So I walked into the Republican Headquarters office today

[Delarage]

(in New Castle County, Delaware) to see if I could get some signs because I was feeling mischievous. First, it was quite a harrowing experience and I felt like I walked into Hell, with Bush signs, repuke signs, and giant images of Bush looking at me from all angles of every wall. Holding back the vomit, I was finally approached by a lady (no one came to the door when I walked in and I was surrounded by hundreds or thousands of signs for the taking). Anyway.... I asked if I could have a sign (I didn't say what for) and she said "Help yourself." I then told her that I had some friends who might be interested in having a sign (not a lie) and she said "Take as many as you want...they're not doing us any good sitting here." So I took 10.

Now I need advice on what to do with them. Right now, they're rolled up in my trunk like some kind of hostages.

I want to shred one and put the bits in a box near a right-winger's at work's mailbox. What to do with the other 9???????????

P.S. I can't overstate how weird it was to be standing there. I felt like they would detect my liberalness somehow and eject me or have me arrested but they didn't know they were being infiltrated.

[grannylib]

1. Make up some "REDEFEAT" stickers to put across 'em at a diagonal

so it's still clear what they are, and have fun distributing them!

[uppityperson]

25. halloween is coming so use them as part of costume

For instance, get a grim reaper outfit or black hooded cape and screamer mask and parade around with one of the signs. They also would work to line kitty litter boxes or bird cages.

[noahmijo]

2. Deface them then plant then in Repuke areas

[NMDemDist2]

paint the with anti bush slogans

like

"1100+Dead No WMD's"

or splash with red paint like blood

and put them up

[madmax]

3. Use them as dart boards. n/t

[mikehiggins]

4. "Take as many as you want...they're not doing us any good

sitting here."

Beleive me, folks. Its all over but the counting.

President Cheney and his boy wonder are toast.

[Scoopie]

23. Amen

When a neighborhood of solid working, middle-class (former) Republican voters such as mine in the heart of East Tennessee has MORE Kerry signs - like 2/3s more - the incumbent Republican tWitch is toast.

[goodboy]

5. Bush: Sorry about killing your kids

make it say that.

[juliagoolia]

6. circle with / and upside down..in yard?

[Tropez]

7. Take the high road. Don't do anything too bad. Demos are better.

[Czolgosz]

57. I agree.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

8. Leave them in your trunk

don't jack around with karma, it'll bite you in the ass.

Although I'd be ok with you or some other Kerry supporter going back to ask for about 30 more.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

9. Then the next day go ask for about 30 more

tell them you have LOADS of people who want bush signs, it's AMAZING!

Just start stashing them in your garage. Justify it by telling yourself they are there in case any of your bush lovin friends want a sign. In case they ask if you have one or something.

[Delarage]

16. I like that idea....thanks!

I'll just make sure they're totally buried under stuff because I would die if anyone saw me with them (I rolled them all up before I left the office so no one could see what they said). Then I went home and took 3 showers. But I still feel icky.

[life_long_dem]

40. If you have a wood burning stove

you could use them for heating to help offset the high price of heating oil.

[LiberalFighter]

60. Donate them to a local union for a future barrel burn at a picket

[CAcyclist]

63. Right, just stash them

That;ll make the Repub party think they are getting the word out without bringing any bad karma on you.


In my town, the local paper ran an article about Democrats stealing and defacing signs but they couldn't actually find any Repub who *had* had a sign stolen, so they just said that they "knew of" people who had. I was sooo angry because I knew we didn't go around doing that. (this is Kerry country) So I would hate to give the Repubs actual ammo.

[puddycat]

10. Why on Earth would you want those things in your car?

put them in the nearest dumpster

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

13. Yeah I'd probably put them in a dumpster, too

[CMO]

18. I think you should

paint something anti-bush on them and put them in the yards of people who already have bush cheney signs.

[Eye and Monkey]

35. and EXORCISE your car! SOON !

You are in peril of possession. Back away slowly, make no sudden moves.

[MADem]

11. Don't deface them!!!!!!

Even Al Franken said we should not do that lameass stealing and defacing shit, and he is right.

I like CREATIVE ENHANCEMENT, you know, like:

BUSH CHENEY--FOUR MORE WARS

BUSH CHENEY--FEEL A DRAFT?

And put them up in YOUR OWN YARD...that way no one can claim that they were vandalized in a public area.

If anyone bitches, lie, and say you got them when you were a real Bush supporter, but the debates changed your mind, and you are a convert to KERRY.

It'll drive 'em NUTS! They'll probably come and steal them from you!

