Michele has been counting bumper stickers just because there are so few of them. My contribution is that, when I see one, I’ll tell her so these are really aggregate numbers. So far, she has counted 17 Bernie stickers, 1 Trump, 1 Ben Carson – on a Subaru Brat driven by a woman who looked like Miss Wormwood, Calvin’s teacher, 1 for Jesus, and 1 VOTE THEM OUT. It reminds me of Peggy Noonan – Reagan’s former speech writer and now a Republican strategist and pundit – in the worst possible way. She was shocked when Obama beat Romney, she said she had been counting yard signs and there were way more Romney signs than Obama signs. That somebody, with that much experience, could be so deep into the bubble that she didn’t believe the data, isn’t all that shocking, we want our beliefs to be true.
I feel the same way about Bernie, there are lots of bumper stickers, but Hillary, I fear, is going to win this primary thing. As Ed Cooney, my personal political sage, said, “I’ll keep voting for Bernie as long as I can” and I’ll keep sending him a couple of bucks each month. I am consoled by the fact that he pushed the Party back to the left and, with a yuge war chest, he can continue to get his, our, message out. And, please, anyone who thinks I am wrong, please talk me out of it.
Candorville by Darrin Bell says it well.
Stickers…you just can’t count on ’em.
Should I revive “Demockery”? “Feel safer now” doesn’t seem particularly appropriate…
My favorite was Ignore Alien Orders. It looks like it will be Trump vs. Clinton II, makes me sadder than I expected. Where is Teddy when we need him.
I have a Bernie sticker, too and it justs sits on the table. I like your attitude, I think I’ll put it on.
This is the car that got me counting (counted as 1, btw):
Up to 18 for Bernie now, still not a single Hillary sticker (and the only one in the count that I didn’t personally see was the Ben Carson sticker).
And the VOTE THEM OUT