Obama and Romney Are Flip-Floppers, Literally

ATLANTA (TheStreet) -- Would you buy a pair of flip flops that have either President Barack Obama or Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney, or both, pictured on them?

Taking advantage of the election season as a time when consumers' political affiliations run deep, Flip Flop Shops launched on Monday a limited edition line of flip flops featuring Obama and Romney.

The flip flops will be sold at Flip Flop Shops locations and online from Sept. 15 through the election. The price is $25 per pair.

The flip flops "don the faces of both political candidates and seek to make light of their propensity to flip-flop on major issues," the company stated in a press release.

"The national debt has 13 zeros behind it and we have two candidates that can't take a firm stance on political issues -- what better way to address both problems than with some flip flops," CEO Darin Kraetsch says in the release. "We're not unilaterally going after either party or candidate. We're simply calling awareness to these issues in a bipartisan, nonpartisan and non-party affiliated method."

The company will also use the sales of each pair as an informal poll on predicting the next president. Each week Flip Flop Shops will report a poll on the company's Facebook page, which will show the leading candidate based on purchases. In addition to the polling, for every pair of political flip flops sold, Flip Flop Shops will also donate $1 to the U.S. Treasury, the company says.

"This is a fun way to call attention to the fact that both these candidates go back and forth on major issues," said Brian Curin, Flip Flop Shops' president. "We're also helping lower the national debt -- if the government can't do it, at least Flip Flop Shops can help."

You'd be surprised by how many political junkies might actually say yes to digging their toes into these election season flip flops.

Supporters at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions displayed a willingness to drop wads of cash to show off their support of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

Vendors in Tampa and Charlotte lined the streets to sell buttons, t-shirts and other trinkets to delegates, while the campaigns offered official gear inside the arenas where politicians pitched party platforms to voters.