Donuts in the news. Again. Do they ever really leave it?

Now why wasn't this a good idea?
http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/news-krispy-kreme-retracts-pro-choice-obama-donuts

Is not "freedom of choice" also a marketing pitch (I seem to remember BK using it...), and doesn't business always trump more abstract ideology, whether it should or not?

This guy says it better I suppose. His capstone phrase is "And conservatives wonder why their movement is in trouble?" and he notes "freedom of choice" has long been a call of conservative movements.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1030

And another professor, having done due research, is all over the connection of doughnuts and politics:
http://www.smcm.edu/rivergazette/decjan09/mtwaincolumn.html