Cheap Shots: 1st '12 GOP Debate. (Just Pointing 'Em Out.)

…And the background suggests the latter.

Actually, this has more meaning than it looks (given the appropriation of the costume the past few years). Translation: how does Mitt buck the Tea Party?

1.) Vanity campaign

2.) Thought you were going “Twitter-only”?

Ah, that’s more like it.

(photo 1: Getty Images caption: Michelle Bachmann supporters hold a sign outside the venue for the Republican presidential primary debate June 13, 2011 at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. This is the first debate for the GOP contenders in the ‘First in the Nation’ primary state of New Hampshire..)(photo 2: Getty Images caption: People show their message before the first 2012 Republican presidential candidates’ debate in Manchester, New Hampshire June 13, 2011..)photo 3: Getty Images caption: A television make-up artist puts a make-up touch on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich before the start of the first 2012 Republican presidential candidates’ debate in Manchester, New Hampshire June 13, 2011. photo 4: Getty Images caption: Republican presidential hopeful, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia, right, sits in the front row next to Jon Greenberg before speaking to a group of small business leaders Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in Concord, N.H.)