Jim Martin, “Joe Biden clearly thinks that senior citizens are as stupid and dense as he is.”

(Chicago, Illinois) – 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation’s largest conservative seniors organization with over 7.2 million senior supporters, shot back at Vice President Joe Biden’s false and contrived charge against Mitt Romney today that the GOP presidential nominee plans to raise Social Security taxes on seniors if elected.  Biden made the remarks while addressing an audience of senior citizens in Boca Raton, FL.

“Joe Biden is a national embarrassment and a serial liar, there’s not one person left in this country, let alone among seniors, who believes a syllable that comes from that man’s mouth.  But I take special offense to Democrats once again trying to scare seniors right before an election, it is all they know, it’s in their DNA.  Lying to seniors about getting their Social Security benefits taxed without a shred of proof is about as low as they come.”

Martin made his comments in the midst of the 60 Plus national bus tour,  which just completed three stops in Illinois and is now heading to Wisconsin for eight healthcare rallies and town halls, before heading to Minnesota and completing its journey with seven events in Florida.

Martin, however, offered some advice to the Vice President, saying “But all is not lost — it is very easy to make Joe Biden’s lie a true statement.  Just replace the words ‘Mitt Romney’ with ‘Joe Biden,’ and replace ‘will tax Social Security’ with ‘repeatedly TAXED Social Security.’  Then the statement is entirely accurate, because Joe Biden not only voted to tax Social Security benefits, but he has cast votes that kept taxes higher on those benefits nearly a dozen times.

“It’s sad to think we have 40 more days of this election, where we have the sitting Vice President, a confirmed and habitual taxer of Social Security benefits, accusing his opponent of planning to tax Social Security, of all things.  Joe, given your record of taxing seniors, you ought to be applauding Mitt Romney if you really think he would  hit seniors as hard as you’ve hit them in the past.  But unlike Joe Biden, Mitt Romney hasn’t ever voted to tax Social Security.

“Maybe Joe Biden should be spending more time explaining to seniors why he’s such a fan of taxing their benefits, and less time lying about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.  Seniors may be hard of hearing, but they’re not hard of thinking.”

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