Super Tuesday isn’t until March 1st but there’s no question that this week’s ScuttleButton puzzle is super as well.
How to Play
ScuttleButton, as you may know, is that weekly waste-of-time exercise where we post a vertical sequence of campaign buttons. Your job is to take one word (or concept) per button and add ’em up to arrive at a famous name or familiar expression. Guess the correct phrase and you could be the proud winner of the coveted Political Junkie button!
Enter your submission using the convenient submission form below, or email your submission to scuttlebutton@krpoliticaljunkie.com. You must include your name and city/state to be eligible.
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Bush Tax Plan / You’re Gonna Pay — A Democratic Party item referring to the first President Bush, circa 1990.
photo of the Tin Man — From the Wizard of Oz.
green button with the letters “ing” — A clever 1968 button for Alaska Sen. Ernest Gruening (pronounced “Green-ing”).
So, when you combine Pay + Tin Man + Ing, you kinda get …
Peyton Manning. The Super Bowl winning quarterback of the Denver Broncos who announced his retirement this week after a Hall of Fame career.
And the randomly selected winner is … Tug Ricks of Henderson, Nev. Tug wins the coveted Political Junkie button.