Posted on 07/26/2014 3:23:11 PM PDT by cotton1706
OPINION: 74 is too old for the job.
I really wish we (as conservative, tea party types) could get together and present a united challenge to the moderate fossils that populate too many seats. Carr might have a chance as a solo challenger. I doubt that he can win it with a field that large.
There comes a time for even elder statesmen to step back and assume the “emeritus” title. Many experienced former Senators and Congressmen have entered this honorable state, and carry the mantle of wisdom and respect into their twilight years. Lamar Alexander is by no means a young man, but he should have mentored a good and proper successor by this time, or at least inspired some younger ambitious challenger to rise on his or her own merit.
Thad Cochran is a sad example of holding on too long, and trying for one more “last hurrah” type of departure. It is clear that Senator Cochran, who was in office when Nixon was President, has served well beyond his time, and SHOULD have been replaced.
Don’t make the same mistake in Tennessee as was made in Mississippi.
BEAT LAMAR!
The strong conservative republicans in East Tennessee opught to see by now that Lamar is a RINO after his voting record with Obama...
We really don’t need this kind of Senator...
I grew up in East Tennessee and went to school with a couple of Lamar’s cousins...He is a good guy, but not a conservative... We don’t need a “good guy”...We need someone to bring back our country...
Alexander - 74
McCain - 77
Cochran - 76
Hatch - 80
McConnell - 72
Pat Roberts (KS) - 78
Grassley - 80
Shelby - 80
Today’s Republican US Senate.
What has the TN legislature done with its super majority? If nothing, the RINO wins.
I don’t think the TEA Party will kill off red and black checkered shirts.
It’s not just how old the person is, it’s how many years they have been in Congress.
Too many have been there way too long.
Term limits needed now. 12 years? 16 years?
Beat Lamar!
You’ve got it, Lorianne.
The longer one is in Congress, the more corrupt one becomes.
Actually, Cochran was going to retire, but the GOPe begged him to stay once McDaniel announced his intentions of running.
I’m beginning to think the winning strategy for conservatives challengers is to campaign against the Chamber of Commerce...and mean it. Is that happening in this race?
Republicans don’t get it that a only a consensus candidate can win. I don’t think that they ever will.
Maryville ping
Maryville! Maryville! :)
By age 74, if a man’s priorities are not something above being a perpetual congressman, he’s too damn low for the job.
Of the hundreds of members of congress in my lifetime, I can think of only two who actually got better with age— the legendary Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Carl Curtis of Nebraska.
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