A reader sent in this hilarious link to the latest conservative culinary fad, W Ketchup :

You don?t support Democrats. Why should your ketchup?

W Ketchup? is made in America, from ingredients grown in the USA.

The leading competitor not only has 57 varieties, but has 57 foreign factories as well. W Ketchup comes in one flavor: American.

Does buying ketchup help the Democrats? Is John Kerry responsible for outsourcing? TruthOrFiction.com has the answers :

First, the Heinz company has issued a statement clarifying that neither Teresa Heinz Kerry nor Senator Kerry has any involvement in the management or the board of the business.

It also says that neither Teresa Kerry nor any of the Heinz endowments or trusts holds any significant percentage of of shares of the company and that their holdings are less than four percent.

In other words, no controlling interest.

The statement also says that sixty percent of the sales of the company are overseas and that the foreign plants allow them to serve local customers with fresher ingredients.

In other words, their foreign operations are for the purpose of doing business on foreign land, which is not the same, for example, as an American factory firing its workers and having the same work done in another country by cheaper labor.

Teresa Heinz Kerry was married to the late Senator John Heinz III, a Republican from Pennsylvania.

He was killed in an aircraft accident in 1991, leaving his portion of the family fortune to his wife, estimated to be $500 million.

Probably just as deceptive as the “America?s Ketchup?” crap is the label itself. By placing a picture of George Washington on the bottle, they’re trying to create the impression that the “W” stands for “Washington” (as opposed to a reference to this dumbass). If that’s the case, would the father of our country appreciate being made the mascot of a partisan condiment? looking at his 1796 farewell address, I doubt it.

Washington, like many of his contemporaries, did not understand or believe in political parties, and saw them as fractious agencies subversive of domestic tranquility. When political parties began forming during his administration, and in direct response to some of his policies, he failed to comprehend that parties would be the chief device through which the American people would debate and resolve major public issues. It was his fear of what parties would do to the nation that led Washington to draft his Farewell Address.

The two parties that developed in the early 1790s were the Federalists, who supported the economic and foreign policies of the Washington administration, and the Jeffersonian Republicans, who in large measure opposed them. The Federalists backed Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton’s plan for a central bank and a tariff and tax policy that would promote domestic manufacturing; the Jeffersonians opposed the strong government inherent in the Hamiltonian plan, and favored farmers as opposed to manufacturers. In foreign affairs, both sides wanted the United States to remain neutral in the growing controversies between Great Britain and France, but the Federalists favored the English and the Jeffersonians the French. The Address derived at least in part from Washington’s fear that party factionalism would drag the United States into this fray.

And speaking of conservative food, remember Star Spangled Ice Cream? They’re the right-wing answer to Ben and Jerry’s who had their fifteen minutes of fame last year when they introduced flavors like “Choc & Awe” and “I Hate The French Vanilla”. Well, they’re about to release a new flavor : GuantanaMocha. Don’t get me wrong, mocha is probably my favorite ice cream flavor, but do conservatives really like being reminded of rape and torture while they eat their dessert?