Posted on 08/24/2013 4:24:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Contrary to what you hear from liberals, the biggest flaw conservatives have is being overly tolerant. Really? Seriously? We're "overly tolerant?"
Absolutely.
Conservatives will listen to a Hollywood star trash us as intolerant and then we'll go watch his movie anyway. Musicians will openly support Obama and call us racists; yet we'll still buy their albums. Corporations will bend over backwards to undermine everything we hold dear and then we'll turn right around and buy their products. Conservatives make up 40% of all Americans and if we start letting our values dictate where we spend our money, we can transform America's culture in a hurry. Our money spells the difference between a blockbuster and a flop, a hit single or a bust, and a corporate CEO ending up on the cover of Business Week or looking for a new job. You want to even the playing field in America? Then stop propping up corporations that want to destroy everything you hold dear. When a company does something you don't like, close your wallet until management gets the idea. When your money talks, corporations listen. Here are five easy ones to get you started.
1) Chrysler: It's bad enough that Obama spent billions of dollars of your money to prop up the fat cats at Chrysler, but after the crooked deal was done, United Auto Workers ended up owning 55% of the company. In other words, every time you buy a car from Chrysler, your money is helping to prop up a liberal union that works non-stop to elect as many liberal Democrats as possible. Chrysler isn't a corporation with a liberal union attached; it's a liberal union with a corporation attached to it.
2) Progressive Insurance: Peter Lewis is the Chairman of Progressive Insurance Companies and outside of George Soros, he may be the biggest liberal sugar daddy on the block. This former close friend of Ted Kennedy has poured tens of millions of dollars into the ACLU, America Coming Together, and MoveOn, among other liberal causes. So, why not get your auto insurance from a company that isn’t working to destroy the American way of life?
3) Capital One: Having someone like Alec Baldwin as your spokesman just screams, "We don't want conservative customers." This is the same Alec Baldwin who has said, "Gingrich is a cranky history professor. Romney is better suited for country club president. Obama sees what govt’s priorities should be. Obama...2012" and "Until Limbaugh gets real, weans himself off the big salary and runs for office, he will always be nothing more than a poorly educated, marginally talented buffoon who has developed a real talent for manipulating the G-spot of the neocon consciousness and massaging the hate gland of so many economically displaced white voters in America." Why give money to a company that holds you in such contempt that it would hire a man like this as its spokesman?
4) Starbucks: Do you really need overpriced coffee from a corporation that detests traditional marriage? Not only is Starbucks pro-gay marriage, but when a shareholder complained that boycotts over gay marriage were costing the company money, "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz responded...by telling him that he could, ’sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company.’” If you're a Christian or just someone who believes in traditional marriage, the CEO of Starbucks is publicly saying he doesn't want your business. Can't you find your coffee somewhere else where you aren't forced to swallow Starbucks’ disdain for you along with your Java?
5) The AARP: Despite the fact that its membership opposed Obamacare because it would destroy our healthcare system, the AARP supported that abomination because it is going to make a killing marketing insurance under the bill. It’s also doing more than any other organization to block entitlement reform, which is making it practically impossible to keep America from sliding into bankruptcy. On top of all that, AARP is a left-wing organization that has backed gun control and Planned Parenthood while fighting against a Balanced Budget Amendment. You might as well just give your money directly to the Democrat Party as to the AARP.
Don’t know about “conservative” but for car insurance suggest you shop it and include Erie if they’re in FL. Here is a JD Powers list of insurance company rankings. Look under auto insurance.
http://www.jdpower.com/consumer-ratings/insurance/index.htm
Here is also a list of the “worst” insurance companies:
http://www.justice.org/docs/TenWorstInsuranceCompanies.pdf
No problem avoiding any of them except Chrysler, because I like my Jeep and I don’t like the alternatives.
“Whenever I get an AARP letter offering membership,”
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I guess my parents were members, but as for myself, I do not like to admit that I am way past old enough for AARP :P
Anyway, I doubt that they insure those of us that live offshore.
I remember that. As an E-1, 2 or 3, I couldn’t even get GEICO. Wasn’t eligible until I reached NCO rank. Had to get mine from an outfit called Criterion. This would have been in Virginia, 1970-71.
I agree with the list with the exception of starbucks. They are very gun carry friendly. As a matter of fact the grabbers are trying to organize a boycott today. I think I’ll get a refresher while OCing to say thanks.
Their coffee is burnt, but I don’t buy that anyways.
USAA will accept any veteran their spouse or child as long as you can produce a DD-214.
At my local mall, where I am forced to hang out while the wife shops, the only real coffee is Starbucks. Otherwise a vending machine. Interesting there are so few alternatives. Just a place to read and drink a coffee. But I do wear my “Starbucks Loves Guns” patch on my phone holster...that tends at least to raise an eyebrow. I wonder why the author didn’t make it ‘6’ by adding GM? I’m buying a Toyota this week instead of my usual Tahoe. So I’ll forgive myself for the coffee, but the big ticket item is well-placed anyway. I like the Tahoe better, but I will NOT contribute to a union. This IS a conscious political choice I am making. Now if I can learn how to spell Sequoia...
They advertise heavily, partnered with the American Legion. But I get mine now from Farm Family. Good company.
“Long, long ago, GEICO was called Government Employees Insurance Corporation. It was all we could get when stationed overseas.”
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I thought it still stood for that, but one did not have to be a government employee to get it. I think I first had it in 1965, and kept it untill I left in 2004. I was never a government employee.
Why bother cutting up the contents? I just mail back their postage-paid envelope - empty.
(Now that I think about it, maybe you have a better idea. I'm envisioning hundreds of little flecks of paper cascading down on some AARP employee's desk. Or, if the envelope is opened by machine, hundreds of little paper flecks gumming up the works.)
USAA - been with them for over 30 years.
Some liberals are organizing a boycott of Starbucks over their policy of welcoming concealed carry patrons. So may not be 100% bad.
I never go there.
The few times I had ‘boutique’ coffee I went to Caribou Coffee. Liked it better. Then found out they were owned by Muslims out of Minneapolis. Whether that is still true I don’t know.
Had a Capital One CC many years ago. Awful, awful company.
Don’t like Target, as a retailer and otherwise.
Knew about Progressive.
Don’t like Cryslers
The article is spot on.
Believe me, having an ultra-liberal in the family, they don’t hesitate to avoid anything that they perceive as conservative. Esp. entertainers.
Until a few years ago I was pretty tolerant of entertainers, and mentally separated their personal from their business lives.
Not anymore. We aren’t regular movie goers but I’ve foregone several because of the cast.
Outspoken liberal? no
Racist? no (and this list is really getting long and disappointing)
I do like the Progressive commercials but would not dream of getting that because of Soros. BTW commercials don't do anything for me. They are just a waste of time imho
This is what I have
Target not on this short list. I own Target stock. It has done well. Maybe I don’t want to know why it should be on the list.
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GEICO is the abbreviation
Something like, "Your wallet would like to take you to the county fair. But he can't do that. Wallets can't drive!" Ha. Ha. Great humor for first-graders. That's supposed to make me want to buy their insurance?
From talking w/ friends, USAA if you qualify.
I have had State Farm all my long, 50+yrs. driving life and have never had a problem.Their service has been terrific the few times I’ve used it.
Were I to switch, the first place I’d call is USAA. Whether I could qualify is the question.
Oh, good idea. I've just been disposing of the small pieces in the trash. I'll adopt your method with the next mailing.
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