Reader HRA sent this in (from here, click to embiggen), and it turns out that the site that sold it is currently down:
Stumpy Stickers also once replaced the face of the president with the image of an ape accompanied by a cartoon of hooded members of the Klu Klux Klan, with the slogan “The original BOYS IN THE HOOD.”
To be fair, I’m sure these aren’t quite the words Mitt Romney would have used, Bill Maher said something racist once, and liberals criticized George Bush.
Not Sure
Unbelievable. I’d say there’s a car just asking to be keyed. Repeatedly.
bjacques
Cover it with a sticker that says FREE CANDY AND RIDES.
dr. bloor
The Benelli ad is a nice go-with. The Komplete Kracker look.
Ben Cisco
Gonna make it all the better when they lose, AGAIN.
Michael Bersin
We’re very familiar with this in Missouri:
Welcome to post racial America, part 3 (November 10, 2010)
Someone thought it would send some kind of message to slap a bumper sticker or two on the front door of the local Democratic Party campaign headquarters after the election.
Mike in NC
Classy! Needs to have a close encounter with a tractor trailer.
debit
I can’t wait for Wyld or one of the other victims of Obama derangement syndrome to come tell us there’s nothing objectionable or wrong with this bumper sticker. Too bad all I’ll see is pie.
c u n d gulag
Never mind keying – how about some sand in the gas tank, and 4 slashed tires?
I know, I know, we Liberals are supposed to turn the other cheek…
But, F*CK THAT!
Phylllis
It is helpful for them to let that particular flag fly so overtly. At least I know up front who to shun.
geg6
Fuck these mother fuckers. Repeatedly. With a rusty chainsaw. I look forward to these assholes waking up the day after Election Day and knowing that the black man they so hate is still POTUS, has won in a landslide, and that they are even less relevant than they were the day before. I don’t like to have hate in my heart, but I truly HATE these fuckers. I hate them as much as I hate the Catholic Church. And that’s a lotta hate, let me tell you.
SiubhanDuinne
@dr. bloor:
Had never heard of Benelli (had to Google) and wouldn’t even have noticed the Benelli decal if you hadn’t pointed it out. But yeah, it’s an enhancement of the bumper sticker message all right.
cathyx
I feel confident that if that sticker showed up on a car in my state, the owner wouldn’t keep it on much longer.
cathyx
What does that symbol to the left on the sticker mean?
kdaug
Let’s not.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Sarah’s real americans buy Italian firearms.
Michael Bersin
@cathyx:
The International traffic sign “no” symbol superimposed over the Obama 2008 campaign logo. That makes their “connection” explicit, don’t you think?
NorthLeft12
I read some of the comments accompanying the picture, and the part about a President never being disrespected like this before is just laughable. Ever hear of Lincoln, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, G Dubya Bush? In fact every one of your presidents has been viciously insulted and maligned on a regular basis by his opponents.
Yes, I am sure in some cases it is worse than others, and you can try and justify it based on actual presidential actions or performance, but it always crosses the line. It’s what you do.
NOTE: I am not equating these attacks on Obama with Bush being called an idiot, alcoholic, lazy, deserting, war criminal. Just pointing out that presidents are always
smearedcriticized harshly. Ahh, that does not sound right either. Okay, how is this? Any president should expect to get this kind of treatment because there are thousands upon thousands of bigoted, mean spirited, foul human beings who will use any excuse to exercise their version of free speech, no matter how odious it is to most of the population.dr. bloor
@Michael Bersin: Particularly helpful insofar as a good chunk of their target audience can’t read.
Chyron HR
Silly libs, it is a logical impossibility for any product sold by the FREE MARKET to be racist. Ron Paul said so.
maya
@c u n d gulag:
Just leave the gas tank cap open with a small pile of sugar on the ground directly below.
greennotGreen
In the Whole Foods parking lot a few weeks ago, I saw a sticker on a jeep that read, “If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you weren’t a racist, don’t vote for him again in 2012 to prove you aren’t an idiot.”
WereBear
@Not Sure: A Facebook friend posted about actually seeing it on someone’s car: he reports he was so so so tempted to key it something serious.
