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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMagistrate, Sir, Romney goes for the anti-tick vote.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/09/28/mitt-romney-targets-the-lyme-disease-vote-in-virginiaBesides repealing Obamacare, cutting taxes, and slashing government spending, Mitt Romney has apparently attached himself to another pet project: Fighting Lyme disease.
According to the Weekly Standard, voters in Northern Virginia received a campaign mailer from Romney promising to "fight the spread of Lyme disease," something the campaign called a "serious problem that demands immediate attention."... more
FSogol
(45,470 posts)BarackTheVote
(938 posts)And it's definitely a terrible disease whose hot zone is getting bigger, and we don't know a lot about it... experts claim it can't go chronic, but through my girlfriend, I met a few people who claimed that it had, herself included. It's a scary sickness and needs more attention and research needs to go into it... that said, people with Lyme have a very hard time proving disability even though it can be crippling; it's not unheard of for lymies to become unable to work; and their medical costs can skyrocket...and even though chronic lyme isn't recognized by the IHSA as a real thing, lyme's still a preexisting condition, so... yeah, research and attention is good... taking health care away from people who have this thing? F*ck you, Romney.
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)I still stand by the plain statement of fact:
"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)After all, they are the most accurate news source.
central scrutinizer
(11,645 posts)with his world view.