I wore my Kerry button to work yesterday

[Zech Marquis]

4 co workers want me to buy them buttons with Edwards :bounce:, the store amanager approved, althouh she's not brave enough to wear hers yet :) And 3 ex Navy guys shook my hand and complimented me on it :bounce:

NO snide remarks from any freepers, to which I have too replies, my backhand and my right foot :evilgrin:

[SheilaT]

1. Great!

Where do you work? What kind of business?

[Palacsinta]

2. I wear mine with my Air Force T-shirt......

My foster daughter is in the Air Force, so I like to "send" the message that a Kerry supporter can also "support the troops", since apparently that isn't screamingly obvious to the Bushies around here. I live in a heavily Repub. area (Lancaster County) and I get a lot of double-takes, but so far no comments. In fact, I get the sense that there are a lot of closeted Dems in this area. Maybe I should dress like Good Witch Glinda and sing, a la the Munchkins, "Come out. Come out, where ever you are.......".

[Joy Anne]

3. I wear mine everywhere on my pocketbook straps

This has led to having to buy batches of them over and over again. People (often total strangers) admire them, and then I give the button away if the person promises to wear it. I was delighted on Sunday to give an "Another Christian for Kerry" button to my Republican-by-birthright mother.

Oh, and I'm in Cumberland County, which is at least at R as Lancaster County. I had thought LancDem and I were the only two Central Pennsylvanians here.

[qwlauren35]

9. Thanks for that idea!!!

I don't feel comfortable wearing mine to work, but putting it on my purse, which I don't "wear" during working hours, would mean that it's visible nearly every other place I go to, especially shopping.

I'll put it on RIGHT NOW!!!

[Mixxster]

4. Hey, Jethrine

Are you going to be at the Kerry rally in Lancaster Square on the 26th? Maybe we can meet.

[Palacsinta]

11. You betcha!

I'll wear my Air Force shirt!.......or carry a "I certainly DU love Kerry?" sign?

[Joy Anne]

14. Kerry's coming to Lancaster?

I didn't know that. We'll be going to see Hoeffel in Carlisle.

[Mixxster]

15. Not Kerry himself

It's just a rally for him in the heart of conservative Lancaster County, PA. Hopefully, it will bring out a good size crowd- both for the message that it's OK to be a Dem :) but also in case a counter-rally materializes, as is suspected.

[louis c]

5. I wear my pin every day

A small IBEW insignia with the word Kerry under it at work.

It's not too obvious, but I get good comments every day.

[mainer]

6. A real change in political atmosphere!

Suddenly I'm seeing Kerry buttons and bumper-stickers everywhere. But the Bush supporters suddenly seem afraid to wear their buttons. So even they must sense that it's no longer "comfortable" to admit you support W.

[oasis]

13. Many are embarrased to have such an idiot for a president.

[CrispyQ]

7. Yesterday at a stop light . . .

the car in front of me had a no W sticker, the car next to him had a "Bush, let's not elect him this time either!" sticker & the guy in front of him had a Bush/Cheney sticker.

With my pro-Kerry stickers, we outnumbered the Dimson supporter 3 to 1. So cool.

Although, I just saw on CNN that they say Bush is ahead 48 to 47. I hate that Heidi bitch. And Hemmer too. Time to turn off the tube.

[qwlauren35]

10. Question...

Where do you live???

[CrispyQ]

12. Boulder county, Colorado . . .

A small pocket of progressivness in an otherwise repub state.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. You're in Boulder County?

That's where I am too. Maybe I've run into you at some party event and not even known it.

I see alot of Kerry stickers, but just recently I say a big SUV type creature with a tire cover on the back that said "Republican Attack Machine" in huge letters. He also had a sticker saying "W'04". Kind of creepy, he probably would have rammed me if he had been behind me instead of in front.

[CrispyQ]

17. :-) I voted for Mike Miles, too!

Have you had any issues with your Kerry stickers? Keying your car, being flipped off, that type of thing. I had one irrate driver shake his fist at me, but I've had way more people pass & honk & give me a thumbs up.

I felt a definite difference in attitude after F 9-11 came out & then even more after the dem convention. Have you noticed anything like that?

[Crunchy Frog]

18. It wouldn't be worth it

to key my car, it's already a wreck.

I did have someone put a sticker for some minor Republican candidate on my bumper. It's the kind that doesn't peel off easily, so it leaves little scraps when you remove it.

I don't worry about my Kerry sticker, there's alot of them around here anyway. I worry more about a really nasty anti-Bush sticker I've got. I havn't had any problems with it so far though.

Glad to meet a fellow Miles supporter. Surprisingly, there's not too many of us on this board.

[CBHagman]

8. You can wear them at work?

At my two jobs, I don't dare wear the buttons, though I do wear them on the way to work. I work part-time in an independent bookstore that has oodles of anti-Bush stuff, though, and sometimes people come in wearing pro-Kerry or anti-Bush buttons, and I try to discreetly compliment them.

Most places would be rather antsy about openly political gear, though. I had an amusing incident with the GOP during the ghastly aftermath of the 2000 election. The boss man came up to me with copies of the "DNC seal" showing a crying baby, which he was giving out to staff. I returned it to him and quietly said, "I'm a Democrat." When he tried to give it back, I repeated what I had said.

Well, he was so mortified that he came in a day later bringing me flowers and apologizing for being insensitive. Surprises abound...

[Spike from MN]

19. Nasty anti-Bush sticker?

Oh please, do tell crunchyfrog.

I currently have three anti-Bush stickers on my car and hopefully tomorrow I will add two more. I don't wear buttons at work as it's not allowed (due to the fascist dress code imposed upon us by the director of the VA hospital where I work) but the "Impeach Bush" button on my purse is staying until I am told to remove it. Outside of work I always wear buttons, preferably on an anti-Bush T-shirt. Whatever it takes to get the message out.