Need ideas for a politically current Halloween costume...

[drmom]

My partner and I have been invited to a "B*shBash Halloween Party" and I'm having a hard time coming up with anything original. I'm guessing that there will be lots of jailbird Rove's there, and the obligatory *'s with dunce caps.

Any ideas from all you creative DUers?

[Mythsaje]

1. A few years ago

at our local Witch's Ball, someone came dressed as a pirate with CDs strapped strategically around his costume...he was a (can you guess?) "software pirate."

I thought that was highly amusing.

Another variation of this would be a weird combination of business attire and pirate gear--you could be a "corporate raider/pirate" ala Monty Python.

[Demobrat]

2. One of you goes as W

and the other one goes as a bottle of Jim Beam.

[JDPriestly]

3. Karl Rove should be the hit of he evening.

Pillows around the middle. I don't know if you could make or buy a Rove mask. He's positively ghoulish looking.

[MarsThe Cat]

10. Karl Rove in a bondage get up-

especially if you have another person(s) to be * and/or gannon- complete with studded collar and a leash.

[Kikosexy2]

4. The Ultimate costume...

wear skin tone leotards/bodysuit--looking naked except have you and your partner add big bushels of pubic hair on genitalia area and call yourselves the Bush Twins--with sashes identifying yourselves are Barbara and Jenna--I'm sure you'll get plenty of laughs. Or you can go as witch-ugly Katherine Harris (it's all about the make-up).

[Kikosexy2]

14. Better yet...

Go with crass--go as Harriet Miers with a wire-hanger (abortion kit) and a bible & a button with a pic of the Chimp on it.

[LatinoSocialist]

29. don't forget the Eyeliner

lots and lots of it.

[Kikosexy2]

31. and plenty...

of Lotto tickets too--feeling lucky?

[davsand]

5. Go as Bob Dole.

Carry a bottle of pills labled "VIAGRA" in one hand and clutch a pen in the other. Has NOTHING to do with the asswipe in the WH but it still makes fun of the pubbies...

An alternate would be to wear a leather boy outfit and a "press pass" that says "Talon News Agency" on it.

If it was ME, I'd dress up like the Quaker Oats guy and call myself "Bar" or Mom all night.


Laura

[warrens]

6. Get a bunch of feathers and cough a lot

Or if you're really cheap, get some black makeup and lie on the floor face down, like you're a body floating in the Lower 9th Ward.

[Richard Steele]

7. How about "Chimpanzee Protestor"

Some chimp costumes + protest signs demanding
that people stop comparing you to B*sh?

"We're not related, so stop all the hatred", etc....

[LatinoSocialist]

30. LOL nt

[Blue Belle]

34. Or you can use this "Chimperor" Costume...

to be the end of the evolution chain. :)

[ewagner]

8. A couple of ideas

Harriet Meirs
A Bird costume with the BIRD FLU sign on it
A Gasoline pump with high prices....

Another one from today's 'toons:

A costume made up to look like a home heating bill....

All are politically viable

[meganmonkey]

9. I am going to be a Pirate Against Global Warming

If you are familiar with the Flying Spaghetti Monster, you know what I mean. If not, go here:

http://www.venganza.org/

[The Witch]

11. I wanna go to that party

where is it? ;-D

[skids]

12. Karl Rove in a blue dress? n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

13. How about a Haliburton Swine?

Derived from the costume of a friend of mine some years ago, who went as a Capitalist Pig.

Get large squares of cloth and make them look like the canvas bags used by armored car companies to carry coin. Instead of "$500 in Quarters", have the bags stenciled with names of Haliburton no-bid contracts, subsidiaries, corporate officials, etc. Use that cloth to make a KKK robe and hood. Wear with a pig mask. Or maybe a Dick Cheney mask.

[texastoast]

15. Go as Karl condom

and don't leak.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5061504

:rofl:

[yella_dawg]

16. I saw some black material in the fabric shop.

It was covered with red, yellow, and orange flames. Make a body suit, and go as Hell, wearing a big wicker handbasket.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

17. Wear a hard hat and carry a hammer

and a piece of wood saying "Photo Op"

[DBoon]

18. Grim Reaper Costume

with a sash that says "Donald Rumsfeld"

[elehhhhna]

19. Just bid on my Mask form the DU Auction! Ain't cheap but shore is purty..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5015568#5018509

[bigbrother05]

20. I am almost ashamed to write this

my son last year went as Abu Ghrab prisioner, made for alot of comments. Let us know what you decide on.

[elehhhhna]

21. PERFECT 2005 Costume: The US Constitution

Trash bag with holes cut out for your legs, burnt, dity, crumpled copies of the Constitution sticking out the top, hold it all up with a belt.

VOILA.

[Spike from MN]

22. Last year I was going to go as a

newspaper with the headlines "Bush declared winner of election" because it was the scariest thing I could think of. Unfortunately I spent so much time volunteering for Kerry that I didn't have time to make the costume. Granted, it's old news but Dubya's "winning" the election is still pretty damn scary.

[johnaries]

23. One of you could go as B* with a bulge in your back and an ear-

piece, and the other as Rove with a microphone.

Everytime someone talks to B*, Rove whispers into the microphone before B* answers. Be sure that B* mangles the language a lot and Rove has to correct him in the mike....

[crispini]

24. Judy Miller

Get a shoulder-length wig, carry a copy of the NY Times, and have your hands painted red. :evilgrin:

[zbdent]

25. Doonesbury had a really great one years back

"A Staggering Deficit" . . .

[elehhhhna]

26. I've got it! Be Dick Cheney

and don't show up at all.

Or be GW & show up 3 days after the party.

[Kikosexy2]

33. Or a big...

"Dick" Cheney with a condom that doesn't leaks.

[Scout]

27. wear sand/desert camoflage

and then put those little plastic army soldiers all over your body ... you would be Iraq!

[mrfrapp]

28. Quasimodo with a Bush mask

Explain to people that the hump is where you keep the radio reciever.

[Zhade]

32. My suggestion:

We must NEVER forget what was sanctioned by the USG in our name.

[Blue Belle]

35. Here are some Options:

1) Sport a pair of jodhpurs, a black barret, a megaphone, and a t-shirt that says, "Photo-Op Director". Maybe you could further accessorize it with a Madonna-like headset microphone.

2) Horns, a tail, a pitchfork, and a Paul Wolfowitz T-shirt (sorry... I stole that idea from the "Gilmore Girls").

3) Go as a process server and make up subpoenas for Rove, Scooter, Delay, Frist, Hastert, Abermoff, etc.

4) Paint yourself yellow, wrap yourself in the flag, and go as a young Republican.

[drmom]

36. Wow! I knew you all wouldn't disappoint!

What great ideas...lots for us to mull over.

I'll make sure to post pictures of the party (it's not until the 29th).

Thanks!