Prominent Republican leaders in clown makeup

WMxdesign's GOP Clown College Flickr set is a collection of prominent Republicans and Republican commentators in clown makeup.

GOP Clown College (via Kottke)

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Abdul-Alhazred/100000416725737 Abdul Alhazred

At least it’s not Yet Another Hitler Comparison. But that’s not to say it’s cutting edge social commentary either.
IamInnocent

The real Insane Posse.
daneyul

Ack! My two biggest phobias–clowns and republicans!

Now if you put the heads on top of spiders I’ll never get to sleep!
- D. Keith Higgs
  
  Clowns? Republicans? How do you tell the difference? Every time I see John Boehner speak I have recurring nightmares of Pennywise from Stephen King’s “It.”
- xenphilos
  
  Welcome to your worst nightmare. :p
http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Mari Lwyd

The eye makeup in this is better than Shepherd “Sparkle-Eyes” Smith’s.
I’d never thought of Glenn Beck seeing the world through Nazi-colored lenses but now it all makes sense.
icastico

Jindal is nicely done. But, really, they need to recognize the whole political class. I demand bipartisan clown faces.
http://www.doggo.org doggo

Scarily beautiful. The designs of the makeup, that is.
- Tzunun
  
  Maybe a little too beautiful. After all, the Teabaggers shooped Obama into Heath Ledger’s terrifyingly crude Joker makeup (as amanicdroid reminds us). With apologies to Keith Higgs, maybe we can meet in the middle with the clown from Stephen King’s It, because the name “Pennywise” fits pound-foolish slashers of social safety nets to a T.
Guest

Wingnuts… do they work?
flowergardenslayer

geez, slight liberal bias there….. how about showing the dems like this too so that my independent ego can feel doubly smug.
- http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Mari Lwyd
  
  Here ya go
  [latimes.com]
  Enjoy your besmuggification, your smugvana, your weltan-smug.
ernunnos

It’s so brave, and timely.
http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Mari Lwyd

For those demanding bipartisan coverage I bring you the attached picture.
http://trancesenddance.blogspot.com/ the dude

“Send in the Clowns” is a fuggin depressing ballad that tortured my youth. Occupy MakeUp !!!
http://twitter.com/charleskaufman Charles Kaufman

I support equal opportunity satire and jokes against all people in government. It is us against those who are in power in government; democrats, republicans, independents, liberals, conservatives.
John Q. Public vs. Big Government.
Big government already has enough power, air time, etc to promote themselves, they need no help from us. Poke fun at ALL government personalities and institutions as often as possible.
- http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Mari Lwyd
  
  Then start skillfully shooping clown make-up on Democrats if you’re so concerned.
  These images didn’t generate themselves. They’re from an artist’s personal project
  and thus not subject to equal-time rules. Boingboing is a collection of interesting things not a news network.
  - http://twitter.com/charleskaufman Charles Kaufman
    
    You really think boing-boing would do a feature with Democrats in clown make-up? Doubt it.
    - http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Mari Lwyd
      
      They might but if you want to ensure internet coverage send the pics to FreeRepublic.
      (Aaaaand that’s my five. In holding with wisdom of the mods I will abdicate the thread.)
    - quietstorms
      
      Sorry chief but this has been revolving around the Occupy movement. The picture that amanicdroid posted carried a different connotation and it was from a different time. Republicans HATED Obama before he even took office. I’ll leave it to you to explain the reasons why.
      
      I have no problem with you giving other Dems the clown treatment because they deserve it. They backstabbed him on health care and other issues.
Guest

awesome
http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai

My favorite part is the implied understanding that there is zero difference between the Republican punditry & the Republican politicians. Same machinery, & in many cases the same moving parts.
Petzl

I like this but I’m uneasy with ad hominem attacks. The casting of the political opposition as the alien, the enemy, the other, is generally a conservative/GOP practice, not a liberal/Democratic one. That being said (are the kids asleep?), this rocks.
- Shinkuhadoken
  
  The casting of the political opposition as the alien, the enemy, the other, is generally a conservative/GOP practice, not a liberal/Democratic one.
  
  Oh, sweet mother of irony.
  
  You do realize you’re saying that the unsightly practice of casting the opposition as the other is what those other guys do?
UrbanUndead

Er… “whoop whoop.”

Fucking politics… how do they work?
10xor01

Quick! Pack them all into a tiny circus car and drive it over a cliff!
http://twitter.com/tankflynn Tank Flynn

….mmm MORE please !!
Jason’s Robot

Wow. Those are beautiful. Perhaps too beautiful to be mocking, imo.
I’d love to have one done of me no matter what the person’s motivation or message.