As inspiring as a bar of cream cheese, as interesting as a broken clock, John McCain at any age would prove to be bad presidential candidate. At age 72, he is making his own case that he should have been put out to pasture years ago. Even if you don’t believe McCain is too old to serve, there is a growing perception that he is and it is this that may very well doom his candidacy.
A president, he will not be. This is largely beyond his control and has nothing to do with his long life devoted to serving the United States. He suffered and almost died fighting for America – something I readily admit I have no idea whether I would have been able to muster the guts to match – and he has spent the last quarter century in the halls of power fighting to make America safe and strong.
He is a vanishing breed in Washington – an honorable man. Certainly more honorable than his opponent whose shamelessly wild swings toward the center done in order to obscure his wretched judgment on the importance and vital necessity of being able to leave Iraq with some sense of American honor proves Obama’s overweening ambition and shocking lack of principle will not matter in November.
Perhaps because his supporters are too busy gloating they can’t see how their candidate has delivered a body blow to their entire critique of the Iraq War and in the process moved much closer to John McCain’s position than any of them thought might have been possible even a couple of months ago.
Both McCain and Obama say they want “victory” in Iraq and that it is not only achievable but necessary. Both say that Iraq is a front in the War on Terror (McCain agrees with al-Qaeda that Iraq is the “central front” in the War on Terror while Obama says it is an “important” front). Both say the surge has worked although for different reasons (Obama’s reasoning is more solid on this point).
Anyone care to revisit how our lefty friends see the war in Iraq? That it is “unwinnable?” That it is not a front in the War on Terror (a war they believe is made up by Bush in order to have an excuse to grab dictatorial powers)? That the surge didn’t work? Either their judgment is superior to Obama’s or they are wrong and Obama is right. Which is it?
Maybe liberals can make all that disappear down the memory hole but I’m doubting it. Their own candidate has now abandoned them, hung them out to dry. And after he is elected and finds his timetable idea a chimera, then perhaps we can get serious about removing our troops properly and in good order. McCain’s idea of semi-permanent bases will be abandoned but that may be a good thing. In the end, our relationship with the Iraqis is just too complex and leaving a sizable force there for decades will probably cause unnecessary friction. Any residual force, however, will probably be there at least 3 years and perhaps beyond that so get used to it my liberal friends.
None of this will prevent Barack Obama from becoming president. As much as it pains me to contemplate the idea of this fakir sitting in the oval office, it might be even more damaging if John McCain were to somehow manage to pull the upset of the ages and win through to victory.
That’s because I believe McCain is too old to be president. Not in years – 72 is not too old for some. For him, it is. Time has passed him by. Even when not making gaff after gaff he seems unsteady and confused at times. And even If you accept the explanation that McCain speaks off the cuff a lot and one’s tongue is bound to get tied up at times and anyone’s brain can experience a hiccup now and again, his fitness for office – fairly or unfairly – will be a major issue in the campaign.
Frankly, I don’t see how he can defuse it.
The contrast alone with Obama’s relative youth will make anything McCain tries a tough sell. The last time the age issue cropped up was 1984 and Ronald Reagan’s devastating one liner that took age off the table in the campaign permanently. But the Gipper’s opponent was Walter Mondale, no spring chicken himself. McCain is fighting the growing perception of being too old while trying to minimize or dismiss the stark contrast between his own advancing years and Obama’s seeming youthfulness.
Of course, the late night comics are having a field day with McCain’s gaffe prone campaign, portraying the candidate as a confused old man and who can blame them? They have plenty of fodder to feast on. Admittedly, the real impact that Leno et al have on voters may be slight. But the constant belittling and denigration of McCain abilities due to his age are not helping to dispel the notion that McCain couldn’t handle the job of president.
In this respect, the slightest doubt among voters about whether he is up to the job might be enough to sink his candidacy. That’s because, as Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei of Politico point out, almost everyone knows an oldster who is slipping away mentally:
The McCain campaign says Obama has had plenty of flubs of his own, including a reference to “57 states” and a string of misstated place names during the primaries that Republicans gleefully sent around as YouTube links.McCain aides point out that he spends much more time than Obama talking extemporaneously, taking questions from voters and reporters. “Being human and tripping over your tongue occasionally doesn’t mean a thing,” a top McCain official said.
But McCain’s mistakes raise a serious, if uncomfortable question: Are the gaffes the result of his age? And what could that mean in the Oval Office?
