On the way out do run a few errands, my partner and I noticed this odd bumper sticker on a fairly new Nissan Maxima driven by a young woman along U.S. route 50 in Chantilly, VA.

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While walking the dog this morning, I saw a car with a McCain/Palin sticker on one side of the rear window and "I'm voting for Joe the Plumber" on the other side. Seriously.

Syndicated business columnist Rhonda Abrams had a great passage in her latest piece, which ran in USA Today and many other newspapers:

This week, I intended to write my election-year evaluation of the presidential candidates and small-business issues. When, wham! Suddenly a guy named "Joe the Plumber" entered the arena.

Joe took center stage during the final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama to discuss how small businesses will fare under the policies of each, and the McCain campaign refers to "Joe the Plumber" in stump speeches.

Please don't have Joe or his boss represent small business. Joe isn't licensed in Ohio, and it appears his boss is violating the law by employing Joe. Joe has a lien against him for failure to pay income tax.

So, move over, Joe. And let those of us who run honest small businesses hear what the candidates are going to do for us.

Back to the point of this post: I can't believe the Republicans think "I'm voting for Joe the Plumber" is a winning message for them, but if they want to waste their money on those bumper stickers, it's fine by me.

This thread is for sharing the most absurd conservative slogans you've seen on cars, buttons, yard signs or t-shirts lately.

I doubt any of you will be able to top the shirt I saw a toddler wearing in a park a few years ago, but have at it.

Speaking of conservative oddities, how about these devout Christians praying at the Wall Street bull (looking very much like the Golden Calf) yesterday for God to take over the economy? (hat tip to Daily Kos diarist dhonig) Somewhere I read something about idols and graven images...

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Newsweek enlists the talents of design expert Michael Beirut to analyze the bumper stickers of the top presidential candidates. In the end he feels that Rudy has the best design, John McCain the worst.

Below are some of the choice quotes from his analysis (click the link above and scroll down to see all the sticker designs):

Hillary Clinton: "The deliberate branding decision here is to go by first name only," Bierut says, "to make her approachable and friendly, and to disassociate herself from the Clinton dynasty."

Barack Obama: "Obama is blessed with a name that looks good in type," Bierut says. "Obama's font is quite elegant and almost literary."

John Edwards: "...someone thought long and hard about that decision to insert that green trail off the star. It's a kind of ham-handed gesture of symbolic environmentalism."

Rudy Giuliani: "Rudy's logo is like a brick wall...The tightness communicates an absolutely solid bulwark against external dangers."

John McCain: "McCain has the worst logo...This is the typeface used for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and with the center star straight off a military cap, it's overtly militaristic. There's no subtlety."

Mitt Romney: "This looks like the bumper sticker of someone who's not going to win."

Take the poll over the flip.

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