How do you decontaminate a sewing machine?

[jmowreader]

About six months ago I went to Goodwill looking for funky shit and found a sewing machine for $7.99. I have made six or seven things and some of them are really good - especially after I learned the directions that come with patterns are usually wrong.

Anyway, this year it's going to be homemade presents for all. My teabagger brother is getting a throw pillow to decorate his new truck.

When I went to the fabric store I was looking for cloth with Kenworth logos because the truck is a Kenworth. Before I found that, I saw some cloth with "Republican" written all over it. Yeah, that's him.

(I got it at Jo-Ann Fabrics, who also sells a cloth with "Democrat" all over it; I made the shirt I wear to Party functions out of that.)

So now I have this pillow that would be nice if it didn't have "Republican" written on it a hundred times, and a contaminated sewing machine. Should I wash my machine in bleach, wipe it down with alcohol, or donate it back to Goodwill and get a new one?

[TheMadMonk]

1. Circle dot. Circle dot. Now it's had its cooties shot. /nc /nt

[LARED]

2. Just sew something with the Democrat cloth and it will be like new. nt

[noamnety]

3. I would oil it well

with vegan fair-trade oil, then sew an upside down flag or two.

[jmowreader]

6. Mineral oil can be vegan?

A few upside-down commie flags might make it forget it had Repuke cloth in it....I will try that first, thanks.

[Callalily]

4. Steam clean it . . .

that way you get in all the crevices!

[HopeHoops]

5. Ask the machine if it wants a tax cut. If it says yes, throw it out.

[bluedigger]

7. Thermite grenade should do the job.

[Amaril]

8. Spray it with Lysol

One large can should be enough to do the trick.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. It just needs an exorcism

Pour a glass of white wine, drink it, then laugh at the machine.

All leftover Republican demons will flee into the ether.

[Mopar151]

10. Same as a Blackhawk helicopter

A fishing reel, or a dirt bike. Pickle it in WD-40, wipe it off before use as req'd. Pickle it again when you pit it away.