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This is Moving On?

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Have you ever suddenly been taken aback by something that’s been around for a while and just never really paid it that much attention before?

Yesterday I was on my way to the gym and must have seen about 5 or 6 “Kerry-Edwards” bumper-stickers. That may not seem like many, but when you consider that it was 443 days ago that Bush trounced Kerry (442 days since Kerry figured it out) with the largest number of popular votes ever by a presidential candidate in American history, you start to wonder: Aren’t these the people who made popular the phrase “Move On“?

Kind of makes me want to do an informal survey: How long did it take you to remove your Bush/Quayle ’92 and/or Dole/Kemp ’96 stickers after they lost?

I’ll go first: It was the next day. For that matter, I removed the Bush/Cheney stickers the next day in ’00 (in spite of the so-called “Constitutional Crisis!“) and again in ’04. You see, in a democracy, you have an election, then you have a president. Do Kerry supporters understand that?

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  2. Dude, I still see occasional Gore-Lieberman stickers around here. Just take it as yet another testament to the Democrats’ collective inability to deal with reality.

    (WordPress choked. I hope this isn’t a double post)

  3. I don’t think its a party thing — I still see Bush/Quayle from time to time…and last year I saw a Bush/Quayle from ’88.

    People who voted for Alan Keyes in 2000 will never remove them, I am convinced. And, every now and then I see a “Lamar!”

    I think its more of people getting comfortable and never getting around too it, where it just becomes a blind spot. I think we all probably have some unfinished household task similar to it.

    Its always funny to see them though.

  4. First, who actually put a Dole/Kemp ‘96 sticker on their car?

    Second, there is a light pole near Penn Station in Newark, New Jersey (of all places) that has Tsongas sticker on it. Its just about eye level and whenever I’m at the stop light I chuckle.

  7. In the SF Bay Area, the only lingering stickers you see are:

    (1) Kerry-Edwards
    (2) much more rare – Bush 2004

    The Bush 2004 I can understand, because hey, it ain’t 2004 anymore, but at least the Bush part is relevant.

    But the Kerry-Edwards I don’t get at all, because that’s one ticket that will NEVER happen again folks; come on. Get with the times. At least put on an “Impeach Bush!” sticker, if that’s what motivates you to get out of bed in the morning.

  14. What I get a kick out of is all of these little stickers simulating yellow ribbons with legends like “support our troops” that I usually see on SUV gas guzzlers. The people who started marketing those things are probably making money hand over fist. Frankly, if the marketers or the purchasers really wanted to “support our troops” why don’t they just volunteer to go over to Iraq?

    I might make reference to the comment downstream regarding “ChickenHawks” but it is probably more of an example of war profiteering on the part of the marketeers, and/or stupidity on the part of the purchasers of these little stickers.

  20. Karla, #13: You might not be so quick to attack the military if you’d take the time to compare what percentage of the GNP goes to the Pentagon (national defense) today compared to previous years. (I’d give it to you here, but that would require a trip upstairs to my bedroom and a pile of magazines by the bed, and I’m too tired to climb the stairs.)

  21. Kevin,

    The only way this post / comment stream will prevent people from coming together on GLBT issues is with the people who are so “wound-up” on insignificant issues, (i.e. caring about posts on election bumper stickers) that they take the comments personally. Those people will become blind to the larger picture and only see their rage.

  23. Lighten up, ColoradoPatriot. I doubt that Kerry supporters still bearing his bumper stickers on their cars 442 days since the election fail to appreciate the constitution. They obviously don’t like President Bush and may not be able to find “Don’t Blame Me I Voted for Kerry” stickers.

    After the ’92 election I kept my Re-Elect Bush/Qualye sticker on my back bumpers for almost two years, until a local print shop made up and sold some “Don’t Blame Me…” stickers.

    Come to think of it, I kept a Nixon-Lodge bumper sticker on my car until the evening of November 22, 1963. Even though I knew and personally liked Lyndon Johnson, after he won in 1964 I kept a supply of Goldwater bumper stickers and every fall during the Johnson years, as a I traded cars, I’d affix a Goldwater sticker to the back bumper as soon as I got home from the car dealer. I kept a President Ford sticker on a car until I traded it in the fall of ’77. By then I’d found a source for a “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted Republican” stickers to display for the balance of the Carter Administration.

