Bumper Stickers: All out or None?

[undeterred]

I have never put a bumper sticker on my car, and if I did it would be something to indicate my affilation with the left or against a particular president.

My car is non-descript. The DU bumpersticker is in the glove compartment.

Why? I am afraid of road rage, vandalism, etc. happening to me. I live in a liberal city, but that doesn't include everyone. I got a "defend America - impeach Bush" bumper sticker yesterday and part of me wishes I had the nerve to use it but I really am afraid of the reactions.

Tell me I'm wrong!

[sakabatou]

1. I doubt anything bad will happen to your car

if you put the stickers on. ;)

[babylonsister]

2. You'd drive with pride and feel empowered!

But I know what you mean; I'm in TX and have to think twice before wearing my politics on my bumper. :)

[bbinacan]

3. Go all out

be loud and be proud.:woohoo:

[MelissaB]

4. I'm in Alabama and have my first sticker, the DU bumpersticker, on

for about a year and had no problems. Go for it!

[wakeme2008]

5. magnetic bumper sticker holders

work for me.... I can alway remove if I smell too many freepers.

[XemaSab]

41. Where do you get those?

I've looked and I can't find any.

[wakeme2008]

42. Here :)

http://www.northernsun.com/cgi-bin/ns//2412.html

[XemaSab]

55. Excellent!

Thanks!

[Ms. Toad]

56. You can also buy them locally at

Joann Fabrics or Michaels sells them in 8.5x11 sheets which you can cut to size. Staples and Office Max have printable ones (but the print quality/durability is not so hot on one and the magnet is not very strong on the other).

Hobby Lobby probably has them too - but I try not to shop at that fundamentalist haven (but it was fun to go in there with a bunch of gay guys once and buy out their fantastic bandanna selection ...)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. How sad that our country has gotten scary.

The right wing is synonymous with trash and criminal element.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. I live in NW Arkansas

and work in one of the most conservative towns (there's a KKK faction out in the country nearby). I had Kerry/pro Democratic stickers all over my car before the election, and my bumper stickers now say "Peace is Patriotic" along with "Democraticunderground.com". Even when I drive to Springfield MO (home of John Ashcroft, the Blunts, etc), I've never gotten hauled over. And I have been harrassed on the road before-no bumper stickers then, the creeps knew I was an environmentalist and tried to harrass me on the way to work. (Solved that by having a friend who drove an official state vehicle to follow me home-when they saw that, they stopped)

[hippywife]

8. I work in Tulsa and

the whole back of my car is covered. No problems.

[nradisic]

9. You are totally wrong...

I drive in NYC every day with quite a few anti Bush Stickers. Last fall I got "pulled over" three times by the NYPD. Al three times the officers wanted to know where I got my "Lick Bush" sticker. I also have Impeach Bush.....Forget Saddam, Where's Osama and "Protect,Preserve and Defend the Constitution-Vote Democrat" stickers on my car.....I get tons of thumbs up lately and absolutely no harassment in NYC.

[Ian David]

10. See related threads

My daughter started new school, so wife made me clean-up my bumperstickers
Topic started by IanDB1 on Sep-13-05 09:35 PM (24 replies)
Last modified by Ilsa on Sep-14-05 05:12 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4000110







See related thread:
Notes that have been left on my windshield
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1776172#

[merbex]

31. When we finally see B* exit the White House will you keep that plate

or get a new one?

Just asking

[Ian David]

34. That's not a real license plate. I wish it was. I edited that into the pic

http://www.acme.com/licensemaker/

[OffWithTheirHeads]

11. All things in moderation

Too many and you look like a fanatic. None at all and you look like a sheep.

[sshaw1980]

44. well said n/t

:patriot:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. I faced what you were facing and knew I had to get over that fear. I

have an Impeach Bush, Bush/Cheney-Weapons of Mass Deception, Save Trees-Remove a Bush and a Peace Sign on the back of my car. I live in a town, in a a northern suburb of NYC, which has been traditionally Republican. No one has said boo.

[undeterred]

13. Good for you!

That gives me hope. They can say what they want in their cars. :shrug:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

28. lol! Just say this I'm undeterred, I'm undettered,

I'm undettered! You can do it!

[union_maid]

14. Well, my husband has plastered ours

Impeach Bush, Proud liberal, Bush Family Values (with bombs), Air America and I don't even know what else. I think it's a little over the top and makes us look a bit nuts, but what can you do? No one's ever bothered me, although we did get keyed once. It wasn't bad, though and he was able to fix it. I can't say for sure if the bumper stickers were why. We do get a rare thumbs up, so I'd have to say that on balance we've gotten more positive feedback than negative.

