Republicans communicate via that old technology of E-mail. It's the medium that they prefer and have been using since the middle of the 1990's.
Yesterday, I posted about the magical power of the "Reply All" button when getting the never ending stream of Republican propaganda into my mailbox.
Today, I launch the salvo. I'm not a big DC-based lobbying firm mastered in the art of political messaging just a guy at home on a PC.
With some Google searching, cutting, pasting, and editing I have crafted a Democratic viral e-mail.
Feel free to copy, paste and hit send.
You may recognize this one...
The Honest Health Care Opposition Pledge for Republicans
As a supporter of the Republican Party and its opposition to the Health Care Reform Law, http://www.healthcare.gov/, and the chilling communist and socialist shadow it has cast over our American free enterprise and capitalist economy, I pledge to do my part to ensure that I do not allow myself to be a participant, directly or indirectly, in the communist and socialist redistribution of wealth that is 'HCR'. As such, I pledge compliance to the following four points:
- Since HCR bars insurance companies from dropping policy holders once they are diagnosed with an expensive to treat disease or condition, I, in opposition to HCR, do pledge, should I in my lifetime be diagnosed with an expensive to treat illness, disease, or medical condition, to voluntarily cancel my existing insurance coverage plan, so that I do not become a burden on the glorious and all-important capitalist machine that IS America. It is my duty as an American not to impede on the freedoms of American business to remain as profitable as possible. I will accept the medical bills placed upon me for my treatment, and perhaps forgo said treatment altogether giving my quality of life, and quite possibly, my life, in service to the greatness that is the American free enterprise. To do otherwise would clearly be communism and socialism.
- Since HCR bars insurance companies from imposing lifetime caps on coverage for my medical costs, I will volunteer to terminate my existing insurance coverage the moment it feels like I'm costing a great American enterprise an awful lot of money that should be used to enrich the hard-working executives and stockholders of this great American business. To do otherwise would clearly be communism and socialism.
- Since Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and Veterans Affairs are clearly long-standing communist and socialist institutions, as a great American, I pledge not to waste taxpayers' money on my own selfish needs by refusing to accept any and all benefits from Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid or Veterans Affairs in my lifetime and will convince family and friends to, as well. To do otherwise would clearly be communism and socialism.
- Finally, since HCR also requires that health insurance plans spend 80-85% of the customers' money on actual HEALTH CARE, which is disgustingly communist and socialist and the end of our free society as we know it, I will keep a close eye on the benefits I receive from my great American insurance policy, and if it's clear I'm receiving a level of benefits that preclude my great American insurance company from realizing adequate profit to be spent on marketing, administrative costs, and by God, shareholder value, I will do the right and moral thing and send my great American insurance company a check they can use towards these costs. To do otherwise would clearly be communism and socialism.
God Bless America!!!
Beware that you may get responses that say that you are an anti-American Nazi Communist Muslim atheist that wants the United Nations to teach gay sex to preschoolers.