# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/41 "2005-07-12T19:23:52Z")
Is a “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Kodos” sticker OK? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/42 "2005-07-12T19:35:19Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > At least my “IMPEACH BUSH” sticker is still as relevant as ever. (Maybe someday the entire House of Representatives will be driving behind me.) You mean instead of those two FBI guys? ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/43 "2005-07-12T19:37:16Z")
I drove past a house that still has a Bush/Cheney lawn sign up on the way to the bank yesterday. Now that’s [del]laziness[/del]dedication! I’m kinda interested in seeing how long that one stays up. I still have my Feingold sticker on my bumper, but that’s because Russ Feingold is _just that cool_. Wouldn’t do it for any other candidate. I’m thinking about removing the “2004” part so it’s more generally applicable, though. Hey, I’m a liberal, it’s an old Volvo. If I DIDN’T put bumper stickers on it, people would probably be a lot more surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/44 "2005-07-12T19:46:40Z")
On the way to work yesterday I passed a pickup truck sporting a Bush/Cheney sticker and the license plate DIM 4002. Good for a chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/45 "2005-07-12T20:29:54Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > At least my “IMPEACH BUSH” sticker is still as relevant as ever. (Maybe someday the entire House of Representatives will be driving behind me.) Who knows? The “IMPEACH CLINTON” sticker might still become relevant someday as well. I’m with **Gangster** on this one…no political schmuck deserves a spot my bumper… …unless… Bidding will now start at $1000/square inch! 😃 ---
**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, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/46 "2005-07-12T20:44:43Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > I live here too. And I get the same experience when I go to the commuter lot every morning in Prince William County. Sorry; didn’t notice your location. I’m still not taking off my Kerry sticker, though. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/47 "2005-07-12T21:03:53Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > Better yet, don’t put a bumper sticker on your car to begin with. But then, how would I know which gas tanks to open when I have to take a piss? ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/48 "2005-07-13T00:22:10Z")
What’s really great is when people refuse to take campaign stickers off cars that are mainly driven by others. There’s been a W sticker on the car my brother and sister share for a long time, and both are more liberal than anything. Whenever I drive it I want to put another sticker next to it that says “the sentiments expressed by this sticker do not necessarily represent the views of the driver” to keep people from either “sympathizing” or frothing unnecessarily. I myself would never put a campaign sticker on my car, and I’m convinced my dad did it just to bug the hell out of us, and that’s why it stays there. Thank god my own car will be back at the house after this summer. ---
**Author:** ![EleventyOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@EleventyOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EleventyOne)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/49 "2005-07-13T00:35:51Z")
Why don’t they just take the sticker off? ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/50 "2005-07-13T00:40:33Z")
Depending on my dad’s mood, it might be grounds for temporary suspension of driving privileges. (It’s his car.) ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/51 "2005-07-13T01:14:27Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > That being said, a friend of mine still has a Nixon/Agnew sticker on his car. But it takes at least 20 years for political bumper stickers to move from “tasteless” to “funny.” Oh, I dunno, I think the sticker I’ve saved from a local election will always be tasteless. “VOTE YES FOR (Isiah) **BEAVER**!” The lecherous-looking winking beaver is my favorite part. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/52 "2005-07-13T02:18:55Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > …Besides, the bumper on a VW bus isn’t engineered to take such abuse. [sentimental aside] Ah, the veedub bus! Was ever a more perfect machine? Engineered to be generous and understanding, to accept as repair what any other vehicle would scorn as undignified jerry-rigging! To carry six hippies, three children, two dogs and a short ton of good karma anywhere, anytime, for any reason, without complaint, without a breakdown that couldn’t be fixed with a pair of pliers and a coathanger. Mine own might yet be with us, were it not for the Duct Tape Famine of '83. Pursuant to her wishes, she went to her retirement as a combination ground-level treehouse, starship, and _ad hoc_ chicken coop. Rust in peace, good and faithful servant! ---
**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 13, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/53 "2005-07-13T03:47:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > [sentimental aside] Ah, the veedub bus! Was ever a more perfect machine? Engineered to be generous and understanding, to accept as repair what any other vehicle would scorn as undignified jerry-rigging! To carry six hippies, three children, two dogs and a short ton of good karma anywhere, anytime, for any reason, without complaint, without a breakdown that couldn’t be fixed with a pair of pliers and a coathanger. Sentiment can be helped along a bit by those chemicals you were consuming at the time. Clearheaded folks realized that those repairs may have been cheap, but they were far too frequent. And the vehicle was engineered to be generous, understanding, and also to use the driver’s legs as a crumple zone in a head on crash. ---
**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 13, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/54 "2005-07-13T03:49:52Z")
Makes me want a voters button of long ago during one of FDR runs by one of his opponents turned into a bumper sticker: **No man is good three times!** Now that is a bumper sticker! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/55 "2005-07-13T04:40:24Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Sentiment can be helped along a bit by those chemicals you were consuming at the time. > > Clearheaded folks realized that those repairs may have been cheap, but they were far too frequent. And the vehicle was engineered to be generous, understanding, and also to use the driver’s legs as a crumple zone in a head on crash. Well, you may be right. But just so we can get some focus on your expertise… How old were you in 1971? ---
**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 13, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/56 "2005-07-13T05:01:03Z")
Well, expertise can take several forms. I have driven several VW vans of early-'70’s, mid-'80’s, and late-'90’s vintage, though I have never personally owned one. And I considered buying a camper model once, and in researching the model became acquainted with it’s comsiderable virtues and numerous flaws. Knowlege isn’t restricted to people of a certain age, especially direct expertise of tangible items because they do not go away. Now, if I were to wonder what it was like to actually burn a draft card or put Brylcreme in my hair, I might look you up, old man. For the record, I was a toddler in 1971, and my parents had traded in their Volkswagen for a nice sensible Chevrolet. And I seem to recall, the first election I can remember, a Ford sticker showing up on its bumper. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/57 "2005-07-13T05:12:54Z")
I had no idea someone could be _born_ Republican! I’ll make an effort to be more sympathetic in the future. ---
**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 13, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/58 "2005-07-13T05:13:35Z")
BTW, **elucidator** , if you liked the old 'bus so mich, just bide your time. [VW intends to have it out again for the 2007 model year.](http://www.wheels24.co.za/Wheels24/News/0,,1369-1372_1529946,00.html) ---
**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 13, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/59 "2005-07-13T05:27:27Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I had no idea someone could be _born_ Republican! I’ll make an effort to be more sympathetic in the future. Actually my folks were Democrats then, and they’re Democrats today. Reliable Democratic voters in local and state elections. My dad and grandfather were steelworkers and union men. At the time, though, the Democratic Party was having a bit of a fit at the national level, and my folks were among those many thousands of Democrats who chose to vote for Republican presidential candidates. They did so from 1968 to 1992, when a moderate candidate finally convinced them to come back to a party they’d always supported in most elections anyway. There’s a lesson here, one I picked up and have brought to many, many threads. Precious few of you seem to have been listening. Now, me, I’m a conservative Republican. Have been since I could donate money and time to candidates, even before I could vote. But I certainly wasn’t born that way, and I came from a part of the country and a family where such a leaning would have been a quite conscious choice. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207/60 "2005-07-13T05:49:14Z")
See, **Moto** , all you have to do is kill the joke. It isn’t _really_ necessary to pound a stake through its heart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-fucking-july-take-the-goddam-campaign-stickers-off-your-fucking-car/312207.md?page=4)