In all the excitement to dust off LBJ's famous "Daisy" ad, we forget that he was a master at devastating Republicans on many issues. I was a young teenager then but will always remember the Daisy ad as well as the one cutting off the eastern seaboard. (Even though the daisy ad was by an independent group and pulled quickly, it was reshown many times by the media and so startling that stuck in your mind even if you only saw it once).
I also remembered his ad showing a Social Security card being torn up, and while i was too young to have a financial interest, the ad stuck in my mind all these years as dramatic. Back then killing Social Security was something even conservatives dared not talk about. I remember media showing the portion with the card being torn up as if LBJ had put something illegal or at least blasphemous in an ad.
Lately i tried to find it on youtube and was surprised that it's evidently not there or virtually impossible to find. Someone found this and i'm hoping the embed works.
So many people are wondering how to work Florida and the Midwest. Florida is 20% over 65 and the "rust belt" states are all about 15% over 65. Most of these folks do not have IRA's or 401(c)(k)'s, vote at almost a 100% rate, and are the key to a McSame victory.
Now that the wingnuts have taken over the "GOP," it's time to look to how LBJ handled them when they first reared their crazy "let's privatize Social Security" heads. Even though LBJ proved to be such a disappointing warmonger, he did understand that you can both be philosophically correct and win elections too.
p.s.- if anyone can get this on youtube it would be great. i'm not sure how much bandwidth this group's site will allow.