10:31 AM on 03/23/2012

Being in advertising, I can't think of a better way to illustrate Mitt's flip, flops. Just render every position he has ever taken from health care, to Planned Parrenthood, to being for high gas prices, shake the "etch-a-sketch" and it all falls away, than render his current positions shake the "etch-a-sketch" and they fall away. If the Obama's people don't use this gift, there negligent.

[LondonTownNY]

10:26 AM on 03/23/2012

Mitt Romney is the most fundamentally dishonest and utterly hollow man to ever seek the Presidency of this country. As if his reputation as a shape-shifting political chameleon were not enough, a leader in his own campaign essentially acknowledges that the man reputed to have no core principles or values is actually indeed quite a s 'Sketchy' character. Romney is unacceptable.

[idontknowstuffblog]

10:11 AM on 03/23/2012

Mr. Romney has no reset button!
http://tinyurl.com/RomneyEtchASketch

[suntzu]

09:20 AM on 03/23/2012

Mitt Romney + Etch A Sketch = Michael Dukakis + Army Tank

[jannielee]

08:39 AM on 03/23/2012

Romney is a liar. A pants-on-fire, nose-is-as-long-as-a-telephone-wire liar. Period. You can't be a liar and still claim to have ethics, integrity, loyalty, or any of the attributes that befit the POTUS.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

10:33 AM on 03/23/2012

Romney is a liar and a there is no better device to illustrate it, than the gift his own campaign adviser give us.

[aspertame2]

08:16 AM on 03/23/2012

Politics aside, the Ohio Art Company must be positively gleeful about sales prospects over the coming months. Take THAT, MagnaDoodle!

[messy]

08:46 AM on 03/23/2012

Sales are up like 111% or something like that. The Etch-a-Sketch is hard to master, BTW.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

10:33 AM on 03/23/2012

Their stock is up to.

[eva belle]

08:16 AM on 03/23/2012

I think the statement was emblematic of what truly is a bigger disease of a Republican presidential campaign and a Republican Party that is steeped in cynicism and betrays a contempt for facts, a contempt for truth, a contempt for principled consistency, a contempt for American traditions and institutions and a P.T. Barnum-like contempt for the average American voter that you'd expect from a party that thinks it's found the secret to creating its own reality.

[justalurker]

09:01 AM on 03/23/2012

Fix "news" is the secret to creating an alternate republican reality.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

10:36 AM on 03/23/2012

The right only listens and watches it own media and there fead BS 24 hours a day. They actually think their extreme positions are favored by the majority and this will undo them.

[Ravyn]

08:14 AM on 03/23/2012

One thing's indisputable, Romney's as stiff and plastic as the Etch-A-Sketch and I'm betting if he doesn't win the nomination, he'll be forgotten as quickly as a picture which has been erased from one.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

10:37 AM on 03/23/2012

I want him to win, the Etch-A-Sketch is a gift, it's the perfect way to illustrate what a phony this man is without being nasty.

[lindabear]

08:04 AM on 03/23/2012

So does Bain own Etch-A-Sketch yet?

[ethicsbob88]

09:47 AM on 03/23/2012

Ironically, Bain owns Toys R Us which Etch a Sketch claims is the main reason that they will not give raises to the Chinese who are paid 24 cents per hour to make it after Etch a Sketch production was moved offshore in 2000. Formerly made in the USA