'Asses of Evil' buttons top seller at Iowa Dem campaign stops

[cal04]

RAW STORY
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Asses_of_Evil_buttons_top_seller_1231.html

Just as legions of pollsters, campaign consultants and student volunteers are building their political careers in the cold Iowa snow, a smaller group of entrepreneurs is cashing in on this weeks caucuses.

The Hill newspaper tells of one such creative soul, 35-year-old Jeremy Beggun, who sells buttons and T-shirts outside of campaign events of both candidates' parties over the last several months as candidates have spent substantial time in the crucial early voting state.

Among the most popular items at Democratic rallies are buttons bidding President Bush "good riddance," and a button branding Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld the "Asses of Evil." Hill reporter Jim Snyder is much more modest, describing the button as simply bearing an "off-color paraphrase of the famous 'Axis of Evil' line."

“We’re not offering ‘A---- for Evil T-shirts. They’d sell, though,” Beggun says, according to the Capitol Hill newspaper.

[shadowknows69]

1. Best.Button.Ever

[aquart]

2. Well, except for the ass being a Democratic symbol.

[shadowknows69]

3. I think people will realize that its not the noble donkey it refers to

But that other thing from where SHIT comes from.

[aquart]

4. Jackass. Not donkey. Our symbol is a jackass.

[shadowknows69]

5. Well what jackass came up with that originally?

Of all the animals in the world.

[aquart]

6. I know. I know.

[sandnsea]

7. Teresa had that in 2003 too

Caused quite a stir then. Now it's mainstream fare. Shows the difference in the times I guess.