JUNIOR JOHNSON ENDORSES OBAMA

[Indepatriot]

Today, NASCAR legend and Redneck Icon JUNIOR MOTHERF*CKING JOHNSON!, patriarch of one of NASCARS'S founding families, made a very public endorsement of Barack Obama for president. This is indeed, the proverbial republican Canary In A Coalmine gasping for it's last breath. Seriously, not to minimize Colin Powell's eloquent evisceration of the neoCon's agenda last week, but when JUNIOR JOHNSON,NASCAR Royalty, favorite son of North Carolina, endorses an African-American Democrat for President, the Republicans are in deep, deep, dookey. It ain't over till it's over, but JUNIOR JOHNSON?!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes We Can.

[tkmorris]

1. Damn. That's interesting.

[TalkingDog]

20. There are places in the foothills and mountains that are

unreconstructed Democrats. No Regan-switchers to be found there. From experience, the hills and hollars of Appalachia are still some of the most poverty stricken areas of our country.

These folks know where their salvation lies. And it has never been with the Republicans.

[DemoTex]

2. Junior!!! #55! #3!

Hell, I had some of his country ham for breakfast yesterday!

[FreeStateDemocrat]

3. "The Last American Hero," virtually a tobacco road legend, this should shake the rednecks up.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Never heard of him.

[ACTION BASTARD]

5. Nicely done!

You are divinely inspired my friend. I salute you good sir!

[Swamp Rat]

6. Welcome to DU!

thanks :hi:

[ColbertWatcher]

10. I've never heard of him either, but ...

... apparently he's a big deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Johnson

[libnnc]

12. he basically invented the sport

ginormous deal :D

[90-percent]

7. Authenticity

Junior got his start just like NASCAR folklore tells it. rum running in hopped up fords in the deep south.

I think he may have spent at least a year in jail for doing so?

Don Garlits ran into Barack in VA a month ago, but Big Daddy ran for Congress as a Republican in the 90's, so I don't know what he'll do. He's a very very intelligent man, so I hope he thinks this through!

-90% Jimmy

[TalkingDog]

21. My mom knew Jr. Johnson. She used to cruise (ride around)

with his cousin.

They ran shine, not rum.

She liked to relate the time the cousin called her up and asked if she would like to go cruising in his (relatively) new car. So he picks her up on Friday evening and they cruise around Statesville (the largest local city at the time).

As the evening goes on, she realizes that he is taking the car out to see if the police recognize it as a car that ran shine. Evidently it passed the test as they were not stopped that evening.

My mother's association with those fellows was not lost on the local police. I remember her being stopped on a Friday evening as we were making a weekend trip from outside Winston-Salem (where we lived at the time) to Statesville, where my grandmother lived. I was about 3 or 4 and the Highway Patrol inspected the car very thoroughly. In the end he admitted they had been keeping tabs on her trips in and out of Statesville because they suspected she was running liquor.

It's a good thing they never stopped my dad. He was running black market cigarettes up North.....

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

8. It'll be interesting to see how the NC newspapers report that.

Will it be buried in the back, or a "front pager?" I'm not a NASCAR fan, but JJ you sure have my respect over this! Damn, not only JJ but also UNC coaching legend Dean Smith! Now, if some of that could rub off on SC down here, that would be even better.

[Alcibiades]

22. It's not on the N&O site yet

Though I expect this will be big news. Obama could roll out 100 economists or scholars, and the reaction would be "whatever," but Junior Johnson? This could bring a couple more points here in NC, and in many other places in the Southeast.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Link inside to Johnson's email endorsement ...

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/nascars_jimmy_johnson_endorses_obama/

[Chemical Bill]

11. Dayam.... n/t

[RedLetterRev]

13. Here's a link to a thread from early this morning

ratcheer :)

[The River]

14. Best News Of The Week

as far as I am concerned.
It will have a big impact here in Virginia as
in much of the "real" South.
I know a few "good old boys" who are NASCAR nuts.
Can't wait to see how they react to this news.

[Zomby Woof]

15. What will the South and NASCAR bashers on DU do?

:thumbsup: Thank you Junior! :patriot:

[Subdivisions]

16. As much as NASCAR gets trashed around here,

I would say that Johnson's endorsement will bring more fence-sitting Pugs over than Colin Powell did with his. In fact, Johnson could actually end up being credited with the invention of "Obama Republicans", the antithesis of the Reagan Democrats.

[RobbieinVA]

17. Not a big surprise....

I'm new here, but this is not that big of surprise. As an avid fan and novice NASCAR historian, Mr. Johnson has been very active in Democratic politics over the years. There are pictures of Mr. Johnson and the car he owned at the time in front of the Carter White House. The Wood Bros. of Stuart, VA have slso ran Democratic canidates signage on their racers. In '04 they ran Sen. Bob Graham on their Craftsman truck during primary season. Democrats are a rare breed in NASCAR but they do exist.

Robbie

[Myrina]

18. OMFG, pigs are flying past my living room window!!

:wow: :wow: :wow:

[PJPhreak]

19. As a member of "Deadheads for Dale"

I have been a NASCAR Fan since the late Sixties,A Deadhead since the mid Seventies and a "Hot-Rod" fanatic as far back as I can remember.
This is WAY Huge!!! Junior Johnson is one of The "Senior Statesmen" Of Nascar.

P.J.Phreak...21 Year Member of "The Deadhead Drivers Association"