Republicans Try to Ridicule Kerry with NASA Photo (try?? try??)

Washington Post/Reuters ^ | 7/27/04

[ambrose]

Republicans Try to Ridicule Kerry with NASA Photo

Reuters Tuesday, July 27, 2004; 3:10 PM

By Patricia Wilson

NORFOLK, Va. (Reuters) - Republicans distributed a photo of Democratic candidate John Kerry wearing a head-to-toe protective suit on Tuesday in comparison to a famously unflattering photograph of Michael Dukakis in a tank that helped sink his presidential bid in 1988.

Late-night comedians made fun of the picture and President Bush's re-election campaign e-mailed it under the caption "Earth to Kerry." "Bubble Boy," read the headline on the front page of the Boston Herald, a newspaper that has not been a supporter of Kerry.

The photograph was taken on Monday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when Kerry along with astronauts-turned-U.S. senators John Glenn of Ohio and Bill Nelson of Florida were required by NASA to wear the precautionary suits to tour the "Discovery" shuttle due to launch in March.

[piasa]

Houston, we have a problem!

[pax_et_bonum]

That is so excellent.

You may put a star on your chart.

:-)

[SandRat]

Try to ridicule all they have to do is show it. The mildest description I've heard of it is that it looks like a scene from "Willie Wonka and Chocolate Factory."

[vger]

You forgot dufus tries to throw a baseball from the pitcher's mound to homeplate!

[Libertina]

ROTFLOL STop, my stomach hurts form laughing...

[eeriegeno]

JohnF'n, ya gotta learn, sometimes photo-ops work and sometimes they don't. This is another of your screw-ups.........

[RippleFire]

[Semper Paratus]

Boston Herald had this picture front page this morn with the headline "Bubble Boy".

LOL Welcome to Beantown 'rat delegates.

[Arpege92]

You should post a picture of the pink bunny rabbit outfit that Ralphy wore in the movie "A Christmas Carol".

Better yet....place a picture of John Edwards face on the pink bunny rabbit outfit, then post it next to John Kerry's bunny picture.

[anymouse]

Just imagine that that flex hose coming out of the hatch is a GOP elephant trunk and that goofy smile on Sen. Kerry's face is because of where the GOP elephant's tusk is being rammed. :)

[lowbridge]

Kerry at the NAACP

[Old Sarge]

"Oompah, Loompah, Doompah-dee-doo, I have the perfect candidate for you..."

[fhayek]

Look, when Kerry tapped Edwards to be his running mate, it seemed like his major attribute was that he looked good, and had that the two had 'great hair'. Kerry made appearance an issue. So it only seems fair that if we are to judge these guys on their appearance, these photos are not only relevant, but there are essential to understanding John Kerry.

[anymouse]

You can almost see the strings coming from Sen. Kerry's hands to Kweezy's head. :)

[Brett66]

This is great, wouldn't it be something if this photo gives him a wound he can't recover from? This doof actually went to NASA to say that he would rather spend money on social programs. No one pays attention to the space issue, but it illustrates a striking contrast to where Bush stands,maybe even more than Iraq. I would love to see this provide a long embarrassment for this teletubbie wannabe.

[mupcat]

"Republicans Try to Ridicule Kerry with NASA Photo"

Naaaah he continues to accomplish that fête all by himself.

[Bob]

The mildest description I've heard of it is that it looks like a scene from "Willie Wonka and Chocolate Factory."

I've seen references to the photo having been taken at the completion of Michael Moore's recent manned colonscopy.

[Chode]

it'd be fun to take all those pictures and rearrange the heads

he reminds me of those little cutout dolls with the little cutout cloths with tabs on them so little girls could change their outfits

he's such a schizzo

[jeffc]

Republicans distributed a photo of Democratic candidate John Kerry wearing a head-to-toe protective suit . .

Didn't read the article (won't go to WaPo). Does it name these "Republicans"?

[jeffc]

. . Other than an email . . .