Well if drank enough Absolut vodka, the above would become your reality.
Posted on 04/05/2008 11:10:53 AM PDT by Dane
Absolut-ely Ridiculous Rick Moran Take a look at this map that Absolut Vodka is using in its latest campaign in Mexico and the US:
Now I have an open mind about a lot of things. But somehow, giving California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, and about 4 other states to Mexico because they don't like a treaty they signed after losing a war 160 years ago seems a little too much in the way of good neighborliness if you ask me.
The word is "reconquista." The open borders crowd tells us that this is a myth, that the issue of "returning" the American southwest and California to Mexico is a straw man set up by anti-immigration forces to scare the voters.
But as you can see, the idea is alive and well south of the border as well as in many Hispanic enclaves here in this country. And now Absolut Vodka has acknowledged the power of this idea by using it in an ad campaign in magazines, billboards, and posters.
I will not fall in to the trap of many open borders advocates and proclaim myself against all immigration from Mexico. I, and most rational people, oppose illegal immigration. Those who enter legally are generally more eager to assimilate, to leave the old country behind thus revealing reconquista the crackpot idea that it is.
Michelle Malkin has a roundup of links about this scandalous ad campaign.
HEY! WHY PAY SO MUCH ATTENTION TO THIS ___________ WHEN THIS ___________ IS SO MUCH WORSE!
I'm foolish enough to believe that just because one thing is considerably higher up the Richter Scale of Wrong than the other doesn't mean I should ignore the lesser of the two evils.
I can happily bitch about both. (and frequently do.)
Please, IOW, you will complain about anything especially the non-important.
“mex fuxico”
Abso-slut vodka.
So you suggest that you are the one who decides what we should complain about?
Dane! That sounds FASCIST! It's something a Hillary supporter would suggest!
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Your concern is touching.
Well if drank enough Absolut vodka, the above would become your reality.
A company selling millions of dollars worth of product in the US that uses the money derived from here to promote anti-Americanism overseas is important, regardless of what you think. Most importantly, I will no longer purchase anymore Absolut. I wasn’t a big buyer but I did buy 4-5 handles a year of it previous. Re-conquista is indeed a movement in the US. We ignore it at our own peril.
Dane! That sounds FASCIST! It's something a Hillary supporter would suggest!
Is a vodka ad that much a threat to the Republic to you. If it is, then you are the fascist.
Fine, no problemo, by me, that's your right.
I'm just commenting about how a vodka ad seems to run your life.
How about an Absolut map of the Confederate States of America with the Capital in Richmond, VA?
-PJ
How about an Absolut map of the Confederate States of America with the Capital in Richmond, VA?
Write that to the Absolut marketing dept. You may get a royalty from them as I suspect michelle malkin did for this brouhaha.
Love that (especially South Texas) LOL
No, in your words.
In my words I'll complain about any damn thing I think is important regardless of how important or not I think it or whether Dane thinks it important or not.
Pretty simple equation really.
LOL Apparently being upset about people upset about a vodka ad seems to run your life. If spending 15 minutes posting here about it ‘runs’ my life then so be it. You are pretty pathetic.
So let me get this straight - you think too much attention is being paid to a vodka advertisement and so to address this absurdity you...start another FR thread about it?
Uh to your mass media leader, michelle malkin, the vodka ad seems to be a bigger threat than al-queda is.
Uh huh. I just think it’s funny as all git out that the guy who’s complaining about people making it a controversy starts yet another thread to complain about it being a controversy. What’s next, a “Don’t Look Here” billboard?
Uh I didn't start this, your media leader heroine michelle malkin did(and that's a fact), and now that it has basically backfired, you guys are scurrying in your little reactionary basement to change the subject.
Far be it from me to suppress the thing - I think this is the funniest thread I've read for a long time. I'm gonna BTT it.
Far be it from me to suppress the thing - I think this is the funniest thread I've read for a long time. I'm gonna BTT it
LOL!!!!!!! Yunz guys are so hillary like. Your heroine, micelee malkin, started this, and your repsonse is akin to what hillary would say about the controversy of her being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, in that hillary was born after the date of Sir Edmund Hillary's birthdate, and thus technically was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
You guys are so funny, using your hillary tactics and all.
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