Title: Shaken Mitt


The words the artist chose to use are because Romney seems to be shaken by the entire 'Etch-a-sketch' theme.

The people here in this cartoon are Romney's adviser, Romney and a voter, with the obvious etch-a-sketch as well.

I think the artist means by this is to find hilarity in the fact that Romney believes he can just completely change something, but can't seem to change the voter / erase the person or is confusing the person with something to be erased.

Romney is holding up a person shaking him (voter) instead of the etch-asketch being handed to him by his advisor as he's asking how it works.

The ideological perspective by the artist seems fairly liberal, making fun of Romney's intellect almost mocking his words from the speech he gave this week through the use of art. It's really saying something about his overall attitude.

The way this is drawn reminds me of peanuts comics (insider note) , but it's hilarious and makes it lighter with the satire because this topic can be taken way too seriously.