Posted on 12/15/2004 5:34:32 AM PST by NotchJohnson
BUY BLUE? I DON'T THINK SO.
Now here is an interesting website for you to take a look at. The title says "Choose the Blue." By searching the various categories through this website you can discover which political party PACs are supported by various corporations and corporate employees in several fields of business. The object of the website is to get loyal Democrats to stop spending their money with companies that lend the greater support to the Republican party.
Some examples:
In the auto insurance category, Progressive Insurance shows a 91% support for Democrats while State Farm shows an 81% level of support for Republicans. Virtually all automakers, with the exception of Toyota, leaned heavily to the Republican side. The donation amounts from Toyota were so small as to be meaningless. Ditto for auto dealers. They leaned heavily Republican. Exceptions include the Don Beyer Automotive Group and the Potamkin Companies which leaned heavily Democrat; 100% for Don Beyer who operates in the DC beltway area. Grocery stores? Costco is 98% on the Democratic side. Wal-Mart grocery stores and employees donate heavily Republican Starbucks? Are you kidding? Solid Democrat. Do you like Brusters ice cream? 100% Democratic. Blue Bird and Flowers Industries? 100% Republican. Coca Cola? 66% Republican. Sara Lee? Democratic. How about some fast food! Arby's -- 100% Democratic. Wendy's --- 91% Republican. McDonalds? 80% Republican. Restaurants? Hard Rock Cafe International donates 100% Democrat. Waffle House is 99% Republican. No wonder I love Waffle House! Beer! Drink up. Anheuser-Bush donates 56% to 44% Republican. Retail stores? Barnes & Noble is 98% Democrat. No wonder I had such a rough times getting "The Terrible Truth About Liberals" stocked at Barnes and Noble. Home Depot ... 94% Republican. Bed Bath & Beyond .. 93% Democrat. Dollar General .. 100% Republican. For you fashion conscious folks. Anne Klein Inc. is 100% Democrat. Donna Karan is 91% Democrat. Ralph Lauren .. 100% Democrat. Tommy Hilfiger ... 91% Democrat. Fruit of the Loom, 100% Republican. Guess jeans? 83% Republican. Those Cintas uniform people? 100% Republican. Computers? Apple Computer, 81% Democrat. Dell Computers? 77% Republican. Vision? Republican. I want you to cruise these categories ... you will see that there are occasional businesses who support Democratic Party politics to a greater extent than they do Republicans .. but for the most part you will see heavy support for Republican policies.
read the tagline
This idea makes a lot of sense./sarcasm
With all that money Kerry had..he still lost. I guess the one man one vote system works.
The site works both ways - it works against the site owner's agenda as much as it work for it.
I like it. I changed mine too!
Haven't bought a Heinz product in months...just my little boycott.
Semper Fi,
I am boycotting boycotts so thanks for the info.
LOL
hell yeah!!!
WE are doing something now!! LOL
Interesting that News Corp., the media conglomerate of the Evil Rupert Murdoch, arch-Republican, gave more money to Dems than to the GOP. Hence, Fox News Channel and the New York Post are both "blue"! Hilarious!!
Me neither. Every little bit helps!
Eagerly awaiting the dumping of used Dells.....
I haven't bought a Heinz product, on purpose, for quite a while wither. The only boycott I have going at the moment.
They rate News Corp as blue, although they try to get it banned off the airwaves and paper presses every day.
They rate Microsoft as blue, despite using it as a poster child for the eeeeeevils of capitalism.
This doesn't make much sense. I know Microsoft probably does give more to Dems, because Microsoft is full of idiots. But News Corp? They must be combining every child company of News Corp into one number, and there must be a liberal executive in there somewhere who dumped a load of money to the Democrats.
Hey, if this guy wants to encourage liberals to support Fox New's racist, facist right-wing agenda, and encourage the eeeevil Microsoft to take over the world with a gigantic eeeevil monopoly, I say go ahead.
I'm addicted to "W" ketchup. It just tastes better.
I've known about Heinz's donation status for some time now, which is why I didn't participate in the boycott. Heinz is a respectable company, no need to punish them because some ugly witch weaseled her way into inheriting the name.
all of you running windows are supporting Democrats...
All of you on Macs are supporting Democrats (Apple)....
Anyone have an IBM? Yep democratic....most computers have IBM components in them unless they are HP...oops HP is democratic too.
neener neener....
I buy their ketchup and other products
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