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rudy23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:01 PM
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Since they're branding HC reform as "Obamacare", why not call their version "Republicare"?
If they want to call the public option the "government option", we should call their version the "corporate option."

Just brainstorming on some branding tactics.
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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:02 PM
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1. that's class warfare talk
not cool, brah.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:03 PM
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2. Because "status quo" fits better.
They don't want ANY change. Their owners like things just like they are.

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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:04 PM
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3. No I suspect that they're all in favor of mandatory private insurance.
Subsidized by taxpayers of course.

More corporate welfare? They'll ALWAYS be in favor of that.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:07 PM
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6. Somewhere in hell, a few more chairs are set out on the sixth level.
The names of the GOP leaders are carefully engraved on the back with sharpened brimstone.

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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:05 PM
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4. Republ...
idontgiveafuck.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:06 PM
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5. We should just call it what it is:
Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 02:07 PM by AndyA
PSD Care: Poor Suffer and Die

That's what they want, when it gets right down to it.
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rudy23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:10 PM
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7. I posted yesterday about how you can always win a HC argument with a rightie--
just get them to admit that they want poor people to die. It's very easy to do---most can't wait to admit it. They think the best thing a human can be is a "survivalist", and the best show of their strength is their callousness to other people's "emotional" problems. Try it sometime.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:10 PM
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8. They don't a version, just the status quo.
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One Voice Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:10 PM
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9. repubNOcare
sounds accurate to me.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:12 PM
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10. RepubliCon-Care, Inc
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:13 PM
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11. Make a coffee can for donations for surgery for someone's kid
and label it Republican-care.
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rudy23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:14 PM
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13. Ha! I love it (if it weren't so realistic )
Really, doesn't putting Republican and "care" next to each other just scream "irony"?
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:13 PM
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12. Republi - Fear
I wouldn't use the word care. Not with all the lies that they have been spreading.

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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:17 PM
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14. Because they don't care -- it should be Republinocare.
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dbonds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:17 PM
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15. Their version is called "Don't Care"
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rudy23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:48 PM
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16. That's good!
I really like that one. Obamacare vs. Don't-care.
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:53 PM
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17. actually I think
"lack-o'care" fits better ;)
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