Senior Citizens Are Not Stupid--And They Vote!!

Obviously I'm a little biased on this subject (look at the name of the website)!   Hugh Hewitt posted an article at the Washington Examiner yesterday about the Senior Citizen voting bloc.  Senior citizens vote.  In 2004, 71 per cent of senior citizens were registered to vote and voted.  In 2004, 19 percent of the voters were 65 or older.  Senior citizens have life experience, they have gained some degree of wisdom (and some degree of cynicism) in their years.  You may be able to fool them once, but you will not be able to fool them twice, which brings me to the heart of the Hugh Hewitt article.

Last week Harvard Pilgrim Health Care notified 22,000 senior citizens that the company is dropping their Medicare Advantage Plan (remember the promise, "If you llike the health care you have now, you will be able to keep it under Obamacare").  That is only the beginning of the impact of Obamacare on senior citizens.

Last week Gloria Allred attempted to derail the California gubernatorial campaign of Meg Whitman by announcing that Meg Whitman had fired her housekeeper after the housekeeper  had revealed she had defrauded the family with fake documents and was in the country illegally.  What was Meg Whitman supposed to do?  Gloria Allred made the mistake of appearing on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, Mark Levin's radio show and Greta Van Susteren's television show.  All of these people are lawyers and quite experienced in getting at the truth of any matter.  Her attack on Meg Whitman was quickly overcome by facts.

Hugh Hewitt concludes:

"And still seniors see the Grim Reaper of Obamacare coming for them.  This cycle of charge and knockdown will repeat many times in the weeks ahead, but seniors won't lose sight of the key fact of election 2010: Democrats screwed them.

"No sideshow will trick seniors into voting approval for the party that has endangered their golden years."

One television pundit called the weeks leading up to an election "The Silly Season."  We are there.  Unfortunately, the Silly Season for the presidential election of 2012 will start on November 3, 2010.