Who still has their bumper stickers on their cars? DU stickers in house windows?

[lonestarnot]

Are you scared?

[zanana1]

1. Being harassed, but not scared.

And yes, I have every Democratic bumper sticker from the last election on my car bumper.

[lonestarnot]

11. love you!

:loveya:

[zanana1]

33. Right back at ya'! nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

2. I have a Democrats.org bumper sticker.....

Sitting on my kitchen counter. Should I stick it on my car?

[lonestarnot]

6. Some here are of the belief that would make one a target in the crosshairs.

I am not of that belief, or perhaps I will just not be silenced. Silence is the enemy.

[madokie]

3. Me

Two vehicles, two stickers, one window facing the road, one sticker
I'm not scared of anything or anyone, well maybe my wife :-) but no one else
:hi:

[lonestarnot]

10. Dearest Madoke! I LOVE YOU!

:loveya:

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. I'd love to meet your wife LOL

[lonestarnot]

26. Me too! Does she come here?

[madokie]

45. She's on a computer all day at work

so the last thing she wants to see is a computer in the evenings.
If you knew her you'd know why I love her like I do. So sweet and pleasant. We first fell in love when I returned home from 'Nam but I was bug nuts at the time fresh home from the war and I knew I couldn't make a go of it at the time so we remained friends and she married and had two son, my stepsons and 20 years ago after she divorced we got together again and here we are today happily married riding off into the sunset.
A few years ago for her I quit my drinking ass ways and never have been happier.

[lonestarnot]

49. Yeah!

:applause: Glad you are happy and your wife! I'm busy on a computer all day also, but have to come here and get my dose! :hi:

[steve2470]

4. I do. It's been "keyed" but still readable nt

[lonestarnot]

16. legible is good enough!

[golddigger]

5. I still have one on my trucks cab window.

And no, I'm not scared.

[lonestarnot]

8. !

:thumbsup:

[hobbit709]

7. I got a shitload of bumper stickers on my truck

And I REFUSE to be intimidated. This old hippie is NOT a pacifist.

[lonestarnot]

9. I love you!

:loveya:

[nc4bo]

12. I don't feel like coming out of the store only to find my frickin' car keyed

or worse, some jackass teabagger try to tailgate me into a ditch.

Sorry, it's just not worth it.

[lonestarnot]

14. Sometimes we get exactly what we expect. I'm sorry.

[nc4bo]

18. Ummm..........yea. It happened already my dear....

Obama bumper sticker + some crazy fool who thought it fun to ride my ass all the way down a winding country road.

Speed limit, 50 but doing 55. Asshole did not pass me, he clearly didn't want to. Too much fun to scare the shit out of the stupid librul.

I really didn't expect that but now my cherry's been popped and I'm much more cautious now.

[lonestarnot]

23. So did you tear up your union card too?

[nc4bo]

24. Naw - even though hubby's an ironworker, he was never allowed in :S

Oh, I'm outspoken but wait for my opportunities vs. showing them on the outside.

[lonestarnot]

25. Understand. One has to do what one has to do. Keep doing it!

[nc4bo]

28. Lonestarnot

Even though I don't always post it, I agree with you a majority of the time.

I know you asked if people were still showing the support of the Democratic Party/politicians with bumperstickers, etc. and I think it's wonderful that some people feel comfortable enough to do so but there are also some of us who don't feel as comfortable. We're not cowards and I'd hate to think that we have a kindof contest on who is braver than who contest going on.

So I may seem to come off as a smartarsed, combative person, I'm not. I experienced something that wasn't too pleasant and feel that my life and the life of those riding in my car are a little more important than showing out.

Keep doing what ya do Lonestarnot!


Edit for sentence structure.

[lonestarnot]

52. My real interest in the OP was to find out how many here are spooked off their political expression

in this manner. Just curios, that's all. No offense intended or taken. :pals:

[zanana1]

34. I also have a poster on my sunporch that says...

"Of all the forms of inequality,injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane". --MLK

[nc4bo]

37. That'd probably fly right over their heads here. Nice as well as true!! nt

[seabeckind]

39. I don't mind confrontations

But I don't like having my car keyed or my door caved in.

I also don't have my union stickers on my car. Top of my laptop -- yep.

Who would have thought that just across the water from Seattle would be freeper heaven. Ex-navy and shipyard guys who rail against gov't giving away their tax money and hate them libruls and fags in Seattle.

So no, I don't have stickers on my car.

<added on edit> But fear? No -- more disgust.

BTW, want to buy a house?

[steve2470]

13. also have my "Turn off Fox" sticker on my bumper

So yea, in my part of Florida, I'm a card carrying Commie pinko :p

[lonestarnot]

15. !

Card packer!

[Old Codger]

19. Not scared

Democratic underground.com sticker on my bumper and a bad attitude.

[lonestarnot]

21. LOL, watch that bad attitude. DU stickers don't come with bad attitude!

:hug:

[Old Codger]

44. You are right

Bad attitude goes with living in a red enclave (necessary for survival here)....

