for kerry supporters a ?

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for kerry supporters a ?
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Thu, 07-15-2004 - 9:34am

Hi. I'm new here, enjoying reading your posts.  I'm a Kerry supporter, and for the first time ever I feel strongly enough about this that I would like to put up bumper stickers, etc. Only, I don't know where to get them! (How embarrassing.)


I signed up online and they said they'd send some, but that was 3 months ago, and still nothing. Anyone have any ideas for me?


Thanks,


Marci

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Thu, 07-15-2004 - 9:19pm
I must confess...I too own a new Beetle. I consider it to be the anit-hummer. (although not as much as a Prius would be the anit-hummer - they weren't out yet when I had to buy a car.) I don't have a Kerry / Edwards sticker on it, but I don't drive it very much. I take the train to work and so I have a big Kerry button on my handbag.

Who can pass up a car with a bud vase and great gas mileage?

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Registered: 03-17-2004
Thu, 07-15-2004 - 10:35pm

Thanks for the welcome and the tips. I did sign up for some on the kerry website, but that's the place I haven't received any from yet... I will try the local dems, thanks again.


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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 07-17-2004 - 3:44pm
Very true.

"and you could probably even guess what they had for breakfast-- something crunchy with no animal products. ; )"

LOL. I can happily say I'm not granola. Most everything I eat had parents at one time.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 07-17-2004 - 4:48pm
Yea, he really gets some nasty looks from the other college students when he pulls in the parking lot ;)
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Registered: 05-12-2004
Sun, 07-18-2004 - 1:37am
maybe it is that VW's tend to be pretty fuel efficient,and I dont know about the NEW Beetle, but for a long time there were a lot of VW's running on Diesel, I know it is economic in some ways. (I remember my brother's friend leaving his diesel runnignfor three hours in our driveway one extremely hot summer day.. green junk was oozing everywere, but he had trouble starting it, so, why not just leave it running? LOL!

Ok, and as a daughter of democrats, I can vouch that mine were economically creative, you know, solar panels and the likes. so maybe the vw's have a thing or two to do with that, just like we might see that the hybrid cars landing in the drivways of a lot of liberals and democrats, while some conservatives, will still be firing up the old SUV's. It is interesting.
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Sun, 07-18-2004 - 5:01am
To All, here's a tip for applying bumper stickers. First adhere the sticker to a magnet sheet - you can buy 8" by 11" magnet sheets at office supply stores, where printer photo sheets, etc. are sold - then cut it out and put it on the car. It does stay put and is easy to remove.

BTW the woman who told me about this is a business owner who didn't want the adhesive on her new Mercedes. But she also didn't want her car "keyed" if she was parked for business reasons in a "hostile" area.

The bumper sticker she had said, " Defend America, Defeat Bush" LOL - hostile Republicans - I wonder where she got that idea? ;-)

C

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Sun, 07-18-2004 - 12:12pm




<<To All, here's a tip for applying bumper stickers. First adhere the sticker to a magnet sheet - you can buy 8" by 11" magnet sheets at office supply stores, where printer photo sheets, etc. are sold - then cut it out and put it on the car. It does stay put and is easy to remove. >>


Good idea!


However, I can't help but wonder if the woman was guilty of a bit of projection. Keying a car is just so...unRepublican. ; )




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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 07-18-2004 - 1:57pm
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Cool. Thanks for the tip!

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:09pm
It is a misnomer that conservatives do not support conservation. I have several friends right now waiting and drooling at the thought of hybrid SUVs and pickups (supposed to start rolling out next year). What conservatives opposed (as with solar panels) were “solutions” that:

1. Were economically unviable and destructive

and

2. Actually produced more waste and pollutants than what we already had. (Do you know what went into making solar panels 10 years ago? The byproducts of solar panel production alone were highly toxic and non-biodegradable)

That’s what conservatives oppose.


Wrhen has posted some great stuff before about the ethanol "solution" that also puts more contaminates in the air than just burning pure gasoline. If good solutions are reached, conservatives would be all over them as well. It is just that historically, IMO, some very bad ideas have been put forth and the left just jumps on the idea without doing the research to find out those solutions actually leave us worse off. It's a feel-good, form over substance problem.

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:35pm
You can also try the DemStore.com. They allow group discounts so groups can pool checks to get the bulk discount. Our county Dem group does this and we hand out the bumperstickers and pins for free at different events and voter registration drives - so try there. I'm in Maryland close to DC and the bumpersticker vote right now is about 10 Kerry to 2 Bush, and even though Maryland is Democratic this is commuting on I-495 (the beltway) with Virginia drivers as well as tourists. Anyone else seen any political bumperstickers?

As a side note, not a bumpersticker but I was approached to sign a Nader petition and was so completely shocked to actually meet a Nader supporter I was almost speechless, so I turned to show him the pin on my bag - "Kerry for President". Poor guy. It's hard approaching strangers. Go through it myself when I approach people about registering to vote. Stick in shock to have had a Nader siting.