Is there something comparable to buyblue.org for conservatives?

[I Have A Dream]

I use the buyblue.org website several times a week since it first went into operation, and I've always wondered if there was something similar for conservatives or whether they also used the buyblue.org website to look for information about red companies to support. (This is why I didn't want a buyblue.org bumper sticker -- I was concerned that it would make it more known to conservatives and, thus, hurt our cause more than it would help our cause.)

However, I also realize that many conservatives care more about money than anything else, so they probably wouldn't be willing to sacrifice by paying more on principle. I think that this might not be the case with social conservatives though because they've often boycotted companies & products.

I'm really happy to say that I'm in the process of changing my State Farm car insurance to Progressive Insurance. I can't wait to tell State Farm that I refuse to have any more of my money go to support Bush et al. (They're heavily red & Progressive is 100% blue, I think. State Farm also donated quite a bit towards B*'s inauguration celebration costs.)

[eleny]

1. yeah - pretty much everything else!

[Seedersandleechers]

2. I was

going to say the same thing!!!

[newyawker99]

23. Hi KCdemocrat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[I Have A Dream]

26. Yeah, welcome KCdemocrat! Glad to have you here!

:hi:

[Vincardog]

3. here is the problem. The radical right is proud to stand up and

loudly proclaim their stance. While we 'Blue Progressives' are afraid that they will punish us. We have to stand tall and proud to be liberal progressives. Remember there are more of us than there are of them.:toast:

[JanMichael]

4. Me three.

It was my first impulse. Everything else...

[I Have A Dream]

10. I hope that I didn't misstate what my concern was.

I've ALWAYS been proud to state that I'm a progressive. I was just concerned that I would be giving them a tool to hurt our cause. It wasn't because I didn't want them to know that I was a progressive that I didn't want the bumper sticker on my car -- it was because I didn't want them to use buyblue.org to hurt our cause.

I am tall & proud! :)

[yurbud]

5. Here's one: Council of Conservative Citizens (link)

http://www.cofcc.org/


My (non-right) links:

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[I Have A Dream]

18. Hi, yurbud...

Thanks for the link, but I couldn't find anything on the site about this issue. I guess I'm missing the obvious...

[yurbud]

24. It was a joke. that's about as far right as you can get and still....

be able to write.

Hillbilly Hitler art:



Blog:

[I Have A Dream]

25. Doh! I was looking all over it.

My eyes were burning afterwards, and I had a really bad taste in my mouth! :)

Sometimes I can't determine when things are a joke in posts. It's a bit more difficult to determine this without the nuances of the voice.

[yurbud]

27. so sorry--But the Aryan Nations website has some great organic T shirts

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Blog:

[mcscajun]

6. Not that I know of, but...the conservatives are using BuyBlue.org, too.

Many of the RW sites promote going to BuyBlue to determine where NOT to spend their money. So instead of building an alternative, they coast on the work done by others: Typical.

On edit: corrected typos.

[I Have A Dream]

7. Yes, this is what I thought might be happening. n/t

[jobycom]

9. I like the way you put that. Thanks. nt.

[InvisibleTouch]

14. Typical, indeed.

But if there really are more of us than there are of them, we still come out ahead. I've paid a lot more attention to where my money is going since November, and I think it does make a difference.

[warrens]

16. So they get to buy shit

Costco, Trader Joe's, Target, etc. offer great products at great prices. Everything you buy at Wal-Mart will wear out long before its time because they engineer it down. Their towels are made with lighter weight cotton, which wears out quicker. It sort of looks the same, but it's not. Same with their plastic goods. Those are made with less rubber to make them less prone to cracking. Your salad bowl or laundry basket is much more likely to crack and become useless.

Costco and Target have told the same vendors to give them the quality product and they will tell the public why their product is better. And, Wal-Mart shit is just ugly.

[I Have A Dream]

20. This "engineering down" is so sad for poor people who...

think that going to Wal-Mart is making the best use of their little bit of money. I totally understand why they feel that they have to go to Wal-Mart because they have to put food on their tables and pay for a roof over their heads with not enough money, but, as usual in the way our society's currently set up, they can't win regardless of what they do.

I feel so bad for them because it seems to me that they have no options.

[DBoon]

8. Totally different emphasis

We like to support our causes.

They like to destroy those who don't agree with them.

We buy blue.

They boycott.

(and I don't mean a boycott based on a specific corporate practice - I mean one based on political leaning alone)

[I Have A Dream]

12. I recently read an editorial from a conservative who...

was confused as to why we would decide that we would pay more for something just because of the company's leanings. (For example, go to a store that costs more because it was blue.) He just couldn't understand why we would do that. He said that he was perfectly happy to go to Barnes & Noble or Starbucks or whatever other blue company as long as he paid less.

He basically thought that we were stupid for doing this. I was glad that he felt that way, and I hope that most conservatives feel the same way. They may have more money in their pockets, but we'll have a bigger voice because of our willingness to sacrifice for things in which we believe.

[BlueStateModerate]

11. On their front page

...

[I Have A Dream]

13. Not sure what you mean. n/t

[Somawas]

15. WAL-MART

[I Have A Dream]

17. VERY good point! n/t

[friesianrider]

19. Theres a "Christian Business Directory"....

In my area. It's like a phone book with only Christian fundamentalist businesses in it - you know damn well everyone in there is Republican.

[I Have A Dream]

21. Yes, these are the right-wing people that I thought might actually...

bite the bullet and choose to only spend their money on red companies.

I know a chiropractor/pain relief person who has a talk show on a Christian radio station close by. He advertises on the station and talks the talk. Many of his patients are listeners from this station. However, once he knows that you're not one of them, he mocks them and belittles them. I really don't like him much. (I can't stand hypocrites.)

[Stinky The Clown]

22. BuyBlue for Repubs = Yellow Pages