Crawford tourism plummets with Bush’s unpopularity.
By on Jul 9th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Crawford tourism plummets with Bush’s unpopularity.
“Shuttered storefronts and eroding retail sales figures show tourism and the Bush memorabilia business are slumping” in Crawford, TX. “In 2004, gross retail sales in Crawford totaled $2.6 million. They fell to $2 million in 2006, down by more than 20 percent.” Residents say that “the president’s sagging popularity is at least partly to blame for the slump in visitors.”
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Tourists go to Crawford?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:43 amum…. duh?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:44 amNobody wants to fall into the time portal to hell.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:44 amto all the trolls out there, go to crawford. show you care!
July 9th, 2007 at 11:44 amCrawford will make a comeback. When GDumbya dies, he will be buried in Crawford.
The crowd will be lined up waiting to piss on his grave and business will be booming.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:44 am“Partly to blame”? who are they kidding? Even $2 million for 2006 sounds like alot.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:45 amI have to think that anything advertised with a big ole flag is a turn-off these days, too, now that Old Glory is a symbol of hate and fear. I was born in and lived in Texas for many years. My “countrymen,” as I call Texans, seem not to get it. Perhaps they should secede.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:45 amOkay. I have been to Texas. I’ll say it was okay. Not a place I would ever spend my vacation time though. That’s just me. But Crawford? What the heck is in Crawford to have $2.6 million in tourism?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:45 amSome town has the world’s largest twine ball, and Crawford boasts the world’s largest slime ball.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:46 amWHO THE HELL CARES?!?!?!?!?!?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:46 amResidents are lucky their town hasn’t been burned to the ground. Or pummeled by brimstone and hellfire.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:47 amThat Crawford would even attract tourists in the first place is pretty astonishing to those of us who live in central Texas. It’s just another dumpy little town like so many hundred other dumpy little Texas towns.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:48 amTourists of the future will flock to the Codpiece museum and mausoleum.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:48 amThat’s like saying tourism in Braunau, Austria fell off during the later years of WWII.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:49 amThe world’s largest ball of stupid (currently on loan to D.C.)
July 9th, 2007 at 11:51 am#11 and #15
You all are too funny. Ha!
July 9th, 2007 at 11:54 amSubCaption on billboard.
Sit on this and rotate!
July 9th, 2007 at 11:55 amMakes one wonder what the USA has lost in tourism $’s in the past 4 years.
When European polls show the USA, by 50% over China, is the most hated country in the world, yeah, tourism may suffer, ya think?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:00 pmUnder the billboard is a small “ad”, looks like two M’s
So caption contest for that:
Murder & Mayhem
July 9th, 2007 at 12:00 pmPickles and The Decider, oh how they suffer.
-GSD
July 9th, 2007 at 12:02 pmI’m afraid I have to echo Lisa in #1 — Tourists go to Crawford? WHY??? Oh, waitaminnit — I got it. To catch a glimpse of the president. After all, the chances are better in Crawford than in DC, what with his generous vacation plan and all.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:07 pmThe article fails to mention that half of the $2 million in tourism revenue came from war protesters who joined Cindy Sheehan’s camp-out in front of the Bush jr. ‘ranch’.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:10 pmYou have to create tourism with the President you’ve got, not the President you wish you had.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:11 pmDo they put the village idiot on all the “Welcome to…” signs in texas?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pmBush is a coward and piece of trash. Gosh I just descibed the state of Texas. Perfect fit!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pmI’m surprised someone hasn’t thrown rotten tomatoes at their two ugly mugs.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pmWhen they flee the country and camp out at their compound in Paraguay, no doubt they’ll visit a good US plastic surgeon beforehand.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:21 pmTom: That’s the only way Crawford and any connection to this horrendous president will be popular….if his grave is there for people to urinate on.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:21 pmFor truth in advertising, Bush should have his middle finger sticking up, not his thumb.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:27 pm#26 I’m surprised someone hasn’t thrown rotten tomatoes at their two ugly mugs.
Comment by veritas
What you don’t see are the DHS ans Secret Service and BlackWater Armored vehicles surrounding that billboard! The last people to get caught trying to deface it are now in Gitmo, charged as enemy combatants.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pmWhen you visit, they give you a roll of toilet paper with the Constitution printed on it. Just like Chimpy uses.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pmin #31 Maybe I should have said: trying to de-ass” it
July 9th, 2007 at 12:32 pmI’m thinkin’ that that billboard might have a lot to do with Crawford’s sinking revenue…….take it down, see what happens.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pmI’m surprised someone hasn’t thrown rotten tomatoes at their two ugly mugs.
