Marathon Pundit: Barack Obama-Larry Craig ticket?

Up until a year ago, Larry Craig was an obscure Republican senator from Idaho. He was arrested in a men's room at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport for lewd behavior--he quickly pleaded guilty to the less serious charge of disorderly conduct.

Once this news became public, his obscurity vanished. And he became the punch line of many jokes on The Daily Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show.

Craig's making news again, and oddly enough it involves Barack Obama, as The Lewiston Tribune's Politics Virtual Deadlines reports:

So this is what the button was supposed to look like.

But someone browsing the Web found a site selling Democratic campaign buttons. And while the campaign buttons featured the names of presidential candidate Barack Obama and Larry LaRocco, candidate for Idaho Republican Larry Craig's Senate seat, the photos were of Obama and Craig.

Oops!

He quickly ordered 10 of the buttons. Though the Website was later changed to show the correct photo, the buttons arrived in Lewiston just as promised: a photo of a smiling Craig was shown above LaRocco's name.

Hey, I'm probably more sympathetic than most, since I work in an industry where every mistake is public and analyzed by thousands. But you gotta admit, this one is a doozy. I wonder how many of wrong buttons were shipped out before the mistake was discovered? And I wonder if they’re worth more than a buck.