Who ‘Woulda Thunk’ It?-GOP Taking On Medicare
Election after election in the past the Democrats could, and most often did, bring out their mediscare tactics, accusing the GOP of wanting to take medicare away from vulnerable seniors. Many times their shameless scare tactics worked to move the senior vote in their column and provide them their margins of victory. So, when Governor Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his VP running mate, some Democrats reacted with glee. They thought because congressman Ryan courageously was willing to tackle the pending insolvency of medicare with real reforms, they would be able to tie Mitt Romney to those reforms and they could scare seniors away from the GOP ticket. They may have been laughing when Romney made the pick, but I don’t think they are laughing now. That is because, not only are Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan not running away from the issue in a defensive mode, they are addressing it head on in an attack mode against president Obama. Brilliantly, the Romney/Ryan team is attacking the president over medicare on two fronts. They are pointing out that it is president Obama who is taking out over $700 billion dollars out of medicare over the next 10 years. Second, they are pointing out that this money is being taken out to pay for the uninsured in ObamaCare. So, they are hitting Obama as the one who is the...
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