The latest from the party of ideas
OK, I admit it: I saw this on Power Line earlier today and was convinced it was really a hoax. Then I finally got the email from the Democratic National Committee, with a link to the latest innovation in bumper-sticker politics:
"Change that matters"? Clearly, that's another slogan on its way to the scrap heap.
Yes, this is bound to be a campaign full of substance and thoughtfulness. Yessirree.
Well, if all sides are determined to keep this campaign on the low road, I might finally have to surrender and play along. One can only guess the only slogans that were considered and rejected …
“Democrats: Not to be confused with any other parties”
“Democrats: Alphabetically superior”
“Democrats: Hey, look — George W. Bush!”
“Democrats: Fresh out of short, vapid slogans”
“Democrats: Get our full message on Twitter”
And it’s not even silly season yet. (Sigh.)
– By Kyle Wingfield
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MarkV
April 19th, 2012
6:34 pm
Dusty @6:19 pm
Dusty,
I appreciate your help and instructions. You must have a rather enormous monitor. I can’t fit that bumper sticker on my screen. Help!
Ex Republican
April 19th, 2012
6:54 pm
No Longer A Republican.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
April 19th, 2012
6:59 pm
It’s clear that the “party of ideas” is sure not the party of humor.
Just saying..
April 19th, 2012
7:06 pm
Uh..this has been educational, folks.
I do kinda like the dog ones. Just PLEASE don’t repeat them to Gail Collins…
Sister Sarah
April 19th, 2012
7:16 pm
Dusty/I Report/Rafe = CODEPENDENCY in its “Purist” form! Sad actually. Hope Dusty enjoys her barbeque, though I never knew she was a cannibal until now.
snoqualmiepass
April 19th, 2012
7:23 pm
“Romney… great for ‘68″
Of course Mittens will have to update his dad’s campaign slogan with something 21st century.
Lyman Hall
April 19th, 2012
7:29 pm
MY bumper sticker strikes fear in ALL RepubloCrat frightened little Federo-sexuals.
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Ron Paul Revolution.
Lyman Hall
April 19th, 2012
7:36 pm
Of course we true Patriots had frightened little cowards back then too—————————April 19——————
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his “Concord Hymn”, described the first shot fired by the Patriots at the North Bridge as the “shot heard ’round the world.”
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I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 19th, 2012
7:47 pm
democrats: We have the most authentic hot dogs!
Lyman Hall
April 19th, 2012
7:49 pm
In parenthesis is mine———
Percy took the land route across Boston Neck and over the Great Bridge, which some enterprising colonists had stripped of its planking to delay their way. His men then came upon an absent-minded tutor at HARVARD COLLEGE (that place generates nothing but trouble and idiots) and asked him which road would take them to Lexington. The Harvard man, apparently oblivious to the reality of what was happening around him,(typical Harvard graduate,nothing has changed for two hundred years) showed him the proper road without thinking. (He was later compelled to leave the country for inadvertently supporting the enemy.)(GOOD RIDDANCE)…. Percy’s troops arrived in Lexington at about 2:00 pm. They could hear gunfire in the distance as they set up their cannon and lines of regulars on high ground with commanding views of the town. Colonel Smith’s men approached like a fleeing mob with the full complement of colonial militia in close formation pursuing them. Percy ordered his artillery to open fire at extreme range, dispersing the colonial militiamen. Smith’s men collapsed with exhaustion once they reached the safety of Percy’s lines.
Against the advice of his Master of Ordnance, Percy had left Boston without spare ammunition for his men or for the two artillery pieces they brought with them, thinking the extra wagons would slow him down. Each man in Percy’s brigade had only 36 rounds, and each artillery piece was supplied with only a few rounds carried in side-boxes. After Percy had left the city, Gage directed two ammunition wagons guarded by one officer and thirteen men to follow. This convoy was intercepted by a small party of older, former militiamen,(REAL PATRIOTS) still on the “alarm list” who could not join their militia companies because they were well over 60. These men rose up in ambush and demanded the surrender of the wagons, but the regulars ignored them and drove their horses on. The old men opened fire, shot the lead horses, killed two sergeants, and wounded the officer.(h*ll YEAH)…..The survivors ran, (like cowards do)and six of them threw their weapons into a pond before they surrendered.(not unlike Obama/Romney supporters would do).
