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Rove tries a Swift Boat attack on Social Security

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Tuesday, 22 February 2005

If you haven't seen this yet, the GOP have ginned up a new front group, USANext, which positions itself as a conservative alternative to the lunatic left-wingers at (I start giggling here)... the AARP.

Yes. Really. They're doing this with a straight face.

Because, sure, we all know how those AARP members run with such a subversive crowd. Hanging out at all-night under-18/over-65 rave parties, advocating free love and shuffleboard, wrapping fluorescent glowsticks over their MedicAlert bracelets, mixing ecstasy and Maalox, retracing the steps of Kerouac in the Winnebago...

Those crazed, goggle-eyed radicals at the AARP. Yeah.

Driving home the point, here's an actual USANext ad, which Josh Marshall reports was posted on the site of the American Spectator:

Yep. That's the AARP. Nothing but hatred for soldiers and a love of gay sex. You betcha.

My Mom's in the AARP. And she fragged a couple of dudes in Fallujah just last week, just before making breakfast for my two adopted brothers, the Pony Boys.

So you can see right there.

Apparently this was too insane even for the far right, and they've now pulled the ad.

Either that, or something even better is on its way... I can hardly wait.