Storage Company Launches Ad Campaigns Blasting Bachmann, Palin, Bush, Cheney & Tea Party
- Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:06pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Manhattan Mini Storage, a New York City-based company that provides residents with moving and personal storage services, has been adopting a risky and potentially-offensive advertising strategy for years: Poking fun at Republicans.
MMS’s politically-charged campaigns may be entertaining to some, but they hold the potential to alienate a portion of the company’s target audience. Perhaps the city’s leftist nature creates a situation ripe for this sort of communication. Still, some have questioned why MMS utilizes this divisive tactic.
After all, it’s ironic that a storage company, which one would expect to be focused upon showing the true value of its much-needed services, would so willingly jump into the political realm.
A recent poster for that company takes aim at Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. Reading, “Michele Bachmann says God told her to run for president.” The ad continues: “How come God never talks to smart people anymore?”
This conservative-bashing is nothing new. New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog writes:
Manhattan Mini Storage’s political, liberal-friendly ads have been a common sight around the city for years. Remember the one about Sarah Palin from 2008? “What’s More Limited? Your Closet or Her Experience?” That was kind of clever! But this new one targeting Michele Bachmann … we’re not feeling it. Yes, Michele Bachmann is not that smart. What does that have to do storage?
Bachmann and Palin, of course, haven‘t been the company’s only GOP targets. Former Vice President Dick Cheney was also spoofed in a past ad:
In another poster, the company warned about storing one’s belongings outside of Manhattan. After all, they could “come back Republican”:
And it wouldn’t be an anti-Republican ad campaign without a George W. Bush slam, right?
And, alas, the Tea Party angle:
Image Credit: Republicanista
Of course, there’s also the ultra-controversial abortion-themed (i.e. the hanger) advertisement that inspired conversation and debate among a great many:
Considering New York’s recent District 9 results, one wonders if the company will continue slamming the Republican Party.
Some — mainly Republicans — probably want to see the company stick to promoting the moving and storage services they have to offer rather than dabbling in political theater.
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Comments (307)
jessieH
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:31pmI’ll bet they go out of business, quicker than you can say Solyndra.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:36pmWe should help them go out of business…. Start the boycott today!
Report Post »harumph
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:39pmYup. Like a “Lemon’s Used Cars” ad.
Report Post »Good riddance.
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:40pmManhattan Mini Storage: Our Space Is Small, Our Minds Are Even Smaller!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:41pmTime to call this Company’s phone, and have them create quotes for storage costs, make them work hard , then let them know that their cost is too high and the ads suck. Rinse, Repeat.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:50pmHA! Wonder how they liked the RESULTS of the WEINNER replacement RACE? “Ooops”
Report Post »Locked
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:50pmI doubt it. This is Manhattan we’re talking about… and they’ve been doing this for years.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:54pmWe might be on to something here. I have a decent size barn that sits clost to a highway with much traffic. I wonder if I could come up with some slick little saying to paint on the side?
-Hold tight Jimmy Carter, Obama is about to pass you up.
-Tired of seeing that mangy spot on your dog’s butt? Imagine what Nancy Pelosi’s husband has to deal with every morning.
-You can lead a liberal to water, unfortunately you can not hold their head under until bubbles appear.
-If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in an hour and a half, how many minutes will it take Obama, Pelosi, and Reid to raise taxes on hen houses?
Report Post »boxy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:00pmI think they just want to get in on the next stimulus bill.
Report Post »addie
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:07pmCall their toll free number: 1 (877) 904 0797, listen and press * then repeat. lol! Most toll free numbers pay by number of minutes used.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:09pm@rangerp, now that is funny, i also have a barn near a highway here in texas,i have already started my bumper sticker style sayings on the side and the roof. i wonder how long it will take before some left wing nut job cry’s about being offended by it,and how long it will take before some one from the county comes out and tries to tell me to paint over them, i can’t wait,because i will never remove it,only when i am ready too. i really like the one about “‘ you can lead a liberal to water, but you can not hold their heads under water until bubbles appear,”"‘ now that’s funny,
Report Post »JoeBtfsplk
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:10pm1-212-786-7243
INUNDATE THIS PHONE NUMBER WITH QUESTIONS. I DID.
After receiving various estimates for storage costs and sizes, I told the employee I didn’t like the advertisements I saw and would it be possible for him to relay a message to the owners.
He hung up on me!