Voters, thinking about their own relatives, can be expected to scrutinize McCain’s debate performances for signs of slippage.
Every voter has a parent, grandparent or a friend whose mental acuity declined as they grew older. It happens at different times for different people — and there is ample evidence many people in their 70s are as sharp and fit as ever.
To McCain supporters who point out quite rightly that Obama is a gaffe machine himself, I would answer that the context is different. Obama gaffes cannot be construed as evidence of failing mental faculties. In other words, it’s not the gaffe itself that is the issue. Obama’s verbal faux pas reveal ignorance and inexperience – troubling for voters but not a deal breaker.
McCain’s flubs raise questions of mental fitness. And with every voter aware of the little red button that, when pushed, launches the missiles, they are bound to be much more concerned about a candidate who exhibits similar symptoms to people in their own lives who they have watched as age has taken them away via dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
McCain’s performance on stage can be quite good at times. At other times, he reminds me of the way my mother was just before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I am not saying McCain has Alzheimer’s. His doctors have given him a clean bill of health just recently when the candidate released his medical records – with a noticeable lack of psychiatric information. McCain was trying to defuse his other health issue – a reoccurring melanoma that the doctors say shouldn’t pose a problem for him.
But diagnosing the diseases of age can be problematic. Ronald Reagan did not have Alzheimer’s his last years in office but sometimes behaved in a similar fashion to McCain. Of course, it was less than six years after he left office that he informed the nation he was suffering from the disease that would eventually claim his life.
McCain could very well make it through 4 or even 8 years of office and not get any worse. Will voters want to take that chance? I think it’s a good bet they won’t. The Obama campaign won’t even have to raise the issue because the press will do it for them. And the judgment of voters about McCain’s abilities, despite the many negatives of Obama and the real gamble people might believe his presidency would be, nevertheless seems certain to derail John McCain’s ambition to be president.
8:29 am
Hopefully other baby-boomers will realize how much the Supreme Court (SC) has changed the Country they fought for and then realize what an Obama Presidency and a democrat majority would further do to the SC.
Personally, I won’t be voting FOR McCain the geriatric, but AGAINST Obama the naive.
8:52 am
” Of course, it was less than two years after he left office that he informed the nation he was suffering from the disease that would eventually claim his life.”
Less than 2 years. Or almost six. Lets see, Reagan left in Jan 89. He sent his letter in Oct-Nov ‘94. yep…almost 6.
Rick – how old are you?
Heh- obviously old enough to have episodes of dementia myself. Thanks for the correction.
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9:24 am
I think the choice of VP will be incredibly important for the McCain candidacy. It should be a conservative, likable individual with executive experience, young enough to succeed McCain in 1, 2, 4 or 8 years as needed, on a moment’s notice. I’m a bit concerned that there is only one person out there, IMHO, that meets those qualifications.
9:33 am
Ignoring the apparent fact that you’ve already made up your mind that McCain is, in fact, too old, too feeble, you have not made the case that he actually is. Both candidates make gaffe after gaffe, but McCain’s “might” be due to a faultering mind? Why not make the case that Obama’s gaffes are due to an “inherently” weaker mind? Prejudice is an ugly business, and saying McCain “might” be faultering due to dementia because “some” people his age or older have dementia is an ugly slander (especially so since he has had more medical work-ups than you can shake a stick at and has come up clean enough to disprove it).
As far as his age being used against him, all I’ve seen is a few jokes here and there (but I admit I don’t read any radical leftist propaganda—so if that type of source is filled with such pot-shots I wouldn’t know about it).
10:15 am
Senator McCain is precisely 6 years older than I am. I’m not too old to run for president (too smart but not too old) and neither is he. His choice of running mate (and I suspect the Republican minority whip from Virginia will be the choice) will, of course, be the clincher. And yes, although I am a conservative to the depths of my soul, I WILL be voting for Senator McCain because the Socialist idiot the Dems are running would be the ruination of our Republic!
10:26 am
McCain needs to get his Mom on the campaign trail as much as she’s able. Include her in campaign ads too. Everyone knows an ‘oldster’ that has lost/is losing his or her mind but everyone also knows ‘oldsters’ that are sharp. McCain’s Mom is in the latter camp and suggests that McCain might be too. I think a better line of attack is the impact of McCain’s prison stint. That argument can’t, or at least shouldn’t, be raised in polite company but there’s nothing polite about politics.
