Democrats Against Curing AIDS in Africa

If you have liberal friends, by now you've probably gotten this video emailed to you.

In it, a professional actor playing the role of a doctor explains his reason for voting Republican: "I don't want a cure for AIDS or breast cancer."

The liner notes helpfully explain:

The Bush administration has been more interested in promoting AIDS treatment in Africa (for the benefit of American pharmaceutical companies) than in assisting American citizens who have AIDS.  The administration has also withheld money from organizations in Africa that distribute condoms in attempts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Because treating AIDS in Africa couldn't possibly be important or anything. An estimated 22.5 million people are HIV positive in Sub-Saharan Africa, and nearly 100 times more people died of AIDS-related illnesses in Africa than died in North America last year.

Even Barack Obama has praised Bush's global AIDS initiative. In January of this year, the New York Times said, "Nearly five years later, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — Pepfar, for short — may be the most lasting bipartisan accomplishment of the Bush presidency." 

How do we fight against stuff like this? Is a text rejoinder going to beat the initial video volley? It seems we should helpfully point out that the people who made this video don't believe saving millions of lives in Africa is important, while George Bush does.

Conservatives can get viral like this when we want to. Where are Nicolai1951 and David Zucker when we need them?

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Pat, your points are well taken...

..the problem is, the candidate has thus far put nothing on the table conservatives can even come close to viraling [sec]...Progressive Republicans and Independents aren't viral constituents.

So why don't you do this: Pretend you have just been invited to participate in McCain's Internet Effectiveness Team. What issue would you bring to the table that could go viral?

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davidfarrar

John McCain wouldn't run those ads

He'd call them personal attacks and wrong for the party

I am not sure you understand the web concept...

...Pat is discussing here. "Viral" doesn't necessarily mean untrue or malicious. It can very well mean, something incredibly interesting, exciting, news worthy...that sort of this...something interesting.

As an example, McCain coming out with a flat tax proposal. That could go viral.

But the more I see of McCain and his campaign, the more I am reminded of Bod Dole's campaign. Good grief!

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davidfarrar

Oh I get the idea

but anything that would work in a viral Ad McCain has already said isn't the kind of tone he wants in his campaign

Well, perhaps McCain doesn't understand the concept either.

Going viral simply means the message is passed from one person to the next, expanding geometrically. The older term for this phenomenon would be by word of mouth.

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davidfarrar

And for that kind of campaign to work politically

It needs bite or it needs sex

 

things McCain doesn't want