Michael Bersin
@dr. bloor:
It’ll be interesting to observe the future demographic surge of people misspelling “renege”. Everybody else will be able to say, “Oh, [your family, your neighbor, you] had that bumper sticker on the car back in 2012, eh?”
Elizabelle
That sticker screams “low IQ within.”
What state does this fool live in?
MikeJ
Reminds me of the puma sites going on and on about the “noggeration”.
tjmn
I give it an “FU” for spelling.
Amir Khalid
I suppose the equivalent in Malaysia would be a Malay person’s car with a rear-windshield sticker that said “Cina makan babi” (Chinks eat pig) instead of the usual Manchester United/Liverpool/Arsenal club badge. That kind of inflammatory language could get a guy arrested here, but I appreciate that this is not done in America.
I fear that the Stumpy Stickers site is down because of all the 27-percenters trying to buy those stickers in bulk, so that they can flaunt their indecency on everything they own. No multiracial society has ever quite gotten to a post-racial utopia (mine certainly has not) and maybe none ever will, but Stumpy Stickers and its would-be customers seem to delight in their racist ugliness.
Riilism
But Mistermix, the 1st amendment clearly states that everyone has the right to say whatever they want without suffering any consequences. It’s right in there after the part about the founders establishing the US as a Christian theocracy…
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Stumpy stickers looks like it’s been out of business for a while, judging by expired name records and such.
Marc
@NorthLeft12:
Ethnic slurs directed at presidents, however, are not common.
Marc
@greennotGreen:
Because voting for a Republican is the smart thing to do? Or voting for some fringe candidate and sitting on the sidelines?
The stupid is strong with that bumper sticker.
cmorenc
@geg6:
What won’t be so fun to watch is if Obama wins comfortably, but not in a landslide, and the GOP wins control of the Senate and keeps control of the House. The GOP Congress will spend the next two years constantly flinging not just poo, but every lethally dangerous rock and sharp object they can conceive of or grab hold of at Obama, attempting to defund and dismantle every nonmilitary facet of the federal government they can find and sell it off to cronies in the private sector. Obama will spend the next two to four years simply trying to keep sociopathic manic vandals from ripping the country and government to shreds and stealing anything of value.
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
I did not know that.
WereBear
@maya: I greatly admire the deviant cunning in your suggestion.
Gravenstone
Haven’t had the dubious pleasure of seeing this sticker live, yet. But did see a kindred spirit to the pictured driver just last week. Pick up truck proudly sporting an “Impeach Obama” sticker on the left rear and “Obama is not MY President” on the right. Of course, his vehicle was also festooned with a variety of firearms manufacturer stickers as well. My blood pressure was dangerously high by the time we parted ways at an intersection.
forked tongue
JUST REMEMBER: THEY VOTE.
Brian R.
How dare anyone suggest the president’s opponents are motivated by racism. How dare they!
muddy
@WereBear: You can take your tire gauge and let the air out of all four tires. If you didn’t slash them it’s not vandalism.
Someone told me years ago that you could put a ping pong ball in the gas tank. This will make the car act up when the gas is low the ball clogs the outlet. But it doesn’t happen all the time, and when you bring it to the shop they can’t find anything wrong. Hopefully they change out a lot of things and charge him for it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
@Amir Khalid:
According to this news story dated yesterday, the Stumpy Stickers site was shut down sometime between Thursday and Friday of this past week because of a couple of Facebook activists:
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Stickers-Stopped-142998395.html
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
@debit:
I’ve finally figured out that some of these emoprogs and firebaggers were driven just as thoroughly out of their minds by the election of a black president as the knuckle-dragging simians like this. It was an article of faith with them that that could never happen, therefore the whole system was illegitimate. Then all of a sudden it did, and they’ve been going: “Hummina, hummina, what now!?” for the last three years.
ant
I actually laughed out loud when i first saw this.
It’s not helpful to their cause.
Let it all hang out GOP, that’s right, don’t PC hold y’all back.
Get er done.
lol
Gravenstone
@muddy: Nice concept, but you can’t fit a ping pong ball through the fuel inlet of a modern car that uses unleaded fuel.
Brian R.
