Thursday, January 21, 2010
Politics / Woods The Curse of the Pickup Truck
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:43 PM
Scott Brown made a point of trolling the commonwealth in his green, GMC pickup truck. Democrats attempted to pass health care reform in 1994. And that same year, Fred Thompson rambled through the gullies and mountaintops of Tennessee in a red pickup as he campaigned for the Senate against Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). During his campaign, Cooper authored a health care reform plan that wasn't as sweeping as the one proposed by President Clinton. But Thompson took Cooper's plan and turned it against him, tying the Congressman to the Clintons just because he WANTED to reform health care, too. But didn't want to go nearly as far as the Clintons wanted to. And at every stop, Thompson railed against Cooper. Not giving a stump speech. But a "bed" speech. From the bed of his red truck. "Jim Cooper's problem is he's never seen the inside of a pickup truck," Thompson claimed. Thompson whipped Cooper by 22 percentage points. And no one dared touch health care reform again until now.
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I must be the only person in America who associates pickup truck with homeowner, not bumpkin.
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You can say what you want for or against pick up trucks, but as I see it darn few of them are used for what they were originally intended for, and that is to haul things other then a bed liner and possibly a few grocery bags.
Go to your typical grocery store or shopping mall and watch as a diesel powered crew cab pickup with a 175 inch wheel base and an eight foot bed pulls in. It has to park on a diagonal to fit in a space causing it to take up 4 parking spaces.
As it's text messaging owner hops up onto the leather seats of the cab and drives off, you sort of get the impression of what pickup trucks have begun to mean to me in this country.
They ain't used for hauling stuff around anymore, instead they are just a big vehicle with a large trunk.
