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Related: About this forumWell folks, no sense fighting for the President any longer...
Mitt Romney Cockroach Beats Barack Obama Bug In Presidential Cockroach DerbyMitt 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.
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Well folks, no sense fighting for the President any longer... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Aug 2012
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,517 posts)1. Oh, good grief.
Sorry, but this is bullshit.
demgrrrll
(3,590 posts)2. Really.
freefallinrefugee
(7 posts)3. isn't that animal cruelty somehow?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)8. Yes, call PETA
*squish* whoops too late
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)4. It's not over until an octopus calls it.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)5. Funny, weird, gross.
Island Blue
(5,815 posts)6. Was Romney's cockroach strapped
to the top of a car at the time?
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)7. between
the OP and this comment, I cannot stop laughing.
oh, calamity...I'm going back to bed.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)9. LMAO
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)10. Romney and Ryan bug me.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)11. They are really *running* a *scurry-lous* campaign.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)12. But when the lights came on Rmoney's roach ran under the cupboard!