Posted on 08/16/2012 3:34:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Romney-Ryan ticket holds a small lead in Florida, according to two new polls. Hoping to shore up the Sunshine State, the Romney campaign is deploying Ryan to speak at a large retirement community, alongside his octogenerian mother:
How serious is the Romney campaign about seizing the offense in the Medicare battle? The campaign is dispatching Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, to a Florida retirement community this weekend. Ryan will headline a campaign event at 10 a.m. Saturday in The Villages, the sprawling retirement community frequented by GOP candidates, including by Romney during this year’s primary battle ... Ryan will be joined at the event by his mother, Betty Douglas, 80.
As I suggested this week, showcasing Ryan's mom is one of the most potent tools Republicans have to beat back Democrat disinformation on the GOP reform plan to save Medicare. If they can effectively neutralize the Left's ongoing demagoguery, they'll have more breathing room to land blows on offense. To that end, sending Ryan and his mother onto the campaign trail together is a brilliant stroke. I hope the commercials aren't far behind, to reach a larger audience. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney outlined the differences between his plan and the president's Medicare proposals earlier today, using a four-quadrant white board to illustrate his point. MSNBC lampooned Romney for this performance, but I think it's just classic, nerdy, consultant Mitt doing his thing:
Mitt Romney Uses White Board To Explain Medicare
For their part, seniors certainly do seem positively terrified by Paul Ryan. John McCormack reports from the trail:
"Hey Paul!" yelled an elderly woman while Ryan was placing his order with the cashier. "Good luck! Kick ass!" The well-wisher, Erma from Howland, Ohio, told me later that she's not worried that Ryan and Romney would end Medicare. "I don't believe it," she said. "Because Obama has a bigger plan to rob Medicare of $617 billion." "We better worry about Obamacare before we worry about Ryan," added Erma, a self-described conservative from Howell, Ohio. Erma wasn't the only conservative senior citizen at the Original Hot Dog Shoppe to demonstrate that the party faithful have absorbed the Medicare message being pushed by the Romney-Ryan campaign this week. "Oh, don't believe none of that stuff," Eleanor Costantino, a senior citizen from Warren, told me when I asked her if she was worried about Romney-Ryan taking away Obamacare. "It's all nothing but a bunch of lies!" "He's going to save Medicare," chimed in Eleanor's friend Karen Combs from Cortland, Ohio. "There's $700 billion under Obamacare coming out of Medicare, and seniors should be more frightened over that."
The Medicare debate may be backfiring on The One, but this election will still come down to jobs, the economy, and debt. Gallup's latest survey shows Obama in big trouble on all three issues, with his disapproval creeping into the the high 50's and 60's on each:
Forward.
Oh, I want to GOOOOO!!!
HA! edit THAT out, CBS, you bastages!
Go ahead, attack his mother now you lousy, traitor Rats.
Make our day!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
Betcha didn't think they'd ever mock a Down Syndrome child, did you? I didn't.
It’s starting to look like we have a fighter here. When was the last time? Not 2008, not 2004...
Hey Paul, good luck, kick ass!
Seeing some old lady say that would be just wonderful.
The only positive approval on that list was for terrorism - certainly based on the Bin Laden assassination.
When people are aware of OPSEC and what they’re saying, the Obama folks might want to think twice before attacking the people who are quietly serving well in dangerous circumstances on the front lines in the war on terror - and I don’t mean Janet Napolitano and her groping orgy-riddled thugs at the Department of Homeland Insecurity, who fondle 80-year-old nuns while leaving our border wide open to drug cartels and their Hezbollah allies.
Hey a llttle respect for his mom—how about an “Older lady”
instead of “Old lady” just seems nicer.
He or she will be attacked on stage by crazed leftist. When it happens, the offending lefty should be "ended". It will happen, I hope they are ready for it.
These aren't you're daddy's democrats. These are your granddaddy's NAZIs.
you have to wonder if obama has the guts to show up at “The Villages” in front of a few thousand angry florida seniors.
I prefer “seasoned citizen” ;-)
That works for me as well!
My parents live in The Villages. The area votes overwhelmingly Republican, in spite of all the Yanks who move there.
Are your parents going to the event? If so, I hope they give an on-scene and/or after-event report. It would be interesting to hear from Village residents what the folks say after Ryan’s visit.
No, Dad has Alzheimer’s Disease, so they don’t go to big events that are likely to confuse and upset him. I’m sure there will be a good crowd, though.
I’m sorry to hear about your Dad. My uncle (also my Godfather) has it. The family had to recently put him in a care center due to the progression and the burden on my aunt (she’s 92 and he just turned 91), even though she wants him at home - just too much for her.
It’s a terrible disease. Blessings on you and your family.
Best,
SC
I’m sorry to hear about your Dad. My uncle (also my Godfather) has it. The family had to recently put him in a care center due to the progression and the burden on my aunt (she’s 92 and he just turned 91), even though she wants him at home - just too much for her.
It’s a terrible disease. Blessings on you and your family.
Best,
SC
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