# It is fucking July. Take the goddam campaign stickers off your fucking car. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207 "2005-07-12T17:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/21 "2005-07-12T18:26:54Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > Amen. Nah…anything that gets the lefties frothing at the mouth is money well spent. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/22 "2005-07-12T18:34:04Z")
Personally I like when people leave their Bush/Cheney stickers on. That way, I know who not to let merge, cross, pass through my lane, etc. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/23 "2005-07-12T18:40:23Z")
This reminds me of a house a bit down the road from me. Up until about May, they still had a Support Issue 1 sign in their front yard. (Issue 1 being the disgusting anti-gay marriage law that we passed here in Ohio) The sign was graced with a little paper-doll shaped boy and girl holding hands (protect our families!). One day on my way to work I noticed that overnight someone had used a marker to give the boy a skirt and long yellow curls. The girl was given a veil and a flower bouquet. The sign was gone on my way home that afternoon. I was amused. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/24 "2005-07-12T18:43:29Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Similarly, those who keep Kerry stickers on their car, or even worse, Gore stickers, demonstrate an unwillingness to acknowlege a hardfought victory by the other side, or a need to assert a sense of moral superiority. Either way, it comes from a similar place as those motives that drive those Bush bumper branders, and is equally ugly. > > Elections come, and then they go. The fact that they go is perhaps their greatest redeeming virtue. Even if folks aren’t happy over the election results, they ought to accept them and move on. Taking off the stickers would be a healthy sign of this. What did Malcolm Reynolds say? Something like “It may have been the _losing_ side. Still don’t think it was the _wrong_ side.” I think I’ll leave that Kerry sticker on, thankyewverymuch. Whichever side you were on, 2004 represented a stark choice between competing views of where America should be going. This was _not_ “OK, the Super Bowl’s over, and one team’s fans get to feel good for a few weeks, but it doesn’t really make any difference.” Whether you love or loathe the outcome, this one made a difference, and it was a difference that was and is quite important to partisans on both sides. Given that reality, it’s silly to expect people to remove their bumper stickers as quickly as in a more typical year. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/25 "2005-07-12T18:44:08Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > It does not exist to change minds, rather it helps keep your own supporters excited and motivated. I’m a whole lot more excited and motivated by the prospect of an unkeyed car than I am that the driver next to me is of the same political persuasion. I’m with **RTA** in adhering to the notion that campaign stickers are more often used as 3X9 scopes than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/26 "2005-07-12T18:45:31Z")
> [@Balle\_M](#): > > Nah…anything that gets the lefties frothing at the mouth is money well spent. I just think bumper stickers look tacky. I’m all for pissing people off (lefties, centrists, righties, whatever), but I’m not putting bumper stickers on my vehicles. Jeb Bush/Hillary Clinton 2008 stickers will just make you look like a tool, though. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/27 "2005-07-12T18:45:59Z")
Boy Moto, you’d really hate the “Vote Stephen A. Douglas” sticker on the back of my truck. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/28 "2005-07-12T18:51:36Z")
At least my “IMPEACH BUSH” sticker is still as relevant as ever. (Maybe someday the entire House of Representatives will be driving behind me.) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/29 "2005-07-12T18:52:13Z")
See, the thing is, my stickers are sort of overlapped…so if I pull off my Kerry sticker, then it might take the Gore sticker with it, and the Dukakis, and the Mondale, and the Carter, and lastly good ol’ Jerry Brown, and that one’s my favorite. Besides, the bumper on a VW bus isn’t engineered to take such abuse. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/30 "2005-07-12T18:52:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Jeb Bush/Hillary Clinton 2008 stickers will just make you look like a tool, though. I think that would rather hip, myself. Where can I get a Jeb/Hillary 08 sticker? > [@](#): > > Nah…anything that gets the lefties frothing at the mouth is money well spent. This lefty would froth even more if instead of a Bush sticker, you got Bush himself. And I’d really be frothy if instead of the rear bumper, it was your front grill. Go ahead, froth me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/31 "2005-07-12T19:00:53Z")
It’s a good thinkg **Mr. Moto** doesn’t have to visit the parking garage of my Metro stop every morning. He’d die of apoplexy. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/32 "2005-07-12T19:01:46Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > See, the thing is, my stickers are sort of overlapped…so if I pull off my Kerry sticker, then it might take the Gore sticker with it, and the Dukakis, and the Mondale, and the Carter, and lastly good ol’ Jerry Brown, and that one’s my favorite. Besides, the bumper on a VW bus isn’t engineered to take such abuse. Sounds like the stickers ARE the bumper. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/33 "2005-07-12T19:02:44Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > …those dumb enough to put them somewhere other than on a corner of the rear window don’t dare scrape, or the car will look even worse with a paint gouge than with a sticker that still expresses an opinion… What price [superfluity](http://image20.webshots.com/20/3/17/13/193031713NDpKdB_fs.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/34 "2005-07-12T19:10:56Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > If you didn’t know about my car history, you’d think that my passions had changed from saving the whales to supporting the NRA overnight. Well, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. You can be a gun nut and a tree hugger at the same time. You just don’t believe in shooting whales. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/35 "2005-07-12T19:12:11Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > It’s a good thinkg **Mr. Moto** doesn’t have to visit the parking garage of my Metro stop every morning. He’d die of apoplexy. I live here too. And I get the same experience when I go to the commuter lot every morning in Prince William County. Why do you think I wrote this thread? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/36 "2005-07-12T19:13:34Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > See, the thing is, my stickers are sort of overlapped…so if I pull off my Kerry sticker, then it might take the Gore sticker with it, and the Dukakis, and the Mondale, and the Carter, and lastly good ol’ Jerry Brown, and that one’s my favorite. Besides, the bumper on a VW bus isn’t engineered to take such abuse. Didn’t you ever get a Clinton? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/37 "2005-07-12T19:14:10Z")
John Kerry, is dat you? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/38 "2005-07-12T19:16:08Z")
Dated campaign stickers still serve a purpose. The Kerry stickers identify those folks smart enough to try and save the nation last November from the ever-growing cluster-fuckup we’re all embroiled in. The Bush stickers identify those apologists still too clueless to recognize the ever-growing cluster-fuckup we’re all embroiled in. In a few years, I suspect we’ll see neighborhood kids spend their summers by standing on street corners and taunting the folks with Bush stickers when they drive by. At least, before they get hauled off to the draft, anyway… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/39 "2005-07-12T19:16:45Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Didn’t you ever get a Clinton? I didn’t, personally, but I’m not a zaftig brunette. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/40 "2005-07-12T19:22:12Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Well, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. You can be a gun nut and a tree hugger at the same time. You just don’t believe in shooting whales. Oh save the whales Oh save the whales Oh save the whales Oh save the whales Oh save the whaaaaaaa-aaaales And shoot the seals (2 points for the reference) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207.md?page=3)