Bumper sticker messaging.

[white_wolf]

This may be a totally stupid post, and I'll likely regret posting it, but does anyone else think the left could benefit from short soundbite style messages. I've heard Thom Hartman say a few times that one of the reasons the Right is so successful is because they have a good message strategy. So do you all think we could benefit from coming up with a few short soundbite messages and putting them on bumper-stickers and the like, just short messages that sort of summarize our views? Kind of like slogans I guess. I've got one in mind, feel free to add more. Here is mine: "Socialism: It was good enough for Einstein"

[NYC_SKP]

1. We need to attract people from the left end of the right wing, independents, undecideds...

I don't think that "Socialism: It was good enough for Einstein" is going to help with that.

Better, I think, to use facts, to appeal to the middle class and working person (and unemployed person).

"Socialism" is just not going to sell any of them to our candidates.

sry.

[demosincebirth]

2. If one is brain dead there ain't nothing going to get through. nt

[Zorra]

3. Mine: "Money is not speech, and corporations are not people"

[MrMickeysMom]

5. Love THAT one...

You can even use the "not equal to" sign and "dollar" sign to make it fit.

[eridani]

8. "if corporations are people, can we execute them for treason?" n/t

[SheilaT]

4. It would not hurt at all

to have effective bumper sticker messaging.

But I honestly don't think "Socialism: It was good enough for Einstein" is a good message. For one thing, it requires a lot of explaining. As in: Really? I had no idea Einstein was a socialist. I knew he was Jewish and moved to this country in the 1930's, I think to escape Hitler. See what I mean? It raises more questions than it answers.

Back during the first W administration, I had some bumper stickers made up. My best one was: He wasn't elected on 9/11 either. That's obviously much too dated to use these days.

[MrMickeysMom]

6. It needs to be simple... like

"Renewable Energy is Homeland Security"

I got this from a Google search hit of bumper stickers. Believe it or not, they had one that said, "Rejecting Socialism is not Racism... It's Patriotism" I'm sure that's a message all the tea baggers get.

[tblue37]

7. We need welfare for real people--not for corporations. nt

[defendandprotect]

9. Actually -- I like buttons -- people don't like to put stickers on their cars -- !!

MEDICARE FOR ALL --

STOP THE WARS --

SHUT DOWN US NUCLEAR REACTORS --

STOP OBAMA ATTACKS ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE --

[kentuck]

10. My favorite:

Politics is like driving a car:
D to go forward -- R to go backward