Comment by veritas
They use Israeli Drone Planes and land sharks with laser beams to protect it. Costs about 5 million a month. Halliburton has the contract. It’s well worth it to keep the terrorists “over there”.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pmwilly#31`
July 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pmROFLMAO! Butt True!!
What’s with all the numbering changes here today?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:35 pmAhhh, Crawford! The vacation destination of dim-witted Americans. The French Riviera of the bleak, featureless interior of Norhtern Mexico. If you love brush and Bush, this is the place for you.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:37 pmWhen you visit, they give you a roll of toilet paper with the Constitution printed on it. Just like Chimpy uses.
Comment by willyloman
I kinda lied about that. Babs Bush actually “uses” it to clean Chimpy’s bottom. He can’t clean his own “messy messy” yet. But he is getting there.
They are going to schedual a press conference in front of some soldiers when he does though. He sill demonstrate for them. Like “landing” the jet on the air craft carrier.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:38 pmI hope that this isn’t a decline in the service sector. Isn’t that where of all of this administration’s ballyhooed”economic growth” has occurred?
July 9th, 2007 at 12:42 pmObviously something in Crawford kills brain cells. Of course the evidence is all anecdotal but who wants to take a chance.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pmThe article fails to mention that half of the $2 million in tourism revenue came from war protesters who joined Cindy Sheehan’s camp-out in front of the Bush jr. ‘ranch’.
Comment by kelso
Ding, ding, ding. I believe we have a winner here.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:46 pmDing, ding, ding. I believe we have a winner here.
Comment by shane — July 9, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
our winner gets a free trip… to crawford!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:56 pmour winner gets a free trip… to crawford!
Comment by joe cantwell
And A stay at the Fabulous Fema Trailer Inn!! With a wonderful view of the Home Depot Parking Lot!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:59 pm“Partly to blame� who are they kidding? Even $2 million for 2006 sounds like alot.
Comment by Grace
Duh-bya’s asking price for a photo-op is down 80%, from $25K to $5K. Now, THAT’s bad business. If a corp’s stock price plunged that badly over a 2 or 3 yr period, the board of directors would fire the CEO SOOOOO fast it’d make Duh-bya’s head spin even worse than it already is.
July 9th, 2007 at 12:59 pmDuh-bya’s asking price for a photo-op is down 80%, from $25K to $5K. Now, THAT’s bad business. If a corp’s stock price plunged that badly over a 2 or 3 yr period, the board of directors would fire the CEO SOOOOO fast it’d make Duh-bya’s head spin even worse than it already is.
Comment by The republic of Stupidity
i heard his asking price is down to an open bar tab and a bag of Cheese Puffs.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:02 pmwow, is this all the Leftists have going for them?
HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 9th, 2007 at 1:04 pmThat’s right. I’m back on the Cheese Puffs! I’m off the wagon! I’m so weak! They call to me in their cheesy little voices…”eat us. eat us”
clearly, I need help.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:04 pmCrawford will make a comeback. When GDumbya dies, he will be buried in Crawford.
The crowd will be lined up waiting to piss on his grave and business will be booming.
Comment by Tom — July 9, 2007 @ 11:44 am
Don’t forget the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
It will be the first library ever without a single book.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:07 pmmaybe they should build a giant marble monument of my pet goat as a tribute..
July 9th, 2007 at 1:07 pmCrawford: Home of the idiot.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:09 pmour winner gets a free trip… to crawford!
Comment by joe cantwell
That is so not fair.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pmI’ve pretty much had it. My exclamation point key is as worn out as Cheney’s pacemaker and Dubya’s welcome.
And I smell like Slim Jims and Cheetos.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pmAdd voodoo puppets of Bush and Cheney to the memorabilia sold, and sales will go boom!
July 9th, 2007 at 1:12 pmAll the urinals have pictures of Katrina survivors in them.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:13 pmWhy is anyone in Crawford surprised? Haven’t they seen Dubya’s approval ratings? They are in the toilet!!! Hell, even Slick Willie’s approval ratings were higher – WHILE HE WAS BEING IMPEACHED!
July 9th, 2007 at 1:15 pmI will visit Crawford when Dubya is buried there. Every time my bladder is full I will swing by his grave and create my own little “free speech zone” on his headstone.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:29 pmmaybe they should build a giant marble monument of my pet goat as a tribute..