SUCCESS!
Report Post »JoeBtfsplk
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:11pmDo your part!
Call them often and use their time.
I have unlimited calling so it doesn’t cost extra. Contact a friend in NY and have them call by proxy.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:16pmWatch Obama give them taxpayer money!
TEA!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:23pmThey have been around for years. To bad tea-baggers have no sense of humor.
Diablo4965
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:24pmFlood their phone lines 212-786-7243
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:32pmGuess he’s planning a going out of business sale. Probably looking for a Federal bailout though.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:33pm“-Tired of seeing that mangy spot on your dog’s butt? Imagine what Nancy Pelosi’s husband has to deal with every morning.”
LOL…
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:34pmThey must have gotten Green stimulus money from obama…for the mold in their storage units.
Report Post »drago
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:43pm@Addie
Report Post »This is fun!
Emrys
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:52pmThe ad continues: “How come God never talks to smart people anymore?”
Maybe because the so-called smart only think they are smart. God confounds those who are ‘wise in their own eyes,’ and gives sight to the blind. God uses the foolish things of the world to show his wisdom, and vice versa. God does not work on our level. Our wisdom is as foolishness to God.
So there’s your answer, MMS.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:52pmProof that liberals dont understan capitalism (or pretty much anything)
Report Post »PavZilla
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:53pm@ RangerP … too funny!
I saw a bumper sticker that made me howl. I’ve changed it a little to work the barn angle.
(picture of obumblenuts) Does this ass make my barn look big?
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:54pmToo much junk in your trunk? You might be Michelle Obama
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:55pmtoo much space in your closet? It is because Obama let the queers out and sent them to the military.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:58pmYour closet space is shrinking just like America’s future with Obama at the helm.
Then again, our defecit is growing like Michelles butt
Report Post »Gma Neal
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:02pmWe can only hope.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:03pmYour closet is scarier than Bushe’s agenda. Hmmmmmmm
How about this.
Obama‘s agenda is scarier than Michelle’s bush????
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:12pmLooking at the debt, unemployment, and cost of living in NYC… How’s that Democrat group working out for you??? Maybe it’s time some different ideas.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:12pmThe company is owned by none other than the Edison Properties/Gottesman family. Go do some research on them and it once again boggles the mind how these liberal Jews can follow a party so blindly to the eventual slaughter and elimination of their people and homeland.
Report Post »Sorry to tag onto the first reply, just thought this might be of use as one might read through the rest of the comments.
cemerius
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:16pmThey will continue to thrive until Obama endorses them……NYC is filled with sick and demented people!!
Report Post »Solidus
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:27pmTo soon! Wait…haha
Report Post »TunaBlue
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:28pmLeave a message and let them know what your thinking: http://www.manhattanministorage.com/do/contactUs?department=relations
Report Post »Flakingnapstich
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:40pmThey’re a storage company in New York City. This is going to make them cash hand over fist. Conservative advertising usually goes over well in conservative areas.
Report Post »leary1
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:50pmwish I lived in the area I would boycott them !!
Report Post »cgizzy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:59pmI’ve been seeing the posters for months. I’ve been shocked at a lot of them. Its weird because some of them have nothing to do with storage! There was one that was about a trophy falling on a baby again and the girlfriend getting angry about it.
I saw one on the subway today that used a bible quote from John which was something along the lines of “my fathers house has many rooms” which had a comment below that said “apparently Jesus didnt live in Manhattan.”
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:31pmI wonder how much they gave to O-dumber?
Report Post »dgktowntx
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:43pmeveryone go to occupywallst.org the to the forum..you can leave messages without sign up…lets bomb bard the web site..
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:02pmI foresee them begging for a bailout soon. They aren’t real smart, are they? It’s okay for them to have a political opinion, their choice and right, but surely they realize their customers aren‘t choosing them for that or at least in the PAST they wouldn’t have. Now everyone knows where they stand and well, those who agree with it can patronize them while they lose business from everyone else.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:13pmTo the person who said..
“Call their toll free number: 1 (877) 904 0797, listen and press * then repeat. lol! Most toll free numbers pay by number of minutes used.”
