Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) fears political nutjobs more than mainstream Americans.
Geico clearly favors red-staters more than blue-staters--at least when it comes to firing on-air spokespersons.
It canned commercial announcer Lance Baxter for voice-mailing the Tea Party group, FreedomWorks, asking what percentage of its angry workers and followers was mentally retarded.
FreedomWorks promptly got its pissed-off intellectually challenged employes and members to complain--successfully--to Geico.
But Geico has done nothing about grumpy actor R. Lee Ermey, the retired Marine Corps gunnery sargeant who portrays a cantakerous therapist in a popular Geico commercial.
Ermey used a Toys4Tots charity event to call President Barack Obama a Socialist and accuse his administration of causing America's economic woes.
Gunny Ermey apologized and is still appearing in Geico commercials. Baxter also apologized, but is still history. (9 JANUARY 2011)
