Are you the enforcer of political correctness ? I have already stated Romney is worse than McCain. McCain is brain cancer, Romney is AIDS. Ya dig ?
No, I don’t dig. If McCain is brain-cancer, explain why you’re reserving all your fire for Romney.
Your metaphor doesn't work as you think it does, at least not at this time in this country where we try hard to treat both brain cancer and AIDS:
5 year survival of brain cancer: 34% source: 2007 ACS stats (from table 13 on page 65 of the downloadable PDF)
3 year survival of AIDS (after US DX in 2001): 84% source: CDC
Yes, I'm comparing 5 and 3 year survival rates. The latter was the best I could pull out of the mountain of CDC's AIDS stats in the amount of search time you merited. I believe the 5 and 5 year comparison data would look much the same. Speaking as a physician, AIDS in the US is now a chronic disease, compatible with a normal life expectancy, if the patient is just smart enough to seek medical help and comply with it. Of course if the "patients" were really smart they wouldn't have gotten it in the first place as it's nearly 100% preventable by "good" behavior. There are some long term survivors with brain cancer, I have a friend who is one. There are some kinds of brain cancer that can be cured, a claim that can't be made for AIDS. But overall, statistically, AIDS is a more survivable label with which to be tagged than "brain cancer."
Thus, by your metaphor, if "McCain is brain cancer and Romney is AIDs," then we should be voting for Romney!
Your metaphor sadly still could be right in one way. McCain could literally become "brain cancer." I've seen a lower risk facial melanoma than his summer 2000 one recur as brain metastases seven years later. He was my patient and the uncle of a friend and died in a couple months. Treatment for such mets hasn't improved in the 23 years since.