The Virginia Senate Transportation committee Thursday gave the green light to a handful of new specialty license plates, including a tea party-themed slogan “DONT TREAD ON ME.”
This news should make many people on this blog happier than a snake on a yellow flag!
Happy Presidents’ Day to all my conservative friends. This thread is for you. Who will be getting a snake plate?
<—- As if anyone had to ask me. 😉
I do note the irony of me having to fork over more $$$ to the government to have on my car a symbol of telling the govt to "take a hike".
That’s the image for the Gadsden flag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag
It has a few different meanings.
Can I get one that says “don’t tread on my uterus” ?
Marinm,
Funny! 😉
@Elena, pretty much yes. That one passed last year.
That’s why I put up snake on a plate.
Moon likes being fair.
LOL…..it is rather ironic, no?
However since the plate represents a political movement, will that open up democratic plates and GOP plates?
I LOVE my Trust Women Respect Choice plate for Planned Parenthood, but this “personal movement” license plate has me befuddled. As soon as you open it up, everybody wants one for their special interest. What is next, “Drill Here Drill Now!” plates with oil rigs on them? How about corporate plates….”I Love Wegmans”….I mean really…..
And what happens if the Teabaggers fade into the dustbin of history? We don’t have a “Proud to be a Whig!” plate…nor a Bircher Society plate…..or even a Black Pantehrs plate….
Bubba, interestingly the link you use on DMV’s website to see those types of speciality plates is called “SPECIAL INTERESTS” 🙂
http://www.dmv.state.va.us/exec/vehicle/splates/category.asp?category=S
First on the list, AFL-CIO
I think the advantage that the gadsden has over other symbols is that while used as a symbol of the TP it’s really a symbol on it’s own.
On the upside just sit back and smile that anyone sporting these new tags did a self imposed tax of $25/year to the Commonwealth.
This is a GREAT looking plate!
I love the message and the artwork.
In these austere times, however, Viriginia should be charging five times as much for these, “vanity plates” and reduce the number of required plates to just ONE REAR PLATE. By going to just one rear plate (like all of the states that border Virginia) the DMV estimates that we could save over $2 million per year.
Even though I really like the snake plate, my next vanity plate will be:
http://www.dmv.virginia.gov/exec/vehicle/splates/info.asp?idnm=SCV
@Tyler, does that mean you will be dissing the Robert E. Lee plate?
We need a plate depicting Uncle Sam pulling out his empty pockets and a moth flying out. The caption underneath could read: “Buddy, can you spare a dime?” We could maybe put a translation down below it in Mandarin Chinese.
I sort of feel about this the way I feel about the Confederate Battle Flag: great image with a great history, but highjacked from its historical context and meaning to convey a parcel of thoughts and attitudes for which I have either no enthusiasm (the Battle Flag) or mixed responses (the current Tea Party).