Attack Slogans Are the Most Fun
By Al Kamen
Wednesday, July 7, 2004; Page A17
And now, the winners in the In the Loop Campaign Slogan Contest. This
was to pick slogans that will clinch victory in November for President
Bush or Sen. John F. Kerry.
Some entries were flatly pro-Bush or pro-Kerry, but others could go
either way depending on the audience. The most fun slogans tended to
be anti the other guy. So, in no particular order, here are the
judges' picks.
For the Kerry campaign:
� "Bring back complete sentences" -- Catherine Smith, an operations
manager of a trade show supply company in Atlanta.
� "Elect a man who can pronounce 'nuclear' " -- Martha Menard, a
retired teacher in Murfreesboro, Ill.
� "A leader, not a mis-leader" -- Rich Carroll, a New York elementary
school teacher.
� "Teach the Iraqi people a lesson in democracy. Elect Kerry!" --
Retired historical theology university professor Michael D. Ryan of
Mitchell, S.D.
� "It's Skull and Bones, not Numbskull and Bones" -- Retired
bureaucrat Ray Samuel of New York.
� "Let's make ketchup a vegetable again" -- Joshua Smith of Sun
Prairie, Wis., a policy analyst at the state legislature.
� "GWB is the WMD" -- Dick Bauman, an insurance claims manager from
Blacksburg, Va.
� "Swift boat #44 to president #44" -- Chris Reier, who works for the
Jacksonville, Fla., Jaguars football team.
� "John Kerry -- On Your Side. (You Decide -- Either side is fine with
me.)" -- Charles Carswell, a building inspector from Millen, Ga.
For the Bush campaign:
� "It's still my turn" -- Jim Blue, a retired civil servant from Darnestown .
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Attack Slogans Are the Most Fun
� "Standing behind a Bush -- Not using the John" -- Chris de Wolfe, an
IRS employee in Dallas.
� "50 million Frenchmen can be wrong" -- George Vary, a management
consultant from Bethesda.
� "Finishing Dad's Job" -- Tim Essebaggers, a Loop fan.
� "Vote Bush: To Forgive is Divine" -- Mitch Carter, a Washington paralegal.
� "Kerry: I'll Get Our Friends Back; The UN Approves of This Ad" --
John F. Gabriel of Crofton, a retired Defense Department worker.
� "Blue Blood Background; Redneck Values" -- Lemuel Thomas of Silver
Spring, a lawyer.
� "Kerry: Uncertain leadership for uncertain times" -- Bob Anderson,
an environmental protection specialist with the Army in Fort Monroe,
Va., playing off the Bush campaign emphasis on steady leadership.
In the straightforward slogan tradition:
� "Double the Dubya" -- Mary Ellen Schutt, an aeronautical engineer
for the Federal Aviation Administration in Des Plaines, Ill.
� "W. stands for you and you" -- Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric
scientist in Bethesda.
And then these:
� "Four More Wars!" -- Ben Graham, a "bush regenerator" (which means
environmental worker) in Sydney.
� "Real Men Don't Need Facts! Bush/Cheney '04" -- Stan Dorn, a senior
policy analyst at the Economic and Social Research Institute here.
Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to all for entering. Special
thanks to the judges, our colleagues Dana Milbank and Annie Groer, who
sifted through hundreds of entries.
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:13:32 -0600, dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought the following was amusing....
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32199-2004Jul6.html?referrer=email
>
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