Love it….and it actually is very HIGH compared to other states. For the person that mentioned inundating them with questions, excellent. Another option is to press 6—it says “for positive reinforcement” press 6. Ask about moving and then tell them you need a pep talk. It DOES say positive reinforcement!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:23pmIf this New York business is being hosed for taxes the way other New Yorkers are…then I’d say they should change their name to “SUCKER MINI-STORAGE”- where campaigning for institutionalized robbery is our pleasure. Come pay more than you would somewhere else in the country at “SUCKER MINI-STORAGE”.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:28pmAwww darn I pissed them off. Called them several times in a row until I got a thick Brooklyn accent telling me “Stawp cawl-in uh-us.”
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:51pmIt’s the rich and eye of the neddle thing ! the(smart ) think their so above it ! THE meek shall inherith the earth…………..Not the Globalist ! ! !
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:58pmWait a minute–don’t you tea party folk think that people should be able to run their business however they like? You’re perfectly within your rights to not buy their product (I got news for you, you’re not their target demographic!), but actively trying to sabotage themis just hypocrisy. Are you really so proud of frustrating an employee who is just there to do an honest job and make a paycheck? Pathetic folks. Really pathetic.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:02pm“It’s the rich and eye of the neddle thing !”
Are you talking about Glenn Beck and his media empire, crying all the way to the bank?
lillymckim
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:07pmInteresting … the one about Cheney … don’t you love the “I Love Halliburton” button.. aren’t they so clever…
Fast forward to 2010. The One is in office. Mr. Hope and Change. So, what has Obama done about Halliburton aka KBR? Why, he’s given them a no-bid contract, of course.
Bloomberg Businessweek:
KBR Inc. [aka Halliburton] was selected for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, the Army said.The Army announced its decision yesterday only hours after the Justice Department said it will pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of taking kickbacks from two subcontractors on Iraq-related work. The Army also awarded the work to KBR over objections from members of Congress, who have pushed the Pentagon to seek bids for further logistics contracts.
Is Dick Cheney secretly still in government? Or, is Halliburton one of the few contractors who can get the job done? Either Halliburton is the son of Satan, or the left was wrong in demonizing them in the first place. They can’t have it both ways. Either they were right, and Halliburton is evil incarnate and The One – their one – is supporting such evil; or they were wrong in the first place and should just shut up.
Either way, they really should shut up.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:16pmWhy are Liberals so repulsive? Never mind I know why. It’s because Liberals are people who have been treated like dirt all of their lives, so the only way they know how to relate to other people is through taunts and insults. If you want to make sure your children don’t grow up to become Liberals, let them know they are loved.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:24pmThe owner of Manhattan Storage is Sid Blauner and he says feel free to contact him @ sidblauner@yahoo.com
Report Post »Sooo by golly… I think we should oblige and send some catchy little Drmocratic one liners of our own!
rangerp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:33pm@PubliusPencilman
I do not think you get it. we also believe in free speech. They are free to adveritse for the libs, and we are free to call the toll free number and talk politics with them.
It would be different if they just advertsed their business, they are also advertising lib agenda. We can call and discuss it with them.
If they do not want political calls, let them get rid of the political signs.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:14pmSure you have free speech–I’m not debating your legal right. I‘m saying that you are deliberately attempting to sabotage a business because that business has chosen to express opinions you don’t like. This isn’t exactly a lunch counter in Selma situation here. You’re not actually discussing politics–you are harassing someone trying to earn a paycheck who likely has nothing to do with the ads themselves.
You are free to protest as you like, but I’m just pointing out that if you believe in the free market, you should let this company conduct its business the way it wants to.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:01pm@PubliusPencilman
Did you actually read their adds? It is not just an add for their business, or an add promoting a democrat. their adds are an attemped slap in the face of conservatives. Thier add callse Bachmann stupid, makes fun of the tea party.
If you want to play be ready to pay. If they want to use thier business as a front for liberalism, do not be dismayed when tea party folks call up and talk politics right back/.
The first ammendment goes both ways. If enough tea party and conservatives call and make a ruckus, and if it hurts their business, then they might change their advertizing. Not a hard concept to grasp.
there is a real science to advertisment, thus the ammount of money in it. Their adds may work, it may prove to be counter productive.
Report Post »Berealalready
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:52pmAs a recovering city boy I feel safe saying that the big city self anointed pinhead elites would starve in about four days without fly-over country to feed them. This type of advertising may actually work in NYC, who knows, who cares? They can tell themselves how smart they are meanwhile they can’t build anything, fix anything, or raise any food. @Encicom: Sure I have a sense of humor – I laugh at you and your ilk.
