I am pondering whether or not I should place politically motivated messages (on magnetic backing of course) on the tailgate of my MV.
I want to exercise my 1st Amendment rights. However, I don't want to ruffle the feathers of the MV naysayers. I'm sure there are plenty out here in "Left-ifornia".
Or...let the world be *#mned.
Thoughts?? Do's/Don'ts??
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I vote no Sir.
I think we should try very hard to keep our MV/s just that and let them represent the fine American Fighting Forces that used them.
There are hundreds of other reasons I can come up with...but for now I will just offer one humble vote...no political messages on MV's...unless it just says "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS"
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We only put things about the troops on our trucks, such as the yellow ribbon, "Support our Troops", or my favorite "Please stand behind our troops...or feel free to stand in front of them".
I wouldn't put anything political on the truck. While I feel strongly on some issues, it is not worth getting our trucks vandalized or getting the hobby associated with one issue or another.
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Hard to answer question without knowing the message. If its directly trying to stir some feathers I would say not. we don't want to draw any negative attention to the hobby. I think all would be cool with the yellow ribbon magnets, the POW MIA flags stickers. support our troops and stuff in that area. If your going negative its probably not a good idea.
I fly a yellow Don't Tread on Me flag on one of the antenna's of my 1009 in parades. Being as it is one of the first American flags seems to make it OK.
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I think Papabear and M109guy are right. Why would you want to associate the hobby with one side of the political debate? No one is going to see your bumper sticker and say "wow! I was wrong! I am definitely voting for that other dude!"
Plus.............
One day, somebody is going to be sitting in some local politician's office, asking for assistance with some legal issue (like the Wisconsin issue going on now) and as soon as that MV owner leaves the politician's office, the first thing s/he's going to say to the staff is "Find out who these (MV collectors) are-do they have money, clout, etc."
And a few days later, that aide is gonna' tell the politician "I wouldn't spend a DIME of political capital helping these people."
Because depending upon which party the politician is, the aide is either going to say "We've got his vote locked up, he's a true believer" or "Nothing we could ever do would get this guy to vote for us, so why expend any effort helping him."
I haul local candidates for public office in parades just to piss off other local candidates.
It works really well.
Last edited by clinto; 08-06-2009 at 23:11.
Reason: Needlessly stirring the pot. We're trying to get this kind of purposeful antagonization off the site. Thanks-C
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Political Messages on your MV
