Comments on: RNC protest slogans wanted

Question: RNC protest slogans wanted

milovoo — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:20:53 -0800

Does anyone have suggestions for short, articulate protest slogans for the RNC?

I'm looking for short phrases that can be displayed on a sign or stencil that encapsulate some of the major disagreements and complaints against the Republican platform, or sites with lists of the same. Preferably TV friendly and not too bilious. I'm not looking to debate any issues in this thread, just slogans, please. (if you feel the need to get your snark on, please re-read the question, count to 10, and limit your response to helpful suggestions)

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:24:01 -0800

It's not a tax cut if our kids have to pay it back.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:26:57 -0800

Best one I saw at the Kerry rally iin Vegas was "Help Re-Defeat Bush."

Prolly not what you're looking for, though.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:27:21 -0800

Bush: All the spending with none of the taxing.

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:29:46 -0800

Look at some Anti-Bush bumper stickers.

Not being snarky, but don't mention Mumia. I always hate when protests have "Free Mumia" signs at events that have nothing to do with him.

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:33:07 -0800

War is awesome.

Vote G.O.P.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:39:20 -0800

War is peace?

I'm "sensitive"

One went to Vietnam; One sent your kids to harm.

Bush=Hoover: Where are the jobs?

The Supreme Court doesn't appoint itself.

My Pet Goat for 7 minutes while our towers fell. Don't we need a president that can read a little faster?

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:39:27 -0800

I'm partial to Kerry Sucks Less. I've been thinking of putting that one up on my lawn.

By: milovoo

milovoo — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:46:48 -0800

This Dailykos thread didn't get many responses, but it's the right direction,
also I think Billionaires for Bush has some clever ones, but they only work in situ.

Hi, paris, trouble with written instructions perhaps?
("Homeland Security, not Homoland.", ick! but thanks for reminding me why I'm looking.)

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:49:21 -0800

No More
King George

By: ShawnString

ShawnString — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:04:49 -0800

i am kinda partial to the one i got from MoveOn PAC.
Nothing Accomplished...Defeat Bush 2004

By: milovoo

milovoo — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:12:13 -0800

OK, political incorrectness acknowledged, thanks for the help.

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Here's a page that points in the right direction, but they are very media specific, I'm looking for more general issues, gay marriage, taxes and general corruptness. Obviously, things like "no blood for oil" or "impeach Bush" are right out.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:18:25 -0800

"BU$HITLER" is a personal favorite.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:31:26 -0800

"I hate your freedom."

By: xammerboy

xammerboy — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:37:22 -0800

I like Reagan's slogan "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

Gotta problem with that Paris?

By: _sirmissalot_

_sirmissalot_ — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:57:17 -0800

Saw a funny bumper sticker here in Berkeley: "Asses of Evil"

By: patrickje

patrickje — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:06:42 -0800

Bush/Cheney '04
No Millionaire Left Behind

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:28:54 -0800

Fucking countries, not Interns.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:29:40 -0800

An oldie but a goodie: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their substance."

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:37:16 -0800

Invoking "voodoo economics" is both accurate and ironic.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:59:02 -0800

my favorite seen elsewhere:
Bush/Cheney 04: Don't change horsemen mid-apocalypse.

some others:
the rich get welfare--the poor get warfare

osama who?

and of course, using his own words:
"Is our children learning?"

"Iraq is free of rape rooms and torture chambers."

"Bring 'em on."

"There ought to be limits to freedom."

"I DO KNOW I'M READY FOR THE JOB. AND, IF NOT, THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT GOES." - Bush, AUG. 21, 2000 (others here and here)

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:05:46 -0800

Or, we could NOT protest the RNC, thereby giving the republicans the press they desire, and thereby losing valuable swing votes in an election that may come down to the slimmest of margins.

What?

Too focused on results instead of the protestors' ego? my bad.

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:06:48 -0800

in the sense that protesting would give them the results they want. Stupid multiple ways of parsing sentences.

By: weston

weston — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:37:12 -0800

I'm with JKF. Protest is passe, in that it lost its effectiveness at least 10 years ago in the US, if not further back, and the timer on that was set when protestors abandoned the concept of dignity.

Protest is now credible in personal medium (when tempered with humor w/o much bile) or when you dress up in a suit to do your walking and talking.

By: padraigin

padraigin — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:01:36 -0800

It's the Supreme Court appointments, stupid.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:41:59 -0800

Ah, fuck, I can't resist:

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

By: milovoo

milovoo — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:51:32 -0800

He has affected ... totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

Interesting, but with any of the printers or paint that I have, it's not going to fit on a sign or a stencil and still be readable.

Or, we could NOT protest the RNC, thereby giving the republicans the press they desire,

JKF, While I'm generally a big fan of it, I'm just not convinced that apathy is the right response in this instance.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:04:14 -0800

peaceful protest, with diverse groups (hippies to union members to vets to us fags to seniors to children left behind to the unemployed, etc) has enormous potential to show the country just how many groups have been hurt by this president. ("I'm a uniter, not a divider" may actually come true, but it's united against Bush)

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:46:00 -0800

"Won't be fooled again."

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:25:23 -0800

You know, his last name could also be a euphemism for a vagina. Maybe you could...uh...you know...use something like that.

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:30:45 -0800

" I like Placards!"

"Bush Bad, Sign Good!"

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:38:16 -0800

Make Signs, Not War? : >

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:09:57 -0800

JKF, While I'm generally a big fan of it, I'm just not convinced that apathy is the right response in this instance.

No one said be apathetic, but that doesn't mean you participate in things that HELP your enemy. Protesting makes the RNC: both look good in comparison, and a bigger news story.

Perhaps you could use this energy to register voters in a democratic neighborhood in a nearby swing state? (cough*Pennsylvania*cough)

By: euphorb

euphorb — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:23:28 -0800

Bush/Cheney '04: It's not our fault
Bush/Cheney '04: 2 million jobs lost and counting
Bush/Cheney '04: "Free nations don't start wars of agression"
Bush/Cheney '04: Imperialism begins at home
Cheney/Bush '04
Bush/Cheney '04: The Buck never got here!
Bush/Cheney '04: A Uniter, not a divider

By: theora55

theora55 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:44:41 -0800

There was a post in the blue about the Bush/Cheney campaign web site poster creator that could be hijacked. There were many fine examples. My google-fu fails me and I cannot find the thread. Anybody else?

By: pardonyou?

pardonyou? — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:16:23 -0800

Just pull up nofundy's posts. He always writes in slogan-eze.

More on-topic, I got a kick out of Bush/Cheney 04: Don't change horsemen mid-apocalypse

By: goethean

goethean — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:07:15 -0800

Bush/Satan '04

Support the Troops
Vote Kerry/Edwards

Fuck the Country
Vote Republican

Buck Fush

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:25:21 -0800

Bush/Pinochet '04: Let's really get this thing rolling!

By: goethean

goethean — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:17:27 -0800

Occupation is not liberation.

By: jb

jb — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:26:20 -0800

IshmaelGraves - is that Civil War era? I think I recognise the rhetoric, but I don't know the source.

[right and replusive or wrong and romantic?]

By: Alylex

Alylex — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:40:43 -0800

Declaration of Independence, jb.

By: subpixel

subpixel — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:37:22 -0800

By: jb

jb — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:38:54 -0800

Wrong civil war then - I was thinking of the first English civil war : )