That’s exactly it. His ‘failure’ wasn’t owning a hummer, but projecting the correct ‘viewpoint.’ If he merely had the decency to put a Kerry, Hillary or Obama bumpersticker on the back all this trouble could have been avoided.
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen is a Code Pink whacko, climbing into her Hummer after a big anti-war protest in Philly. The back of her H# was plastered with “No Blood for Oil” stickers.