10:49 am
First, I admire the hell out of McCain. He’s everything I’d want my son to grow up to be. (He has a few characteristics I might skip, but who doesn’t?) He’s brave. He has integrity. He knows the meaning of sacrifice. Even when I disagree with him I believe he’s trying his best for his country. I owe my freedom to guys like McCain. He’s also, incidentally, witty and entertaining.
A few months ago (after the Lieberman/Correction episode) I emailed a blogger friend with my concern that McCain was suffering the early stages of cognitive impairment. I didn’t blog about it because it’s not the kind of thing one suggests lightly. But then he always seemed to perform very well in venues like The Daily Show that call for quick wit, so I stopped worrying.
This last week or so has brought back that concern. The CBS thing was weird. The Czechoslovakia thing too. Some other little things. There’s something a little off about the way Lieberman and Graham seem to Mother-hen McCain. And there’s the disarray of his campaign, which does not show a strong, sure hand at the top.
But I kind of hate to see you blogging about it now because that may mean there’s really something to it.
I hope Obama wins. But I would hate like hell to see big John go out that way.
I’ve thought this way for about 3 months. I find it curious that the campaign didn’t release any tests that would have revealed mental impairment including PET scans . Did he take any? My guess is no.
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11:52 am
this can’t hurt him
economists see McCain as better for the economy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080723/ts_nm/economy_usa_politics_poll_dc
12:07 pm
“Anyone care to revisit how our lefty friends see the war in Iraq? That it is unwinnable?”
Rick—I seem to remember you saying the same thing a year or so ago.
You are correct. No excuses except to say that I thought even if we got the best case scenario that it would ever be seen as victory. That may still hold.
Been nerving up the courage to write something about my views then and now – maybe this weekend when I have some time to get into it.
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12:25 pm
McCain should name a top flight VP and pledge to be a one-term president.
I think that as doubts about Obama linger, despite the adulatory press coverage, that pledge and a strong VP would possibly put him over the top.
Particularly if he can rise to the occasion during debates.
2:14 pm
No Juan McAmnesty is too frickin stoopid to be president. This jackass signed onto Ted “the swimmer” Kennedy’s “comprehensive immigration reform” scam last year. Remember the Z-visa? It would have granted amnesty to VIRTUALLY EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALL - OVER 20 MILLION and it would have given them UNLIMITED ability to sponsor their EXTENDED RELATIVES to bring over 60 MILLION grade school educated, Spanish speaking, Chicanos to this country.
Source: The Heritage Foundation.
2:14 pm
Granted we have two gaffers running, one old and the other young. I suggest that many people will take the position that with age comes wisdom, instead of brash, unprepared withdrawal or meeting adventures in foreign fields such as Iraq and Iran.
We have invested our treasures in lives and fortune to see Iraq through to stability, but the job is not done yet. McCain sees this picture clearly as he wrote in the NYP, while Obama only sees the leftist mantra—stop the war!
That McCain needs a strong running mate is true. My hope is that Romney and McCain can come together.
2:19 pm
McCain is not too old to be president. He is too mean and incompetent to be President. There is a big difference. The guy can’t even remember borders and such. Those are not small mistakes, they are huge. Hasn’t the country suffered enough under the juvenile ad petulant Mr. Bush?
Besides, McCains only qualification seems to be him crashing his planes (five of them) and then getting captured. Once he was captured, he made propoganda films for the vietcong. Does that sound like ‘executive’ material. No it doesn’t.
Is he the absolute best the right side can come up with? Really? Nobody else? This election is going to be a pounding, and no, our country will not be harmed – it will be cured of the droppings of the Bush administration.
3:36 pm
Rick, You make good points. I think we really have two bad choices for president this time around. Obama’s extreme inexperience makes him a poor choice and McCain’s extreme age (experience) make him a poor choice. I’m still unsure where my vote is going even though I consider myself a conservative.
3:49 pm
Besides, McCains only qualification seems to be him crashing his planes (five of them) and then getting captured. Once he was captured, he made propoganda films for the vietcong. Does that sound like ‘executive’ material. No it doesn’t.
I’ll tell you what, jackass, how about we see how well you do living in a dungeon end enduring torture. See how many films you’re willing to make. I’m willing to bet 30 minutes in you’d be ready to co-star with an amorous goat.
