BREAKING NEWS: Mitt Romney has announced that he’s running for president setting up an exploratory committee in consideration of a possible, possible, run for president in 2012 on the Republican ticket.
No one saw this coming, except the entire Internet, which is where Romney posted the video announcing his intent to explore his best intentions. Perhaps it’s this junior-high attempt at foreplay that led the New York Times to tweet, jokingly, that “Mitt Romney Makes It Official, Quietly” (that was meant to be ironic, right?).
Regardless of how loud Romney’s announcement actually was, he’s now the second major GOP candidate, following Tim Pawlenty, to sort of throw his viral video into the YouTube ring. After the news broke, Twitter went nutso. According to the best figures available to a mid-level journalist, there were, like, a gazillion tweets in the first — let’s say — 10 minutes of the announcement. Below are some of the best, worst, and most repeated zingers.
He’s not running for President, he’s running for the Tooth Fairy
Good question, Matt. Good because you’re definitely not the only person to notice that the “R” in Romney looks exactly like Aquafresh’s classic Neapolitan ice cream toothpaste. Observe:
Mother Jones’ Washington editor David Corn tweets a “joke” of his own, saying, “Romney’s new logo would also work well for GOProud.”
But the problem with that homophobic assertion is that no matter how you flip the “R” it doesn’t look anything like a “pride” flag getting blown in the wind.
And according to @HuffPostHill,”Romney’s logo could also double for a really boring cruise line,” a comment so boring it probably should have been written by one of the hundreds of unpaid writers working in the bowels of SS Huffington.
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Sure, it’s a cheap shot from the Florida Democratic Party Communications Director, but tons of people are focused on those silver streaks of comic book perfection. @StevenKruiser — who calls himself a “Conservative comedian/writer” (that’s actually pretty hilarious) — gets plenty of retweets with his sentiment that almost everyone shares: he wants a fight to the last follicle:
Or maybe Romney’s running for President of the World
Romney appears to be angling for the Hispanic vote:
Along with the fickle Dutch swing bloc, which is as independent as …
According to Google Translation, both these Tweets say, roughly, “Mitt Romney looks presidential.”
Random facts about Romney you’ll never forget
The National Review’s Jim Geraghty drops the best Romney insta-factoid. Be sure to use it at the next party before that jackass to your left sneaks it in first:
In other parts of the Twitterverse:
• Salon’s Alex Pareene makes a joke only gut-fondling mouth-breathers from Hipsterville think is clever (Spoiler Alert! — It’s a “Twin Peaks” reference).
• Beltway Confidential, like many others, notes that the announcement comes on the 5th anniversary of RomneyCare. Also, some no-name writer at some no-name publication points out that Romney’s “Believe in America” slogan was once something John Kerry believed in as well.
• @mbrownerhamlin reminds us that Romney better come out with a damn-good sequel, and soon, if he wants to beat the Jerry Bruckheimer-sized awesomeness of Pawlenty’s video.
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