Ford pulls LR/Jag GLBT support due to American Family threat

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Bible thumpers who can only afford to buy a car once ever 23 years vs. gays who get a new vehicle every 5. Math, please.

Uh... it was my understanding there would be no math.

But since you asked for math, here's some.

The following is a hypothetical situation. I do not know the actual demographics for car-buying purchases (dammit, if I were still working at my old job, I could have told you) involved in this situation, I am merely suggesting a possible scenario.

If there are at least 4.7 times as many Bible-Thumping-Rednecks who purchase new vehicles every 23 years as there are Limp-Wristed-Homos [I figured I could be equally insulting] who buy new vehicles every 5 years, then the Thumpers have greater buying clout.

So do the Thumpers outnumber us 'Mos five to one? As a nation, possibly. Do they outnumber us in the Bible Belt! Almost certainly. Does Ford need to be concerned for their dealers located in those wretched regions? From a business standpoint, I think they do.

Look, I'd love it if Ford would tell the AFA to go fück themselves. (Hell, I'd love it if the AFA and their moronic brethren all drank grape Kool-Aid in Guyana!) But with the financial instability so prevalent in the automotive industry right now, I can hardly blame Ford for trying to appeal to the widest number of people possible. I think they went about it the wrong way, but I can understand their motivations.