3:53 pm
Rick
McCain is the nominee because he’s a sound second choice. He plodded along paying 10 little indians, and he was the last man standing.
B.O. is the nominee because he is change, and he makes history. Hillary as president makes history, but too much baggage kept her from getting over the top.
The moderates in the middle take their cues from the MSM. B.O. has all the sizzle because he pushes the presidency through the color barrier. If he flames out, then Mac is a fine SECOND choice, but B.O.s gaffes don’t stir enough media attention to hurt him, so don’t bet on a flame out.
campaignspot.com has a great post on the prospects of a Carly Fiorina pick as V.P. This choice is very smart, because it gives voters someone new and capable(not the bland vanilla Kay Hutchinson), and it gives voters an alternative way to make history. Carly is a great foil to Obama, B.O. really should be in the V.P. slot too, given his experience. Voting Mac/Carly changes history, and keeps the change more in proportion. It’s the safer way to make history.
Mark Groves
blogstorms.com
4:15 pm
I agree that the idea of semi-permanent bases will be abandoned. It was a bad idea to start with. They would not have any marginal utility. The restrictions the Iraqis would place on how they could be used would make them worse than useless and as Rick mentions they would cause friction with the populace.
There will not be a residual force in Iraq in three years. All troops will be out within the sixteen month timeframe that has been laid out by the Iraqi PM and Mr. Obama. This will be the case regardless who becomes the next American President or whether or not the Iraqi PM meant to say what he said. The only thing that would alter this would be if Islamic terrorist begin using Iraq as a base to attack American interests. If I turn out to be wrong, I’ll come here and admit I was wrong.
Iran will not allow us to leave in 16 months. If we leave according to a timetable that goes off like clockwork, much of our tattered reputation would be restored. This is not in Iran’s interest which is why common sense says they will let loose the militia commanders under their control.
That goes double for al-Qaeda although they may be too widely scattered and weak to mount much of an offensive – or attacks of any kind. This has always been the best argument against a timetable – telling your enemies when you are leaving is just bad strategy. And dangerous to boot. This is why I don’t think we will be able to stick to a timetable.
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4:25 pm
I’m surprised that people think he’s too old. The vast majority of his verbal gaffes come at these town hall meetings; the shear quantity he does virtually ensure a mistake a day from anybody in his shoes. (Hell, this Obama supporter knows Barack would make just as many errors if not more if he spoke as much as McCain does. That’s why he controls his message more and speaks less.) The only thing that would make me think he is too old is if he were to preemptively declares that he will only seek one term. Frankly, a reoccurrence of skin cancer scares me more than dementia when it comes to McCain’s health.
4:28 pm
The is much being made that McCain thought Iraq and Afghanistan shared a border. May I point out that Senator Ombama apparently didn’t know that Kentucky and his HOME STATE actually do share a border?
Go here: http://thewomblog.com/?p=1466
4:35 pm
Obama is too young, inexperienced, dishonest, vain, marxist, racist, out of touch, and self serving to be president.
4:58 pm
“I’ll tell you what, jackass, how about we see how well you do living in a dungeon end enduring torture. See how many films you’re willing to make. I’m willing to bet 30 minutes in you’d be ready to co-star with an amorous goat.”
I hear that’s in the 600 pages of his Navy record that he refuses to release. The goat refuses to comment.
Seriously, it’s not that he’s 72. McCain has been on permanent disability for 30 years. You don’t get tortured for 5 years and come back 5 years older. You come back an old man. And McCain has been old for 35 years.
His mom really isn’t a factor. How many of the people who were POWs with him are still fit enough to be President?
6:08 pm
I feel like I am reading “sour grapes”—your conservative candidate did not win so John McCain must be destroyed through innuendo? What, is this envy? This flinty old guy outdid everyone younger than himself, and he may be the only Republican who has a “snowball’s chance in a Bush-made hell” of winning. You know that bHo would not be where he is today without the massive amounts of money fed to him early on by corporations, count them—banking, other finance, nuclear, telephone, biofuels, almost all media. I could go on and on. They usually would support the Republican in the race, but bHo did their bidding every time an important vote came around in IL and the US Senate. In addition to his corruption in the caucus states, Republicans registered as Dems so that the Dem primary candidate would be anyone-but-Hillary.
