Posted on 03/26/2021 12:11:35 PM PDT by lowbridge
For former President Donald Trump’s GOP allies, President Joe Biden’s recent stumble on the Air Force One stairs was a sign of bigger problems. But Republican senators who’ve met with Biden say the 78-year-old president is just fine, with one describing him as “sharp as a tack.”
Biden’s fitness for office, a longtime fixation among conservatives, is dominating conversations on the right as Trump openly sows doubts about the health of the man who defeated him. One Republican senator recently texted an acquaintance his private suspicions that Biden, the oldest president in history, is mentally unwell. In on-the-record interviews, however, seven GOP senators who’ve met with Biden lately described him as cogent and well-versed on the issues they discussed. And none echoed the warnings many pro-Trump Republicans have issued about Biden amid the chatter about his stair-stepping acumen.
“In the two meetings I was in with the president, he was as sharp as a tack,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said in an interview.
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), who joined Capito at a February meeting with Biden on Covid relief, said he didn’t see anything amiss: “I visited with him in the Oval Office, and he seemed well-prepared and well-briefed for the meeting.”
During the 2020 campaign, Biden — who stuttered as a child — weathered Trump’s attacks on his faculties, dismissing clips of his verbal tics and minor memory lapses. Trump’s allies are still trying to paint Biden as deteriorating in office, even after he stayed largely on-message fielding questions at a 62-minute Thursday press conference. While the more centrist GOP senators interviewed this week wouldn’t criticize colleagues for floating unsubstantiated theories about Biden’s health, their varying reactions show an enduring gulf between those Republicans who publicly emulate Trump’s go-for-the-jugular politics — and those who shy away from it.
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Not a dime’s worth of difference between a Republican Senator and any Democrat, NONE!
The Swamp is the Swamp.
Mine(Toomey) is a big time RINO.
Not familiar with either of these GOP senators. Any FReepers from WV or IN willing to vouch for them?
Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?
Yet he can barley put a sentence together when in public. You know, the thing.
I don't have to smell crap to know that it stinks.
Maybe she’s just comparably dumb, even next to dopey joe.
<><> Biden inspired a record number of American voters to cast their vote for him.
<><> He’s so appealing, he pulled in more votes than their beloved messiah BHO who ran as the first black president.
<><> The left insists the record number of Biden voters came to the polls to “vote against Trump.”
Proving, once again, the left lives in fairy-tale land.
Senators outing themselves. “By their fruits ye shall know them”.
While the more centrist GOP senators interviewed this week wouldn’t criticize colleagues for floating unsubstantiated theories about Biden’s health, their varying reactions show an enduring gulf between those Republicans who publicly emulate Trump’s go-for-the-jugular politics — and those who shy away from it.
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Whew! We’re just lucky that no one in in the Dem. Party, Big Tech, Legacy Media, The Entertainment industry, or our higher education system engages in “go-fo-the-jugular politics”. /s
There are about two republican senators (the rest are Dems and RINOs)
There are 80 million certain MAGA (so called MAGA world people)
...I forgot the question
Bush League Republicans say Senile Joe is just fine, you don’t believe them?
And this is OK......
Jim Eagle approves of what these RINOs are saying.
The best part was when Biden said he was focused on three things, then only listed two of them because he very obviously forgot one. The abrupt ending to the show was also pretty cringe.
Biden is sharp, that “Sleepy Joe” thing is a Rope a Dope.
sadly the RINOs are advancing the potato Sleepy Joe Xiden’s agenda - no resistance.
Bump
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