It's "Scare the Old People" Time

Democrats are falling back on a tried-and-true, or perhaps now a tired-and-true, campaign tactic of trying to scare old people into voting for them:

Writer Molly Hooper demonstrates one of the problems with the current Democratic campaign strategy of scaring voters about the possibility of a return to Republican majority.

If you’re in charge, you end up sounding pretty silly talking about a theoretical rule on abstract subjects when you’re in charge and there are plenty of real problems to confront.

House Minority Leader John Boehner talked about the possibility of curtailing Social Security payments for the wealthy in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The paper put the issue in the context of Afghan war funding and Democrats are now trying to raise the idea that Republicans want to cut off checks to pay for the war.

Very thin stuff, especially coming from a party that just voted to partly fund a new health care entitlement by cutting $500 billion out of Medicare.

But Democrats are facing a wipeout election and are apparently already grasping at anything that floats by.

“Boehner later denied saying that in an interview with The Hill but Democrats, including fellow Buckeye State lawmakers, called Boehner ‘un-American’ and ‘outrageous and callous.’

The effort appears to be an election-year grasp at stoking the flames of fear that seniors will lose government benefits or that the age of Social Security recipients will be raised to 70.

Pelosi appears to have previewed the recess talking point on the matter: ‘In the Congress, Republicans want to privatize Social Security. We are opposed to that.’”

I find it hilarious that the party that has no guilt whatsoever about taxing rich people at confiscatory levels thinks they can make a case against Republicans by suggesting that rich people won't get their meager Social Security payments, that due to their income will be taxed almost into nonexistence.  Silly Democrats.

Older Americans are a frequent target of demagoguery for two reasons:  Democrats think they're gullible, and they vote in higher percentages than any other age group.  I don't think they're going to scare as easily this time.  The Democrats simply have no achievements they can point to as evidence they know what they're doing.