[GarySpFc]

This guy's too old. Sheesh: Miers was 60, and everyone knows that women live 7-8 years longer, so physiologically, this guy's even older than Miers.
Why didn't the president choose someone more on the order of fifty.

It may be that his parents both lived to 110. Good genes are more important in this area than age.

[chris1]

I think they said his mother is like 91 and the father was old too.

As a goombah myself, I am very happy this morning. Not that he is a fellow paisan, but that he is conservative, not afraid to stand alone, and has a proven track record we can all be proud to fight for.