I'm used to it, really. I know that when I drive, or when I am near cars, or when I look at parked cars, my point of view will be mocked or insulted, or my intelligence will be offended, by the rear bumpers of a majority of the vehicles around me. This is because, I would like to think, of where I have been living since college, rather than because the college kids who slapped "My Band Rocks" stickers became these illiterate and intolerant fools. So it is that I get to see some really special bumper stickers in my local market that our metropolitan Kossacks won't have seen.
*"If It Ain't King James, It Ain't the Bible"
*"Nuke Their Ass and Take Their Gas"
*"You Can Keep the Hope and Taxes. I'll Keep the Change."
These park and pass between the mass produced wit of the right wing, like "One Big Assed Mistake America" and "_State_ by birth, Southern by the Grace of God," and the various revenant Bush stickers.
Today, though, I saw one that seemed like the non plus ultra. It said, "WARNING/ President Between the Bushes."
Huh?
That would be Bill Clinton. If the driver of that pick up truck did not remember Bill Clinton, then he could not legally drive it, and yet there was that sticker.
This brings up the obvious question: are the purchasers of these stickers so overwhelmingly stupid, so inveterately knowledge-averse, that they will buy anything with a word on it that sounds like it's anti-Obama, or are they insane and unable to even create coherent anti-Obama slogans anymore? I ask because, if the former, there is a glimmer of hope for us.
Creative types have fared poorly in every economy. (They fare poorly in general. If the economy were fair and society were fair, they'd be unfair to themselves.)
I have my Edwards '08 sticker on my car, and I want to cover it up these days (my $25 probably went for Luvs), but it covered up my Gore sticker as it was, because my car is twelve years old. Most of the stickers I see that are pro-GOP as opposed to "I hate Obama" are on new cars. The anti-Obama stickers, on the other hand, decorate newish and oldish cars, SUV's, and trucks. The demographic that would slap them on so as to inform the world that, whatever they believe, they hate the president, does not seem to skew up or down the scale.
Here, though, is a chance for the creative among us to make some money.
If the right wing anti-presidentials are now at a point that they simply sputter and reach out to purchase and plaster anything at all that says "Bush" or "Nixon" or "Reagan," whether they can figure out the sentiment or not, then we can come up with some bumperstickers of our own for sale that might carry double signification. Perhaps we can allow them to feel better even as they tell the world that, in fact, they are not merely bigoted, but illiterate.
*I'd Rather Be In the Bushes than the Clear!
*We Don't Need Constitutional Scholars as President: Cheney 2012!
Mine are lame, alas. Yours will be better.
5:35 PM PT: There are some good suggestions in the comments.
My own bumper sticker ideas are mainly non-political.
1. "Said Yes to Drugs"
2. "I'd Rather Be Sleeping"
3. "My Other Car Is In the Impound Lot"