Posted on 10/12/2004 3:46:39 PM PDT by MikeJ75
WASHINGTON President Bush won't attend the annual convention of the A-A-R-P, although he'll be in Las Vegas at the same time as the group that helped him pass last year's Medicare prescription drug law.
Laura Bush will speak to the A-A-R-P, instead. Bush will appear at a campaign rally.
John Kerry, who opposed the Medicare law, has accepted an invitation to address the meeting of 25-thousand on Thursday. The attendees represent the group's 35 (m) million members.
The A-A-R-P's backing of the controversial Medicare legislation prompted 60-thousand members to resign. Since then, the organization has campaigned for changes, such as legalizing the importation of cheaper prescription medicines from Canada.
Kerry supports that position. Bush says he's against it because of safety concerns.
The AARP are anti-gun scum
AARP has been supporting democRATS for years. I refuse to join. Parley
and they are a rather large and influential voter block.....don't forget that....
Kerry supports outsourcing?
Laura is the perfect delegate.
I think this is CR*P! Those people are citizens and they are citizens with significant voting power. Additionally, this is a freaking election year and it will play poorly to old people across the country(do you really thinkg the MSM will ignore this...Bush is throwing them red meat), whether or not they give a flip about the AARP and will say to them that Bush doesn't care about their issues.
Sometimes you need to rise above the fray and be the bigger person. Bush needs to step it up and go to the meeting.
The AARPs endorsed algore in 2000...Bush has not forgotten and neither have I.
Is he trying to lose the election???
Me too and for the same reason.
Same here. I've been throwing their propaganda in the trash for more years than I want to admit!
You really don't get it -- AARP is DEMOCRAT!!!! He would probably be boo'd which would be a lot worse. If I were him, I wouldn't speak to those delegates either. Sending Laura is a much better idea because I don't think they have the nerve to boo her.
My Mom is in her 80's and she thinks AARP is nothing but a leftist organiztion.
And they'll swipe your tolit paper too!
They keep sending me invites to join up - I keep mailing them back with a pointed note to stuff it until they get of the anti-gun crap.
"Kerry supports that position. Bush says he's against it because of safety concerns".
This is one glaring LIE! President Bush said he was for it if the FDA rules it safe. What a bunch of BS!!!
LLS
Um, no, the AARP is CR*P. They've spent lots of money in South Florida bashing the administration on senior health-care coverage. What goes around comes around, and I don't seriously think the AARP's endorsement (which Bush won't get anyhow) is going to churn out many votes.
My John Kerry toliet paper! I doubt it. LOL!
Those people would give him about the same welcoming as the NAACP. He doesn't need that type of reception right before a national vote.
Laura is the ideal choice. Everyone generally likes her, she can make his case better than he could to this group of voters. She's also less likely to be "booed" and if she were, it would prove to the Bush campaigns favor again because people like her.
Yeah...I have another 30 years until I have to worry about that...
but in this close of an election, and it has tightened up some, I think that every voter block that can be spoken too, should be....one vote can make a world of difference this year....
The AARP has been mailing me for years to join, and I WILL NOT. They are anti-gun, liberal idiots, and were I Bush, I wouldn't go speak to them either.
Who will be the first candidate to stand up and call this for what it is - Price Controls. We are hiding behind the Canadians but what we are doing to trying to get the Canadians to enforce price controls FOR us. And guess what? The drug companies will just limit the volume of sales to Canada and the Canadians will have to choose between supplying their own citizens or the greedy Americans down south. This shouldn't take long to settle itself out. Face it, the drug companies are smarter than the idiot legislators who try to control them. There isn't a single price restraint imagined that hasn't been avoided, manipulated into oblivion or replaced by one which is more profitable to the drug companies. If you don't face them head-on, we will continue to lose.
The AARP is a like a teacher's union. All their money goes to democrats.
I think I'll tell my parents and uncle to get out of the AARP.
That sounds like a good move.
Did you read the article?
Anyone 50 or over can get all the great benefits of membership in AARP for only $12.50 a year. And membership includes your spouse or partner, free!Enhanced membership numbers.
I think Mrs.Bush will do much better with the AARP than will the President. She has the gentle, positive, caring delivery that will work wonders.
Exactly. I get stuff from them all the time. I mail back their little prepaid envelopes, tho.
...and I throw their mailings in the garbage.
LOL!
That organization is politically irrational to the point of insanity. Bush owes this organizatuion which claims to represent America's geezers (including me) exactly -----nothing.
Go check out the AARP legislative forum if you enjoy debating with people over the age of 50 who think it's fun to call the President "Shrub".
AARP send me a "membership" invitation every friggin week. I rip it up unopened and drop it in the trash.
I don't know if Laura is "the perfect delegate" or not. She is intelligent and charming but IMHO, The Prez should have gone himself and faced down these people. I was not in favor of him missing the NAACP Convention. Take your fight to the enemy's camp. The Prez told Kerry: "You can run but you can't hide." We must not appear to be "hiding" from possible hostile audiences.
I dunno. Maybe I'm missing something here. If I am, please let me know.
So? And your point is? He is still their President and he should be there. We cannot let the Dims start hanging the "wimp" factor around our necks like they did Bush 41.
The funny thing about their mailings is that during the 2000 election we started getting their mailings wanting us to join....I filled out some of their forms and wrote in huge letters with a black felt pin....FU, you endorsed algore..sent it back in their prepaid envelope....I was taken off their mailing list after doing this 3 times....LOL
AARP sucks. Can't stand them. I'm 58.
My point is....I never forget...and maybe Dubya doesn't either.
They start soliciting you when you turn 50! I couldn't believe that. Next thing you know, they're going to start asking my 21 year old daughter for dues.
They may be a large voting block, but I don't think that Bush would change any minds by attending. Laura is much less controversial and will make a difficult target for Kerry's abuse.
Bush will debate healthcare tomorrow night and clean Kerry's clock with the personal care accounts and higher deductible insurance which will cut the cost of insurance to consumers by 50% and pay for it in pretax dollars. Then you factor in the market response to the direct consumer involvement in their own care and the savings will be huge. The law suits will be reduced by the consumer involvement as well. It's a win/win plan.
All Kerry has to offer is recycled Hillarycare. Ya-a-w-wn.
Actually Hillarycare shouldn't bore the seniors, it should scare them to death because its a triage system with seniors at the bottom.
I'd believe it....
I have absolutely no interest in joining them either way....
I dropped my membership, when aarp came out against prop 187 in California...they supported illegal immigration....
Amen! I'm 56. I'd no sooner join aarp than the naacp, nea, or afl-cio.
Bunch of geezers that think they're entitled to my income.
I was responding more to the line of thought that he shouldnt even send Laura there.....that would be wrong and if there are a few swing voters, and I am sure there are, that might seriously offend them if they dont at least, get spoken too...
like I said though, its a tight election, every vote will count....
I forget the details, but I left AARP when I found out back in the '90s that AARP was working behind the scenes for Slick.
Yes, but like the NAACP they aren't going to vote for Bush so he might as well be talking to those who might.
Bush cited safety concerns. This sounds credible. Say the Secret Service or FBI are aware of certain threats, related to Al Quaeda. An attack on the AARP gathering would be really bad. Kerry would get a lot of positive MSM hype, although it's hard to imagine him getting more than the MSM's normal, Kerry schmoozing.
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