{"id":2295,"date":"2010-10-04T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2010-10-04T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T11:04:13","slug":"senior_citizens_are_not_stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"Senior Citizens Are Not Stupid&#8211;And They Vote!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously I&#8217;m a little biased on this subject (look at the name of the website)!&nbsp;&nbsp; Hugh Hewitt posted an article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/Seniors-won_t-be-fooled-by-diversions--1097363-104248218.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;yesterday about the Senior Citizen voting bloc.&nbsp; Senior citizens vote.&nbsp; In 2004, 71 per cent of senior citizens were registered to vote and voted.&nbsp; In 2004, 19 percent of the voters were 65 or older.&nbsp; Senior citizens have life experience, they have gained some degree of wisdom (and some degree of cynicism) in their years.&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Harvard Pilgrim Health Care notified 22,000 senior citizens that the company is dropping their Medicare Advantage Plan (remember the promise, &#8220;If you llike the health care you have now, you will be able to keep it under Obamacare&#8221;).&nbsp; That is only the beginning of the impact of Obamacare on senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Gloria Allred attempted to derail the California gubernatorial campaign of Meg Whitman by&nbsp;announcing that Meg Whitman had fired her housekeeper after the housekeeper&nbsp; had revealed she had defrauded the family with fake documents and was in the country illegally.&nbsp; What was Meg Whitman supposed to do?&nbsp; Gloria Allred made the mistake of appearing on Hugh Hewitt&#8217;s radio show, Mark Levin&#8217;s radio show and Greta Van Susteren&#8217;s television show.&nbsp; All of these people are lawyers and quite experienced in getting at the truth of any matter.&nbsp; Her attack on Meg Whitman was quickly overcome by facts.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Hewitt concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&#8220;<em>And still seniors see the Grim Reaper of Obamacare coming for them.&nbsp; This cycle of charge and knockdown will repeat many times in the weeks ahead, but seniors won&#8217;t lose sight of the key fact of election 2010: Democrats screwed them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No sideshow will trick seniors into voting approval for the party that has endangered their golden years.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One television pundit called the weeks leading up to an election &#8220;The Silly Season.&#8221;&nbsp; We are there.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the Silly Season for the presidential election of 2012 will start on November 3, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously I&#8217;m a little biased on this subject (look at the name of the website)!&nbsp;&nbsp; Hugh Hewitt posted an article at the Washington Examiner&nbsp;yesterday about the Senior Citizen voting bloc.&nbsp; Senior citizens vote.&nbsp; In 2004, 71 per cent of senior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}