The AARP: Special Interest Group *and* Liberal Front
Professor
Bainbridge makes a good observation on the AARP as a liberal front, rather than just another special-interest group:
…just one more liberal special interest group, albeit a particularly well
[camouflaged] and effective one (using those discounts to pull in seniors who
probably vote red). The latest example: We learn from
"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6853086/site/newsweek/"> an Eleanor Clift column
(of all things) that the AARP quietly has joined up with the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights to oppose President Bush’s judicial nominees. So why
would a loyal (more or less) Republican like me join one of the worst of those
left-liberal special interest organizations of which the Democrat Party is a
wholly-owned subsidiary?