So you got the Empty One and you really are going to support him? This is the first time in history that any political party has put forward an UNQUALIFIED AND ILLEGITIMATE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT on a presumptious basis, ever. Obama has hardly worked at any full-time job in his life, his biography is largely a fiction, and has no accomplishments that anyone can look at and use to evaluate his judgment, his talents, his skills, his thinking ability. Not only that, he cannot speak without a teleprompter; and the one in his head filled by 300 advisors (oh, and is that only on foreign policy issues?) hardly works at all. McCain’s few flubs are miniscule compared to those of Obama, plus the mind-numbing uh, uh, uhs when he speaks as himself, whoever that is.
All this and the only real fault you can find with McCain is his age? Dear God, please help people understand that Obama’s pathological narcissism is as great a danger to the U.S. as is his rabid marxism and anti-Americanism imbibed at his mother’s and grandfather’s knees and followed faithfully through high school, college, law (half) practice years (check out all those non-profits—Annenberg, Woods, etc), and Trinity Church.
Massive dangers face the U.S. with this Pretender Candidate, and all you can complain about is that McCain is 70 years old? Unbelievable.
6:34 pm
Alzheimer’s is present for years before folks get so bad they actually get diagnosed. Reagan DID have Alzheimer’s in office.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. After the initial onset of alzheimers it doesn’t take six years for the symptoms to get noticeable. If he had the disease while in office I guarantee you he would not have been able to write that letter six years later announcing his retirement from public life.
Pretty stupid even for you Melanie.
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7:46 pm
http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_stages_of_alzheimers.asp
9:39 pm
Fakir is a poor choice of wording.He is exactly half white.In Africa that word’s usage would get you beaten up!
Mccain is too forgetful,you look like Mccain coming out of office ,Not going in.Mccain has surrounded himself with old thinkers in a year of change.
10:03 pm
Good write up, but Obama has made WAY more gaffes than McCain. I cannot think of any McCain gaffes really, to be honest. And the case agst his age is weak. Compared to Obama’s youth and naivete, I’ll take the war hero——as will millions of Americans. The AZ senator will win…and the Obama cult members will be shocked, protest, riot, etc.
10:27 pm
“He is a vanishing breed in Washington – an honorable man.”
??? He is one of the Keating 5, and it currently skirting campaign finance laws he helped put in place. Nothing honorable getting engaged while still married to your first wife, or running around on your current wife.
“That the surge didn’t work?”
It did not meet the stated goals. The Iraqi government was supposed to hammer together a constitution, not take August off because it was too hot.
“That it is not a front in the War on Terror (a war they believe is made up by Bush in order to have an excuse to grab dictatorial powers)?”
Yes, wars on conceptual ideas are never ending wars. The war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on terrorism. If this was a real war against Al Queda then we should have gotten Bin Laden years ago instead of attacking a COUNTRY THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor we did not respond by invading Australia.
1:32 am
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1:51 am
“Ignorance and inexperience…not a deal breaker.” ??? If that isn’t enough how about ignorance, inexperience, insincerity, inconsistency, arrogance, elitism, marxism, and America hatred. Oh, I forgot; America hatred is not a deal breaker for enlightened leftists.