Report Post »RESTORETHEREPUBLIC
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:37pmMy daughter is an Honor Student but my President is an Idiot!
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:08pmSure Ranger. That is, if your idea of a “free” market is that you can open your local business and work to appeal to your local clients, at least until some national pressure group decides it doesn’t like your message and decides to harass you until you are forced to change your business. Sure.
Report Post »Jeff Barton
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 1:42amGod doesn’t respond to people who think they are smart.God doesn’t agree with you that you are smart.”God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.“ ”I know the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.” see how quickly these caring, compassionate,liberals sell your stuff if your late on your storage payments. They hate anyone that does good FOR the country. this is not a specific reply to jessieh.I’m just too lazy to type it over in another place.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 8:01am@PubliusPencilman
If you read the signs, you will notice that the message is not of a local sort. What does Bachmann from Minn have to do with local moving needs.
they want their small business to be a bully pulpit for liberal agenda topics. Once again, if they want to pay on a national level, they can pay on a national level. I will continue to call, and I am sure others will too. If they get tired of the calls, they can change the adds, or take the heat
Report Post »epmonroe
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 8:20amIt’s New York, guys. They love this stuff there. They’ve been doing it for years.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 9:05amRanger, please stop being so naive. The ads are not a “Bully pulpit”; they are clearly targeted towards people who ALREADY AGREE with these ideas. Nor do these ads really advance anything like a “liberal agenda”–they make fun of Bachmann, Palin, Cheney and Bush. There are plenty of conservatives out there who have no problem making fun of Bachmann and Palin (for good reason). With the exception of the abortion-themed ad, there is nothing there that really suggests any agenda. I know that’s hard for you to process, but it requires you to think for just a second that some things are NOT part of a huge conspiracy.
These are local ads for a local audience. The fact that they reference national figures does not change this fact. Its an obvious fact, so don’t play stupid.
Amazingly, there have been plenty of times in which I have seen businesses that use their signs to make some kind of political joke, and I have not at all felt compelled to try to punish them for it. Just because you have the first amendment doesn’t mean you should be a jerk. If you want to live in a country where any opinions that local business owners express are subject to “approval” from national mobs, then I think that’s rather unfortunate.
Whether you agree with them or not, these ads are a smart move–they are memorable, controversial enough to give plenty of exposure, and they DO appeal to many in that market.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 9:14amHow about these …
… what’s more limited? Your closet or HIS (Obama’s) experience?
Your closet is so narrow it must have been designed by a Liberal Marxist!
You need more space .. since Liberal Marxist’ have little of it between their ears …
to be continued …
Report Post »roder005
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 10:06amIt is a matter of time. The ‘Republican’ Mayor, Bloomberg will have chased other republicans away with his high taxes and nannyism that, eventually, there will be another Detroit in place. Liberal policies with no money.
Report Post »robx
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 1:51pmNot in Manhattan.
Report Post »Drives Like Jehu
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 3:27pm“How come God never talks to smart people anymore?”
Umh…God never did talk to “SMART” people; they are too self-absorbed, too much of the world-the flesh-and the devil, too arrogant, too self-satisfied, too crass, too closed minded and too stupid to be of any eternal value.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 5:24pm@RightUnite
Report Post »Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:36pm
We should help them go out of business…. Start the boycott today!
***
Why a boycott? I like Rush & Levin’s attitude against the WH attack site better?
Don’t have it but anyone got FaceBook or Twitter feel free:
“STORE YOUR BRAINS AT MMS THEN VOTE LIBERAL!”
“ANTHONY WEINER; MMS’s IDEA OF SMART!”
“We believe in Storage: Let’s store Al Gore,til the hot air evaporates!”
“…the Obama Administration til Jan. 2013!”
SOMEBODY TAKE IT FROM HERE, “PLEASE!!!”
Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 5:39pm@PubliusPencilman
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:02pm
“It’s the rich and eye of the neddle thing !”
Are you talking about Glenn Beck and his media empire, crying all the way to the bank?
Report Post »***
WOW!!! Launched less than a week ago, and ALREADY A “MEDIA EMPIRE !!!” Able to laught ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK !!!!
The NEW “look of things to come!”
New York Times, EAT YOUR HEART OUT! (unless Michelle has you on a diet.)
Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 5:48pm@PubliusPencilman
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 8:14pm
Sure you have free speech–I’m not debating your legal right. I‘m saying that you are deliberately attempting to sabotage a business because that business has chosen to express opinions you don’t like. This isn’t exactly a lunch counter in Selma situation here. You’re not actually discussing politics–you are harassing someone trying to earn a paycheck who likely has nothing to do with the ads themselves.
You are free to protest as you like, but I’m just pointing out that if you believe in the free market, you should let this company conduct its business the way it wants to.
Report Post »***
If you want to talk “Harrassment” see the new Palin Movie first, it may teach you a new meaning of the word!
Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:25pm@PubliusPencilman
Report Post »Posted on September 16, 2011 at 11:08pm
Sure Ranger. That is, if your idea of a “free” market is that you can open your local business and work to appeal to your local clients, at least until some national pressure group decides it doesn’t like your message and decides to harass you until you are forced to change your business. Sure
***
You mean like the Union Thugs harassed the Toledo Ohio Electrical (small business) company owner including painting smears on his property and shooting his car parked in front of his house?
Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:45pm@PubliusPencilman
Report Post »Posted on September 17, 2011 at 9:05am
Ranger, please stop being so naive. The ads are not a “Bully pulpit”; they are clearly targeted towards people who ALREADY AGREE with these ideas. Nor do these ads really advance anything like a “liberal agenda”–they make fun of Bachmann, Palin, Cheney and Bush. There are plenty of conservatives out there who have no problem making fun of Bachmann and Palin (for good reason). With the exception of the abortion-themed ad, there is nothing there that really suggests any agenda. I know that’s hard for you to process, but it requires you to think for just a second that some things are NOT part of a huge conspiracy.
***
Oh, not considered an agenda or conspiracy anymore when you think you’re getting to implement it,right?
Sorry, even if it takes 90 yrs, (you guys really did study the tortoise & hare didn’t you?) it’s still considered an agenda. In FREEDOM a person is free to do what he/she wants with (or on) his/her own property as long as it doesn’t INTERFERE with the rights and freedoms of others!
thomas1946
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 8:13pmnaw. they’ll just ask uncle to (pardon) Obama, for a bailout. (and get it)
Report Post »ILUVJESUS
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 1:09amLibs are so mentally ill. You have to be really perverted in order to think up that advertising.
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:56pmI hope so- they are disgusting.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 1:54amThank you Blaze and thank you posters on the Blaze. I had never heard of this company before but since you have brought it to my attention, I no longer need to search for a company to fulfil my storage requirements.
Report Post »Manhattan Mini storage, they’ll look after you like they looked after me, great service and fantastic prices.
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:30pmAdvertisements like this just persuade me to vote for Bachmann.
Even the Independents realize that this liberal / progressive / soft-tyrannical administration is what’s destroying this country from within. These kind of advertisements just reinforce the obvious.
Yes?
Report Post »sumguyinohio
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:21pmWhat do you expect from Stephen Nislick CEO of Edison Properties LLC owner of this storage dump? I mean he donated the max to Hillary’s campaign which transferred to Obama when she bailed. He has already donated to two major Democratic groups each $1,000.00 in 2012.
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on September 19, 2011 at 3:05pmDon’t just vote for her- send her some funds and let the idiots at MM know that you did and why.
Report Post »HuckleberryFriend
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:30pmPeople that announce that they are smarter than others rarely are.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:40pmIndeed, truer words have not been spoken. It’s interesting this ad campaign, I wonder how my surgeon friend, a tea party member and Catholic, will react to this?
These people really are out of touch with reality. If I didn‘t have to suffer the effects of their collective myopia I’d find it funny to watch.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:25pmExcept that Bachmann and Palin do not have a single working brain cell between them.
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:02amEncinom—
That‘s because they’re not conjoined at the head.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:11pm@encinom
Report Post »Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:25pm
Except that Bachmann and Palin do not have a single working brain cell between them
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That’s right, with thinking people they come in pairs, that’s what makes the brain work more effectively.
Palin/Bachmann 2012 :-)
Mark Meed
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:30pmOh nooooooooo … some company I have never heard of, in a northeastern liberal bastion hurtling towards insolvency, is crafting sophomoric ads that bash conservatives.
My outraged visceral response … whatever. Good luck with the ads. Hopefully the revenue will offset the taxes and regulatory burdens the really smart people you elected have inflicted on you.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:37pmHehehehehe!
