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10:14 October 30th, 2008

Supporters get sticker shock?

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Okay gang, listen up! Ernie came up with a GREAT idea I want to share with you!

As you know, we ordered WAY too many McCain Palin bumper stickers, considering most people can’t afford to drive their cars anymore.

But instead of just going to waste, Ernie sent them over to the rally, to have people stick ‘em on their heads! Kind of like hats, only cheaper! Ernie says it’s a solid sea of supporters with bumper stickers on their foreheads over there!

Is that GREAT, or… Huh? The sticky stuff is industrial strength glue? Permanent? Loss of hair and skin? Emergency rooms?

Um, Ernie, you might wanna warn the candidate not to spend too much time workin’ the crowd over there…

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A supporter cheers at a campaign rally with Republican presidential nominee John McCain in Miami, October 29, 2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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14 comments so far

The stickers are also sterile. They can be used to cover the holes left by the labotomies these people got before attending the rallies!

- Posted by Gray

I’m reminded of an old joke about stamps, back when you had to lick the back of the stamp to affix it. There was a stamp with the face of a certain U.S. president on it, but people stopped buying it because it wouldn’t stick. Apparently, people were spitting on the wrong side.

- Posted by Dr. Doll

I never understood the stupidity behind a campaign bumper sticker. For a few months you look like you want a confrontation with anyone opposed to your view, and then after that if your canidate wins, you feel all self righteous and get in more arrogant arguements, or worse if your canidate loses you look like an idiot for years, even worse BOTH devalue your car.

Sticking with the stupidity on the face rather than on a car is always the way to go.

- Posted by Ben

I would never stick anything to my bumper… Use some intelligence and stick it to your back window and then you can get the entire thing off by using a razor scraper and some Windex.

- Posted by Chris

Hey Ben, you know there have been advances in bumper stickers and now they actually peel off of your car with no problem! Maybe you should check the facts out before unleashing your sarcasm on the world ;P

- Posted by Sarah

I guess at Obama rallies you don’t need to rely on bumper stickers to find the morons. Just point anywhere.

- Posted by bkp

sarah, it is funny that the only part you dispute is the longevity of the stickers… you accept the stupidity of displaying the “fight me, I am better than you” plaque.

Long or short, that make you look like a jerk and that is pretty much all it does.

- Posted by Ben

Hey Gray, chek yur speling idjit. Yu mispeled lobotomies.

- Posted by Tim

Hey BKP.
The people at Obama’s rally aren’t the ones in the news looking like a moron. That would be the rocket scientist with the perma sticker on his/her head. LOL
Inbreeding was outlawed for a reason…

- Posted by Michael

Uh.. Considering modern bumper stickers peel right off your arguments against them are very faulty. They all come right off just by peeling, no residue left.

- Posted by Chris

no, only the post-election argument against bumper stickers is faulty; the other is still valid

- Posted by sint

why doesnt everybody stop arguing about stickers and focus on the destruction of the world by the leaders of America?

- Posted by Lou

The main residue left from peeling the stickers off would be 4 years of tax and spend redistributionists.

- Posted by Joe Plumber

Lou, if you want to whine about destruction go elsewhere this is a comedy blog.

I will update my comment about the bumper sticker staying on devaluing the car, I will update it to include a provision. If you put a mccain OR obama sticker on your car you should be forced to report it to some agency as worse than an accident wreck so the next person doesn’t get poisoned by the self righteous nature of both sides. Some of that stink might be contagious and be lingering in the fabric of the car.

- Posted by Ben

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