re: #74 moderatelyradicalliberal

You’ll have to forgive me, but I’m tired of the notion that Average Joe Sixpack determines elections. If they did, we’d be discussing the reelection prospects of McCain/Palin. The fact is the people who have suffered the most in this lousy economy and who always suffer the most in lousy economies are going to vote for Obama. And the people who vote the most often won’t take kindly to campaign ads about SS and Medicare being unconstitutional. There goes Florida.

Look, Rick Perry is my governor, I know him as well as any other politician in America and I’m not scared of him. Not at all.

But Perry’s rhetoric about Social Security isn’t targeting seniors already on Social Security. He’s trying to attract a younger voter with this. Even if there were concerns from seniors many of them are easily beguiled with jingoistic patriotism which Perry is good at. IOW, all Perry has to do is wrap himself around the American flag and all their worries are gone as they harken back to their younger days of the “greatest generation.”