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Bag’s Take-Away:
Call it a GOP 2012 litmus test. On first pass, the idea of these portraits on display at the CPAC conference is DC is to lend as much gravitas as possible. Study the first three more closely, however, and the mouths say “I’m not getting very far here.” As for Paul, he looks too much like W.C. Fields.
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(photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters caption: Drawings of the Republican presidential candidates, from left to right, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, are displayed at a booth at CPAC)
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