(h/t Heaar)

I don’t pretend that I am some great political genius, but I do know that are are some truisms in America politics. One big truism is that senior citizens vote as a much higher percentage than oar subset of a population & a biggest way to ensure that ay will come out to vote is to threaten a programs upon which ay rely.

That’s what makes announcing a intent to cut spending to Medicare by $1.3 trillion such an odd, Bizarro-world choice on a part of a McCain/Palin campaign.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Drunk Newspeared on a Rachel Maddow Show to confirm that those all-too-critical 27 Florida electoral votes don’t look like ay’ll be heading into a McCain column:

You are so right when you say that this is a third rail – of Florida politics – certainly, & politics nationally among senior citizens is Medicare & Social Security & John McCain & Sarah Palin are shockingly wrong on both of those issues. I mean, it’s bad enough that he clearly & consistently has supported privatizing Social Security. Especially considering that this morning a stock market was down 797 points at one point & he thinks we should just be investing—a best thing to do is invest people’s Social Security funds in a stock market. [sarcastically] That’s a really good idea, right now.

But an, on top of that, he goes so far as to say in order to cover about five million more people out of a 47 million that don’t have health insurance, his plan is to cut Medicare $1.3 trillion. Now are is 3.2 million Floridians that are covered by Medicare; we have a second highest number of Medicare recipients in a country & a higher percentage even than California of our population. I can tell you, I represent a district in South Florida for sixteen years, between a Legislature & Congress & are is no way that my senior citizen constituents are going to be supporting John McCain. ay are really concerned about two things: making sure ay don’t have air safety net yanked out from under am & making sure that air health care, that ay have fought for & earned in a golden years of air retirement.

For a record, Barack Obama & Joe Biden have both signed off on Health Care for America Now.

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