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With Halloween ‘round the corner and the elections following shortly after that, and, well, I’m afraid of a lot of things.

For Halloween to come and have trick-or-treaters parading around as miniscule versions of candidates, asking for my candy?  That’d be too much!  Well, this year, I think I’ll have to set up horrors of my own to deter potential trick-or-treaters.  I have to rig up my house so that it scares the crap out of the neighborhood kids — and I wonder, what’s scarier than an uncertain future?

Freaky sounds – For one, I could try to queue up sounds as the kids walk by the front porch.  As of today, I’ve no idea how to queue up the sounds, but I do have a great selection of soundbites, courtesy of Slate’s Crank-Call Generator.  You could start of with sounds like, “I’m John McCain” to get the kids antsy, and the soundbite, “I have been a constant reformer” to send ‘em finally running!

Cardboard display cut-outs – There are lots of display up for sale for the Halloween season; various skeletons, vampires, werewolves, monsters, etc.  But me, I’m more of a zombie type, so, as previously highlighted in my last entry, this is what my cutout will look like:

Scary, no?  Get the crispest version of this image you could find and set it to a printer — printing life-sized stuff don’t cost as much anymore these days.  I’m still finding a way to make it move the tongue and hands like that.

The Mask – Okay, so maybe they got over several soundbites’ worth of promises for hope, a better future, etc.  So they made it through that scary cardboard cut-out — you could always put on this scary little mask:

A “you betcha”-transfixed eyeless look — now that’s scary.

The Future – What’s scarier than the possibility of a Palin future?  The guys over at PalinAsPresident.us have been updating their site daily, adding bits straight out of Ms. Palin’s words — rifles in the oval office, drilling just way beyond site — it’s a heightened reality, but it’s pretty scary, none the less.

It’s a little drastic, but I guess we have to scare the kids about the constant Halloween that is bad politics.
Beyond a McCain/Palin mask, scary tales of financial crises — what other kinds of politically-flavored Halloween scares can you come up with?  Share it over @ The Jabber.