[undeterred]

17. It does seem to be All or None!

There are tons of liberal owned cars here that are plastered. I will probably just do the Defend America- Impeach Bush as that pretty much says it all...

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. You are wrong

Here put this one on first:



Then this one:



And here is another. You may as well go for broke here:

[AngryAmish]

16. None

My experience is only knobs have bumper stickers.

[babylonsister]

22. Whatever a knob is, there seems to be a lot of them on DU. nt

[LincolnMcGrath]

51. Well Said

For a Knob.

[MercutioATC]

18. I'm in the west 'burbs of Cleveland and I always have one on my car.

I change them when I get bored with them. In the past year:

"Somewhere in Texas a village is missing an idiot"

"God was my copilot but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him"

"We're all wearing the blue dress now"

"Be nice to America or we'll bring Democracy to your country"


I've never had a problem other that a couple of rude gestures. It's great fun to look in my rear view mirror at stoplights and watch people's reactions as they read them.

:)

[HockeyMom]

19. I almost got run off the road

with my Kerry for President sticker during the campaign season by a bunch of PUNKS with Bush stickers all over their red pick up truck. They were screaming and giving me the finger when they tried to.

This was in BLUE downstate New York. I just got a new car and still haven't ordered any new stickers. But I WILL. Just cannot decided which. SO MANY Anti Bush (1,500 at Cafe Press) to choose from.

[LSK]

20. You are wrong

DU sticker on my car since last spring and not one incident. Conservatives are really cowards. I live in a suburban red area too. I'd suggest just one or 2 thou, dont go all out.

[splat@14]

52. I have no problem explaining my opinions. My car is defenseless.

[Pam-Moby]

21. We have impeach bush and Du bumper stickers

inside our back window of our vans. We have never had a problem.

[alittlelark]

23. I have a (finger) peace sign that is in the 'support the troops style'

I have gotten only good reactions.

25-1000+ ppl see your car each day. Make it simple, and get your message across.

[yorkiemommie1]

24. i tape them INSIDE my car windows

and tip them down when i park

my daughter has been harassed for her kerry sticker several times. we're in southern calif. just south of LAX.

[undeterred]

25. good suggestion

[rusty_parts2001]

26. I display a "Texas Democrat" sticker proudly

on my old Volvo Wagon, deep in the heart of Bush country. Then again, I barely can contain my rage at the never-ending crescendo of BS that spews forth from this administration daily. For me, its a cheap kind of therapy.

[newyawker99]

30. Hi rusty_parts2001!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Dora]

39. Welcome to DU!!

from another texas democrat!

[txindy]

53. You're not alone here. Far from it. Know that.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[hellbound-liberal]

27. I've been using magnetic stickers from NorthernSun for years

I can change them according to what I am pissed off about on any given day. Lately though, the 3 on my truck are:

"America: One Nation Under Fraud"
"Who Would Jesus Bomb?" and
one with a picture of Duh-Bya saying "Like a Rock..Only Dumber!"

I got some laughs with the last one today (in Maryland). I suggest you check out www.northernsun.com for inexpensive magnetic backing and great stickers.

[babylonsister]

36. This site is da bomb! Thanks and bookmarked! nt

[SmokingJacket]

29. I prefer to keep my driving space apolitical.

So I don't have any political bumper stickers, though I did have one for a local race for a little while. It's not really out of fear, just that I dislike trumpeting my opinions.

I'm just not big on ads, in general. Though I'm often tempted, and enjoy the stickers on other cars a great deal...

[CornField]

32. I worry very little here in Eastern Iowa, but get anxious when we travel

I have only one sticker (a replacement for my Kerry-Edwards one) which reads: Bush bin Lyin'
For me, that one kinda summed it all up in one statement. I've discovered many more thumbs up from drivers, even on the interstate, than negative reactions.

Even the negative reactions are interesting. For instance, most will just "boo" and give me a thumbs-down. I smile and give a little wave, they smile back and that's the end of it. Very rarely do I get someone who flips me off (except when we are in Kansas and Oklahoma) & I have a sign for that occassion. I keep it in the console and push it against the driver's side window when a creep begins cursing and/or making inappropriate hand gestures. It says: "Children are in this car & they see your true values"

To date, this sign has never failed to stop the confrontation. :)

[seabeyond]

33. piissshhhh, i say. i live in red panhandle of texas. lots of yeehaws

if you think education is expensive
try ignorance

black and white peace sign

our town is united against hate (i put that on when perry signed discrimination into our state constitution in a church)

if you arent outraged
you arent paying attention

silence is the voice of complicity

diversity is our strength ( in bold rainbow color)

decent in wartime can be the highest form of patriotism

and my young sons favorite:
when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace


i have all these colorful stickers on the back of the car along with a silver necklace of a peace sign. good size. i have had this for a year, and not a single person has caused me grief. i get a lot of people strain to read at the lights. most i have just people sittin back, in thought. consternation. some people smile thru out reading them.

spring of 2004 i thought long and hard about a kerry sticker. first sticker ever on my car. i had positive feed back with that single sticker. not one person gave me grief. that made me brave. and i like my car. and it is really easy to find in a parking lot full of white cars.

