McCain Fetus Flag Sign (Not a Joke)

McCain Fetus Flag Sign (Not a Joke), originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein.

This is a sincere sign, not a parody. Details at Campaign Silo.

Comments

[Quisp]

Why does the amniotic sac have a gas-pump handle attachment?

[Naadir Jeewa]

I'm having trouble even understanding this flag.

Is that a fetus grenade?

[rob helpy-chalk]

It would probably be really uncomfortable to have a little flag on a wooden stick in your uterus.

[3waygeek]

Now we know how the Repubs plan on stealing the election -- giving fetuses the vote. Of course, they'd all vote for McCain/Palin as that nasty Barack Obama wants to kill them.

[Amanda Marcotte]

Do anti-choicers just not know that fetuses grow inside women, or do they choose to pretend that they are grown inside balloons?

[mudkitty]

Ouch!!!!! Get that thing out of me!!!!

[Norman Costa]

I can understand and respect sincere, right-to-life proponents - even activists. What I neither understand nor respect is the vulgarization of the issue by associating their views with a patriotic display of the American flag.

In the context of recent events in the presidential campaign, the pro-life wing is painting the pro-choice defenders with an accusing anti-American brush. Now there’s a convincing argument: Pro-life means pro-American, exclusively. I suppose the picture stakes out a piece of pro-American territory that Sarah Palin would find more patriotic, easier to identify, and safer to visit.

Remember the lie about the fetal scream during an abortion? Now it’s a lie about the fetal scream, “America hater!”

[cfrost]

Handle? Stopper? Uterine neck/cervix? Trigger guard? WTF is that thing on the end of the baby-in-a-bottle supposed to be? It's probably safe to assume that it's meant to resemble something, pro-lifers being usually pretty literal minded.

[Pandechion]

Nearly six months pregnant here, and that just gave me the first bout of nausea I've felt in a while.

[Syona]

Republicans for uterine replicators perhaps?

Or could they they be suggesting that McCain/Palin are pro-Matrix ?

[S.R.]

I thought that was a white flag for a few seconds.

"I give up! I don't want to be brought into this mess we call a world! Somebody abort me, please!"

But in all seriousness....this is the oddest thing I've seen all day. I don't understand how anyone would want to put such an eyesore on their lawn.

[Starwild]

Oh my goodness, this is too funny! This is *exactly* what Republicans think, it's all about the precious fetus and the woman is invisible.

Too bad fetuses can't vote, McSame and Failin. Go, Obama!

[grendelkhan]

Now, if only someone could make an actual balloon with one of these inside it. Kind of a ship-in-a-bottle sort of thing. Fill it with helium and tote around your very own flying port-a-womb!

[willis]

Okay, I'll concede the right to vote for any fetus (especially those that are white of course). However I draw the line at allowing them to drive.