Lyman Hall
April 19th, 2012
7:52 pm
Percy wrote of the colonial tactics, “The rebels attacked us in a very scattered, irregular manner, but with perseverance and resolution, nor did they ever dare to form into any regular body. Indeed, they knew too well what was proper, to do so. Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken.
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ONE MORE TIME—————————Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken.
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I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 19th, 2012
7:54 pm
democrats: No, the SPCA does not take food stamps.
Class of '98
April 19th, 2012
7:59 pm
Hey Kyle, how many pinkos have told you that your columns are “dribble”? That’s my personal favorite. They don’t even realize how dumb they are.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 19th, 2012
8:00 pm
democrats: PETA, People Eating Terriers, Akitas and anything else you drop off.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 19th, 2012
8:05 pm
democrats: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks but you can sure eat them.
Lyman Hall
April 19th, 2012
8:07 pm
In the morning, Boston was surrounded by a huge militia army, numbering over 15,000, which had marched from throughout New England…Unlike the Powder Alarm, the rumors of spilled blood were true, and the Revolutionary War had BEGUN. The militia army continued to grow as surrounding colonies sent men and supplies. The Second Continental Congress adopted these men into the beginnings of the Continental Army. Even now, after open warfare had started, Gage still refused to impose martial law in Boston. He persuaded the town’s selectmen to surrender all PRIVATE WEAPONS(sound familiar?) in return for promising that any inhabitant could leave town.
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George Washington received the news at Mount Vernon and wrote to a friend, “the once-happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched in blood or inhabited by SLAVES.(probably considered a terrorist today). Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice.
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Yes indeed…….But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?”
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Ron Paul 2012.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 19th, 2012
8:10 pm
democrats: Kibbles and Bits gets them into the Sufuria every time!
Lyman Hall
April 19th, 2012
8:12 pm
Have your silly elections.
Elect your silly big government candidate of choice.
Just remember……………………..the REAL freedom-loving majority has pretty much “had it”.
Hillbilly D
April 19th, 2012
8:18 pm
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
What about the Battle of Alamance in 1771?
Lyman Hall
April 19th, 2012
8:27 pm
Good question Hillbilly——
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The Battle of Alamance was agin LOCAL crooks……………………….not the Royal Red Bellies.
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Only when Royal Marines are involved………………is it on.
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Not unlike what is going on now…Our Federal overlords are slowly getting the military involved in our domestic affairs.
Bad mistake.
Rafe Hollister
April 19th, 2012
8:32 pm
I Report
Yellow dogs, blue dogs, they all taste the same to a Democrat.
Here is one I like.
FAST and FURIOUS,
(It is not how we drive, but how we spend)
Rafe Hollister
April 19th, 2012
8:35 pm
DEMOCRAT SALAD
Arugula with grilled dog strips.
Hillbilly D
April 19th, 2012
8:46 pm
Those local crooks were agents of the British Crown. They just don’t get the press because that didn’t suit the New Englanders who wrote the history books.
ragnar danneskjold
April 19th, 2012
8:55 pm
Democrats – seeking new ways to spend your money
Democrats – not responsible for anything
Democrats – cutting medicare and blaming republicans
Democrats – we have more dog recipes
Democrats – we suck at talk radio and television news
Democrats – no worthy ideas in 50 years
Democrats – proof of global warming
Democrats – the party of abortion
Democrats – no real economists in our ranks
Democrats – proof that thoughtless and brainless can coexist in one
Michael H. Smith
April 19th, 2012
9:07 pm
You’re grading these political bumper snickers on a curve aren’t you Kyle?
Federalism: Don’t ask a Democrat!
Dusty
April 19th, 2012
9:13 pm
Well, “the time has come ” the walrus said “to talk of many things. Of shoes__and ships__and sealinig wax__of cabbages and kings__”
So let’s see. MarkV.
