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Wal-Mart Goes Left: Why Is It Pandering To Blue State America?
Capital Research Center ^ | August 2007 | Kirk MacDonald

Posted on 08/08/2007 7:12:03 AM PDT by vadum

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1 posted on 08/08/2007 7:12:14 AM PDT by vadum
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To: vadum
I HATE that the MSM switched the color of the states to GOP being red. This is the way it was and always should be.


2 posted on 08/08/2007 7:14:47 AM PDT by SengirV
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3 posted on 08/08/2007 7:17:33 AM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: vadum

“More ominous is Wal-Mart’s “Supplier Diversity Program” which will judge suppliers on the diversity of their workplaces. It could impose de facto job quotas on the private sector without government intervention.”

I wonder how diverse are the Red Chinese workplaces where so many of Wallmart’s products are manufactured?


4 posted on 08/08/2007 7:18:09 AM PDT by rogator
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To: vadum

It’s simple really. The right wing conservatives believe in capitalism and therefore pose no threat to the continued existence of Wal-Mart even if they despise the retailer. The left-wing liberal socialists and quasi-communists despise Wal-Mart and will use their big-government powers to terminate it. Wal-Mart consequently desires to endear itself to liberals and to associate itself with their causes to the extent that the regulatory or legal elimination of Wal-Mart hurts those who would promulgate such regulations. Wal-Mart simply plays the political game and wants to associate with the winning liberals.


5 posted on 08/08/2007 7:18:23 AM PDT by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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To: vadum
Yet it [Wal-Mart] generates anger – outright hatred, at times— among left-wing Americans.

Just goes to show once again that pandering to nutballs (either of the leftist or Islamist variety) never works, and more often than not has effects exactly opposite of those intended.

6 posted on 08/08/2007 7:19:27 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo (There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
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Although former Sierra Club president Adam Werbach once called Wal-Mart a “virus, infecting and destroying American culture,” it hired him in 2006 as an environmental consultant......

When you take all the bad press against Walmart, it adds up to a political shakedown. Once Walmart begins donating to the left, the retoric stops, just like it did with Microsoft.

7 posted on 08/08/2007 7:21:03 AM PDT by aimhigh
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Goodbye Walmart!

I've spent my last peso in your store.

8 posted on 08/08/2007 7:21:46 AM PDT by GFritsch ('All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved'." -)
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To: SengirV
I HATE that the MSM switched the color of the states to GOP being red.

Hear hear. I also hate the fact the Republicans accepted the color switch (in 2000) without protest, and that within a very short period of time forgot that the switch even took place. The Dems had always despised the Dems = Red = Communism connection, and their friends in the MSM relieved them of that concern forever. And the Pubbies: "Oh, we're red now? Ok, no prob. Thank you sir, may I have another?"

10 posted on 08/08/2007 7:27:40 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo (There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
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It’s simple. The founder died. The hired help doesn’t know and never knew the “secret” that made the company grow, so they are killing it with whatever management fad is “in” this month.


11 posted on 08/08/2007 7:28:58 AM PDT by jim_trent
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Wal-Mart has thoroughly saturated many "red-state" markets already. Their biggest challenge right now is making inroads in heavily urbanized "blue-state" areas (they've been trying for years to open a store in New York City, for example).

It's really that simple.

12 posted on 08/08/2007 7:30:57 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: vadum
WalMart sells to Customer’s on both sides of the political spectrum.. Unfortunately, one side needs symbolic moves as marketing gimmicks.. Can’t blame WalMart.. they are just trying to play the game to survive.
13 posted on 08/08/2007 7:32:42 AM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
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Yet it generates anger – outright hatred, at times— among left-wing Americans.

It's all about "duh yoonyin".

14 posted on 08/08/2007 7:34:24 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Mr. Mojo

Money talks, and BS walks!

It IS that simple. Like it or no.

MV


15 posted on 08/08/2007 7:34:28 AM PDT by madvlad ((Born in the south, raised around the globe and STILL republican))
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To: SengirV

It was very clever, insidious and perfidious of the MSM to switch the colors and make the Conservatives or Republicans use the communist colors.

The 2 largest battles in the world now are Islam against the West and rational thought, and the left against America and freedom. I don’t know if there’s much difference between Islam and the left socialist, communists. They’re all of a piece.


16 posted on 08/08/2007 7:34:55 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: GFritsch

Same here. God, I hate this. Can’t depend on nothin’.


17 posted on 08/08/2007 7:35:56 AM PDT by twonie (Keep your guns - and stockpile ammo.)
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To: jim_trent; BIGLOOK; Grampa Dave

bttt

It’s simple. The founder died. The hired help doesn’t know and never knew the “secret” that made the company grow...


18 posted on 08/08/2007 7:36:36 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Mr. Mojo; SengirV
Hear hear. I also hate the fact the Republicans accepted the color switch (in 2000) without protest, and that within a very short period of time forgot that the switch even took place. The Dems had always despised the Dems = Red = Communism connection, and their friends in the MSM relieved them of that concern forever. And the Pubbies: "Oh, we're red now? Ok, no prob. Thank you sir, may I have another?"

Add me to the chorus. Although the Democrats wholeheartedly support Leftists causes, they do not want to be called Leftists.

As for the Republicans, they are clueless or gutless (or both).

19 posted on 08/08/2007 7:37:34 AM PDT by Logophile
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I have pretty much given up on WalMart...they certainly have low prices and employ a lot of un-employable types...but the quality of the stuff there is crap and really not cheap...I really donot care for the management either and I hate the way WM has caved to the Left!!


20 posted on 08/08/2007 7:38:02 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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