From Eric Dondero:

The DCC put out an advisory to all Democrat House candidates nationwide last week, urging them to attack Republicans as wanting to privatize Social Security. We now have a candidate using the tactic.

From The Hill, "Dems plan to attack GOP on Social Security," Aug. 9:

House Democrats are planning more than 100 events around this week’s anniversary of Social Security to attack Republicans who want to reform the popular entitlement.

Democrats and interest groups on the left have scheduled “birthday parties” and other events to highlight Saturday’s 75th anniversary of the program signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.

A Democratic leadership aide said Republicans are “highly vulnerable” on both Social Security and Medicare.

“This is a party that said they want Medicare to wither on the vine and want to privatize Social Security,” the aide said.

Dems cry Don't throw Grandpa out on the Streets

From the Daily-Herald, "14th Congressional candidates jump into Social Security debate" Aug. 18:

Incumbent Democrat Bill Foster joined AARP representatives at the retirement home to pledge a fight against the privatization of Social Security and a defense of the funds against any raid to balance the national deficit.

With some residents of the community topping 100 years of age, Foster contrasted the creation of Social Security in the era of the Great Depression to fears about the programs solvency following the recent recession.

"During the Great Depression there was a lot of human misery," Foster said. "We had millions of people not being able to eat or eating out of garbage dumps. That is not happening now. And the reason it's not happening now, to a large extent, is because we have safety nets in place."

"Evil Republicans" will make Grandma beg for food

Meanwhile, the Green Party candidate also jumped in with criticisms of Republicans. Continuing:

[Dan] Kairis said he's particularly wary of Republican plans to privatize parts of Social Security given how the leaders of major financial institutions always seem to make money no matter how bad the economy gets.

"The Republicans are good for making money for their buddies, not so good for making money for regular people," Kairis said. "Privatization is good in some circumstances, but for a program like Social Security the government does a much better job."

See our article from last week here at LR, "Yes Democrats, we Republicans actually do want to Privatize Social Security." The article was linked by the Senior Editor for AOL News Andrea Stone, "Social Security Turns 75: How Healthy Is It?"

Conservatives, never happy about government-run anything, have sought to change Social Security by adding personal retirement accounts. President George W. Bush tried to make that a centerpiece of his second term but was forced to drop it when Democrats refused to go along.

However, Stone mistakenly referred in the article to "conservative" efforts, rather than identifying those of us who want to privatize Social Security as libertarian Republicans.