Don't Blame Me
I recall those bumper stickers, back in the Lee Sherman Dreyfus days in Wisconsin. He was then Republican governor of the state and, for good reason, a one-termer. The stickers simply said, "Don't Blame ME, I Didn't Vote For It" and they showed his trademark red vest next to the script.
Now, I have read several examples of people who voted for George W. Bush for (re)election, and now somehow hope he will do everything differently than he has done and said he would do. You know, like the Denver Post, which I used to read when stationed near there, which endorsed Bush and then listed all the things he should do differently. (I would link to the articles, but I can't get links to work. If I figure it out, I'll put 'em in).
One wonders what the logic is in voting for someone whose platform disagrees with your own and then hoping it won't come to pass. Maybe these people are so afraid that gays will want to marry, or that women might want abortions, that this somehow threatens them to the point that the Iraq mess, the deficit spending, the Orwellian named Patriot act, do not.
If that's the case, then these voters are doubly fools, as Bush is now showing signs of backing away from the promised Defense of Marriage. Maybe he can still get conservative justices on the Supreme Court in the next four years, to eventually overturn Roe, but one wonders if he will really spend his "political capital" on that, a long term goal. Even if he does, there's still going to be abortions, the rich going to other countries, the poor going to "somebody who takes care of these things" when needed. That's how it was before Roe, by the way.
So I have been thinking of the new "Don't Blame ME" sticker. It could use the same words and show, maybe, naked prisoners stacked in a human pyramid in a "W" shape. With a yellow cowboy hat hung on the end of the W.
Or instead of a sticker, use one of those fish-shaped magnetic ribbons, most of which are made in China. The color of the magnet could be Desert Sand or something. Anyhow, Don't Blame ME! :-0
Update: Looky here...http://store.pomosideshow.com/ribbons.html
Now, I have read several examples of people who voted for George W. Bush for (re)election, and now somehow hope he will do everything differently than he has done and said he would do. You know, like the Denver Post, which I used to read when stationed near there, which endorsed Bush and then listed all the things he should do differently. (I would link to the articles, but I can't get links to work. If I figure it out, I'll put 'em in).
One wonders what the logic is in voting for someone whose platform disagrees with your own and then hoping it won't come to pass. Maybe these people are so afraid that gays will want to marry, or that women might want abortions, that this somehow threatens them to the point that the Iraq mess, the deficit spending, the Orwellian named Patriot act, do not.
If that's the case, then these voters are doubly fools, as Bush is now showing signs of backing away from the promised Defense of Marriage. Maybe he can still get conservative justices on the Supreme Court in the next four years, to eventually overturn Roe, but one wonders if he will really spend his "political capital" on that, a long term goal. Even if he does, there's still going to be abortions, the rich going to other countries, the poor going to "somebody who takes care of these things" when needed. That's how it was before Roe, by the way.
So I have been thinking of the new "Don't Blame ME" sticker. It could use the same words and show, maybe, naked prisoners stacked in a human pyramid in a "W" shape. With a yellow cowboy hat hung on the end of the W.
Or instead of a sticker, use one of those fish-shaped magnetic ribbons, most of which are made in China. The color of the magnet could be Desert Sand or something. Anyhow, Don't Blame ME! :-0
Update: Looky here...http://store.pomosideshow.com/ribbons.html
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