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:07pmThey won’t get any more business from the free coverage that the Blaze just doled out. Still, it could be a good tactic — even in a conservative region. It depends on the level of competition in the particular industry. If there are 10 companies dividing the market relatively equally, then a campaign that appeals to only 20% of the population could double market share.
Report Post »noleftturn
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:12pmGood one!!
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:27pmI am THE TEA PARTY and I Am Democrat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »IDIOT
yougottabekidding
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:34pmHire some people so you learn the regs and lower the unemployment level. I know it woukd cost to much !!
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:35pmThat is impossible. You can’t be a part of the Democratic Party and also call yourself a tea partier. You are either confused or a liar.
Report Post »mdlwoods
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:37pmYeah, that’s what the lib-progs don’t understand…its not just Republicans that are tired of the crap out of DC! I am a Republican but my grandfather was a Democrat. He is probably rolling over in his grave along with the founders over the seizure of the Democratic Party by the lib-progs. The Democratic party sure isn’t the party of our grandfathers anymore!
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:55pmNO, DUDED…. TEA PARTIER is a PATRIOT. THERE are Dem. Patriots. (maybe not many but there are some) TEA PARTY is about AMERICA FIRST. ABOUT FREEDOM, ABOUT LIBERTY.
WHO
WOULD
BE
AGAINST
FREEDOM
LIBERTY
and
AMERICA?
Only LIBERAL, ONE-WORLDER, PROGRESSIVE, MARXISTS, COMMUNISTS who want to take over AMERICA… SO yes, TEA PARTY people are every size, shape, color, background, age, ethnic, educational level, race, sex, profession…. TEA PARTY = FREEDOM LOVERS
What part of that can’t you silly code-pink liberals get? When you finally catch on, you will swallow your tongues…. AMERICA: LOVE IT or LEAVE IT.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:16pmIn 1980, I lived in Massachusetts and I was a registered Democrat — I voted for Clark-Koch (libertarian ticket). In 1984, I was still registered in Mass. as a Democrat, and I voted for Reagan. I finally switched over to Republican in 1994. Why can’t a Democrat be in the Tea Party? There are plenty of progressives in the Republican party — McCain, Huntsman, etc.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:25pmUGODDA
The TEA Party welcomes All that espouse TEA Party principals. Welcome, Old Time Democrats, like John Kennedy couldn’t be a Democrat today. But you have to admit that it‘s hard to support today’s Democrat Party and platform, and lack of Transparency and also be a TEA Party believer.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:53pmThe Taxed Enough Already party is a ground-up citizen’s movement that consists of average American citizens just like me, and anyone trying to intimidate my US Patriot participation is obviously a TROLL baiting coward afraid of intellectual discourse.
For those that berate me, I would advise them to NOT read anything I post and be quiet.
TEA TEA
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:11pmOnce again, you guys are killing me. “THE TEA PARTY STANDS FOR FREEDOM!!” What a joke. When you movment first started, it was organic and grassroots, but then you got coopted by the big money interest that control the Republican party and before long you were marching in the streets so the wealthiest among us don’t get their taxes raised. You are all pawns. You have been tricked into voting against your own personal self interest. (unless your wealthy, which i doubt you are)
And no, Hunstman and Mcain are not progressives. Moderate Republican does not equal progressive. If you think you can be a Democrate/Progressive and be a card carrying member of the Tea Party, you are flat wrong.
@PATTY HENRY
That is one delusional view of the Tea Party. You just spouted off everything Charles Koch has paid millions of dollars to get sheep like you believe. And I will not leave it. I love this country. I love it when it‘s right and want to right it when it’s wrong.
FREEDOM ISN’T FREE!!! THESE COLORS DON’T RUN!!! GOD GUNS AND GUTS IS WHAT MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT!!! Now that I’ve rattled off three bumper sticker slogans to your one, does that make me three time more patriotic than you?