@muddy:
A friend of mine was once coming out of a Home Depot in Atlanta, and saw a jackass screaming at his wife in the parking lot (because she was carrying items to their car, and he was trying to zoom into a spot she was briefly walking past, so of course, you’d get out and scream at her, right?)
He might have accidentally left four roofing nails, point up, in the path of his tires. No damage was done, but I imagine all four tires somehow went flat on the highway home.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
@ant:
It’s sort of like that lady in Pennsyltucky who told the door-to-door pollster “We’re voting for the nigger.” I knew the election was in the bag at that point.
Gravenstone
@SiubhanDuinne: Nice to hear. Sadly, now we’ll be regaled with screams of “Free Speech!” and “First Amendment” by the lesser primates who understand neither concept.
ant
@Gravenstone:
heh. remember when we had flip the back license plate down to put the gas in?
One time, as a lil kid, I forgot to put the plug back on, on the back of my moms huge caddy.
The gas just poured out the back, leaving a trail everywhere she went. She was soooo pissed.
Elizabelle
@ant:
I think you’re right.
That sticker reminds people who support President Obama, and like sane politics, what they’re up against.
Much like our beloved DC metro system advertisement with “go to hell Barack” that Metrorail told us was “free speech”.
Not sure that won’t help with voter registration too.
Next topic?
Oh — and Happy St. Patrick’s Day, y’all.
Soonergrunt
@maya: Sugar won’t do it. The Mythbusters did that one.
High Expanding Insulating Foam, OTOH…
muddy
@Gravenstone: Damn. It was a long time ago that I heard it.
Virginia Highlander
@c u n d gulag:
Amateurs.
Down in the coal fields, they pour molasses in the crankcase. Once it hits the journal bearings, that’s it.
Svensker
@Gin & Tonic:
First saw this a couple of days ago and I was able to get on the site and cruise around. The front page was a huge American eagle with a Confederate flag in one claw and the american flag in the other. When you entered the site you could buy the above sticker, or an even better one with the Confederate flag! Or ones with Obama’s face turned into a monkey or a chimp (two different types of ape, so creative). There was also a charming one showing 3 KKK guys with “the original boys in the hood”. The guy also had stuff for legalization of pot. My read was a libertarian racist Southern guy with “humor”.
D. Mason
@Gravenstone: The difference I see is that the sticker mentioned in the OP is overtly racist. The ones you mentioned are just standard fare. You know, “Obama is not MY President” and “Don’t blame me I voted for Gore” are basically the same thing in my mind. Neither one matches up with a wink nod racial slur.
aimai
@Marc:
I’m not so sure about that. Roosevelt was smeared as being a Jew, at that time (as now) a very potent smear/rumor. And Lincoln was, of course, attacked for looking like an ape. Not to say that what is happening to the Obamas (President, Mrs. and the children) isn’t head-under-water worse than that. But this country is simply roiling in hate and pickled in vitriol and the conservatives since the Civil War have refused to show any deference to the office of President ever since losing it meant they lost control of their slaveholding slice of heaven. To the ordinary antipathy of partisanship the neo confederate party has always added just that extra fillip of race baiting and personal attack.
aimai
Virginia Highlander
@muddy:
I heard in school that ping pong balls dissolve in gas and the resulting goo gunks-up or destroys the entire fuel system.
Svensker
@SiubhanDuinne:
If you want to get sick, read the comments there.
Elizabelle
@Svensker:
Stumpy Stickers reminds us all:
Vote for O’Bama.
Save America from its cracker culturists.
Davis X. Machina
@Elizabelle:
No. It screams “I am one of you, and you are part of us.” IQ doesn’t matter. Team does.
I’ve got students wearing gimme caps from colleges where there SAT scores wouldn’t get them jobs mowing the lawns — like Georgetown. But they love them some Hoyas.
The most valuable tool to understand American politics isn’t C-SPAN, or the Federalist Papers, or even a bookmark for The Monkey Pages. You need a big foam “We’re #1′ finger.
Go Big White!
Linda Featheringill
That bumper sticker will piss off the liberals but it won’t accomplish much else. No one will be surprised to learn that Obama is black and no one is going to change a vote because of that fact.
