This quote is just so fun it bears repeating.

[latteromden]

From the footnotes of What's the Matter with Kansas?:

"In a TV commercial aired in early 2004 by the conservative Club for Growth, onetime Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, the former governor or Vermont, is reviled by two supposedly average people who advise him to "take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs."

I'm sorry, is that supposed to be offensive? I quite like it, but maybe that's just me.

I thought it needed repeating, it's a very fun thing to quote.

[toymachines]

1. they actually aired that...

i guess it shouldnt suprise me, and surely doesnt offend me, but what would happen if we turned it around on them. it is just plain liberal bashing, no substance at all. it reflects their immaturity and complete lack of ethics. you would think they would try and hide that.

[dave123williams]

2. mmmmmm. sushi.

[thoughtanarchist]

3. Do you need special boots

to go "tax-hiking"?


I understand that no additional equipment is needed for "birth taxing"! With birth taxing, your kids can enjoy a greater tax burden in their birthday suit from day 1!

Yup, the fun never ends...

:evilgrin:

[demwing]

5. The only equipment needed for birth taxing

in some areas of the country are a six-pack and your cousin.

[koopie57]

4. I thought toymachine meant

when he said to turn it back on them, something more like "take your inability to pay taxes cuz of no work and low wages, and your needing to be covered by the blue state taxpayers in order to have the bare necessities of life you are so content to live with so long as you can carry a gun worth more than the cost of your kids education and so that the gays can't get married, beer drinking, sausage eating, giant truck driving, inability to read, scurvy body, sister loving right wing freak show and go live with rush limbaugh".

That is what I was expecting. I still have a fever so forgive me for my, what that is called, when you generalize a group. By the way, call the Christian Mothers and tell them to warm up their rosaries!!!
Start the prayer chain *giggle*. Should I see if my brother will make a house call? This took a long time to write.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. We at the Dean blog actually....

had fun with it for awhile after they did it.

People started sending in pictures of themselves with their own versions of it:

"Capuccino-drinking, Toyota driving, labrador-owning Dean supporter!"

"Coffee-drinking, tractor-driving, hound-dog-loving, rabbit-raising Dean supporter!"

That kinda stuff. They were really great. Some of them were hysterical.

[madfloridian]

12. There is still an archive of those ads. They were great.

I was looking at them the other day. I forget who has the link posted, someone at the blog.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Something they obviously don't think about

is if it wasn't for hollywood what would they have to watch on tv? Preaching and the grass growing? :eyes:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. the best "academic elitists"...as if that is a bad thing! LMAO.......

theb cure for conservatism >>> college

[anaxarchos]

8. No "average person" ever said anything like that...

... it bears the mark of the really bad TV writers co-op - the ones who used to write for really bad situation comedies about "ordinary people".

[Vickers]

9. Dean has body piercings? That kicks ass!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Dr. Dean, :yourock: !!!!!!!!!!

[nickgutierrez]

10. Who's expanding the government?

I guess I must have missed where the Democrats ran up a multi-trillion dollar deficit... :eyes:

[bush_is_wacko]

11. Well, I guess every person I know fits at least one of those descriptions

So were all off to Vermont!

My new favorite "Survivor" the only "reality" show I ever watch did a nice job of showing how valuable us tattooed, pierced, sushi eating, freak shows can be! Angie kicked some butt on that show this week!

Don't know if she drinks latte's, drives a Volvo, loves Hollywood ( I tend to find this assertion ridiculous, since MOST of us won't even turn on our TV sets anymore, but, WHATEVER) or reads the New York times. And I'm certain she doesn't have any desire to raise my taxes personally or go on a mission to expand the government, but she's my kinda gal nonetheless!

BTW, if you saw me you would realize the typical Thug would be appalled to realize I wasn't one of them. My tattoo's are discreetly placed so that unless they are perverts they can't see them. I love sushi, but will eat a hamburger if it's available, I don't support the NRA, but I also don't think there isn't a major need for a shit load of gun control laws. I don't drink or do drugs because I never enjoyed them as much as some people of my generation, but I did pick up the NASTY smoking habit and despite many attempts at quitting have virtually given up because it creates too much stress when I try. I consider myself a Christian but practice my religion on my own. I believe that medical technology has advanced enough so that there are no arguments left to support partial birth abortion and therefore banning it WILL NOT EFFECT a womans right to choose as long as the amendment is worded correctly. I live in the freaking exurbs because I like solitude and believe it is healthier for my children to live out in what used to be called the boondocks, but isn't so underpopulated anymore. I drive a gas hog because I can't afford a new car but my husband keeps all of our gas hogs in excellent working order because he used to be a mechanic. Whenever we can afford a new car, we want a hybrid. I am fiscally responsible to the extreme and tend to pay cash for most everything. If I can't do that it isn't worth having as far as I'm concerned. I have seen the look of horror on the faces of those that judged me by appearance only to find out I am a die hard liberal, so this characterization of us really doesn't surprise me in the least even though I KNOW it is totally ridiculous to assume we all think exactly alike, given the fact we promote FREEDOM from govermental controls and pesky neighbors!