Report Post »READRIGHTHERE
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 3:51amWhy is that an individual can grow up in this country and actually think that a person who has more money is somehow obligated to tolerate having it stolen from them via the Government? The American dream is not receiving a Big screen TV as part of a Government sponsored hand-out, it is earning enough money to be able to purchase one if one so chooses, same goes for a house, nice car, vacations, etc. It is not a dream to have those things handed to us by a benevolent Government, that is a fantasy, and a sick and deluded one at that. The dream of this country is access to opportunity. The Dream is that if I work hard enough, or am creative enough, I can carve out my existence here in freedom from tyranny. I can be the captain of my own ship. And although there are certainly a few things best done by a government generally, “redistributing” wealth is the most counterproductive way to assist anyone who is floundering in poverty. The wealthiest have enough of their money taken from them through taxation, I would rather see them spend their money as they see fit, putting it back into a growing economy, investing in future returns and creating job opportunities for anyone hungry enough to pursue them. It is not Bill Gates’ job to provide me with the things I need or want via an all-knowing Government, it is mine.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 10:23amHeffe44
If ignorance is bliss, you as one of the most ignorant people I have ever encountered, must be one elated fool. Seeing how I am not confused, you hidding in mommies basement sucking up free stuff that I pay for, have just called me a liar. That in it’s self shows your total lack of civility which totally shows what people like you are made of!
Report Post »You are a coward and an idiot!
Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:06pm@Heffe44
Report Post »Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:11pm
Once again, you guys are killing me. “THE TEA PARTY STANDS FOR FREEDOM!!” What a joke. When you movment first started, it was organic and grassroots, but then you got coopted by the big money interest that control the Republican party and before long you were marching in the streets so the wealthiest among us don’t get their taxes raised. You are all pawns. You have been tricked into voting against your own personal self interest. (unless your wealthy, which i doubt you are)
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Tea Party IS an organic movement! If the Koch brothers passed out checks it would have been ALL OVER TV & THE INTERNET! The money interests have long controlled ALL parties, THAT’S WHAT STARTED THE TEA PARTY, WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK! Talk rich, how many times was the Bundler from Solyndra in the WH and how many advisory boards is he on? Ever hear of a Financier named George Soros, seems he has a new web site out to help catch & smear anyone saying bad thins about this administration! NOW THAT ONE’S AN EXAMPLE OF CRONY CAPITALISM!
I cosider myself Tea Party but some days can barely walk, I don’t march in the streets, I post to web sites, ( I have sponsored tea bags to go for myself & hubby!) talk to neighbors, health care givers, others in Dr’s offices etc. Glad to do my part! I LOVE TEA! Maybe when taxes are cut & business can expand, there’ll be more work from homes! That’s For Me!
Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:18pm@Heffe44
Report Post »Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:35pm
That is impossible. You can’t be a part of the Democratic Party and also call yourself a tea partier. You are either confused or a liar
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OR somebody taught you to read your paycheck stub!!!!
Secessionista
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:25pmIt makes sense, most people who are moving themselves into storage units are probably liberals without jobs. Conservatives don’t find themselves homeless all that often.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:24pmThey could just as easily poke fun at both sides and have more customers. Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Weiner, Obama are a treasure trove of comic potential! More laughs, more business.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:27pm…and what about Maxine Waters….and MOOCHELLE! Any investors out there? Really there is much more to work with on the left!
Report Post »Tyras
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:38pmSheila Jackson Lee. That woman is comedy gold.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:30pmre : More laughs, more business
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Like : “Big Sis stores her Fast & Furious cache with MMS”?
aznchef1003
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:23pmI will investigate how much stimulus money the company received from the Obama Administration to open up the storage facilities and also want to know if their employees are union.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:22pmMini minded yorkers!!
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:22pmThe only thing that is shrinking and sinking is this company’s business philosophy. I love Michele Bachmann and may the real God bless her for what she is going through and give her strength and wisdom.
Report Post »RighteousTyrant
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:04pmWhat she’s going through? A political campaign? It’s not like the woman is battling cancer. How about we let her deal with the challenges of her willful ambition on her own and ask God to help people who truly need it?
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:22pm“How come God never talks to smart people anymore?”
He does you’re just not one of them. Smart that is.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:35pmHa ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:32pmAmen!
Report Post »spinelessdave
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:21pmMMS I hope you fail and when you do, save a small storage unit where you can curl up in a fetal position and die of depression from the tea party taking over the White House.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:20pmthe liberal loons are clearly desperate ….. sad , just sad
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:20pmThe problem with the Left lunatics is that they see the Tea Party as a single entity, like the GOP, DNC, Sears, or Walmart for that matter. These Leftists morons just can’t seem to get their extremely narrow minds around the Tea Party concept. Their little pea-brains will never get it!!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:48pmI actually do believe, based on countless conversations with countless socialists/liberals, that they see humans organized along leader/follower lines. If a group forms, it must be directed under some kind of command and control structures. It is how they operate after all, and it explains their utter unfamiliarity with real individualism (not tattoo/black boot/silly clothes “in-duh-vidualism”, the real kind I mean, the non-conformist types).
