Your 2012 Campaign Bumper Sticker Suggestions

Full disclosure: I am a moderate republican (which in today's climate makes me a flaming liberal). I despised GWB. I detest the current GOP. I tolerate Obama. But above all, I realize that they are all just politicians.

In that vein, the GOP needs to come up with something that incorporates "Failure of Leadership", capitalizing on the O-man's quote when he (as Senator) voted against raising the debt ceiling and used that term as a reason.

What do the Dems need to do? Nothing, as long as the GOP has idiots like Michele Bachmann and Trump and Huckabee (sp) and Palin at the fore.
 
I think he may be going for the Sarah Palin "write it on your hand" angle.

No need for teleprompters when you've got a ball point pen or a sharpie.
 
Perham,
I probably fit your moderate GOP tag, and I wasn't a W fan, and have never voted for him. I despise Obama. Of all the people you mentioned, I have no intention of voting for any of them either. Likely, I will be voting 3rd party again. Until either of the parties run a candidate who is interested in the good of the country, following the Constitution instead of playing politics... then they would get my vote.
 
What I really want is 1) stop spending, 2) stop fighting wars all around the world, and 3) stop letting the corporations write the laws that govern them. Those three things are all heavily related.

When the drug companies take the reins, we get the Prescription drug bill of 04. When the automakers do it, we get cash for clunkers. Agribusiness transfers vast wealth to themselves in the form of subsidies and ever-shrinking regulation. Ditto for Big Oil. The finance industry is a pigs-at-the-trough free-for-all.

If we can't reel that in (and I'm losing hope that we can), we're going to keep going right down the tubes while the average American argues for "their" side in the (increasingly irrelevant) Republican vs. Democrat debate.

Sorry for the aside. This was a thread about bumper stickers for 2012, right? How 'bout "Stop the corporations from clowning the ******* system so we can all get back to stupid, meaningless bumper stickers that talk about 'family values' or 'hope and change.'"
 
I'll agree that intelligence is hardly the only virtue to consider when electing public officials and measures of intelligence are flawed and fail to encompass important abilities. That said, I want a president who can understand and explain complex subjects. To be a good president you need a better than average understanding of history, diplomacy, economics, constitutional law, politics and psychology so as to not have to blindly trust the people you empower or blindly hold to popular understandings even when solid evidence points to different conclusions. So while intellect and intellectual curiousity are not automatic qualifiers for high public office, I think their absence is a disqualifier.
 
So Crockett, can you please review the IQ's of the past few Presidents for us as well as that of the potential candidates? Seems you are an authority on the subject.
 
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