    It was never that I was a sore loser or failed to realize the other guys won — it was just my way of letting people know I was in no way responsible for the policies of the guys who won. The people who regret that George Bush defeated John Kerry are entitled to say so.

  27. #24 – Korla said:

    It’ll be a great day when the Pentagon has all the money it needs, and the schools have to hold a bake sale.

    Which is a clever inversion of an exceedingly stupid Left slogan,

    It’ll be a great day when the schools have all the money they need, and the Pentagon has to hold a bake sale.

  28. Kevin: “Good example of unnecessary snarkiness designed to keep people from coming together on important gay/lesbian related issues. sigh.”

    Gee, not a collectivist or anything… lol.

  29. Frankly, I am tired of the W04 sticker. But in general, except for the “My Child sold Crystal Meth to Your Honor Roll Student” and “My Son Was Inmate of the Month at Folsom”, I am annoyed by all bumper stickers. I could give a rats ass about your child, familial relations, or who you did or did not vote for. Most of all, I am annoyed by that sticky substance the stickers leave behind. Like I am going to spend $50K on a vehicle only to defile it with a sticker. Hell No!

  30. At the gym today, I saw this fancy new BMW with a W sticker in a circle with the red-line through it. It looked as if the guy had just put it on his car. And my Hollywood gym does attract more than its share of Kerry and “Impeach Bush” stickers.

  32. #29

    Must be nice to afford a $50K car.

    #30

    I still have a “W The President” sticker on my truck, but I bought it about 6 months ago.

    When I was working at the hospital last fall, it was interesting that you might see 2-3 Kerry-Edwards stickers in the parking lots or garage, but there would be about ten times as many Bush-Cheney stickers.
    There was a ballot bill on malpractice reform in 04, and there were a lot of doctors who wore buttons on their lab coats that read “Vote Yes on (whatever the proposition # was)” for about a month before election day.

    I had noticed a lot more cars in the Lakeland area with Bush-Cheney stickers on them than Kerry-Edwards. That September, I had a trip up to Ohio where I noticed a lot more Bush-Cheney stickers on cars driving down the interstate than Kerry-Edwards. I saw them more in Tennessee and Kentucky, then I saw a lot of Bush-Cheney yard signs in the northern part of Cincinnattii that I was in.

    Just my observations.

  35. Wow. That TIME cover is amazing. “Mandate for change” for Clinton in 1992, even though he only got forty-three percent of the vote. That’s right folks, 43%. And even in 1996, he still only got 49%.

    Yet Bush wins in 2004, with more votes than any President in history, and with a greater percentage than any Democrat for President has achieved in 40 years, and “He has no mandate!” (as spread by Time and others).

    There really is a liberal media bias.

  36. Since Democrats talk so much about employment, outsourcing of jobs, etc., I found it interesting that in my part of the country in ’04 most of the Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers were on imported vehicles and most of the Bush-Cheney bumper stickers were on vehicles made in America.

  38. I won’t take my Bush/Cheney Stickers off of my SUV until Hillary and her NSA -acting on current precedent- wiretaps anyone she wants without a warrant. Remember that “pro-life” groups are sometimes considered terrorist organizations because of their ties to Rudolph, Kopp, etc. Why not just get the FISA approval or change the law?

    Besides, how else can we show that we are still in the 37% majority? “Bush/Cheney ’04” is our own version of the “I’m with stupid” T-shirts.

  39. They’re Democrats. They’re still trying to figure out why the Supreme Court wouldnt’ let them count blank ballots as votes for Gore.

    Funny, NDT! But isn’t it “Judicial Activism” to meddle in state election laws and decisions by the State Supreme court concerning their election laws? And, honestly, recounts violate the “equal protection clause”?!?!?!? So, any state with varied (not homogenous) ballets also presumably violates the Constitution as well?

    Whether you like the outcome or not, Bush v. Gore was a BAD decision (and Bush would have probably won anyway had the recount happened).