that the Ryan tax break will easily offset any losses due to privatizing SS & MC.

My last visit to Florida my friend's brother's girlfriend (from a gated NJ community moving to a gated Florida community) turned around to me and said she wished Obama would show his birth certificate...This was in March this year.

I was awestruck...and said he did...and she said it was fake....

This is when I thought...no more Florida visits for me. I am spending my vacation money in Europe.

There is a real mean streak down in Florida... A meanness for those who don't have money.

I felt so sickened and could not wait to come back home.

And speaking to a bunch of RICH conservative retirees is such bullshit. The media now has Ryan's number, and they will not be kind.

I think he still has good shot to win it again. I do get down because we've been down this road before, people voting against their best interests.

Unless you visit the place and listen to the conversations, you won't believe that this place is in the U.S.
Anti Obama is taken for granted.
Golf carts and limbaugh.
It's a nice looking place and the housing is reasonable, but, damn, the politics will drive you crazy.

I live there and the politics drive me crazy!! The developer is Morse, and he is one of the 1%ers. He does NOT allow Dems to campaign in The Villages. During the 2008 campaign, Lincoln Chafee, (I know, he's not a Democrat) was supporting Obama and we were going to have a campaign type rally in one of the restaurants in The Villages. Chafee was to be the speaker. Morse told the restaurant owner he wouldn't allow it. Morse owns everything in The Villages but the businesses are privately owned and the owners rent the buildings from Morse. We thought we were going to have to sue but in the end, Morse let us have our rally. It is so sickening to see the parade of repukes that come there to campaign. I can't think of any repuke who hasn't been there, and many more than once. I lost count of the # of times Palin, Cheney, W, Huckabee have been there. Of course the front page of the repuke daily paper is covered with their pictures and the Letters to the Editor are filled with repuke spew. (At least one of my pro Obama letters did make it to print...can't understand how that happened).

A funny thing happened while W was still in office. I wore a Tee shirt to a Pilates class that had W's picture on it and the caption, "Dumber than a box of rocks." It was surprising how many people did come up to me and in a very low voice so not to be overheard, they said, "I like your shirt."

People who live there are from all parts of America, so I don't understand why there are so many repukes and not so many Dems. Oh, it is true as Rachel said, we were removed from the Town SQ when Rmoney came the last time to campaign. Those of us who belong to The Villages Democratic Party wore dark blue shirts with our name on the back of our shirt. We were all told we had to leave. So much for Democracy in The Villages.

the post office had an outdoor speaker with limbaugh at a loud volume.
(our friends bought a house there and regret it, we dodged the bullet)
My blood pressure gets a little high, so not buying there probably saved my life...good luck to you.

That would be Century Village in West Palm Beach. See the President went there a couple of weeks ago and they loved him:
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/west_palm_beach/president-barack-obama-visiting-century-village-in-west-palm-beach-today

“In Central Florida, where The Villages and other retirement communities sprawl across several counties, reported cases of syphilis and chlamydia increased 71 percent among those 55 and older in that same period. And South Florida saw a 60 percent rise in those two sexually transmitted infections among the same age group, according to the Florida Department of Health.” (Orlando Sentinel)

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-05-16/health/os-seniors-stds-national-20110516_1_std-cases-syphilis-and-chlamydia-older-adults

I think they need all the medicare benefits they can get.

Sure, they're conservative, but most have 2, 3 or 4 generations out there, who would be drastically affected by a horrible voucher system. The GOP seems to think that if the elderly know their current Medicare coverage isn't going to change (55 and above), they'll rally around ending Medicare for the next generation. I DON'T THINK SO. They grew up enjoying a solid safety net. Why would they NOT want their kids, grandkids, and great grandkids to enjoy the same net?

This will BOMB. Big time.

And yes, it is true, the clap is rampant down there.

You got to understand The Villages, they drink the koolaid by the gallon. Campaign couldn't have sent him to an easier audience... they're all already voting GOP, this is preaching to the choir. In fact, it illustrates how unready Ryan is for the spotlight - they don't trust him enough to send him to Miami, Lauderdale, WPB, etc.

Too funny!

because he knows his Medicare chopping isn't going down well

Retired does not equal stupid. Then there's the rest of us who have to really shoulder the burden of his budget. Are we supposed to be a national majority of people that stupid, too?

I'd be hiding behind a soft audience, too, if I'd proposed what he did.

The Republicans just may have jumped the shark with this pick.

I also think they're wrong.

They forget Bush only got in in 2000 because of the supreme court.

They forget Americans were still in a state of war shock in 2004.

They may still be able to whip some states into an emotional frenzy, but those methods will not work on a national level.

They've left an extremely bad taste in the mouths of a lot of we, the American, voters. Feeding us more crap is not the way to rectify that problem. Are they honestly that out of touch? Because from where I'm sitting it appears they are.

this place sounds like the wave of the future

wonder if the attendees got an extra chocolate ration....