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Is owning a pickup truck a sign of being a "man of the people"?

Is owning a pickup truck a sign of being a "man of the people"?

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And so what does the president's reinforced Cadillac represent?

Maybe they should have a bball summit - and some brewskies - and decide what Brown's real worth is seeing as how a vehicle isn't a good sign of 'your heart' but how you play a game of bball is.
 
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American said:
His political stances are everything, that's what Massachusetts voters elected him on. He's as much a man of the people as any politician I've seen, he was a nobody state senator who got encouragement from John McCain.
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His political stances nothing within the context of this conversation.

It seems like you are assuming I have a problem with his stances or the fact that he won. I don't care.

What I do care about is trying to learn if people consider the fact that someone drives a truck as an outward sign of that person being being a "man (or even woman) of the people".

Personally, I don't think any politician should be considered a "man (or woman) of the people" because they are all, universally, full of ****.

This is because of their job. I think salesman of all types are full of ****.
 
Has anybody noticed that his truck probably cost about 40k and it's probably fully loaded.

He should be driving a stretch limosene with a trailer. It would fit his real image better.

I hate to go Freudian but I think his truck is just a substitute for his sexual organ which is probably lacking a proper hereditary endowment.:shock:
 
LiberalAvenger said:
Has anybody noticed that his truck probably cost about 40k and it's probably fully loaded.

He should be driving a stretch limosene with a trailer. It would fit his real image better.

I hate to go Freudian but I think his truck is just a substitute for his sexual organ which is probably lacking a proper hereditary endowment.:shock:
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I doubt someone willing to pose in the nude has many problems in the endowment arena.

Just sayin'.
 
LiberalAvenger said:
Has anybody noticed that his truck probably cost about 40k and it's probably fully loaded.

He should be driving a stretch limosene with a trailer. It would fit his real image better.

I hate to go Freudian but I think his truck is just a substitute for his sexual organ which is probably lacking a proper hereditary endowment.:shock:
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There ya go with another one of your insightful comments! ;) You need to think about quitting your day job there and getting your own show!
 
Tucker Case said:
And the people at comso.
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No guy insecure about his package would pose nude. :rofl You better believe the photography crew saw more details than the general public did.
 
MyOwnDrum said:
No guy insecure about his package would pose nude. :rofl You better believe the photography crew saw more details than the general public did.
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Unless he posed with an erection, You really never can tell.

Reminds me of a joke.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who wanted to get married but she had one problem. She had a very small vagina and did not want to marry someone like long dong silver.

She asked her cousin who worked at Shorty's gas station in tennesse if she knew of any men who who were qualified to suit her meagar sexual needs.

She said, Yeah, the guy I know is named shorty and I accidently saw his private parts while entering the bathroom when he was going potty. His organ would suit you fine. In fact he has a tattoo on it that spells "Shorty."

The cousin said, "That sounds just the kind of man I am looking for. Why don't you fix me up with him."

Shorty and the bride to be had a short courtship, they were married and went on their honeymoon.

A couple of weeks later the young newly wed returned home. She was limping badly and could hardly walk. Her cousin asked her what was wrong.

The cousin answered, Well, you know that tattoo that you were telling me about? When he had an erection it read Shorty's Gas Station, Chattanooga Chattanooga written on it."
 
Tucker Case said:
See, this is a semantics difference. I view towing as making the truck do work, i.e. using it as a tool.

I see play as some goof ball going dune hopping.

Towing a boat = work (in a physics sense) = intended purpose

Driving on the neighbors lawn = play = not intended purpose.

But owning a boat doesn't really make someone a man of the people.
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Ah, I gotcha.

See, I didn't really see any of that stuff I talked about as "work" becasue it's not a job, indeed its usually going to do something enjoyable, so I figured there was a missing category there.

So you're saying people who routinely use their truck on a regular basis to do things that a truck is better at than a car, thus using the truck as a tool, is a "real" truck owner?
 
George Jones and Tammy Wynette said it all when they sang:

No we're not the jet set
We're the old Chevrolet set
Our steak and martinis
Is draft beer with weenies
 
megaprogman said:
Yep. I was VERY glad my truck had a v8 engine the last time i bought some gravel from the quarry for my driveway.
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;) I just did that yesterday.
 
