Posted on 08/24/2013 4:24:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Contrary to what you hear from liberals, the biggest flaw conservatives have is being overly tolerant. Really? Seriously? We're "overly tolerant?"
Absolutely.
Conservatives will listen to a Hollywood star trash us as intolerant and then we'll go watch his movie anyway. Musicians will openly support Obama and call us racists; yet we'll still buy their albums. Corporations will bend over backwards to undermine everything we hold dear and then we'll turn right around and buy their products. Conservatives make up 40% of all Americans and if we start letting our values dictate where we spend our money, we can transform America's culture in a hurry. Our money spells the difference between a blockbuster and a flop, a hit single or a bust, and a corporate CEO ending up on the cover of Business Week or looking for a new job. You want to even the playing field in America? Then stop propping up corporations that want to destroy everything you hold dear. When a company does something you don't like, close your wallet until management gets the idea. When your money talks, corporations listen. Here are five easy ones to get you started.
1) Chrysler: It's bad enough that Obama spent billions of dollars of your money to prop up the fat cats at Chrysler, but after the crooked deal was done, United Auto Workers ended up owning 55% of the company. In other words, every time you buy a car from Chrysler, your money is helping to prop up a liberal union that works non-stop to elect as many liberal Democrats as possible. Chrysler isn't a corporation with a liberal union attached; it's a liberal union with a corporation attached to it.
2) Progressive Insurance: Peter Lewis is the Chairman of Progressive Insurance Companies and outside of George Soros, he may be the biggest liberal sugar daddy on the block. This former close friend of Ted Kennedy has poured tens of millions of dollars into the ACLU, America Coming Together, and MoveOn, among other liberal causes. So, why not get your auto insurance from a company that isn’t working to destroy the American way of life?
3) Capital One: Having someone like Alec Baldwin as your spokesman just screams, "We don't want conservative customers." This is the same Alec Baldwin who has said, "Gingrich is a cranky history professor. Romney is better suited for country club president. Obama sees what govt’s priorities should be. Obama...2012" and "Until Limbaugh gets real, weans himself off the big salary and runs for office, he will always be nothing more than a poorly educated, marginally talented buffoon who has developed a real talent for manipulating the G-spot of the neocon consciousness and massaging the hate gland of so many economically displaced white voters in America." Why give money to a company that holds you in such contempt that it would hire a man like this as its spokesman?
4) Starbucks: Do you really need overpriced coffee from a corporation that detests traditional marriage? Not only is Starbucks pro-gay marriage, but when a shareholder complained that boycotts over gay marriage were costing the company money, "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz responded...by telling him that he could, ’sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company.’” If you're a Christian or just someone who believes in traditional marriage, the CEO of Starbucks is publicly saying he doesn't want your business. Can't you find your coffee somewhere else where you aren't forced to swallow Starbucks’ disdain for you along with your Java?
5) The AARP: Despite the fact that its membership opposed Obamacare because it would destroy our healthcare system, the AARP supported that abomination because it is going to make a killing marketing insurance under the bill. It’s also doing more than any other organization to block entitlement reform, which is making it practically impossible to keep America from sliding into bankruptcy. On top of all that, AARP is a left-wing organization that has backed gun control and Planned Parenthood while fighting against a Balanced Budget Amendment. You might as well just give your money directly to the Democrat Party as to the AARP.
“They quoted me 4 times as much as other companies did,”
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I guess most all companies change. Back when I had them, they were quite competitive and courteous, despite a few claims from when others, girls borrowing my car, only to wreck it, or “Act of God” damages.
I now have had no need or desire for a car since I left the US.
Gevalia is Kraft Foods.
No, I don’t do business with any of the listed,
and I don’t support hollywood libs in any way.
I won’t even watch their movies on TV reruns.
A lot of us Conservatives feel the same way.
I think this article is missing its target by a bit,
it should be pointing a bit more to the center.
We use Allstate for all of our domestic needs (cars, home, boat, etc) mainly because we have a family member who runs an office (and they are 3rd generation), so we get good service.
Allstate does not do business insurances or bonds for contractors, so our business was handled through Farmers, believe it or not (and we were not farmers).
Our whole and term life insurance is Transamerica. Not much on service, sort of “get it and forget it”, which I kind of like because they don’t pester us with phone calls.
I’m sure all three of these companies probably has some liberal causes, just by the sheer size of them but I digress, I really have no idea.
Liberty Mutual.
I don’t really know anything about GEICO, their rates, service, etc.
But I’m wary of an insurance company that has to run commercials incessantly.
Can they not keep their customers? Turnover?
Gives me pause.
The last movie I went to was about William Wilberforce, but I can’t remember the name of it.
Pardon my French, but I keep seeing posts about Starbucks which ask, why pay four dollars for a cup of what is said to taste like burned s***?
Anyway, I thought Starbucks was CCW friendly, or is that just a local thing?
I simply switched to Dunkin Donuts. They have the best coffee on the planet, and it’s much cheaper.
Fortunately I’ve never been involved with any of those companies.
Never been to a Starbucks. Heard too many stories about burnt coffee. Why even bother? IMHO, Dunkin Donuts has pretty good coffee.
Some people say we should boycott GM, for many of the same reasons that Chrysler is on this list. I agree. However, full disclosure: I drive a GM pickup truck. But it is a 2004 model so GM made money on the truck long before their problems came to a head. Good truck.
Dad was stationed in Japan with the Army in the 1950s. We lived in Yokohama.
Advertising props up the entertainment industry. If the sponsors did not see a measurable return, they’d stop. The insidious aspect of this is advertisers are trying to inject themselves into our consciousness and habits. They use all kinds of tools and techniques to do so. The GEICO gecko vs Mayhem vs Flo....College kids today probably have some freaky Nightmares after a lifetime of television “programming”, and they reach for a friendly , ahem, face when making a decision. Enter the Hopey Changey ftard in the White House.
I cut up the little plastic ID card, too. Sometimes I add in a little extra chopped up newspaper to make a really fat return.
thanks, for the heads up..info.
Conservatives have been politically corrected by the Left for quite some time. The Left equated intolerance with hate, bigotry and racism. From our compassion comes our tolerance. And, it is through our compassion that our enemies will attack us. The illegal aliens take advantage of our compassion/tolerance. CAIR/Muslims takes advantage our compassion/tolerance. The MSM takes advantage of our compassion/tolerance.
Over the last several years I discovered I can’t enjoy a music group or movie when I know the people involved are flat out trying to strip me of everything American.
What I discovered is a lot of better music than I left behind and applied that free time saved from movies to learning.
Both are FAR more entertaining than what I abandoned. People should try it for a month.
They are also militantly ‘gay friendly’. Pick your poison.
Hehehe. How unimaginative of me. Now, I can't wait for their next mailing. Look for me, sitting in the corner, chopping and cutting, with an evil look on my face.
LOVE my USAA insurance.
I can’t make any recommendation based on cost, since I haven’t shopped around in years, but in terms of customer service, they are tops. I can’t say enough good things about how well USAA treats you. They are unfailingly polite - a pleasure to deal with.
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