• Washington Post ("Top Romney adviser: Mitt will erase his conservative positions once he's the nominee")

• ABC News ("`Etch-A-Sketch': Romney Aide Suggests Campaign Reset After Primary")

• Los Angeles Times ("Romney aide's 'Etch a Sketch' remark draws Santorum attack")

• Huffington Post ("Mitt Romney Platform 'Like An Etch A Sketch,' Top Spokesman Says")

• Mediaite ("Etch-A-Sketch-y: Romney Adviser Compares Campaign To Erasable Toy On CNN")

• The Atlantic ("Romney's Etch A Sketch Primary Campaign")

• Talking Points Memo ("Romney Adviser Shakes Up Race With `Etch-A-Sketch' Quote")

• CNN Political Ticker ("Etch A Sketch comment no child's play")

• CBS News ("Santorum pounces on Romney aide's "Etch A Sketch" comment")

And both Santorum and Gingrich have been showing up at campaign events in Louisiana with Etch-A-Sketches in hand (handy little props, they are).  Santorum was also photographed in his car studying up on Romney's policy positions:

Gingrich was photographed at a campaign event displaying Romney's policy positions:

And yeah, even the Obama staffers were all over this one:

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter on Twitter:  "@ericfehrn says on CNN that Romney will erase his hard right positions in general election like an etch-a-sketch.  Yeah, don't think so," followed by: "Day after winning IL primary, @MittRomney campaign tells GOP voters that his platform was all just an etch-a-sketch."

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina on Twitter:  "Romney's guy just said on CNN he will erase his hard-right positions in the general election "Like An Etch-A-Sketch".  #IDONTTHINKSO"

Senior Obama strategist David Axelrod on Twitter:  "Forget everything you know.  Forget everything you've seen.  Coming soon. Mitt 5.0!"

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt on Twitter:  "WATCH: Top Romney advisor says Romney will reinvent himself, his positions during general election.  Principled.  http://t.co/teMSLGSJ,"

Yeah, today, the day after Romney won the Illinois primary, found out that the Park County, Wyoming, Republican Executive Committee had unanimously voted to hand a disputed delegate election to him, learned that the GAGOP had awarded him two at-large delegates that should have gone to Gingrich, and pulled down the endorsement of Jeb Bush . . . today the campaign mouthpiece hands the opposition a made-for-TV soundbite with potent metaphorical imagery that reinforces existing negative ideas about the candidate (who has a well deserved reputation for being a flip-flopper).

Of course, someone promptly created a Twitter hashtag (#RomneyToys), and the Huffington Post is running an article chronicling some really creative tweets about Romney-themed toys.  Democratic operative and frequent Internet trickster Matt Ortega created a similarly themed single-serving website called etchasketchmittromney.com.

Not surprisingly, both American Bridge 21st (a pro-dem super PAC) and the Dem Rapid Response team themselves are also now running nice little ads identifying Romney as a candidate with no core:

And this isn't exactly hypocrisy because, while it's the darkest shade of Marxism imaginable, Obama at least has a philosophical core.

If either Winning Our Future or the Red White and Blue Fund advertising teams have any sense at all, then they'll be running similar ads in every state that hasn't yet held their primary . . . pronto.

Which begs a couple of questions:

First, if Willard's nomination is so inevitable, then why are there so many states right now with documented shenanigans in an apparent ongoing effort to rig as many states as possible in Romney's favor?  Why the lying attack ads?  Why the smoke and mirrors regarding the delegate math?  And why, during the closing days of his one-term administration as Governor of Massachusetts, did his staff engage in an unprecedented attempt to wipe out the paper trail of his tenure?  In my head, the question is asked and answered by both Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich:

Secondly, since the evidence is so very clear that the milquetoast Massachusetts moderate can't seem to be trusted to shoot straight, why hasn't Bobby Schostak reconvened the MIGOP Credentials Committee and revisited their February 29th decision?  Why hasn't a single member of the Michigan Leaders Lining Up For Romney taken out a press release to that effect?  Ditto, by the way, for prospective Republican senate candidates Pete Hoekstra (connected to Romney) and Clark Durant (connected to Anuzis).

The grassroots that these establishment bozos are relying on for this year's vote harvest aren't going to for get this, and as Jason said in his flowchart, there will be consequences for failure to speak out about this.