Report Post »Gripes
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:20pmHey, everybody! Call these guys to complain about the ads. Don’t do it just to complain, do it to clog their phone lines!
Report Post »GardenoftheGods
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:32pmI called 1 (877) 904 0797, listen and press * then repeat. lol! Most toll free numbers pay by number of minutes used. I have free long distance so I tied their line up for 10 mins…what I want to know is, if I press 6 for Positive reinforcement (their words) What do you think I’ll get? I did it & it says “Repeat after me: I AM A ROCK STAR!” I kid you NOT!!!
Report Post »Pat Alexander
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:19pmMost people that are idiots don’t publicize it so much……
Report Post »RunningTheRace
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 2:07amAgreed…pure lack of intelligence.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 8:57amIt is not a smart business move. Why pick a fight with some of your costumers?
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:19pmThere’s nothing wrong with this approach. It’s obvious that the advertiser is too stupid to listen to another point of view, and obviously too stupid for a conservative Republican (or Democrat) to use for moving or storage.
I‘m sure that there are thousands of people who don’t pay taxes and live on the dole, who will use them every time they get evicted.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:18pmI have some hope for NY now since they voted 2 folk now to replace Dems (did loose one though, but that will be short lived). If I did live in NY, I would refuse to do business with this company if given a choice. That’s how you punish a company. Not by government, but by the pocket book none the less. Companies (either side) need to know the consequences for playing politics. In my case, against liberal leaning companies. Why would any company promote Socialist (i.e., Communist) leaning candidates I have no idea, but they do. :)
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:29pmThey are aiming their advertising at the city’s base. New York is basically leftist and this sickening company is trying to get their business. They are too stupid to realize that if it were left to the leftist,…there wouldn’t be businesses.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:17pmYeah, the “right to choose” poster with a clothes hanger?? What is the message there??
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:23pmThat the “right” to dismember and kill an unborn baby is something worth bitterly clinging to. That no woman, in Obumbler’s words, should be “punished with a baby” after they made a poor decision. Yet these same idiots think pedophiles and rapists are capable of rehabilitation and that the death penalty is morally wrong.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:00pmIt’s the standard leftist threat. Let us kill our children legally, or we’ll do it with coat hangars!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 7:03pm@PPMStudios
Report Post »Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:17pm
Yeah, the “right to choose” poster with a clothes hanger?? What is the message there??
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You are obviously not older than Roe v Wade, before that, the left used the propoganda that thoudands of girls or women died each year from “Back Alley” abortions where the abortionist used coathangers as the tool of choice. Now we’ve really moved up, modern ones use knives and vacuum cleaners, if they think they’re safer, they haven’t read the investigations of Planned Parenthood facilities in Pennsylvania this year!
DEConservative
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:16pmLMAO….I think it’s actually pretty funny to see these ads…it shows me where I shouldn’t shop/do business.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 6:01pmDECONSERVATIVE,
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Alvin691
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:14pmAs Herman Cain stated, the only think liberals can do is insult. All they have done is insult a portion of their customers.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:20pmAgreed Alvin.
Report Post »The progs always eat their own and I can hardly wait to see who is on their menu.
IAMMADDOG
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:10pmNew York….I knew there was a reason I don’t EVER go there. What I want to know is when they are going to be as bad off as Cali.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:10pmBoy they are asking for some trouble. Some demented evil doer could go down there and LIGHT THINGS UP! Good thing they are attacking Republicans. If it was Demo’s or liberals they would go down and light things up.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:10pmTalk about some scared liberals, Keep the pressure on Tea Party, great evidence that you are winning.
Report Post »saveamericafromthestupids
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 12:02amToo bad the Tea Party isn’t winning in St. Louis City; they left their office in a shambles after this past January and the building they were in should be condemned. Thanks Tea Party St Louis for adding blight to my neighborhood!
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 1:10pmThere is no doubt these people are like lttle children. It has been very amusing to watch these people self destruct. They know no other way to try and make their case, it‘s why they’re losing seats in droves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DSa5zq_5LE
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