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Where are the bumper stickers?
American Thinker ^ | August 10, 2016 | Inge Kummant

Posted on 08/10/2016 7:35:03 AM PDT by SakoL61R

Something strange is going on in Ohio. There don't seem to be any bumper stickers. I drive almost 100 miles a day on a major four-lane highway in northern Ohio. In the last two weeks, I saw one Trump bumper sticker in the parking lot of a grocery store, one Trump window-cling on a pickup truck on the highway, and one "I heart Hillary" bumper sticker at a rest stop. That's it. Four years ago, in August 2012, Romney and Obama bumper stickers were plentiful. It's a similar story with yard signs. A handful of Trump signs sprouted up during the primary – rarely more than one or two per small town, and often none at all. I have yet to see a Hillary sign. Last week, as the media piled on Trump following the Democrat convention, I'd had enough, and I pasted a "Trump, Make America Great Again" and a "Never Hillary" bumper sticker (from the Rush Limbaugh website) on my 2002 SUV. Maybe I was also inspired by a classic rock station that reminded this elderly boomer of how it felt to be "Born to Be Wild." My 18-year-old self would have been contemptuous of giving in to fear. I hadn't really been worried about getting my car vandalized, but I was worried about social ostracism by the Democrats in my neighborhood. p>

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: oh2016; trump
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To: SakoL61R

This time around things are different. You can get your car vandalized or your home firebombed if you carry Trump signs around.

As for Hillary, who wants to be associated with that stiff that can’t walk up a short flight of stairs or tell the truth about anything?


161 posted on 08/10/2016 10:08:51 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: SakoL61R

Most of the ones I see are “Hillary for....Prison”.


162 posted on 08/10/2016 10:11:15 AM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: MGG

A Trump Sticker can get your car vandalized—or lead to a physical assault. You are wise not to put one on your far. We live in a climate of fear.


163 posted on 08/10/2016 10:20:37 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Agree totally, of course.


164 posted on 08/10/2016 10:22:17 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Trump45)
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To: glorgau

That’s a BRILLIANT idea. The story would more likely be though, that the cars were vandalized by putting Trump bumper stickers on them.


165 posted on 08/10/2016 10:24:23 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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To: SakoL61R

Put Trump bumper sticker’s on known liberals.


166 posted on 08/10/2016 10:25:26 AM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: SakoL61R

Mild oppression. But it won’t stay mild if Hillary gets to pack the courts. There will be brutal oppression of speech and religion.


167 posted on 08/10/2016 10:25:46 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: SakoL61R

I don’t put a bumper sticker on, because I am afraid someone will damage my car.


168 posted on 08/10/2016 10:35:09 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: SakoL61R

Seeing a limited number here in San Diego. What I do see are Trump ones.


169 posted on 08/10/2016 10:51:33 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Man from Oz
It's a pictogram of the AR-15 rifle design's bolt face, courtesy of www.AR-15.com.

See?

It's a pro-2nd Amendment symbol, in general. There are others, related to other firearms. It's not as overt as "This Vehicle Insured by Smith & Wesson".

170 posted on 08/10/2016 11:10:30 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: SakoL61R

Who wants his car keyed by some Hillary fascist?.....


171 posted on 08/10/2016 11:28:02 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: stinkerpot65

....And brutal angry blowback as a result.


172 posted on 08/10/2016 12:11:56 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Gaffer

“whatever.....I said what I said.”

\\Hey! I’ve maintained the entire history of mankind can be summed up in ONE word—— TRIBES

When U understand all that that means, you’ve got history down pat...without even knowing the names of all the tribes....


173 posted on 08/10/2016 12:37:10 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: Charles Martel

Thank you for sharing! Very nice!


174 posted on 08/10/2016 12:47:49 PM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: Biggirl

I surely hope you are correct. It appears to me America is in dire straights.


175 posted on 08/10/2016 1:03:16 PM PDT by Herman Ball
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To: goldbux
We encourage accurate counting here at the Lab. Driving around Marin, the north & east Bay Area, & occasional longer stretches for six months, I have seen 38 Bernie stickers, 7 <~Reptilliary ones, & zero for Trump.

Driving around the same areas for the last 39 years, I have seen plenty of stickers for Ralph Nader, Kerry / Edwards, & much worse. I saw exactly one sticker for Phil Gramm, 3 stating "Dole for pineapple not for president," one for Dope / Hemp (amusing), & one (on a truck) for McCain.

Not surprising, since almost every driver, passenger, & pedestrian here thinks she is a vegetable. Green madness.

Aside from avoiding vandalism, no one wants her shiny new Tesla to get smoodgies on the bumper from the sticky glue.

The weather is pleasant here > half the year, but I'd rather be diving. I've had more intelligent conversations with fish than I've had with local residents.

176 posted on 08/10/2016 1:35:01 PM PDT by goldbux (When you're odd the odds are with you.)
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bump


177 posted on 08/11/2016 5:16:13 AM PDT by foreverfree
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Bumper stickers are such a pain to remove from a car, as I found out when I removed my residential sticker from my car before trading it in. That was >20 years ago, and it was the only time I ever put a sticker on one of my cars (renewal stickers on tags are a different animal). I've never bought a used car that had stickers either.

ff

178 posted on 08/11/2016 5:22:24 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: SakoL61R

IMO the bumper sticker has gone out of style over the years. I very seldom see one
of any kind on a auto. I don’t have any on my vehicles and haven’t had for many years.


179 posted on 08/11/2016 5:41:23 AM PDT by deport
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Go to your local GOP office, and get about a dozen Trump stickers and go to the Teamsters cars and put them on there, and watch them freak out as their buddies destroy their cars.

I’m really tired of the threats from the left. The hysterical hatred of anything on the right. It’s sickening that people are too afraid to express their freedom of speech without violent retribution from leftist thugs.


180 posted on 08/11/2016 6:17:54 AM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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