Coke caves in face of Democratic boycott threat

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 4/4/12 | Paul Bedard

[ColdOne]

emocratic officials Wednesday launched a two-pronged attack on states with new laws requiring identification before voting, the highlight being a call to boycott Coke, Walmart and others that back a leading organization pushing for voter ID laws.

Coke was quick to react to the political boycott threat, pulling support from the targeted group just five hours after it was called. Walmart said that support for a group does not mean it backs every decision by those groups.

At issue: Liberal claims that some states are trying to keep minority voters from the polls via voter ID laws, a suggestion conservatives call silly.

“We are organizing. We are not agonizing,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who is leading a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee effort to get government identification into the hands of the estimated 2-3 million Democrats who don’t have one. “We have staffed up,” he said.

[Libloather]

a call to boycott Coke

Drinking or snorting?

[EGPWS]

Coke was quick to react to the political boycott threat, pulling support from the targeted group just five hours after it was called.

[Vince Ferrer]

“We are organizing. We are not agonizing,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who is leading a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee effort to get government identification into the hands of the estimated 2-3 million Democrats who don’t have one. “We have staffed up,” he said.

Yes, get those ID cards into their cold, dead hands.

[TornadoAlley3]

[laweeks]

So you have Pepsi using aborted baby parts in their finished products, and now you have Coke caving in to people who are trying to destroy our election system. That’s why I drink generic pop.

[TDA2]

Shame on Coke!! Why would anyone not support voter ID laws unless they want to allow illegal voting? Just more Democrat garbage. Same song, 1,000,000th verse.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

The group complained that some states want to limit the time allotted for early voting, bar ex-felons from voting and require government identification to vote. Polls show that most Americans back the laws.

Speaks for itself.

But Clyburn compared them to segregation era "Jim Crow" laws and he said that he is “very, very anxious” that the conservative Supreme Court “as it is presently constituted” will support the new anti-voter fraud laws.

Hey Clyburn, how does requiring everyone to show ID discriminate against one group? It doesn't. This is about enabling voter fraud which always favors the Democrats, and everyone knows it.

[TDA2]

Shame on Coke!! Why would anyone not support voter ID laws unless they want to allow illegal voting? Just more Democrat garbage. Same song, 1,000,000th verse.

[TDA2]

Shame on Coke!! Why would anyone not support voter ID laws unless they want to allow illegal voting? Just more Democrat garbage. Same song, 1,000,000th verse.

[goseminoles]

What is pop?

[cripplecreek]

Well that didn’t take long.

I think the idiots should be confronted on why they’re only targeting some of the states with voter ID laws. We have a voter ID law in Michigan and I haven’t heard a peep about it.

[TDA2]

Oops? Sorry about duplicates. Hit button once I thought but was posted three times

[Yaelle]

If you don’t have to prove you are yourself at the polls because you are too poor or out of it to have an ID, then please let everyone buy things by check or credit card without ID as well.

How are these poor people with no ID buying anything? Do they pay their rent with nickels?

I bought a coke for my son today and was glad about it a little because of their position. Now that they caved I regret it.

[laweeks]

What is pop?

Same as soda, but around here in Ohio, a soda is pop with a glob of ice cream.

[TDA2]

Yes, back to Dr. Pepper.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[rwilson99]

Yay Pepsi... who just recruited Catholic Basher Nicki Minaj to be their lead marketer and has this issue with fetal stem cells being used in flavor testing.

no thanks.

[al_c]

No surprise. And I’m kinda glad ... I don’t care for Coke and didn’t really want to have to buy it.

[Kenny]

Gotta say, if we don’t get organized and active on these issues, we’re going to lose. The left is ready to threaten boycotts wherever the need arises. And though I don’t think they are even able to follow through, they’re taken seriously.

First thing we need to do is to find actual stats where they’ve supposedly boycotted. I’m positive there will be little if any change in that businesses profits.

Secondly, we need to have our own phone banks and letter-writing squads ready to fire back at these threats. Write to Coke or whoever and say we’re their real customers, not the politically fabricated kind, and we don’t appreciate their caving into the left.