Political campaigns are about establishing your brand, I'm told. Brands are stand-ins for serious ideas. At best, they're synedoches. More usually, they're just lies. Let's have some fun with this.
Obama is definitely a Prius, right? Hillary claims to be a minivan, but is maybe a Volvo or Mercedes.
And McCain - not a Hummer...A Jeep, maybe? Or maybe he used to drive a Jeep but now a Lincoln. A restored Camaro? I'm not reading these brands as well as I'd like. Ron Paul is a 56 Chevy because you can repair the thing yourself, dammit, and you should. Mike Huckabee a "used" pickup truck that turns out to be a 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 diesel. But biodiesel, and with a fish on it.
Help me out here. Have fun with it. Kucinich? Romney?
Kucinich is a 1973 VW Beetle. I think 1973 is around when he was first elected mayor of Cleveland and I don't think his views have changed much since.
ReplyDeleteKucinich- an old VW van, in a faded hippie paint job. I thought this before I saw the first comment.
ReplyDeleteRomney: a Mercury or Crown Victoria.
Romney is a definitely some sort of SVU....not really a truck, not really a minivan, not really high performance vehicle, but trying to be all three. Also just rolls over when you put to much pressure on him.
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ReplyDeleteJust goes to show that Kucinich evokes similar thoughts in us - your Van might be a tad better than my beetle.
Kucinich is an Edsel.
ReplyDeleteRomney is a sleek, black Mercedes like the bad guys drive in European movies, Ron Paul has got to be an AMC Gremlin McCain is a 68 Caddy. Kucinich is VW but not a Beetle; maybe a squareback.
ReplyDeleteKucinich is VW but not a Beetle; maybe a squareback.
ReplyDeleteNo, I vote for the VW "Thing," that beach buggy wantabe.
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Romney drives a BMW (Big Mormon Wagon). I picture him in a Hummer3, looks tough but it's just sheet metal on a GMC chassis. Maybe an Avalance; y'know, the one that changes from truck to SUV back to truck again.
ReplyDeleteObama drives a black towncar with a white interior and a CD case filled with gangsta rap.
Hillary! drives one of those baggage trains used at the airport. Of course, everyone around her pretends it's a Mercedez M-Class and she believes it because she's never had to actually drive her own car for like 80 years or something.
Ron Paul and Kucinich carpool in a gray '74 Volvo plastered with "Nader '80" bumper stickers.
McCain drives a no frills Crown Victoria, just like the state police have. In fact, McCain bought his CV at a state surplus auction and the car had definately seen better days. A little body work, some fresh paint and no one would ever know it had flipped end-over-end.
Huckabee drives a U-Haul truck with a loudspeaker mounted on the top.
Bill Clinton drives a beat-up pickup truck (when the media is around). When no one is watching he's got this sweet new red sports car (the model is constantly changing).
I drive a green Ford explorer XL. Read into that what you will. -cp
cold pizza is tough on everyone, it seems. That's the way it should be.
ReplyDeleteAl Gore drives a Rolls with the RR pried off and a Prius logo stuck in its place.
The funniest was AVI's "carbon-friendly" Rolls Royce for Al Gore: just like the electric bill at his house!
ReplyDeleteModify Kucinich's VW Van to have a psychedelic paint job put on in 1968 and nothing added to it since.
No AVI, Gore drives a Prius with the engine removed and a RR engine stuck in. How else do you explain his son getting busted in a Prius going 100 mph???? I've driven a Prius....that's just not possible.....
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I'd have to say that the Dem
ReplyDeleteParty is a corvette...
... with a '72 Vega engine. Trying to be everyone's dream, but nothing to make it go in the real world.
Oh, wait, I'm channelling IMAO here...
Fred Thompson is this!
Hmm, J-B. Maybe the batmobile for Thompson
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