My liberal boss was driving through east TN and saw this billboard.

[reflection]

He couldn't believe it. He is one of these quiet types who believes that you give the office of the Presidency respect, no matter who inhabits it.

"Obama or America. You can't have both."

http://www.voanews.com/content/voters_in_appalachia_struggling_to_identify_with_presidental_candidates/1500353.html

Fast forward to about 1:05 if you want to see the billboard or just watch the video if you want to see the slack-jawed drooling meatslappers I have to deal with around this area of the country. It's maddening.

I wasn't as upset with it as my boss was, to me it's just a waste of Tea Party resources, and that's a good thing. Placing a RW billboard in Appalachia? What's the point?

[get the red out]

1. Self-aggrandizing

They want to circle the wagons and pat each other on the back while the world rotates forward out of thier sight.

Sigh, I was born and raized in eastern Kentucky and only got as far as Lexington. I never thought of that as all that shameful until all this red state insanity caught hold and took over people's minds.

[asjr]

2. East TN will always be Republican. My 100-yr old aunt died

in July and we were still fighting the Dem/Rep war with each other. When I first told her I was a Democrat now I thought she would die then. "But the family has always voted Republican" she would say. That is how it is ingrained in some in that neck of the woods.

[Kolesar]

4. East TN has been Republican since the Civil War

They felt a rivalry with the cotton plantation owners around Memphis making a fortune off of slave labor. The plantation owners controlled the state government. There is an account of this in the NY Times online series "Disunion" that has articles on the Civil War.

[asjr]

5. Yes, and especially with the mountain people.

[riverbendviewgal]

3. They are still living in the era of the movie THE HELP

It was on TV last night and I watched again and made me think many places in the USA are still like this with people who think like this.
Sad.

[djean111]

6. I think the point is to get out the vote.

Yeah, they are preaching to the choir - but they need that choir to go to the polls, not sit around and spew.