Idea for ads against national health care and Pelosi (vanity)

self | 303/05/2009 | me

[JustSurrounded]

I saw the "Rush is the voice of the Republicans" ad and had a bit of a brainstorm. Does anybody know a Republican PAC that will run ads against the democrats? I have a suggestion for a commercial to run in Pelosi's home district (I am willing to contribute what I can to stoping the national-health-care and Pelosi, but I don't know where to turn that is "cost effective"). This would target seniors, hiv-positive people, and mothers, and it would blame Pelosi:

Long lines of decrepit seniors waiting in a very utilitarian, faded hallway, being called one at a time in to see the medical board. The board members sit there behind computers, look up the senior's record, and say things like "I see you have arrhythmia. No medicine (or no cataract surgery, or no bypass surgery, no hip-replacement) for you, it's not cost-effective. Next." Senior shuffles out, (maybe helped by a loving son/daughter) by a picture of Pelosi on the wall, bows, says "Thank you Speaker Pelosi." And on it goes.

Another line of young males, all seeing the board, all getting told things like "I see you tested HIV-positive, no blood-pressure medicine for you. You are not cost-effective." ...

And another line of mothers with small children. These women are told, "We are sorry that your son has cancer, but experimental cancer treatment is not cost effective..."

The voice-over at the end would question, "Speaker Pelosi and President Obama want to have all your medical records and to ration healthcare based on cost. When you are denied access to medical care, will you thank Speaker Pelosi and President Obama and just crawl away and die? Some of us don't think their plan is "care-effective". Call Speaker Pelosi and tell her you want your health care and privacy left in the hands of your doctor, not a bureaucrat bean-counter."

Or maybe a cheaper way would be a web ad which we can then point out to on the dem sites and driveby blogs as, "have you seen this?" sort of thing.

There could be a followup ad with hackers getting HIV info and denying people housing or jobs or leaking it to friends. And maybe another where sincere-looking researches in lab coats are bemoaning that the pharmaceutical company can no longer develop these lifesaving drugs now that the federal government has forbidden new and experimental treatments. This one would need to look like the environmentalist ads ... sincere and green.

[JustSurrounded]

Is it any good? Any idea where I can take it? I keep trying to think of concrete ways to sway public opinion.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Very good.

[Kansas58]

Try Floyd Brown, the “Willie Horton” advertising guy. Actually, Gore came up with the issue first, but Brown's commercials were devastating.

I think it would be useful to run a “salt marsh mouse” ad against Pelosi, in her district. We probably won't be able to beat her, but an ad that says, “What is more important, mice or working men and women?” might drive home the point.

[George Smiley]

A salt marsh mouse is Pelosi is...no that first analogy is all too apt.

[cripplecreek]

I was thinking about targeted political ads this morning. Specifically I was thinking about John Conyers and his wife Monica. Both are in politics and both are dirty.

Start with a list of their esteemed careers.
1. monica conyers threatening to shoot another Detroit city council member.
2. John screaming for recounts in Ohio despite massive vote fraud in Detroit.
3. Monica is named in an FBI investigation of fraud in Detroit.
4. John wastes taxpayer dollars on mock impeachment trials in the capital basement.
5. Video of Monica’s screaming tantrums in the Detroit city council chambers.
6. John demanding an investigation of Joe Arpio for doing his job.

Are these really the kind of people you want representing Michigan?

[JustSurrounded]

A quick google trail got me to citizensunited.org. Thank you for a great lead!

[The Great RJ]

This is exactly what we need to start to move public opinion. Remember how effective those Harry and Louise ads were in deflecting Hillary's health plan. See the video here

[Kansas58]

“This is Obama’s cabinet
They do not pay their taxes
They do not properly report their political contributions

They want YOU to pay for health insurance, for crack heads, hookers, gangbangers and illegal aliens.

What the heck, they won't have to pay for it, will they?”

[JustSurrounded]

Well, I've faxed a letter off. I expanded the idea of the one solely targeted to the HIV-positive folks to include a voice-over of “What if the Bush administration had known whether you were HIV-positive? Do you trust your medical information in government hands? It's your privacy. It's your life.”

I think the AIDs community should be very worried about a national health database. If this keeps up we will have a growing black-market of diagnostic tests. We will have gone from back-alley abortions to back-alley angiograms.