Your mostly lazy editor had vowed to challenge herself when typing nonsense posts about Mitt Romney, to not go for the perpetually obvious Mittens-qua-robot theme as a matter of trying to avoid worn-out tropes, but... we give up here. This man cannot identify a doughnut.
Daily Kos (VIDEO) Mitt Romney has no idea what a Chocolate Donut is. www.youtube.com
He looks at a plate of them for several seconds, but no... no, it doesn't quite come to him. He'll just point at the items and laugh! Whew, good save. He then promises to perform "testing" upon one of them, to later ascertain the relevant data points and incorporate them into his memory bank. Oop, can't put it in his mouth, though! Might goo up the circuits.
And then he goes and says stuff like this about his opponent in the same visit:
"Is he [Barack Obama] really that out of touch? I think he is defining what it means to be detached and out of touch with the American people," Romney said in Council Bluffs, Iowa after a roundtable discussion with farmers.
Oh, that's a good one. Mitt Romney will now go off to learn how these doughnut things work, most likely by dressing up as one. [Buzzfeed/ CNN]
I like your topological argument. Further support for this would be that the PR software may forbid recognition of complex non-closed surfaces (e.g., open beverage containers), which would explain why the Mittbot cannot tell its ass from a hole in the ground.
Powdered sugar LIBEL!!!