Indiana Man Has Second Thoughts On Romney Face Tattoo

By Chuck Sudo in News on Nov 29, 2012 7:00PM

If the late 90s and early aughts have taught us anything, it’s to think before you get a tattoo. All those tramp stamps, Bill Goldberg tribal bands, and Olde English scripts polluting necks across America (not to mention all the Chicagoans who had "Chi-Tonw" inked on their skin and the White Sox logo tattooed backwards on them will age even less gracefully than those who wear them.

Eric Hartsburg didn’t learn that lesson and is now having a tattoo of Mitt Romney’s campaign logo he placed on his face removed. The Michigan City, Ind. professional wrestler who describes himself on his Twitter feed as an “atheist specialist, pro gay, pro choice … Objective 2 entertain YOU” had the Romney/Ryan logo inked into the right side of his face in the weeks before the election, after raising $5,000 to have it done on eBay. (Hartsburg later told Huffington Post Live he made $15,000 total from the tattoo.)

Hartsburg began to suffer voters remorse after President Barack Obama won re-election and told POLITICO, “I’m the guy who has egg all over his face, but instead of egg, it’s a big Romney/Ryan tattoo. It’s there for life.” (With a non-subtle analogy like that, Hartsburg must be a pro wrestler.)

But Hartsburg said he had no regrets about the tattoo and was content to go through life with it until he heard Romney saying he lost the election because of “gifts” given to specific voting blocs by the Obama campaign. That he wouldn’t cotton to, so he decided to have the tattoo removed. Lucky for Hartsburg, a Los Angeles-based tattoo removal service offered to do the job for free, but it can take up to a year to accomplish. Here’s what Hartsburg had to say about Romney’s blame game.

“It stands not only for a losing campaign but for a sore loser,” Hartsburg said. “He’s pretty shameful as far as I’m concerned, man. There’s no dignity in blaming somebody else for buying votes and paying off people. I can’t get behind that or stay behind that.”

What we could get behind is if Hartsburg used some of that $15,000 to get the laser treatments. We can get behind or stay behind that.