[lonestarnot]

50. Here also. Mr. President was here yesterday to tell everybody to settle down now.

[cmd]

20. I do and A Story

My husband and I were on our way to our daughter's house in SW Ohio when noticed a van in front of us with Democratic stickers on it. I was hoping to pass it and give it a thumbs up, but for some reason we just kept following it, and following it, and following it until it parked in front of my daughters house. It was my son in law's parents. They are a bright spot in Boehnerland.

[lonestarnot]

22. Fantastic! Love your family!

:loveya:

[DearAbby]

27. They are in scrapbooks

have never been used, too afraid. We live around some really weird knuckle-dragging goobers. Colorado seems to have more than their share of Teabaggers.

[lonestarnot]

53. Yes they do.

[The Wizard]

29. Only teabaggers

live in a permanent state of fear. That's why Pox and the terrorist propaganda machine appeals to their worst fears and lowest instincts.

[handmade34]

30. hmmm

company car/not supposed to/but can't help myself!!!

[lonestarnot]

54. Teehee!

[rurallib]

31. Got a DU and an Obama and a couple local candidates

I don't get scared much.
Back in 2004 I made my (locally) famous "Worst President Ever " shirt.
Was wearing it when we broke for lunch. Went to a larger area city for lunch at a pizza joint. I was stared at when we went in. I had forgotten I had my shirt on.
Right after I got a plate of food and sat down a guy came over and slapped me on my back and thanked me for wearing this shirt. Followed by some others. The wait person told me the kitchen staff would make me whatever pizza I wanted......
That day I was scared. Not so much any more.

[lonestarnot]

55. I like that story! Did they give you a free 10 topping pizza?

[rurallib]

78. no - it was buffet lunch so they put out the CB & pineapple

in my honor.
After we left Mrs. lib and I broke into a kind of hysterical laughter realizing we probably dodged a bullet.

[lonestarnot]

80. Yes!

:toast: :beer: Tell Mrs. Lib howdy! :toast:

[mcar]

32. I still have my Obama/Biden sticker on my car

Live in semi-red FL but have never been harassed for it.

[lonestarnot]

56. Good!

[Hobo]

35. I do, I am not afaid,

It's right above my apple/mac sticker. I am the pinko commie in my office here in Tucson


Peace

Hobo

:beer:

:toast:

[lonestarnot]

57. Right on Hobo!

:toast: :beer:

[madmom]

36. Still there, we discussed taking it off, but decided to leave it there : )

[lonestarnot]

58. :)

[superduperfarleft]

38. Meh, I think bumper stickers are tacky.

Not sure why Americans feel the need to tell everyone, via their cars, what their political beliefs are, what their favorite charities are, and how many kids/cats/dogs they have. My car exists to get me from point a to point b, not to be a rolling match.com profile.

[Zephie]

40. I get nervous when I see people looking at them behind me, but the messages have to get out.

I've also always been a bumper sticker fiend.

[jillan]

41. Living in Chandler? Hell NO. I'm really thinking about moving back to Tucson.

I figure that if I chose to live in a red state, I might as well live in the blue area. Besides, Tucson is beautiful.

[lonestarnot]

60. !

I don't get to Chandler much anymore. Used to work out there, but even back then when it was bad only the police screwed with me. Rednecker of course. I read where he was fired. :)

[Dappleganger]

42. I still have my Alex Sink bumper sticker.

Thought about taking it off after the election, but now it will remain--a beacon of light and reminder to the other idiots on the road that I didn't vote for our Dark Lord Governor Voldemort.

[lonestarnot]

61. They won't be able to blame you and they will know it!

[sinkingfeeling]

43. Still have them and always will. Not afraid of this red state I live in...

the one I was most concerned about was my Ohio State decal on Jan. 4, 2011, when they beat Arkansas.

[lonestarnot]

62. :)

[Raine]

46. No way would I ever have a bumpersticker on my car or anything in my window

I had an Obama sign in my window during the election. I didn't have trouble but some other people in the next block had vandalism on their houses and cars because of their signs and stickers. I want to add that I live in a burb in blue Los Angeles County ... yet this kind of thing went on! x(

[lonestarnot]

63. That is the shits! Where do they think they are, Talibaner country?

[ncrainbowgrrl]

47. i do

in fact, i just put newer ones on!

[lonestarnot]

65. !

Yes, new ones! Mine are very faded from sun exposure.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

102. i saw ones that were more timely...

will post later

[TBF]

48. In much of Texas that would be suicidal. nt

[w8liftinglady]

51. when I had my mustang...I had a ton of them(magnetic)

had my tires slashed repeatedly...even after I removed the "Draft Young Republicans" one.

Hell...just having an Obama/biden one got my car keyed.

[lonestarnot]

67. Fucking Talibanners!

[TBF]

98. I'm not surprised ... I had Kerry/Gore and added Obama,

but then with the vitriol down here I removed them both after the 2008 election. I lived in downtown Houston and now out in the suburbs and never had any vandalism. But as the talk got more violent after 2008 I decided it just wasn't worth it.

