McCain and the over 60 set

McCain came out with a new ad today, and the question circling around it seems to be whether emphasizing his Vietnam experience echoes too much of the 60's, whether that hurts McCain by making him seem out of touch.

One of the ideas is that McCain is really targeting the over 60 whites to offset Obama's strengths elsewhere.

The lurking problem for this McCain plan is in his laughable claim to balance the budget by 2013 through tax cuts,

Mr. McCain said he would also slow the growth of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and fiscal experts agree that he would need to do that to achieve his goal. But Mr. McCain did not give details of how he would alter those benefit programs, which have powerful constituencies, including older Americans, a huge health care industry and state and local government officials.

That's just sitting out there right now untouched and undefined.