Posted on 09/28/2012 10:03:43 AM PDT by Steelfish
Campaign Mailer: Romney Vows to Fight the 'Epidemic' of Lyme Disease in Virginia SEP 28, 2012 • BY JOHN MCCORMACK
A WEEKLY STANDARD source living in Northern Virginia passes along photos of the first piece of mail the source has received from the Romney campaign. Instead of focusing on a big issue--say, Obamacare, the debt, or taxes--the mailer is about Lyme Disease:
LYME DISEASE: A MASSIVE EPIDEMIC THREATENING VIRGINIA.
ROMNEY AND RYAN WILL DO MORE TO FIGHT THE SPREAD OF LYME DISEASE.
Here's the text for the rest of the mailer:
It's a disease that begins from a small bug...
But Lyme Disease has quickly become the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, devastating our families and our pets.
It's a serious problem - that demands immediate attention.
As president, Mitt Romney will ensure that real action is taken to get control of this epidemic that is wreaking havoc on Northern Virginians.
IMPROVE SYNERGY Ensure that government agencies have an open line of communication and work with patients, researchers, doctors, and businesses in an objective, comprehensive manner.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
I lived with no consequence....but someone in our office wasn't so lucky...and wound up almost totally crippled.
This better not be from the campaign. Better be a superpac. I can not see how they would be spending money on this. Whiskey tango foxtrot.
Good grief... Lets replace the Nanny State with the nanny state
A pox on both the republicans and the democrats.....
Well, obviously Romney is hitting Obama where it hurts now.
We need a Blueribbon National Lyme Disease Task Force.
Obama is done for.
I know someone who was diagnosed with MS. After much testing, it was actually Lyme Disease she was suffering from!!
The probable culprit, a deer tick, is about this big> *
Whats next? Romney Ryan vowing to fight athletes foot mailers to Florida residents?
Nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Does no one care about the plague of hemorrhoids any more!?!?!?
Seriously, Who the hell is running this guy’s campaign? We are all in deep sh*t if no one sacks these strategists assuming its not too late. This is the stuff of SNL.
Those Hemroid mailers are going to Ohio residents.
Lyme disease is a real plague, and it’s worse on Cape Cod and Nantucket.
One of the ways to control it is to reduce the density of deer!
Person who came up this mailer needs to be fired immediately. Stupid campaign. Needs to focus on bad economy and jobs, jobs, jobs.
I know how to fight lyme disease, DDT
We need to bring it back.
Haven't heard much lately about eczema seborrhea psoriasis either.
There are medical approaches that work, but doctors have been sued for using them. The other reasonable approach that works is DDT. Romney will be in deep trouble with the media if he supports either one of them. The third and unreasonable approach is to move everybody into cities like New York, where there are only about 4 blades of grass per citizen.
It's a problem worthy of discussion, but it's really not one suitable for discussion in a purely political environment.
Check the fine print... sure there isn’t a “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message”?
I know, it’s like something a local Congress critter or a state rep might talk about
That was our experience as well. And the one physician who took it seriously was an alternative medical practitioner who kept trying to get a celiac diagnosis, in spite of tests coming back negative, time after time. Oh, and heavy metals - said it was tin poisoning at one point.
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