5:25 am
A clever title to actually promote 2 different ideas. McCain IS too old, if not physically, certainly with his world view. The days of long-term occupation in a country are gone, especially for america in the cauldron of the middle east. You’re right, Iran is now pulling the strings and we need to be a bit more sensitive and intelligent about how we act in getting out of Iraq than we were getting in. As an unrepentant lefty, against the war from the start, I’m relieved to see Obama resist the knee-jerk-get-out crowd. If we get out without Iraqi agreement and too soon, it would be a disaster in a myriad of ways. A rigid timetable is a dumb idea and I hope Obama still has the guts to risk a flip-flop charge rather than stick to a bad idea (see Bush, G.W.). It’s a terrible situation for anyone to be in and Obama is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t, especially in the vortex of the surreal political season. Obama was on the right side from the beginning and will inherit a problem(s) that he knew was going to be a problem. The reality is is that he will have to deal with it and everybody will be watching with their fingers on the mouse. As you admit, you too thought the war “unwinnable” but that’s the wrong way to look at it. It’s not a war in the conventional sense, it’s a tactic in a bigger confrontation and it was a mistake. Look at what we’ve already “lost”. What kind of “victory” could possibly undue the damage to our reputation, loss of life (to everyone), economy, future dealings around the globe (Iran especially) and self-respect? This “peace with honor” crap is from the sixties and McCain (still bitter about VN?) should be disqualified because he still has that mindset. The “good war” days are over and foreign policy shouldn’t rely on the military so much anymore. We’re flailing around the world like a blindfolded giant, drunk on an elixir of our size and sense of righteousness, getting poked with sticks and taunted by the villagers. It’s time to do things differently and Obama seems to be the only one who realizes this and hopefully, have the courage to do it. Please don’t mistake me for a “lets-all-play-nice” pacifist. We still need the stick but the carrot is withering. And isn’t this gaffe/flipflop thing getting a bit old? I’m so sick of it. Look at any of our presidents and show me one who didn’t have his weaknesses, who didn’t say stupid things, who wasn’t in the end, simply a human being. What would Lincoln look like today if he was watched like candidates are today. You on the right, keep up this innane chatter-”Gotcha”. But you on the left, please stop it. It only makes you (and me by association) look callow and unable to form criticism based on thought. Finally McCain’s mother?? She shouldn’t be trotted out to support her son, she should BE her son. The woman is great
5:45 am
Be thankful McCain doesn’t have to do his own grocery shopping, or drive, or manage household finances on a tight budget. People like McCain usually end up in care homes really quickly, the majority of those that don’t ONLY avoid their fate by having a lot of family support.
Running the US as it tips into a recession with 2 complicated wars, im sorry, it’s so far over his head he can’t see the bottom.
6:01 am
[...] Moran explains quite well why many people, including myself, believe that – in the end – Barack Obama will beat [...]
6:59 am
John McCain is NOT “an honorable man”. If he can flip-flop on torture, he can flip-flop on anything.
7:47 am
In the interest of full disclosure, I have found out Obama did have a great-uncle who did go to Buchenwald. I am willing to admit I made a gaffe! Simply replace that gaffe with the recent claim he passed a bill in the Banking Committee(when he isn’t on it)or one his other ‘stretches’ and the logic of the this piece stands.
10:49 pm
McCain did his foreign thing in front of the only ones that have cause to support him,Mexico City residents.The real question is why the hell the Dems and Repubs chose these two knobs to put up for the nations highest office.
2:23 pm
[...] Moran at Right Wing Nut House contends in a post earlier this week that, in the end, John McCain’s age will prove to be a fatal problem for his campaign: I believe McCain is too old to be president. Not in years – 72 is not too old for some. For him, [...]
5:52 pm
Bases in Iraq with restrictions?
How is that different from bases in Germany?
BTW the Dem Congress may be dragging down the Obama brand:
Without Lubrication.
6:24 pm
2 complicated wars
Don’t you just long for the good old days when we had simple wars?
Historical note: Truman’s adventure in Korea got the same kind of criticism and worse in its day. Was Korea in 1952 a full fledged democracy? It wasn’t even half fledged.
So how did that work out almost 60 years later? Any improvements with time?
I always thought that Rs were against static analysis.
8:46 pm
Many young people are disdainful of old age regardless who is wearing it. This will be a problem for McCain. They also are so ignorant of our history and government functions that discussions surrounding those matters are not relevant to them. As a man in my 70’s and in excellent health I know something of the problems McCain will experience as he attempts to do the job of president. If he is surrounded by exceptional people who can grasp the natural decline that comes with age he should (baring any extreme failings) be able to fulfill at least the first term with reasonable success.
He must win over middle age and older voters as well as keep the conservative base and convince independents if he is going to have any chance at all.
6:29 am
I am not sure McCain having a mother in her 90’s helps much, since his dad has been dead for many years….he is too old…and not only that he is ill tempered old coot. He was a ran around on his first wife when he got back from vietnam, dumped her while she recovered from a terrible car accident and married the younger richer current Mrs. McCain a month later. His friends at the time thought he was a jerk….so somebody please stop the propaganda…McCain is not honorable…he is a power hungry little man…He went to Nam so he could be an admiral like his daddy and grand daddy…he dumped his wife because she was burden to him and married the next to start his political career….Remember Keating? i am sure you don’t.
10:44 am
New laws should say no one over 65 can vote or hold official office. these people are just toooooo old to be able to change their socks or hold office. I sure don’t want them to run my country. Get rid of all these old people now!