The advisors to the Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth" are back to their old tricks again. Now, instead of speading lies about John Kerry, they've turned to forwarding misconceptions about Social Security and impugning the good name of the AARP. The New York Times' Glen Justice has the story of one right wing group -- USA Next -- that has hired a number of the Swiftvets top consultants.

To help set USA Next's strategy, the group has hired Chris LaCivita, an enthusiastic former marine who advised Swift Vets and P.O.W.'s for Truth, formerly known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, on its media campaign and helped write its potent commercials. He earned more than $30,000 for his work, campaign finance filings show.

Officials said the group is also seeking to hire Rick Reed, a partner at Stevens Reed Curcio & Potholm, a firm that was hired by Swift Vets and was paid more than $276,000 to do media production, records show.

For public relations, USA Next has turned to Creative Response Concepts, a Virginia firm that represented both Swift Vets - the company was paid more than $165,000 - and Regnery Publishing, the publisher of "Unfit for Command," a book about Senator John Kerry's military service whose co-author was John E. O'Neill, one of the primary leaders of Swift Vets.

The primary strategy of USA Next is to portray the "AARP as a liberal organization out of step with Republican values." One official in the organization had this to say about the USA Next strategy:

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the White House doesn't want anything to do with a group that is attacking the AARP [...] We are not going to drag them into this mess."

If the President allows this group to lie about Social Security and unfairly attack AARP, they are as culpable as the organization. AARP and the left shouldn't stand for this. If they don't hit back hard and quickly, they will befall the same peril as John Kerry.