Posted on 05/01/2015 8:54:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Her campaign barely three weeks old, Hillary Clinton already has been attacked by Republicans on everything from donations to her family's charitable foundation, to her tenure as secretary of state and her ties to Wall Street. But her rivals, and the political action committees that support them, are treading more carefully on one incendiary subject: her age.
If elected in November 2016, Clinton would be, at 69, the second-oldest person to take the presidential oath for the first time, behind only Ronald Reagan, who turned 70 weeks after being sworn into office in 1981.
"Its unwise to attack a political opponent based on her immutable characteristics, like race, gender and age," said Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway.
With Clinton swamped by questions about foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and criticism of her use of a private email server while at the State Department, there is also simply no reason at the moment to engage in an attack that could be more divisive than beneficial, Republican strategists said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
They don’t need to. Hillary Clinton will be 69 years old less than a month before Election Day 2016 and has not aged well, so unlike Ronald Reagan.
She’s old enough to know better.
Let me be the first: Hillary’s old. She’s an old woman and she’s a mean woman. She has no business being President.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-charities-raked-in-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars/
Yes because the Democrats were so kind to Dole and McCain with regards to age. Yeah right. The only reason that we have to be shackled to age is because Hillary is a Democrat. If Hillary was a Republican, the Democrats would be shouting out loud about age.
The article is all crap. If this works, it’ll be the GOP is attacking her ideas for some inane reason or other. There must be a coronation. They’d appoint her cadaver if she died during the campaign. She’s old, and her ideas are just as old and just as unsightly, unhealthy and dishonest.
I’ll say it. She’s effing OLD and INCOMPETENT. Lib media on target mode for 2016. How nice..
Didn’t libs make age-related comments disparaging Reagan and McCain?
Scott Walker took on this topic with a sense of humor. When people were pressing him about whether, or not, he would declare his candidacy for President, he said words to the effect, “I can wait until 2024 and still be younger than Hillary. I need to pass the budget first.”
How Old IS She?
She's so old, she gave Moses instructions on how to destroy documents!
Reuters is doing some speculative mind-reading and passing it off as journalism. Their reasoning seems to be, “Republicans haven’t raised the issue of Hillary’s age, so we’ll have to raise it for them, and make it sound like THEY raised it.”
Let her pictures do the talking.
Yeah but one thing about Ronald Reagan he didn’t have so called dizzy spell that force him to resign during when he was governor of Cali
Beside I don’t think Reagan drank to excess unlike Hillary
We’re not allowed to use the words: skank, hag, bag, prune-face, older than dirt, ancient....
Boy oh boy - just imagine where the maoists in the MSM can go with this!
So what? They should come right out and say it, the left didn’t think it was out of bounds when they did it to Reagan.
Hi.
We have to educate the millinials on the word, cankles.
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