[last_texas_dem]

64. It's interesting...

For around four years I had "Hail to the Thief!," "Re-Elect Gore in 2004," and "Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican" stickers on my car, living most of the time down here in southeast Texas, and the worst I ever got was a guy who gave me a "thumbs down" signal. (Actually a pretty polite way to express disapproval, IMHO.) Maybe the fact that this place is as apolitical and apathetic as it is conservative worked to my benefit...

[w8liftinglady]

66. LOL..don't drive through "Barton-ville"

these folks are TP nuts

[lonestarnot]

68. I've had some birdies, but I return them like carrier pigeons!

[hobbit709]

100. I've driven my truck in East TX, nobody bothered me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

I just don't do the bumper sticker shtick

that said in some places of the country... scared is the right reaction.

[lonestarnot]

69. Pathetic isn't it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

71. That some people have a need to protect themselves

no, not really. Want me to regale you with stories from actual activists who were like tortured and shit? Or when they saw their kids raped? What you saw above, of one person followed over a narrow county lane is how it starts.

[lonestarnot]

72. No,

that in America, people can't do what they want with their own property with their own freedom of speech, in whatever manner they want to use it w/o reprecussion. I mean we aren't talking Fred Phelps here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

76. Yes, but that is the route we have been going down

over the last 20 years. I call this a cold civil war for a reason.

And for the record we just don't do the bumper sticker shitck. The only time we did was a very local issue and used magnets. We did not feel like dealing with the paint job

[lonestarnot]

79. They work on glass too.

:P Come right off w/o damage to paint or bumpers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

59. I just don't do the bumper sticker shtick

that said in some places of the country... scared is the right reaction.

[southernyankeebelle]

70. I took my Obama sticker off. I live in TN and someone last year got into it with a

person that had an Obama sticker. Am a senior citizen and to be honest am afraid.

[lonestarnot]

74. I'm sorry southernyankeebelle. I know you are a real southern belle.

:hug:

[proud patriot]

73. Oh you know I do

:patriot:

[lonestarnot]

81. Fucking love that truck! We could put it in a parade!

[proud patriot]

85. Thanks

:D

[proud patriot]

86. forgot to answer the question , No Not Scared

:patriot:

[lonestarnot]

87. Ha cha cha cha! That's the spirit!

:patriot:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

97. I'd get firebombed for those!!!

I live in Barton-land. A/K/A Shitholia.


:shrug:

[madamesilverspurs]

75. When I put my first Obama stickers on the car

I realized that the letters didn't appear the same to right wingers. I saw "Obama", they saw "cuss me out and throw rocks at my car". So, when I got a newer car a while back, I didn't put an Obama sticker on it. I put three, one on each side, one on the back. Also stickers for my senators and governor and some local candidates. It's quite colorful, and I live in Ken "I don't wear high heels" Buck's town.

-

[lonestarnot]

84. Right on!

:toast:

[salinen]

77. I sold that Truck

but I'd put one on the new Truck.

[era veteran]

82. Here is an older picture

Updated now & I am flying my DU sticker as well.

[lonestarnot]

89. Hey Kentuck.

You may want to take your plate out of that pic. Just say'n. If you want to remain semi anonymous here.

[era veteran]

94. Thanks that ones in the trash

I could care less if the chickenhawk brigade acts up I'll smack them on the nose.

I will always be prepared, never ready but prepared.

CODE OF CONDUCT FOR THE U. S. FIGHTING MAN

1. I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
6. I will never forget that I am an American fighting man, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.

[kalli007]

83. Ive never had any stickers on my vehicle, because I have never been

a fan of them. But I do have the DU bumper sticker on my fridge, and I live in a VERY freeper area (Ron Pauls home district) so I always watch to see people's reaction who are in my home for various reasons (plumbers, repairmen etc).

[lonestarnot]

91. Interesting. I let 'em know before they come in the house.

:D

[Cleita]

88. My car got keyed.

The only sticker I have right now is my Medicare one, the same one as on my DU signature. I haven't removed it. Screw them.

[lonestarnot]

92. I'm sorry Cleita.

My fence is still spray painted. I'm leaving it. :P

[H2O Man]

90. I do.

And no, I'm not scared.

[lonestarnot]

93. Now why did I know that?

:hug:

[H2O Man]

95. Ha!

Because you know me to be a grumpy old man?

[mitchtv]

96. not scared for me

but I love my Tbird . Not many people around this end of Calif use them, Red area, Bono's district

[Fly by night]

99. Yes I do and there's nothing to be afraid of.

Tennessee Rethugligans are cowards for the most part, sublimating their below-the-waist insufficiencies with cold steel.

My Obama and DU stickers are still in my truck window. I caught some Rethug offspring stealing my homemade "Eat the Rich" bumpersticker but they ran away before discovering that 61 year old hippies still pack a punch.

[trusty elf]

101. I'm not scared.