[arewenotdemo]

44. Repukes reduced to stealing Bush/Cheney signs...lol

[kostya]

12. I was handing out signs in my neighborhood...

and one guy was soooo happy, because he'd just been down to the local Dem HQ (in OR) and they were clean out of a fresh shipment of lawn signs (and he had called ahead!). I had to order mine online. - K

[Doohickie]

53. I've found that there is a whole network of

Democrats working independent of party HQ, producing signs out their homes here in Fort Worth, TX. If you need more signs and it's too late for the internet, you may just ask around; I'm sure this situation is not unique.

[crispini]

14. LOL. Funny thread.

That's very interesting, LOADS of signs, eh?

We can't get enough KE signs down here, we run out every time we order.

In TEXAS.

[ruggerson]

15. Build A Tiny Little Cardboard Church With Them

and then have God explode it in a premillenialist warning of the rapture to come

[vetwife]

37. Just got to know...What flavor Koolaid were they serving?

[CAcyclist]

66. And make an 18 second movie and post online

[independentpiney]

17. I went to County Repug offices today too.

Had to put a fake name and addy on their list, but I got a bunch of nice little W'04 stickers to put on stop signs.}(

[CMO]

21. this is fun

I haven't thought of stuff like this since I did it when I was in high school.

[jean]

46. now that is a fantastic idea!

[LiberalFighter]

61. Now that is not defacing...

How about plastering the stickers on a known repug business... careful that they don't have security cameras.

Could do the same to a known repug's car... don't do it so it damages... possibly on the rear side windows would be good.

[friesianrider]

19. Trash them...

and nothing more. They aren't worth ANY more time or effort than that.

[Gregorian]

20. Place them upside down.

[Indiana_Dem]

22. Your description has to be the funniest laugh I've had all day!

Thanks!

This is so funny! I would feel the same way!

"I felt like they would detect my liberalness somehow and eject me or have me arrested but they didn't know they were being infiltrated."

[sandnsea]

24. DH says shoot holes in them

Then when people comment, say "Yeah, those Democrats must be really mad this year!"

Make 'em think twice about messing with us!

[Doohickie]

55. Not credible

All the Repugs know we are lilly-livered gun-haters.

[ReverendDeuce]

26. Get as many of them as you can...

... and then drop them off at your local recycling center. If you're going to be a jackass to the righties, at least do it responsibly!

[mondohondo]

54. Or donate them to a local school

so the kids can use the backs for posterboards for their projects.

[newyawker99]

79. Hi mondohondo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Liberal Gramma]

27. Attach them to the back wall of public urinals

[drb]

28. The day after the election is over...

...just start throwing them all over town. The sheeple will get pissed at the Bushistas for trashing the town with their signs!

[marlakay]

29. Throw them away, get more if you can and throw them away!

Considering all the signs of ours they have taken I wouldn't feel bad. But look what we got from being too nice last time and not fighting Bush on election day, 4 years of shit!!

[LiberalFighter]

62. Stake them in right of way highways

Where it is illegal... stake a lot of them in one place

Most places it is illegal to stake them in the median of city or county roads. They are suppose to be on private property only.

[vetwife]

30. Put them up on roadways with this on top

HERE IS YOUR KING AND HIS COURT !

[Stephanjnj]

31. Put "I'm With Stupid!" stickers on the signs.

And post 'em all in high visibility locations.

[democrank]

32. Put them

in a time capsule in Broward County, Florida after you write Fascists Defeated November 2, 2004 across the front.

[CalebHayes]

33. BURN THEM!

[AnIndependentTexan]

34. Put up a video camera and then act like a Bush supporter defacing

Their own sign and in the morning try to claim a democrate defaced my sign. Paste the picture of it on free republic with the video of a Bush supporter defacing their own sign.

[CAcyclist]

67. That reminds me

of a true story I read about where the abusive husband calls the police to arrest his wife because, he says, she hit him on head and he's got the bleeding head to prove it.

So the police come and handcuff the wife and are going to take her away when the neighbor comes out and says that he saw the husband go into the backyard and hit himself in the head with a brick.

That's how I see to republicans - as the abusive spouse and the rest of us are the abused. I have often thought that the best way to defeat republicans is to teach kids in school how to deal with bullies and for the rest of us to do some research on bullies and bullying. A good place to start is Bullyonline.org

[Roland99]

36. Circle with Slash...or....**Even Better**

Get a Republicans AGAINST sign and it put it right above or next to the B/C sign.