If your computer screen is too small for your NOT A REPUBLICAN bumper sticker, just place it on your wide screen TV. Serves just as well.
I report & Rafe
You’ve really “dogged” that one out!! No barking up the wrong tree for you two.
Sister Sarah
So you think I’m a cannibal for eating barbeque.. Well, come one over. Since you are half-baked , we can finish the baking and see if you are in “good taste”.
Lyman Hall
I like your history. Has a nice twist to it. The good ol’ Revolutionary! We haven’t had a fine Tea Party since then.
HillBilly D
You and Lyman forgot to mention the unmaned rocket attack on Bunker Hill. Maybe it was not mentioned because the unwomaned rocket attack has never been mentioned either. Prejudice!!
Hillbilly D
April 19th, 2012
9:26 pm
Dusty
The Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on Breed’s Hill.
Dusty
April 19th, 2012
9:29 pm
HillBilly D
No wonder the unmanned rocket attacks were never mentioned. They attacked the wrong hill.
hryder
April 19th, 2012
9:37 pm
When but an extemely young boy growing up in Dayton, Ohio, I asked my dad what DFD meant on the side of a building while he was driving our family car to Sears to shop. He replied, “Damn fool drivers!”. I am more than certain that he would change the drivers of his comment to the political party beginning with the same first letter of dee. This from a man who was a Democrat until LBJ and all his illogical programs.
Lt Dan
April 19th, 2012
9:56 pm
Bumper sticker I saw a while back that although in bad taste, I did laugh the rest of the way home: “I would still rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than ride in a car driven by Ted Kennedy”.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 20th, 2012
5:51 am
Finn: in bad economic times, there are higher deficits; conversely, when prosperity returns, deficits decrease.
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Why did the debt increase every year of the Clinton regime?
It’s the spending, stupid. And Obozo has done more of it than anyone since WWII. All after the recession ended in June 2000.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 20th, 2012
5:54 am
2009…’scuse me
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 20th, 2012
5:55 am
Well hell, there’s your bumper sticker right there:
It’s the spending, stupid
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 20th, 2012
5:56 am
Not a Republican?
More like…Not an American
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:22 am
Democrats: How do you want your dog cooked?
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:23 am
Democrats: My welfare check is higher than your kid’s GPA
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:24 am
Democrats: Yes I graduated from APS! Soo What?
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:25 am
Democrats: My kid’s teachers cheat better than yours
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:26 am
Democrats: Barnes for Governor 2014!
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:26 am
Democrats: Save Guam from tipping over!
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:27 am
Democrats: Let’s take back all 57 states America!
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:28 am
Democrats: I really, really do promise Hope and Change this time around.
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:28 am
Democrats: No mo’ Gitmo!
MiltonMan
April 20th, 2012
6:29 am
Democrats: We will find those stay home moms jobs!
Chip
April 20th, 2012
6:51 am
Democrats: “G– D—- America”
Democrats: We only like liberal career women
Democrats: Snuff that unborn child!
Democrats: You work to serve us
Democrats: Your money is ours!
Democrats: F=== the Police! Kill the pigs!
Democrats: We hate your freedoms
Democrats: Silence all dissent!
Democrats: No big carbon footprints — except for Hollywood and our rock gods
Boy, I could go on all day here…
DeborahinAthens
April 20th, 2012
6:53 am
I was a Republican my whole life until Dubya the Dumb ran. I knew from personal experience he was a piece of work. I have a mug that has one of those caricatures of him dressed as a Banana Republic dictator (uniform with epaluts, medals, etc). It says “One nation, one leader, one I.Q. point” . I love it. Another button I have has Bush’s face on it and it says, “Some things should not be recycled”.
Ronnie Raygun
April 20th, 2012
7:02 am
Since the Republicans have the support of Catholic priests and Ted Nugent, I guess that makes them the party of pedophiles then.
Ronnie Raygun
April 20th, 2012
7:25 am
Republicans: We want to save the children…for our private sex parties.
saywhat?
April 20th, 2012
7:39 am
Vote Republican- Its easier than thinking
saywhat?
April 20th, 2012
7:39 am
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