Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time marches on in political events, at an ever more agitated pace, the advance guard often becomes the rear guard, and then disburses, grumbling. So Heston supported restrictions on abortion; he campaigned for Reagan (possible bumper sticker: "God Likes the Gipper") and both Bushes; he inadvisedly posed for a photo with a white supremacist leader. He spoke at any conservative function that would have him, and what group wouldn't? At these appearances he showed a thespic vitality absent from his diminishing turns before the movie and TV cameras. The actor's stentorian talents may have been looking...
...real significance of the Paul campaign is not the ubiquitous bumper stickers and lawn signs or the online fund-raising records ($6 million in one day, plus another $4 million, hilariously, on Guy Fawkes Day) but the mirror Paul held up to the modern Republican Party. When his fellow candidates denounced big government, Paul was there to remind them that President Bush and the G.O.P. Congress had shattered spending records and exploded the deficit. When they hailed freedom, Paul asked why they all supported the Patriot Act and other expansions of executive power. And when they called themselves conservatives, Paul...
...Goal number two, he said, was ”not looking like I had a bumper sticker that said, ‘Shoot...
...Democrats’ inability to articulate not only the minor policies they advocate, but also the major ideals that they represent—or at least should represent—has real and pernicious political and social consequences. The bumper-sticker talking points of modern Republican stump issues—economic freedom, national security, family values—have, for several years now, dominated our national discourse and so demanded that any new policy justify itself in conservative terms that are inherently hostile to a robust progressive agenda...
...That sounds more like a bumper sticker than a platform, and it's not likely to be enough as the primary season heads forward into more states where voters are looking for real answers. It's still the economy, and no one can afford to be stupid...