[vetwife]

38. These are not republicans ! Fool me once, Can't get fooled again

[NEDem]

39. next time take some 'stink bombs' with you

drop them and make sure they break as you leave. You can get them at any store that sells gag gifts.

It happened to me once when I was working for a Dem congressional candidate, it freakin sucked, it took days to air the office out. But I still remember thinking 'I need to remember that one.'

[Delarage]

41. Good idea,

but they'd probably evacuate the place as if it were a terrorist attack and have me sent to Guantanamo where I'd never be heard from againg. My mind was spinning as I stood there and I could barely talk; I was seriously afraid of blurting out something and running around wrecking stuff, but I thought the better of it. I think it's better to infiltrate and destroy them from within.

[Doohickie]

Old fish heads work pretty good too

[orwell]

42. Block Party

Block out the bottom of the "B" in Bush so it forms an "R".

Then the sign will read Rush/Cheney instead of Bush/Cheney.

Probably more appropriate to who is actually running for re-election anyway.

[eridani]

50. Better substitution ideas--

Substitute P for B, and OUT for '04, so you have Push Cheney Out

Substitute T for H, so you have BUST CHENEY.

[Lerkfish]

43. Keep them for antique shows later...DEWEY buttons get a lot of cash...

the political stuff of losers is alwasy more interesting 25 years later.

[savistocate]

48. Great laughs. .

We printed some for Hart way back then. .don't think they turned out to have value.

[barb162]

45. why not draw an Alfred E. Newman face (Mad Magazine)

over the Bush face and put it on your lawn. Take another and put a burn hole in (with a cigarette) on the forehead and just use that one for laughs. Deface another and take it to work early before others come in and set it up for the Bushies. Act horrified along with them that the Bush sign is defaced (who could have done such a horrible thing??)

Just have a lot of fun. I suspect you can do 4 or 5 for work,one a day, each differently defaced. And watch the coworkers be horrified that someone doesn't like their hero.

PS You were very brave to go in that place. Hope you don't have nightmares

[DuaneBidoux]

47. Stick them on a corner, and rent a grim reaper costume and just stand

there holding your scythe, surrounded by all those signs, while the cars drive by...

[Firespirit]

49. The key is to piss off the repukes w/o

...offending the sensibilities of any mushy "undecideds" in town who might be weak-minded enough to be swayed by a display of "meanness."

If possible, get some friends to collect a lot of signs -- maybe 100 -- and rip them up. (Maybe host a * sign-shredding party?) Then put all the pieces in a big box and leave the box at the door of the GOP headquarters overnight.

It needs to be done with friends... if the same person kept coming in for dozens of signs, they'd figure out who it was and might put out a contract on you. :)

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[demwing]

52. Spraypaint "STOP" over Bush/Cheney

or a big red circle with a line through it...

Mar them
Maim them
make a pile and burn them, photoraph for posterity
sell them on ebay

[elperromagico]

56. Put one under a stop sign.

See if anybody gets the point... :P

[ScreamingMeemie]

58. Put them back. It's the Catholic schoolgirl in me, but I don't think this

is right. I wouldn't want a Bush backer to take Kerry signs either. There are more of us than there are of them. We don't need to take their signs. :hi:

[Hepburn]

59. OK....this is not really on point, but....

....today I saw my second Bush bumper sticker. I live in the West Los Angeles area and I was so upset at seeing a second one - I had only seen one prior to today and it was months ago. Well, I got close to the vehicle, a Mercedes SUV, and it had INDIANA LICENSE PLATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just smiled and smiled!!

So, if I had Bush signs where I am, I would have NO ONE to give them to! (Thank, God!) And I am thinking of what to do with them. I like the idea of putting "RE-DEFEAT" over them and posting them where they can clearly be seen.

[PATRICK]

64. In some desolate swamp

Over a septic tank. Near a gas station. Next to a flu clinic cancellation notice. Yard signs are hard to just plunk on other's properties, but the most miserable grouches or unpopular people of the neighborhood in the dead of night... The Red light district or its equivalent. Buried halfway into the ground might be too symbolic. Near a Halloween display?

Just destroying them is too unstylish, but you may not want them rescued. The more humorous the photo op the more likely some reporter will fall for it.

Don't break the law. Don't be so mean it backfires.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. Somebody in Minneapolis has been doing guerilla work

to an amazing degree: There are Stop signs all over with "Bush" stickers under the "Stop" part.

[mellowinman]

68. What in GOD'S NAME is wrong with people on this thread?

"Don't do anything BAD?"

"Don't invite Karma?"

WHAT THE FUCK???