But it might help the local Dem GOTV efforts.
redshirt
I’m rockin’ both 2008 and 2012 Obama stickers on my big ass black truck. I hope I mess with a few folks minds. A liberal? In a big ass pickup?!
Yes we can!
Kirbster
I don’t get the point of political bumper stickers. No matter where on the political spectrum the vehicle owner is, the stickers are sure to persuade nobody and piss off somebody in these days of hair-trigger road rage.
redshirt
Also too, I have come to appreciate whenever I see some dumb ass Republican bumper sticker on a car. Let’s me know instantly who I’m dealing with.
The “don’t tread on me” stickers are especially helpful since they jump right out from a distance. Dumbasses.
Ben Franklin weeps.
Lockewasright
I love me some first amendment! If the world is going to be packed full of assholes, they might as well be self-identifying.
Cat Lady
Some 2012 bumper sticker suggestions:
Honk If My Taxes Support Your Whiny Teabagging Ass
Tea Party: White Whine Party Is More Like It
Tea Parties Are For Little Girls With Imaginary Friends
Eight Years of Insanity, and Now You’re Mad?
I’d Vote For a Republican, But I’m Allergic to Nuts
Am I Liberal, Or Just Well-Educated?
Voting is Like Driving A Car: Choose [ R ] to Move Backward, Choose [D] to Move Forward
My President Killed Osama bin Laden – How ’bout Yours?
Proud To Be Everything The Right Wing Hates
redshirt
@Kirbster: Tribe identification and marketing purposes.
I hear you on the road rage. I actually check myself often because I’ve got the Obama bumper stickers – I don’t want to set a bad example.
I never had a bumper sticker before 2008, let alone a political one, so this pressure I feel was quite surprising, and still is. Anyone else feel this? It’s responsibility!
Steeplejack
@Svensker:
Hmm, the page you link to no longer exists. Presumably taken down.
Cat Lady
@redshirt:
Now you know how Obama must feel, except to the eleventyith power.
Virginia Highlander
@Steeplejack: Site selling racist Obama stickers shut down
Maybe that won’t break. *fingers crossed*
muddy
@redshirt: I don’t have a bumper sticker, but I have a giant Obama pin on the front of my purse. I feel like you do, and it makes me be sure to be well-dressed and smiling in public. I should do those things anyway, but eh.
redshirt
@Cat Lady: Indeed. Eleventy times Eleven at that.
I am still amazed by Obama. He’s sincerely inspiring to me – on a moral level even. He’s truly setting an example that all parents could raise their children by, and one which every adult should strive to emulate. FSM knows I try, but I’m nowhere near the man Barack is.
I love him. OBOT represent!
Felinious Wench
Have to have a sense of the absurd with these rednecks, and remember, it’s always about their ego.
1. Buy some cheap stickers that are hell to get off.
2. Stick them somewhere they won’t notice easily. The very edge of back bumpers can work. Especially if it’s black stickers on a black bumper, or white on a chrome one.
If they see it, they have to either attempt to pull it apart right there, or drive home with it. I kept a supply of Rush is Wrong stickers on hand for just this purpose in the 90s.
I also suggest Hello Kitty stickers on the backseat windows. Hard to see. These are great for redneck trucks that take up multiple parking spots.
Not that I’d know, mind you.
Cat Lady
@redshirt:
[[high five]]
RossInDetroit
@cmorenc:
Depending on what happens with the leadership I wouldn’t be surprised to see an impeachment attempt against BHO. Because the GOP is just about that desperate now, and when Mitt loses they’ll be desperate squared.
Michael Bersin
@redshirt:
My sport utility currently has four bumper stickers:
“I voted for Al Gore, but who’s counting?” (from 2001)
“Democrats – Cleaning Up GOP Messes Since 1933”
“Gay Marriage Doesn’t Scare Me, No Health Care Does”
IRAQ/N (the last letter turning over, odometer style)
I was stopped in traffic in Kansas City when a guy in a red luxury car pulled up short next to me, rolled down his window and called out, “I love your bumper stickers!”
After I parked the vehicle in a residential neighborhood in Lee’s Summit (a suburb of Kansas City in eastern Jackson County, notorious for being a right wingnut haven) a woman taking a walk in the neighborhood called out, “Great bumper stickers!” as she passed by.
