Romney/Ryan looking to split the Senior vote by appealing to the greedy-geazers...

[matmar]

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/08/13/romney-ryan-bet-on-greedy-geezers/

The newly minted Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is placing a big – and some might say cynical – bet that the stereotype of the “greedy geezer” is real, that Americans now eligible for Medicare or close to it don’t care that the popular health program won’t be there for their children and grandchildren.

Since senior citizens vote in higher percentages than other demographic groups, Romney and Ryan are trying to split the current Medicare recipients away from those Americans in later generations. The reasoning goes: If today’s seniors think that they’ll still get theirs, they won’t care that their kids and grandkids might be stuck with an inferior program costing each one more than $6,000 extra.

The Romney-Ryan calculation suggests the Republicans really do believe that today’s senior citizens represent the most selfish generation in American history

[pnwmom]

1. We need to get the word out about the risk that all married OVER 65's are facing.

The Ryan budgets, if approved, would mean financial devastation for millions of CURRENT Social Security recipients.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125172523

[rocktivity]

2. The "greedy geezer" game didn't work when Bush tried it

http://agit-pop.com/gallery_item/bush-in-30-years/


rocktivity

[Amonester]

6. Yep. And it won't work now. n/t

[bluestateguy]

3. We are increasingly dealing with the Silent Generation here, less so the GI/WWII generation

The latter was more communatarian and civic minded. The Silent generation is by and large, as a majority, selfish and me, me, me.

Having said that, I'll take a "split" in the Senior vote anyday. a 50/50 split or even a 48/52 loss would be as good or better than last time for Obama.

[msongs]

4. that's not a very nice thing to say about the texting/ipod generation...

"The Silent generation is by and large, as a majority, selfish and me, me, me. "

[bluestateguy]

5. They have their own issues too

and an attention span about the length of a tweet.