Tucker Case said:
I think he was mocking the way that owning a truck was being used as a sign that he's a man of the people. I don't think that's a sign of anything more than finding the whole "he drives a truck, he's like us" thing ridiculous, which equals it being a sign of intelligence.
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Riiiight, and it was a sign of intelligence when he made his bitter clingers comment about people in "small towns in Pennsylvania," too, huh? :lol:
 
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ScummyD said:
Riiiight, and it was a sign of intelligence when he made his bitter clingers comment, too, huh? :lol:
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No. That was stupid.

Is there a reason you continue to bring up irrelevancies in this thread, or can we just take it as a sign that you are out of touch with the thread's purpose?
 
Tucker Case said:
No. That was stupid.

Is there a reason you continue to bring up irrelevancies in this thread, or can we just take it as a sign that you are out of touch with the thread's purpose?
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You can take it how ever you like it.
 
Zyphlin said:
Ah, I gotcha.

See, I didn't really see any of that stuff I talked about as "work" becasue it's not a job, indeed its usually going to do something enjoyable, so I figured there was a missing category there.

So you're saying people who routinely use their truck on a regular basis to do things that a truck is better at than a car, thus using the truck as a tool, is a "real" truck owner?
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I'd say people using a truck for it's designed purpose are not using it as a fashion accessory or as a toy.

But that alone doesn't tell you anything about them except that they own a boat. It definitely doesn't mean they are "in touch" with middle America-types.
 
Remember when GW Bush used to cut brush at his ranch and people said, "Hey, I'd like to have a beer with that guy".

I never understood that. Bush was born into a wealthy and powerful Northeastern family, has two degrees from elite Ivy league universities, grandpa was a Senator and his dad was a congressman, CIA Director, Vice President and President.

How many guys clearing brush have that background?

Conversely, Scott Brown grew up in a broken home, went to juvie, paid for college through ROTC, spent 30+ years in the National Guard and spent the majority of his political career in local and state government. So he went and got a pick-up truck to look more blue collar, so what? Campaign trick. It worked, apparently.
 
kansaswhig said:
Conversely, Scott Brown grew up in a broken home, went to juvie, paid for college through ROTC, spent 30+ years in the National Guard and spent the majority of his political career in local and state government.
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This is much better indicator of having the potential to be in-touch with a regular person than something as superficial as owning a truck, IMO.

So he went and got a pick-up truck to look more blue collar, so what? Campaign trick. It worked, apparently.
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To be fair, I think he owned the truck before his campaign. I think it was just being used as a "sign" of his being in touch with the blue collar crowd, which I find bizzare.
 
It kills me that the republicans are so full of hubris over Brown. It probably was not the truck at all. I think the voters would have voted for Satan in this election.

This may even be a blessing in disguise for the democrats. Maybe it will make them wake up and stop trying to be republicans. I really don't see much difference between the two parties. Obama has almost as many republicans working for him than bush did. He makes me sick the way he kisses their arses.

He promised change. Well, that's all I have left in my pocket. They are all like cockroaches. You kill one and another one is there to take their place.

As for myself, I have recently joined the Modern Whig Party. I think it's finally possible for third party canidates to win some elections. If they lie, too we will throw them out too.

Keep on truckin.
 
Tucker Case said:
This is much better indicator of having the potential to be in-touch with a regular person than something as superficial as owning a truck, IMO.



To be fair, I think he owned the truck before his campaign. I think it was just being used as a "sign" of his being in touch with the blue collar crowd, which I find bizzare.
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His other vehicle is probably a Mercedes Benz with a nazi bumper sticker.
 
kansaswhig said:
Remember when GW Bush used to cut brush at his ranch and people said, "Hey, I'd like to have a beer with that guy".

I never understood that. Bush was born into a wealthy and powerful Northeastern family, has two degrees from elite Ivy league universities, grandpa was a Senator and his dad was a congressman, CIA Director, Vice President and President.

How many guys clearing brush have that background?

Conversely, Scott Brown grew up in a broken home, went to juvie, paid for college through ROTC, spent 30+ years in the National Guard and spent the majority of his political career in local and state government. So he went and got a pick-up truck to look more blue collar, so what? Campaign trick. It worked, apparently.
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The whole pick-em-up-truck thing is what made me decide to donate to his campaign. If he woulda had a dog, of dubious blood line in the back, I would have doubled my donation. If had, along with the dog, a gun rack in the back window, I would have trippled it; quadrippled it, had there actually been a gun in the gun rack.
 
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