The bumper stickers serve to let others know that they are not alone. They also serve to piss off the right wingnuts. I’ve received plenty of glares from passing vehicles on the highway. That makes my day.
Of course, I keep my cell phone with me at all times and my digital SLR camera (bloggers must always be prepared to feed the content beast), as well as my digital recorder. I can slap on my laminated blogger credential (we have ’em for our blog) at the drop of a hat. Anyone who would start a confrontation will get photographed and recorded. I’ve never had to do so over bumper stickers, but I’ve found that bullies have a sense about who they can or cannot easily intimidate.
My bumper stickers have magnetic backing. I remove them when I take the vehicle in for maintenance/repair. Unfortunately, I lost one of my favorite bumper stickers in extremely cold weather when it fell off while driving on the highway. “Doing My Part To Piss Off The Religious Right”
gogol's wife
@redshirt:
Yes, and I still keep my Kerry-Edwards sticker up (despite Edwards).
RossInDetroit
@redshirt:
Me neither! Democrats 2008 was my first bumper sticker, after 30 years of driving. It’s a tiny gesture, but I look at other people’s stickers so maybe it’ll make a difference.
Kathy in St. Louis
@Michael Bersin: As you can see from my name, I am a not-so-proud Missourian. This is about par for the course once you get outside St. Louis, Columbia, and KC….and not very far outside. Classless, bigoted, rednecks, or as we call them here in the St. Louis area, dirtbag hoosiers, with a small h.
kindness
When I first saw the article elsewhere, I don’t know if it was Thursday or yesterday, but my first thought was if I saw a car with that bumper sticker on, what level of vandalism I would wreck on the car. Mind you, that isn’t me. Most I’ve done in recent years is to write on wretched bumper stickers with a permanent marker so they’d have to peel the thing off themselves.
I’m still not sure though what I’ll do.
WyldPirate
@debit:
Fuck you, debit.
Davis X. Machina
Absolutely. In wonderful ways. In 2006, I had a “Links Gehen, Rechts Stehen,” sticker on my car (it was originally an escalator sticker mandated by the German version of OSHA) and I came back to the minivan after an errand in a rural Maine town of 6000 or so to find “Genau!!” written in the inevitable dirt on the rear window.
That’s the good news. The bad news was it wasn’t the original rear window. Its predecessor lost a fight in my own driveway to a cantaloupe-sized rock Thanksgiving night of 2004. I suppose the Kerry-Edwards, Impeach Bush, and various anti-war bumper stickers weren’t involved in any way.
RossInDetroit
Anyone prickish enough to display a racist bumper sticker is likely living in a hell dimension of their own making. No need to respond or oppose it. They already have a shit life that they richly deserve.
Joey Maloney
@kindness: My first thought was just to hope for some poetic justice for that driver, such as a breakdown on, say, South State Street below Hyde Park in Chicago.
kay
In 2004, religious conservatives here told me “love wins”, and they loved George W Bush.
I think it has religious meaning, “love wins”, but I don’t know that and that isn’t how I heard it.
I heard it as political, ie, loathing Bush wasn’t going to win it for Democrats, and it bothered me, a lot, because I think it’s true.
I don’t think hating Obama is going to win it for them.
If “love wins”, and I think it might, in presidential politics, they’re in trouble.
Joey Maloney
@kay: I believe “love wins out” was the name of one of those pray-away-the-gay rackets, whose head guy has since come out and apologized to all the teens he fucked up.
Carolinus
A couple more instances of this bumper sticker showing up:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/09/6612309-somehow-well-get-to-a-better-america
and
http://i.imgur.com/R9wNM.jpg
Davis X. Machina
@kay: The Christianists use ‘love’ as a term of art. It has a special meaning, and one unfamiliar to those of us not sailing on the Ark…..
kay
Oh, I’m sure you’re right, Joey, that’s it’s some kind of slogan, “love wins, but the reason it bothered me was I knew conservatives loved Bush.
They lie about it now, they say “Kerry was too liberal” or some shit, but I saw it and it was close to adoration.
So politically it rings true to me.
