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Beyond the "Change You Deserve"

by: JulieWaters

Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:33:48 AM EDT


Chris Bowers reports that the new GOP slogan "The Change You Deserve" is a lot worse for them than you think it is:
Third, it was particularly brilliant to unveil a campaign slogan that is already copyrighted as an advertisement for an anti-depressant.

I don't feel a need to dwell on this.  It sort of speaks for itself on the pure irony level, plus it was discussed in a front page Kos diary yesterday.

Instead, let's focus on the other possible slogans the GOP could have picked.  ASD has a list of registered slogans that provide all sorts of alternate possibilities:

I like EMLA's "numbs the pain," because it accurately reflects the short-term effect of us all getting drunk and crying into our drinks should McCain win in November.

JulieWaters :: Beyond the "Change You Deserve"
Aricept has a medication with the slogan "A first step in Alzheimers."  I think that would do well as a GOP slogan: "Republicans: a first step in Alzheimer's."  You can put a picture of Reagan next to McCain.

One of Band-Aid's slogans is "We've got you covered."  I can picture that being used with a photo of hooded prisoners:

WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED



Beano has the slogan "Take Beano before. There'll be no gas."  I think we can shorten that to a photo of an abandoned automobile with a gas pump handle hanging from its trunk and use the slogan "There will be no gas."

Bufferin has the "Bufferin is smarter" ad.  We could change that to "The Republican Party: even Bufferin is smarter."

Crestor has the slogan "Now you're getting somewhere."  I picture that with a photo of a humvee driving into Baghdad:


NOW YOU'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE



Immodium uses "Forgotten something?" as one of its slogans.  I picture a print ad with McCain hugging Bush in the bottom left corner, him eating cake with Bush in the upper right, and then in the middle, scenes from Iraq interspersed with photos demonstrating the conditions at Walter Reid medical center and scenes from Arlington.

Or, possibly, we could connect it to hurricane Katrina, as suggested in the excellent Kos diary We Should Use This Photo. Every. Single. Day.:

FORGOTTEN SOMETHING?



Lemslip uses the phrase "Here to help" in its advertising.  I think we can use that with that photo of Bush trying to exit through the wrong door:


HERE TO HELP


You can tell that it's a day when I just can't think about anything serious, can't you?

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 "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles" 1967 ad campaign slogan
 

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When I read "the change you deserve", I was wondering what the heck I did that was so bad.

You can read JD's latest at five before chaos. Politics. Godlessness. Music. Films of questionable quality. It's all there, folks.

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I think that would do well as a GOP slogan: "Republicans: a first step in Alzheimer's."  You can put a picture of Reagan next to McCain.

Using a disease as serious as Alzheimer's to poke fun at anybody is absolutely WRONG.  I have no problem poking fun at the fact that McCain is older than dirt, but what were you thinking?  I find this more offensive that making racial or sexist comparisons on BO/HRC.  


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Using a disease as serious as Alzheimer's to poke fun at anybody is absolutely WRONG.  I have no problem poking fun at the fact that McCain is older than dirt, but what were you thinking?  I find this more offensive that making racial or sexist comparisons on BO/HRC.

What diseases less serious than Alzheimer's am I allowed to use to poke fun at people without offending the sensibility of the politically correct?

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I'm kidding, of course.

You can read JD's latest at five before chaos. Politics. Godlessness. Music. Films of questionable quality. It's all there, folks.

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look...my family has gone through more than it's share of Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia.  It's a truly horrible thing to see a loved one go through...you basically lose them twice...once when they get the disease and again when they eventually die.

Having said all that though, I think that the advanced age of a candidate is a serious issue.  Look at the last time that we had someone that was basically "out of it" for much of his Presidency...Reagan.  I don't want to go thru that level of nonsense again.  

I think that a lot of the "missteps" that McSame has made recently about Al-Qaeda, Sunnis vs. Shiites, etc. have been a result of his age combinded with him being on the campaign trail for too long.  I really don't care very much that McSame's mom has lived to be very old as well.  

Do we really want the person occupying one of the most powerful positions in the entire world to be in the 70s or 80s?  That's well past the normal retirement age for a position that is far from being normal.

Be excellent to each other and party on dudes!


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