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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 01:47 PM
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Never again can we let those clowns beat us to the offense
Remember the GOP convention when all the loonies held up those flip flops? Sure you do. How could anyone ever forget?

You remember...all those imbecilic fucking repukes on the convention floor, crowded next to each other like pigs going to market, wild-eyed and drunken in their unanimous neocon stupidity....foam slobbering down their chins, one by one, spastically out of control as they jumped and waved those fucking flip flops in the air like crazed simple-minded morons...

and how they all clapped with them, with the actual flip flop sandals with Kerry's name on them, whenever one of their lying speakers said something stupid on stage, and how those flip flops became the theme and focus of their entire negative hate-filled campaign....

Well how come we never answered with something equally preposterous in return? Like why didn't any of our brain trusts get even with them and decide on a unanimous symbol of our own that humiliated Bush?

I've thought time and time again how the Repukes were at such an advantage because they got to hold their convention after we did, so they could really take the offense after they saw we were taking that lame old highroad again, yet we should've at least done something afterward at any major campaign gatherings to get even with those scumbags. We should've adopted a symbol of some kind that was an answer to the flip flops and waved it or worn it at any future rallies of that awful convention year.

Hopefully we've learned our lesson once and for all. We've fallen right into their trap one too many times. Instead of taking our own offense, we stammered and took the defense on the flip flopping position. Instead, we should've answered with something like hats that belittled Bush with a catchy negative phrase of our own. We should've done SOMETHING. From now on, we have to think AHEAD.

Never again can we let those lying sacks of shit beat us to the offense. No more defense, fuck that. Just offense from here on in. To hell with the high road when it comes to those maggots in the future. This isn't Sunday School anymore.

Later this year, for sake of our political lives, we need to come up with ONE symbol that epitomizes Bush....one picture or one word that we can wear on our sleeves...one idea or one word or one phrase, something that is so fucking humiliating, something that we can jam down the country's throat so no one ever forgets it. They had their flip flops. Now we have to return the favor, only we need to do it tenfold. We need to do it this summer, and then we need to repeat it with a new idea in the summer of 2008 for whoever their sleazy candidate is, and we have to be ready to launch it starting the day after their convention.
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 01:59 PM
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1. A possible candidate - the wired President.
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PBass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 02:01 PM
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2. Tons of possibilities, however the genteel leadership of the Dems
will probably not want to stoop to their level.

A good example of a prop would be a hood like Abu Ghraib prisoners were forced to wear.
A dunce cap with the name DUMBYA on it.
A Pinnocchio nose with the word G.O.P. or Dumbya on it

Besides the props factor, Liberals DO need to be more proactive, more aggressive and more visible in their criticism of Bush and the Republicans. We pull too many punches and worry too much about how spinners like Sean Hannity will portray us. We need to "catapault the propaganda" (as Dumbya says) more often and more effectively.
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 02:07 PM
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4. Of your 3 ideas, I like the third one the best
"A Pinnocchio nose with the word G.O.P. or Dumbya on it"

I think the word GOP would be more effective than Dumbya at this point in time.

Maybe something cheap can be mass produced along those lines of the plastic nose and glasses that you so often see around Halloween time, only ours could be the Pinocchio nose as you suggested.

Good post, btw. I like your attitude!
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 02:02 PM
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3. I suggest ads with the tune "Vacation" playing in the background
with all the shots of what he was doing when the really important things were happening in this country.

The Vacant Oval Office Party. Voop - there it is! :)
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 02:21 PM
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5. Tom Tomorrow has a rebus I like: Nixon - Brains = Bush
Edited on Sun Jan-29-06 02:27 PM by emulatorloo
the visual is great -- I'll go hunt for a link

ON EDIT - here:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushnixon.htm
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 02:23 PM
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6. That could most definitely be a possibility!
Very catchy. LOL!
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