They’re going to need more than hate.
Carolinus
And still more of them here:
http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2012/03/obama-2012-bumper-stickers.html
Davis X. Machina
@kay: Adoration? Bush? Never.
Brian R.
@gogol’s wife:
Every now and then, I see a car with a Kerry-Edwards sticker still on it, but nothing more recent. It always strikes me as weird. Wouldn’t they have slapped something on there in 2008, even if it were a Hillary sticker or something?
I saw one yesterday that was alone on a bumper. The driver had blacked out the Edwards part.
Montysano
A Facebook friend posted this, with a LOL and a heh-indeedy. I, of course, shot off my mouth, and now I, of course, am told that I’m the Real Racist. The mind, it boggles.
WyldPirate
@Carolinus:
Your link claims that those stickers are from California, Ohio and Arizona. Sorta shoots down the clownish contention by a lot of BJ fuckwits that racism is limited to the South.
Joey Maloney
I have never read such a claim by any of our BJ fuckwits. Even our fuckwits are smarter than that.
OzoneR
@WyldPirate:
Have I not repeatedly pointed out that racism exists where I live in Brooklyn?
Daaling
This picture was posted on that orange site a couple days ago. A little slow on the draw there mistermix.
If I saw that vehicle in a parking lot and thought I could get away with it I would get a rock or something and put a huge dent directly on that sticker and then probably smash the window.
And fuck you if you don’t like that thought.
wrb
@Gravenstone:
I can’t go to the store without seeing multiple instances of those.
There doesn’t seem to be a single pro-Obama sticker left.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
At least partly because the right wing crazies are also gun nuts.
OzoneR
@wrb:
I’ve seen plenty of 2012 Obama stickers around New York- not that its very surprising.
wrb
@Ivan Ivanovich Renko:
True. It feels like saying something positive about Obama in a bar or restaurant would could result in violence.
Davis X. Machina
@Brian R.: I run into a utility trailer occasionally around town — it had two snow machines on it last time, but I see it at the
dumptransfer station — that still has a McCain/Palin sticker with the McCain cut out of it.Daaling
@OzoneR: Give me a break. I’ve run across some of these gun nuts and hard core Obama haters. You know what I have found. They are all a bunch of cowards. That is why they feel this need to have guns. They never feel safe in their own skin.
If you confront them on some of these belief they usually just cower and don’t say anything. Their bark is far worse than their bite.
Also, I’ve found a lot of them are very friendly in person. They want to be good people. You can see that. Just that they all have mental disorders…basically.
xian
@cathyx: it means “Nobama”
trollhattan
@Joey Maloney:
Me neither. The 27% are everywhere, it’s just that they’re only thought of as “samrt” in our more backwards locales.
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4052/4477706455_74b8532952_z.jpg
xian
@greennotGreen: just shows they think people voted for Obama out of liberal guilt.
xian
@Michael Bersin: actually a lot of people already though the word was spelled re-nig and that it was a racial slur (like gyp) that they were happy using, or avoiding, depending on the company.
of course, really reneging (sp? now I’m losing track) on your commitment to Obama would mean voting against him this time.
Brian R.
@trollhattan:
What a weird sticker for a Subaru. If you’re that big of a Real Murikan who hates the furriners, why are you driving a Japanese car? And a limp-wristed hatchback at that?
xian
it takes a fuckwit to see a fuckwit
wasabi gasp
Tar and feather with Dijon and arugula.
trollhattan
@Brian R.:
I reveled in how many contradictions could present themselves on just one car. To add a further layer, it was taken in the Mt. Lassen summit parking lot. FWIW I didn’t spot anybody packin’ heat on the top that day.
Brian R.
@trollhattan:
You mean the car with the sticker that said “the federal government didn’t make America great” was parked in the lot at a federally-created, federally-preserved, and federally-run National Park?
That’s some grade-A stupid right there.
Mark B
You found Dana Loesch’s car? I would have thought she’d be driving something more expensive, like a Mercedes.
Mark B
@OzoneR: Plenty of Obama stickers in Austin, TX. Not that Texas has a chance of going Democratic in 2012, but in the long run, it will. It’s going to be a majority Hispanic state in the near future, and the Republicans seem to have given up on pursuing the Hispanic vote and are actively working to alienate them.
