If Medicare is the Dems' big issue for 2012, does that mean they'll fight for it in 2011?

Greg Sargent writes about this ad the Dem group Priorities USA is running against Mitt Romney in South Carolina.

Dems are airing this ad so early because Newt Gingrich?s condemnation of Paul Ryan?s Medicare proposals?and the ferocious backlash it triggered from Republicans?have presented a unique opportunity that Dems think they must exploit right now.

On a conference call with reporters just now, Paul Begala, one of the founders of Priorities USA, spelled out the thinking.

"It is very rare that a dominant issue emerges in a presidential race, but it has," Begala said. "We believe Medicare will be a dominant issue."

What Begala means is that Dems will do everything they can think of to make it so.

Great, but what Atrios sez. This counts, and only counts, if Senate Dems and President Obama actually follow through and protect Medicare from cuts. That goes for Social Security, too. It's also the only way it will work for them in 2012.

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