Comment by quagmire
Completely off-topic….as a matter of fact, it couldn’t get any FURTER from the topic if I had planned this, but…..
That post reminded me of the time we spent in Germany…..in a little town (most were very little) they were having their annual wine-fest (Zooey would love it there this time of year), Anyway, this one village had a fountain with a bunch of carved brass animals decorating the fountain. I remember the goat, especially, because there were little brass ‘droppings’ behind it.
Guess you had to be there, it loses something in the re-telling.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:32 pmWho cares!! Is this news?
July 9th, 2007 at 1:44 pmIt is like the scum pit called Little Rock back in the previous administration.
ROTFL
July 9th, 2007 at 1:46 pmCINDY SHEEHAN!!!
COME BACK!!!
CRAWFORD NEEDS YOU!!!
P.S. don’t count on W being buried there or even returning. Whenever he leaves office (and I do mean WHENEVER) that little Potemkin Village will have served its purpose–he’ll sell off the ranch quick as you can say “absentee landlord.” I see him adopting the quaint custom of Mexican presidents of leaving the country at the end of their term–preceded by large portions of the nation’s treasury moved into secret bank accounts
Last summer there were rumors of Jenna making a big land purchase in Paraguay. That fits. “El Jefe” identifies with Latin American caudillos and under Stroessner Paraguay was the safe harbor of many a fallen dictator.
I can see it now. W unconstrained by anything can crawl back inside a bottle of his favorite poison, torment some hapless ghostwriter into penning his memoirs in which HE was never a fault, HE alone stood tall to defend america, HE saw those things lesser men could not see.
In the evenings the entire familia can sit out on the veranda and watch peons strip to their waists and wrestle naked in the mud pit for their patrones amusement.
July 9th, 2007 at 2:08 pmI say we blast off and nuke the site from orbit . . .
July 9th, 2007 at 2:35 pmit’s the only way to be sure . .
Good ol’ boy George has become the turd in the Crawford punchbowl. One more little town bites the dust. It’s sad.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:01 pmWow, Ted Nugent moves to town and everything goes to shit. Hmm, come to think of it, shitting his pants was Ted’s way out of Vietnam. ‘Ol Cat Scratch Ted should bail out the town.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:05 pmFirst thing to do is throw some paint on the billboard. Or some gasoline.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:31 pmCrawford, Texas was the home of noted blues great Big Joe Williams. I always resented the fact that BushCo. usurped his rightful place as “most famous resident”. Now the late and very great Big JOe has zero chance of reclaiming that honour. Tough to compete with the new guy who is absolutely the worst President in history. Bush should start drinking …heavily. He is sooooo over.
http://tinyurl.com/3yogrj (Big Joe Williams)
July 9th, 2007 at 5:15 pmWho cares!! Is this news?
Comment by Troll — July 9, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
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TPers.
No.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:59 pmOh like it ever was a tourist mecca . this thread is STUPID . What Demwit came up with this Bullshit ?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:44 pmWhomever created the billboard mistakenly showed Bush holding up his thumb. Should have been that “other” finger.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:39 amOh like it ever was a tourist mecca . this thread is STUPID . What Demwit came up with this Bullshit ?
Comment by FDR — July 9, 2007 @ 11:44 pm
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1. Then why the fk are you here?
2. Did you even bother to read the article? Guess not.
Quote: “Shuttered storefronts and eroding retail sales figures show tourism and the Bush memorabilia business are slumping in this once-sleepy farm-and-ranch town of 732 residents.”
Hell, in 1984 the Junior and Senior classes at my high school had more students than Crawford has residents. $2.6 million is quite a haul for such a small town. But I guess you don’t understand that, what with your simple mind and all…
Plus, see, all of us Bush haters just love to pile on him as much as we can. This thread is just one more bit of proof that Bush sucks and so does his “popularity.” Plus, this whole Crawford Ranch thing is a pile of shit. Bush purchased it in 1999 to prop up his image as a “good ole boy” and “one of us.” Just makes me want to say, “Awww, shucks.” Or puke. Whichever comes first.
At least he purchased his land, unlike former Sen. Fred Thompson, who RENTED a pickup truck to drive across our fine state in his campaign for the Senate and show the idiots Republics what a real fine country man he was. At last report, that pickup truck was parked in his mom’s driveway after he won the Senate seat, and is still there, rusting away.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:56 am