McCain Urges Town Hall Attendees To Cut Up AARP Membership Cards

Think Progress:

Last week, the AARP, a nonpartisan organization that advocates on behalf of those aged 50 and over, endorsed the House health care bill. "We can say with confidence that it meets our priorities for protecting Medicare, providing more affordable health insurance for 50- to 64-year-olds and reforming our health care system," AARP vice president Nancy Leamond said. At a town hall meeting in Arizona on Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) vowed to "fight with every fiber of my body" to oppose a similar health care reform bill in the Senate. He then claimed that Medicare will actually be "cut" and reportedly urged the town hall attendees to tear up their AARP membership cards:

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Comments

[mancoff]

05:40 PM on 11/22/2009

Seniors, and I am one of you, please understand that many, many Republican­s in high places, Dick Armey, Tom Tancredo, Tom Coburn, etc have openly said that are opposed to Medicare/m­edicaid and would like to see it gone in the next 10 years. It is important to Rebublican­s to see that medicare fails the sooner the better so they can push their agenda off on the people more easily. They think that giving vouchers to to purchase and manage their own health care is one way to do it. They see medicare as a government entitlemen­t program. They don't like it, don't want it and when they oppose the health reform bill, one of the reasons is it would help keep the medicare program, alive and well. When McCain says tear up your AARP card, he' s telling you the sooner we can tear you away from senior citizen advocates who would support the medicare system, the easier it will be when the time comes and we openly work to rid the country of medicare programs. If the Medicare program goes belly up as it will unless we get health reform and cut health care costs then the republican­s will have an easy time of letting it die. John McCain, Cindy McCain, Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Dick Armey and all those really Republican Senators and Congressme­n will not have to rely on medicare, we do.

[bereasonable0]

04:13 PM on 11/17/2009

Effective Leadership­. He used to be amusing. Now he's just boring.

[jws2346]

01:05 PM on 11/17/2009

I'll tell ye whot, ole' Johnny. I'll cut mine up as soon as you cut yours up. My huge respect for you is starting to wane. I was of the same generation as you and went to 'Nam just like you, but I was one of the lucky ones, I never had to go through 1 millionth of what you had to go through.

[Ifticar2]

02:54 PM on 11/17/2009

What makes you think McCain has ever had an AARP card to cut up? I am of your generation­. I never joined AARP. Most of the people I know from College never signed up. Less than 50% of today's Seniors are AARP members.

[Carl Caroli]

11:38 AM on 11/17/2009

It amazes me that this man has the audacity or stupidity to keep opening his mouth. He has been on the wrong side of history his entire life and still thinks highly of himself.

[Flahdagal]

11:18 AM on 11/17/2009

Annnnnnd..­..bang goes the last demographi­c that gave a hoot about him. Way to read your constituen­ts, John.

[dcjdjay]

07:59 AM on 11/17/2009

As I said, "cut up your wife's credit cards first, you old gigolo."

[AnimalLover6]

12:35 AM on 11/17/2009

2010: Time to clean all the old white conservati­ves out of Congress.

[sviolette]

11:55 PM on 11/16/2009

Just tell us where Osama Bin Laden is John. You said you knew where he is.

[bayman]

11:34 PM on 11/16/2009

Nice to see Mr. 'Country First' sink to the level of the teabaggers­.

[LeeCalif]

11:15 PM on 11/16/2009

I think he should cut up his vi agra prescripti­on.

[LeeCalif]

11:12 PM on 11/16/2009

This man married to the woman who has everything wants people to a bort their membership­s in a solid organizati­on that disagrees with him.

He's the same sore loser. We've heard about his nasty temper.

[Dr Jimmy and Mr Jim]

08:29 PM on 11/16/2009

"Old man yells at cloud".

Anybody that listens to this guy deserves what they get.

Doesn't he have to rush away to Washington to save us from the financial crisis? Yeah, that was the last time anybody took him serious.

[LeeCalif]

11:13 PM on 11/16/2009

And then, not so much.

[Imzadi]

07:43 PM on 11/16/2009

Your attit.ude, Sir, explains why you are still a Sen.ator and not PO.TUS.

Sha.meful!

[Imzadi]

07:42 PM on 11/16/2009

Your attitude, Sir, explains why you are still a Senator and not POTUS.

Sha_meful!

[Imzadi]

07:42 PM on 11/16/2009

Your attitude, Sir, explains why you are still a Senator and not POTUS.

Shameful!

[LadyTee]

07:52 PM on 11/16/2009

Excellent!