Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Saturday, September 08, 2007 12:24:22 AM
Saw a great bumper sticker the other day. You just don't see many bumper stickers anymore, due, I guess to how ugly they look on most of today's cars. Most of the time you see those dopey, overdone liberal statements on them anyway. I guess Republicans drive nicer cars and don't want to uglify their cars with stickers. The best liberal hypocritical ones are the ones on big SUV's that decry the oil industry and the government's energy policy. Most of the time you see stickers on VW's, Volvo's or Suburu's or other cars favored by liberal types (They do have favorites, usually not American built ones anyway, even though liberals hate personal cars, well your personal car, not theirs).
But I am getting away from my post. I saw on the Borman Expressway on a car owned by a person I would classify as blue collar. Now Northwest Indiana has most of the few Democrats in the state. Indiana is mostly Republican, except for this little corner of Lake county near Chicago. The Unions wish most of their members would vote the straight Democrat ticket but since over half don't, the Democrats hold on the area is finally (very overdue) slipping away.
The sticker said " ReElect Ronald Reagan 2008".
Many union members first Republican vote was for Ronald Reagan in the eighties. He wasn't always very popular with those same folks after that. That was due mostly to the media's misinformation about him, more than Reagan's policies. But it is telling that the average Democrat doesn't like the choices that they have for President in 2008 either. I think that a candidate like Fred Thompson, has a great opening to win big. Why Thompson? He is a lot like Reagan in the way he speaks, and his policy statements are pretty close too. If he can be like Reagan was in the 1980's if he can present himself as the candidate for the working guy. Because Reagan was the best president for union members in the eighties, even though the union leadership and the media didn't think so. Of course I have found it ironic that Reagan is the only union leader to win the U.S. Presidency, since the unions have always wanted one of their own in that office. Reagan had been the leader of the actors union for many years. But the other unions leaders hated Reagan (and do to this day).