From Atrios.

There is an ad on the American Spectator Website.  [Editor's note:  The American Spectator ad has disappeared...but here is a link to a copy of it: 

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_02_20_atrios_archive.html#110902681909369444  ]

It shows a soldier with a giant red “X” over him, and a newlywed gay couple kissing with a big green check over them.  The caption reads “The REAL AARP agenda”.

This ad is brought to you by USANext…the Swift Boat Veterans for Unsubstantiated Smear of the senior set.

Apparently, USANext is a grass-roots organization of elderly has sprung up against Social Security.  They want to be able to invest their social security too…because we all know what a short-term gold mine investment is…anyway, they SOMEHOW managed to get together the old team from the Swift Boat Veterans, and now they are using the same tactics against their fellow silver foxes that the Swifties turned on their brother in arms.

The AARP hates our military?  The AARP supports gay marriage?  Are they serious?  Do they really expect people to believe this?  I guess they do, and I guess some people will.  I still remember about how when I was a little kid, I heard at church some woman freaking out about how the Equal Rights Amendment would make it illegal for anyone to have separate bathrooms for the two sexes, and we were all going to have to go to the bathroom together.  (she also believed that the United Nations was a Communist plot, and refused to believe that it was the United States idea in the first place)Some people are dumb shits who will believe anything.

But seriously, how many times do they think they can pull this off before people get wise to them?  The Swifties were only defaming and lying about Kerry…but this group is defaming and lying about an organization that represents EVERYONE OVER 55.

Eventually, they are going to defame a high enough percentage of the population to undermine their credibility even with people who want to believe so badly they’ll listen to anything.

I wonder how many Seniors who are members of AARP are now looking back at the Swifties that they listened to so whole-heartedly and saying “Hmmm…I wonder if there was something to the charges that they were lying?”