In 1979, former Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack while having sex with an assistant. The normally impeccably dressed former governor was reported to have been found by the EMT, like Alpha House's Senator Mower, with his pants on backwards.
Several Republican candidates for Congress have used their opponent's faces morphing into Obama's. In the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, Rick Santorum ran an ad in which Mitt Romney's face morphed into Obama's. And the ACLU ran an ad in which Obama's face morphed into Richard Nixon's.
In 2012, Herman Cain, a former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, ran for president, though he didn't do an ad for one of his restaurants. In 1966, Lester Maddox parlayed his ownership of the Pickrick Restaurant, which refused to serve blacks, into the governorship of Georgia.
Betty Mower explains that she chose not to have "Karl or Grover" run the funeral service of her husband. "Karl" refers to Karl Rove, long time GOP strategist, and "Grover" refers to Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and a powerful Republican in enforcing ATR's no-new-taxes pledge.
Among the brief cameos of mourners paying their respects to the late Senator Mower: former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife, Meredith Brokaw; former CNN and ABC News correspondent Jeff Greenfield; former political consultant and Fox News analyst Dick Morris; former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele; MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing; former Rep. Anthony Weiner; and Grover Norquist.