EVER SINCE PAUL RYAN was selected as Romney’s running mate, Rep. Wasserman-Schultz and other Democrats have been falsely claiming that Romney-Ryan’s Medicare plan would impact seniors, without saying that those 55 and older would not be affected. Now, perhaps Wasserman-Schultz and other Democrats believe Republicans will bait and switch, but if that’s the case they should say it.
As I wrote yesterday, seniors aren’t stupid. Florida is an imperative for Mitt Romney to win, so scaring seniors is an easy ploy, but Republicans aren’t suggesting that seniors now getting Medicare of nearing the age requirement are impacted, so the people who should be objecting are those in their 40s.
Wolf Blitzer grills Wasserman-Schultz, who refuses to be transparent without a torturous interview session, but Wolf finally gets her to admit it.
CNN is billing itself during the election season as the only cable network that hasn’t chosen sides. With their ratings lagging, one would hope people would want this option, but there’s no evidence many do.
The democrats have been in overdrive, desperately trying to define the GOP Presidential ticket. Instead of making stuff up about Ryan and Romney, they should focus on the truth. In sales the term for what the democrats have been doing over the past week is called FUD which is using Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
President Obama made a comment the other day referring to Mitt Romney driving with his dog ontop of his car. President Obama ate dogs. I would rather ride in a top-rack then have someone cook and eat me. I
You might want to take a trip overseas! Even today people eat fog and when Obama did it in 1970 he was 9 and he did it because his stepfather gave it to and told him to eat it. Mitt Romney was a 35 year old married man with children who clearly should have know better than to strap his dog to the roof of his car. Context, you should try it!
Context? How do we know that he stopped eating dog? Perhpas the press could ask him about it? Or about his college and law school grades? Or what is the capital of Israel?
At long last sir, have you no sense of humor?
Wow, mjsmith, how ignorant and enthnocentric can you get. There are 2 billion people on the planet who think eating cows and pigs is unthinkable. You think the wold revolves around the American diet? First, it couldn’t- there isn’t enough food out there. Second, if it COULD, it would make the world sick and obese.
If I was ever lucky enough to find myself in a nice restaurant overseas and saw dog on the menu, OF COURSE I would order it. Because I’m adventurous that way, and not stuck in a narrow little worldview, like you.
I think Dems should start saying if they’re going to take it to people 55 and under why don’t you think they will be taking it to you too? I mean do you really trust these guys? Romney has been running away from Ryan’s plan because he knows it is unpopular. Now Paul Ryan after calling himself an “objectivist” has completely run from that too. They’re both etch a sketch candidates which is really funny because they’re running against the original etch a sketch president.
That would be much better, Ga6thDem. Dems could ask: Do you trust Mitt Romney to protect your Medicare?
Do you trust Obama to protect your Medicare???????? He’s already taken from it to fund Obamacare! That is NOT what I have paid in to it for all these years??
Come on!
President Obama is the etch a sketch President now? LOL! OMG! You probably see President Obama in your sleep. We could be here talking about the finer points of making cement and you would find away to drag President Obama into the conversation!
It’s too bad Wasserman-Schultz was unable to be more articulate. My advice to the Dems in pushing this narrative is thus: Medicare requires a large pool of relatively healthy people to be solvent. If a voucher system were to begin and in 10 years the folks who pull out of the traditional system were disproportionately wealthy and healthy the traditional system would become unsustainable for everyone, not just the people turning 65 in ten years. Here’s another argument I’m not hearing from the Dem talking heads: if R & R and the Repubs are able to repeal the ACA as they have said they wish to, current seniors could find the doughnut hole opening back up and that they have lost the ability to get yearly preventive care without co-pays. These are benefits that are currently in traditional Medicare because of the ACA. I have not heard the Repubs state what they would do about that. Too bad the Dems are still finding themselves tongue-tied when it comes to defending their own programs.
My advice to the Dems would be to get rid of that shrill, obnoxious, wasserman-schultze, what a turn-off.