Once again, the Booty Bus was waving Tea Party flags (look at the video). Detroit is a union town. The Tea Party and unions are mortal enemies. Had the bus not flown the flags, and had a reporter not seen them, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
I'm going to assume conservatives...!?
But why would a conservative owner have a stripper bus? See, this makes no sense. Unless it's some sort of 'no gov't intervention' thing. Aren't members of the religious right the ones who are trying to pass all sorts of anti-club, anti-stripper legislation?
@F_D. It is important to define terminology in any serious debate/discussion. The common usage of the terms conservative and liberal have become simple pejorative labels. In fact those common uses are merely descriptors of two sides of the same coin and neither side is entitled to lay claim to either term. These are the people who believe that they have the right and duty to dictate to others – what to do, what not to do, what to believe, what not to believe, etc. In short they are elitists who in their hearts believe themselves to be superiour to all others who *must* submit to them. The competing political ideologies are mere smoke screens in a competition to determine who will be the slave master.
Unlike the 1984 Orwellian usage, true conservatives and liberals (in the literal definition) are exactly the same people. They believe in individual freedom, self reliance/responsibility and have little or no interest in what others do as long as there is no negative effect on innocents or the safety/security of the common society.
Now back to my whiskey.
Detroit is in it's own Superman bizarro world when it comes to politics. Yes it is Democratic. But that does not mean it always falls on "liberal" side of all issues. The pastors of the black churches wield a tremendous amount of political clout and have a huge influence on what the Democratic City Council decides. These pastors got in bed with a Southern Baptist, religious right wing Republican lawyer from Tennessee to write the restrictive strip club ordinance last year. Politics does indeed create strange bedfellows.
GSW nailed it. Only other thing:
"Aren't members of the religious right the ones who are trying to pass all sorts of anti-club, anti-stripper legislation?"
Where do you think at least 30% of them go to relax after a tough day in Congress? Starting in the 80's there was Wilber Mills and Fanny Fox; Then Gary Hart and 'Monkey Business' oh wait, a call is coming in from Client # 9....................
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