The person who typed "Write Sorry for killing your kidson them" has the right idea.

Display them with reactionary messages on them about how Bush has FUCKED AMERICA UP THE ASS!

Don't listen to the "little angels" who think politics is best when everybody's nicey-nice.

That's the most LOSING STRATEGY I've ever heard!

GEEZ!

[Duppers]

69. Ha, have we gotten the name 'pansy-ass liberals' for nothing?

Gore fought 'nice,' didn't he?!

Well, I think you should get some wide (4" to 5") white tape and in big block letters neatly write 'LIED' on several strips, then tape the strips under Bush/Cheney names. Display them any where you safely can.

This administration has gotten people KILLED 'cause of their lies! Desperate times call for desperate measures. Sorry, but telling the truth is not doing anything bad.

[mellowinman]

70. That is NO SHIT!

Welcome to DU!

[Duppers]

72. thanks, mm. nt

:)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

71. Hey, I suggested he keep going back

or send his Dem friends back for more and more and more of them until they wipe them out. Then just store them and get rid of them later. No signs, no advertising, looks like no support. Good deal.

[Rjnerd]

73. Card or coroplast (plastic cardboard)?

If they have some of the corrogated plastic kind, there are a bunch of us that make bicycle fairings (streamlined enclosures) out of them. If so, there are people out there that will provide "ethical disposal" of them. (hopefully they only printed one side, so turning them inside out would work)

[Chicago Democrat]

74. Put them up with "War Criminal" and "No Blood for Oil" in Red Paint

put them upside-down then put them in front of the local Wal Mart.

[Nag Champa]

75. I used mine to line urinals. Now I dont miss!

[newyawker99]

80. Hi Nag Champa!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BUSHOUT]

76. I don't agree with what you're doing.

OK, you did it. Fine, now it's done. In some kind of bizzare sense, it's almost like stealing. They "gave" you the signs though, so literally it isn't stealing.

The fact that you're bragging about it on the internet is beyond dumb.

[mellowinman]

77. Literally?

It isn't stealing AT ALL!

And calling it dumb is beyond dumb.

Do you hear yourself?

I implore you to lighten up, loosen up, smoke some dope and fuck somebody.

[BUSHOUT]

78. I hear myself just fine son.

And someday maybe you'll hear yourself. Or maybe you've arrived, in which case I feel sorry for ya!

[ollie3]

84. What would Rove do with those signs?

He'd find the biggest church in the area that would probably be offended by such a move, then in the dead of the night post all the signs in front of the church. They will think Repukes did it and get mad at the Repukes. Rovian, yes?

Seriously, don't do this.

[mellowinman]

91. Don't feel sorry for me, friend.

It's dems like you that the Freepers count on when they use their tactics of fear and intimidation.

Why not just roll over and GIVE them this one?

Go ahead Republicans, push us around! We LOVE IT!

[northernsoul]

81. well, it's not quite stealing

more like obtaining them through false pretences - nothing he did meets the legal definition of theft. This kind of thing is ungentlemanlike / unladylike, but it's not illegal.

I'd just destroy the evidence pronto to be on the safe side, though.

[liberal N proud]

82. If they were paper you could use them as toilet paper!

[annabanana]

85. hey...ouch....................n/t

[Stuckinthebush]

83. Go to an office supply store

Get printable labels that are full page and are self-sticking.

Then print in bold letters "It's easier than thinking!" and stick this below the Bush/Cheney name. Then place them all over the town and in your yard.

[Carl Yasutomo]

86. Kindling... pooper scooper... litter box liner...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

87. Put a giant 'X' over it and place it next to your Kerry sign. eom

[AP]

88. Here's what you should do:

Get some white and blue paint. Change them all to Bush-Cheated, except for one.

Take them back to the headquarters with the good one on top. Tell them you took about fifty and have some left over, Tell them you couldn't give them out so you want to put them back in box so that you can make sure somebody else can get them. Go back to the box and burry them in the pile. Keep the one on top ("Oh, I better keep one, just in case.") Maybe even have second thoughts about five more.

Leave.

[KansDem]

89. Find one of those large, novelty BAND-AIDs®

The kind people put on their cars after a fenderbender...

Place it diagonally on the sign, partially obscuring "Bush/Cheney," then draw a purple heart in the middle and "Kerry" on the left flap and "Edwards" on the right flap...

Or fabricate a large BAND-AID® from weather-proof material...

[Stephanie]

90. Halloween! I saw pix here of Mr. DEATH standing next to a B/C sign

It was very funny - Death in a hood with a scythe standing next to the sign.