Chyron HR
@Joey Maloney:
WP’s still butthurt because Dennis G. dared to suggest that people who idolize Nathan Bedford Forrest might be racist.
Mr Stagger Lee
If I was a member of the Democratic Ratfuck squad, I would fire this fire with oil, make Don’t ReN– the official slogan of the GOP. Have Romney, Gingrinch, or Santorum ads with Don’t ReN– in 12 attached or superimposed on the commercials.
Do a voiceover with a Don’t ReN– in ’12. Make it an albatross on the neck of GOP.
trollhattan
@Brian R.:
I can only imagine the pain of the drive there, past non-clearcut forests and non-harvested deer.
The sheer waste of it all.
wrb
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Doing it so openly would be liable to backfire, but making very available cheap or free bumper stickers with “Don’t Re-Nig, vote Romney” with graphics mimicking those of the official campaign is an intriguing thought.
debit
@wrb: I think it’s a terrible idea, to be honest. I would rather shame them with it by asking each and every elected official with an R in front of their name, “So, do you think it’s appropriate to call our president a nigger?” Make them either repudiate it or own it.
Comrade Mary
Folks, folks. All this talk of keying is so unseemly. Remember, the best counterpoint to speech is more speech.
So this is why I’ll soon have a variety of lovely gift bumper stickers up for sale at Café Press. You can just afix one of my stickers beside that sticker on the same car. Isn’t it time for us all to pay it forward?
I’m just trying to sort out the text choices.
Racist and proud!
Yes, my mom and dad are also my aunt and uncle.
YOU might have evolved, BUT I DIDN’T.
trollhattan
@Comrade Mary:
“Isn’t it sad when cousins marry?”
opie jeanne
@greennotGreen: I just saw one of those too. You in the Seattle area?
opie jeanne
@muddy: I don’t think a ping pong ball will fit into the modern gas tank opening.
runt
So the answer to the question “Would anyone be stupid enough to put a bumper sticker on their car which effectively says: ‘Vandalize my car – I totally deserve it!‘” turns out to be a resounding “Yes!”
Good to know.
maryQ
I don’t get it. They spelled renege wrong. I wonder if this is a reference to blah people.
Plantsmantx
@Svensker:
That page is gone. Here’s another:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/dont-re-nig-in-2012-maker-of-racist-anti-obama-sticker-shuts-down-site/
Citizen_X
Tsk, tsk, you people.
I would just be tempted to add the missing swastika.
Kathy in St. Louis
@Citizen_X: Best idea yet.
Full of Woe
I suddenly feel much better about the “Republicans for Voldemort” sticker I put on my car the other day.
kindness
@Daaling:
See and I just write ‘I Fuck Little Boys’ with a Sharpie on the sticker.
Odie Hugh Manatee
That’s a vehicle looking for sharpened brake line tubing propped under all four tires, sugar in the gas tank, a potato in the tailpipe, an M-80 duct taped to the windshield with a cigarette for a time delay, all topped off by a few eggs that have had the insides blown out of them and the shells refilled with paint stripper.
I have a few more tricks if needed, I was a very rotten kid. ;)
Kathy in St. Louis
I wouldn’t do any of the violent things I’ve seen listed here, merely because it would mean months ofright wing pundiats whining about the left’s intolerance of their first amendment right to be total tools, all day, every day. I guess if Obama can stay classy, and he really has, in the face of all this goober racism, we certainly can.
opie jeanne
@Brian R.: Consider the info on the frame of the license plate. That tells you an awful lot.
In California a huge amount of the territory to the east of I-5 is red, and I-5 goes right through Redding in Northern California.
xulon
When the Rick Perry “niggerheadlodge-gate” thing happened, I suggested to some friends that soon we would be bombarded with bumper stickers saying Nigger: Heritage not Hatred. The day seems to be getting closer.
John M. Burt
“If you voted for McCain in 2008 because you thought he would make a better President, think more carefully in 2012.
“If you voted for McCain in 2008 because he was white, just stay home.”
Not as snappy as the racist anti-Obama one, but more appropriate.