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....
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.
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