A Really Cool Billboard in Georgia
Dave Carter ·
Aug 29, 2010 at 6:02pm
On the Georgia side of the GA / SC state line, facing the south bound side of I-85, I saw this bill board.
![Smaller-WethePeople-for-Coinslider[1]](http://cdn.ricochet.com/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/media/images/smaller-wethepeople-for-coinslider-12/129326-1-eng-US/Smaller-WethePeople-for-Coinslider-1_lightbox.png "Smaller-WethePeople-for-Coinslider[1]")
What started as a group of “concerned businessmen” has grown into an effort to plaster this and similar messages across the country. Their website even has a mechanism whereby we can donate and help put up more of these signs. Is it just me, or do you get the sense that November will usher in a seismic change in Washington DC?
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Jun '10
Re: A Really Cool Billboard in Georgia
Dave, I believe and truly hope you are right. But (there's always a but after a flowery opening isn't there?) if you go back to 1994, and if my memory serves, there was a shift in power but not that great a shift in representation. In other words many of the incumbents kept their seats. On the positive side this suggests not much voter shifting is required to shift the balance of power. On the negative side the politicians will not be punished enough to learn any lessons, and it will be business as usual. If anyone can prove me wrong in this assessment I will gladly yield to superior wisdom.
Aug '10
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Cas, if we're going to talk 1994 (and really we can't avoid it this year), it's also worth noting that two years later, Clinton won re-election.
I'm listening to the latest Ricochet podcast as we type this, and Rob Long and Peter Robinson seem very excited about getting Obama out in 2012. I'm hoping for the same myself; but my inner pessimistic conservative won't stop pointing out that even after '94, the GOP couldn't do better than Bob Dole two years later. And they don't seem to be shaping up much better for 2012.
May '10
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Almost all the billboards on their site are funny! Simple, devastating one-liners that won't change anyone's party affiliation but will remind people the importance of voting. I haven't seen any of these on the road - thanks for sharing, Dave! I sure do love capitalism, free speech, and the internet.
Re: A Really Cool Billboard in Georgia
Cas, great points. I was in Korea during the 1994 election, so I wasn't able to make any sort of connection with regular folks at home,...and I couldn't speak the language of the people I was in regular contact with in Korea (for the longest time I thought "Adashi" meant bad driver). It's just an instinctual thing I get from listening and talking with people I meet on the road. Even some incumbent Republicans are feeling pretty queasy of late, and with good reason. I get the distinct feeling that the majority of Americans, to use an old phrase, "have had it" with being simultaneously mugged and ignored. I'll leave the scientific analysis to Zogby, Rasmussen, Gallup, and their orchestras.
May '10
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Lord, I hope your right. Maybe, just maybe, a critical mass has come to understand and reject the Rawlsian vision our political class has been hellbent on imposing on our actually existing country.
May '10
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While these billboards are unlikely, as Jason said, to change many minds, they (and others like them) will help people with quiet doubts and fears about this President be comfortable expressing them. Because of his race and the over-the-top adulation of 2008, many people, I suspect, have been shy about making public statements critical of Obama, unless they were very careful about the politics of their companions. But with such billboards and ads appearing that may change.
Edited on Aug 29, 2010 at 9:24pmAug '10
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G.A. Dean: While these billboards are unlikely, as Jason said, to change many minds, they (and others like them) will help people with quiet doubts and fears about this President be comfortable expressing them. Because of his race and the over-the-top adulation of 2008, many people, I suspect, have been shy about making public statements ... But with such billboards and ads appearing that may change. · Aug 29 at 9:23pm
Edited on Aug 29 at 09:24 pm
Exactly correct G.A. Some conservatives are so in-the-box, engineering/business types. Rigid. You mention a device like an Anti-Obama billboard and they rashly say, "That won't work--it won't convince anyone on the Left." The response to that is--once one gets his frustration under control--"Of course you won't convince anyone on the Left (you ninny), it is meant to demoralize some on the Left and to encourage (some) on one's own team." You have hit upon the total "war" nature of cultural revolution. One presses in on all fronts. This is not a game for people who want to be overly "nice." "Nice" is not the same as "virtuous."
May '10
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I think Cas has a very good point. Let me see that and raise him. There are two aspects to real change: 1) getting new people in office, and 2) having those people have the backbone to take absolutely unprecedented action -- de-funding Obamacare in the short run, repealing it in the longer term..
But even that may not be sufficient. Getting new people in elective office does nothing about the appointees and the bureaucrats who actually make things work. We need to recall Bush's warning that this will be a "long war." It is not about this election. It is about transforming the way the American people think about their government.
A very good read on this, that was eerily predictive, is 'The Fourth Turning', by Strauss and Howe.