Keith Cowing has dug up some old pics of the president's father in a bunny suit, too, from way back in 1981 when he was VP.

See, I run a non-partisan website here.

Kerry's are still funnier, though.

[Update a few minutes later]

Keith says in comments that he cast a broad net, but that this was the only fish that turned up.

Note to Karl Rove: I think that it might be very effective for the president (in the interest of "changing the tone" and compassionate conservatism) to go down to the cape and have some bunnysuit shots taken of himself (though without the giant hose suppository shot). He could then make a speech honoring all the technicians and others who have to wear those outfits every day, but don't normally get praised, and to use it (unlike Kerry) as an occasion to actually talk about space policy. It would look classy and be hard for the press to make fun of, while making Kerry's response to this look even worse.

[Update a minute or so later]

D'oh!

A commenter beat me to the thought (I saw Keith's comment in email, not by reading the comments).

Once again, it's nice to have readers smarter than me.

You know, the President could keep this story alive forever just by showing up for a speech & doing the same thing Kerry did. Bunny suit and all.

With one exception: Propose _something_ for NASA to _do_.

1) Comparing 'Kerry Space Vision' to 'Bush Space Vision' would be nearly forced on reporters who want to 'retaliate' for the Kerry picture. "I'm delighted we have so many government workers" vs "Let's go do something cool. Anything cool." That's a heck of a difference.

2) The Bush campaign would handle the heckling with a little more class.

3) The comparison between the Bush _responses_ and the Kerry _responses_ would be amusing.

Or maybe the Mojave Spaceport. Hmm.

I used the NASA NIX search engine to find these. Alas, there were no photos of bunny suit clad Gore, Clinton - or (my biggest hope) Dan Quayle.

Yeah, when the Bush campaign claims those photos are a dirty trick by unnamed forces, then it will be a reasonable comparison.

Isn't the concept of Al Gore in a Bunny Suit redundant?

Dan Quayle once said "A mind is a terrible thing to loose". Al Gore actually went and did it.

A NASA Watch reader pointed me to a picture of Quayle using a EMU glove trainer at JSC in 1989. I knew the photo existed - somewhere - since I had used the same device two days earlier. This happened again recently. I stood underneath Discovery 3 days before Kerry's visit. They did not stop work for several dozen reporters but they stopped most of the day's work for Kerry et al.

Just added another picture of someone visiting NASA wearing a special 'suit' - a Mao suit....

I don't think Bush should don the bunny suit. Why? _Most_ people don't know about Kerry wearing the suit, but most people would know about Bush looking stupid.

Rand, I am not too sure that people outside of the 'blogosphere' (or at least this small section of it) are really that cognizant of it, but there's a whole press industry geared towards providing democratic bias portrayed as centrist neutral reporting to the vast majority of the populace that doesn't get its news by reading the net.

I heard a news report that NASA was ordered to take the Kerry pictures off the site. I did see the site last week, and there were at least 5 or 6 photos. I don't that the URL any more - does anybody have the link?

Loose minds sink lips.

Botox any one?