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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:01 AM
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Conservatives are STILL buying bumper stickers complaining about Jane Fonda!?!
That tells me three things:

1) Their memory is long and unforgiving.
2) If they have to reach all the way back to Jane Fonda, then we're not giving them enough really good fighters that make them REALLY angry anymore.
3) I am fully justified in buying that "Watt, Me Worry?" bumper sticker after all.

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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:04 AM
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1. Who's Jane Fonda?I vaguely associate her with legwarmers, but... nt
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:51 AM
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12. She traveled to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
The pro-war people called her Hanoi Jane. She also married Tom Hayden - I believe he was one of the founders of SDS.

She was extrewmely active in the anti-war movement during Vietnam.
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:56 AM
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16. You can't assume people understand your sarcasm at the DU. n/t
:sigh:
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 09:00 AM
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17. I have no idea how old she is. Vietnam was a long time ago.
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 09:00 AM by Jim__
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 09:19 AM
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19. My reply was directed at blondeatlast who was obviously being sarcastic. n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 10:47 AM
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26. Sigh back. I'm learning.
:rofl:
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:05 AM
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2. SOMEONE had to take Eleanor Roosevelt's place as a rallying point...
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Tony Campbell Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:08 AM
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3. haha
Very funny
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:09 AM
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4. So they remember Jane Fonda and have completely forgotten the ...
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 08:09 AM by BlueJazz
...8 years of George W Bush ???
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:17 AM
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7. They "forgot" that Clinton left Bush43 a surplus ...
they "forgot" that Bush43 used that surplus as his reason for tax cuts ...

they "forgot" that Bush43 used the recession as his reason for tax cuts ...

they "forgot" that Bush43 pushed for the bank bailout with no strings attached because it had to be hurried through or else Armageddon to the Ragnarok would have come to the U.S. economy ...

So, yeah ... they "forgot" the last 8 years under Bush ... everything's Obama's fault, since November 2007 ...
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:21 AM
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8. You're absolutely right... rmmmm...How Conveeeenient.
:)
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:30 AM
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10. Apparently, it's all about Obama and Jane Fonda. n/t
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:10 AM
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5. She evokes both LUST and ANGER from them.
Perfect combo for authoritarian freeptards.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:13 AM
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6. Conservatives still drudge out "Teh Red MENUHCE" terms.
"Communist, Socialist, Marxist, Leninist" . . . unbelievable. They're still fighting the Cold War. They still think Brezhnev, Chernenko or Andropov are still in power. They don't seem to get that most people under 45 don't really care about that sort of thing. I just don't even take shit like that seriously.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:21 AM
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9. They have made a go of replacing Commies with Islamofascists...
They need an enemy to motivate themselves. The fear and anger keeps them going.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 10:10 AM
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24. Replacing? They CONFLATE them!
Remember the Soviet Union flag? That was never a hammer and sickle, it was a crescent and star! And Iranians have pictures of Karl Marx everywhere! You know, the big-bearded guy... with a turban.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:39 AM
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11. 4-complete lack of creativity
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 08:40 AM by shadowknows69
There's a reason you don't see scads of conservatives in the art/poetry circles.
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Rebubula Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:52 AM
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13. Jane Fonda
My father was never a conservative. He served 3 terms as a State Delegate in MD and worked on many Democratic campaigns.

However, he was a Vietnam Vet that hated Jane Fonda for her actions in the war.

I will never understand, but I have never served in war. I am a progressive, but I think that what Fonda did was wrong. I forgive those that hate her for her well intentioned, but hurtful actions.

I only hate her for such things as On Golden Pond and Agnes of God.....bleech.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 09:21 AM
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20. But then again, you have no idea how any hours of joy Barbarella gave me.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 10:22 AM
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25. I'm so old, I was in that antiwar movement and Fonda made a big mistake
by posing for a photo on a anti-aircraft gun while on a trip to (then) North Vietnam.

BTW, she has long since said she regretted doing that.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:53 AM
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14. You just know they're Durand-Durand fans.
:dunce:
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freeplessinseattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 09:14 AM
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18. heh heh n/t
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:56 AM
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15. K&R for #2
and #3
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Tsar_Bomba Donating Member (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 09:39 AM
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21. Great strategy,
The main conservative issue is no change. How better to do that, to keep reminding their base, Hollywood liberals especially Jane Fonda, ruined LBJ and Nixon's war. How better to cheat the Vietnam Veteran out of their benefits by focusing the anger over their broken bodies by blaming her.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 09:53 AM
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22. Still expecting to see a "54-40 or Fight" bumper sticker on a horse-drawn carriage somewhere. n/t
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 10:09 AM
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23. Who still uses the "Hanoi Jane" slur? Possibly the next president...
of the U.S.

Rick Perry, President of Texas.

www.texasmonthly.com
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