[ThatsMyBarack]

35. Knocking wood for everyone....

....who has never had a bumpersticker problem--including myself. (Knock knock!)

I live in a liberal community, and work in a conservative one (but my co-wokers are generally liberal). Here's what I have on my car:

DU
"Don't blame me I vote Kerry."
" Told you so."

If anything, I get compliments from people. Also, I like to think that it makes it easier for me to get on the expressway when my fellow (liberal) motorists spot them! ;)

[w8liftinglady]

37. these are my bumper stickers

"yellow ribbons don't stop bullets-support veteran funding"
"your kid is next(with bush pointing)"
"yellow ribbons can't stop bullets-support body armor for all soldiers"
W with a line through it
Democratic Underground' bumper sticker
ribbon that says "support our troops-bring them home"

oh,yeah-and one that says"Freakishly muscular bodybuilder does not like tailgaters-if you tailgate,I'll eat you for lunch"

I have NEVER had a problem<knock on wood>...as a matter of fact,people with "Bush/Cheney" stickers tend to back off.

[Dora]

38. I've had my sticker on for a month now.

I've had no negative consequences. I also live in a liberal city.

Go ahead, gut up and put a sticker on your car.

[LondonReign2]

40. I live in Red Texas

My little area of Texas (suburbs north of Dallas) is so red that on the 2004 election ballot, Democrats were only running for 3 of 22 offices. Everyday I drive into Dallas for work and park in a public parking garage. My suburb is dominated by folks that go to the mega-church down the road.

In three years, I have never been pulled over and never had any damage to my car, nor even harassment. On the other hand, I have had numerous people ask where they could buy stickers like mine.

The anti-Chimp sentiment is a lot stronger than you think, even in red areas.

Current stickers: darwin fish, no W (W with a slash through it), and Bartcop's Worst President Ever.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

43. Hey I donated three times...

and I finally got a DU sticker on my truck. I work in Texarkana. I've had no problems B-)...yet!
I took off Kerry/Edwards off shortly after the * selection. Funny thing is I have only seen one W sticker at work (and it's not on a car that I expected it on).

[w8liftinglady]

45. I'm glad to see all the Texas DUers

-great name,by the way :toast:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

54. Thank you!

:hippie:

[Esse Quam Videri]

46. Live in Charlotte and I've had this on my

car since this summer. Haven't had a problem so far plus its fun cutting in front of the idiots who still have those stupid W stickers on their cars.

So I say go for it!!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

47. I have my back window & bumper FULL of anti-Bush Bumper Stickers and

I drive a Jag, VDP. I was scared to DEATH to put political stickers on it, BUT decided my country was more important than any damn car. I've had various anti-Bush stickers on it FOR YEARS...since the 2000 election thievery and NOTHING has happened to my car. Here's what I have on my car and I LIVE IN FREEPERVILLE.

"W" is for Wiretapping

IMPEACH BUSH!

BUSH IS A LIAR!

(international "no" "W" JUST SAY NO TO FASCISM

DRAFT YOUNG REPUBLICANS

DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION

WAR

"W" STILL A MORON

LIBERAL AND PROUD OF IT

I have ordered this from www.UnemployedDemocrats.com: ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE and can't WAIT to add it to my collection!:thumbsup: for Bumper Stickers!

[BulletproofLandshark]

48. * got 70% of the vote in my county in 2004.

I've had a DU sticker on my windshield since then and I have yet to get any negative reactions from it. The only person I know that's even mentioned it was a Libertarian I work with that was curious to see what it was all about. I recommended DU highly, and now he is a regular lurker. See, using bumpers stickers to convey a message CAN work!

[ComerPerro]

49. If you live in a liberal area, the FReepers won't touch your car

because they know that if they try to do something to it, some random stranger will call them out on it. I've seen it happen.

The problem is, watch out for your car when you leave that liberal area.

[txindy]

50. Put the sticker on a magnet and you can remove it when you park

If it makes you more comfortable, you can get those sheets of magnets in office supply stores, put the sticker on one, cut to fit, and then slap it on your car at will. This way, you can remove it when you're not feeling ultra-comfortable about parking/riding with it on your car.

I have a LOT of stickers that I rotate depending on the news of the day or just how I'm feeling any given day. It works out well and I'm not stuck staring at the same one(s) all the time.