Arnold Zwicky's Blog

Tom Toles’s political cartoon of 9/29/11, about the Republican Party’s attempts to entice New Jersey governor Chris Christie to run for President:

A somewhat labored phrasal portmanteau, based on the name of the tv show Dancing With the Stars, with starving substituted for stars.

(Hat tip to Victor Steinbok.)

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