How 'bout this baby...
Posted on 11/04/2018 3:56:35 PM PST by yesthatjallen
It's a question some Democrats are pondering as the 2020 presidential election inches closer: Can their party represent change when three of its top candidates are not only familiar faces, but people in their retirement years?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) will enter her 70s in June. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) is 77. Former Vice Joe Biden will turn 76 later this month.
Though the primaries are still a ways off, all three have emerged in early polls as favorites to be the 2020 Democratic nominee.
Some strategists say that might be a problem.
“Democrats would be better off with a young candidate,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon, who argued that an electorate that seems to want change might prefer someone from a younger generation.
He put it as a generational battle, this time between baby boomers and millennials.
“The desire for change is a function of a battle between an ascending generation, the millennials who want political power, and a descending generation, the baby boomers, who have the power but don't want to give it up,” he said.
There are certainly a number of candidates ready to step up if Democratic voters are looking for a younger nominee.
Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), a freshman in the Senate, is 54. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is 49, while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is 51.
Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has sparkled as a challenger to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and become a liberal fundraising force, is 46.
None of those candidates would qualify as millennials, but they are from a different generation than the trio at the top of the Democratic polls.
Earlier this year, Biden — who allies suggest may consider running for one term only — acknowledged that age is a “legitimate” issue for presidential candidates.
“I think it’s totally appropriate for people to look at me and say if I were to run for office again, ‘Well, God darn you’re old.’ Well chronologically I am old,” Biden said during a question and answer session at the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan’s Speaker Series last month, according to CNN.
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Dem boomers will fight to the death to hold onto power. It’s in their nature.
Three losers to replace three losers?
Bernie the Red and Biden are obviously past it
but
I didn’t realize that so is Fake Injun Squaw
it must be something in her “Indian” blood (or Helena Rubinstein) that’s keeping her looking, well, a bit less than 70
anyway Dianne Feinstein is 85 years old and Mad Maxine Waters is 80 so.... Lord willing... pray please pray...they all may retire SOOOOOON!.
Sanders and Biden will be too old to run. They and Pocahontas don’t have Trump’s stamina.
All of the names mentioned are absolute a$$holes with no chance of beating President Trump. You just watch - that old hag hillary will try to get the nomination again if she lives that long. Fun to watch!
There are more people wearing diapers on the Democrat side of Congress than there are people wearing diapers in all the maternity wards in Maryland.
#7. That DEPENDS! LOL!
How 'bout this baby...
A walking joke who never appears in any Texas venue without remarks about drunken rich boys who flee the scene after they hit someone else’s car “sparkles?”
I take it this stupid column was written and in the can months ago before they tried to run the stupid transvestite, with the assumption that he would do well just because Cruz crippled his own viability in 2016.
All of the names mentioned are absolute a$$holes with no chance of beating President Trump. You just watch - that old hag hillary will try to get the nomination again if she lives that long. Fun to watch!
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Could be. I still have to my Limbaugh “Operation Chaos” hat from the 2008 primaries and would proudly whip that out of the closet. Hillary...the cackling hag who never disappoints.
She just turned 29. She'll be too young in 2020. She'll barely have turned 35 when 2024's election rolls around.
Don't worry though. She'll be around awhile.
” Some strategists say that might be a problem.”
Ya Think? I’m outta gas at 65.
Sanpaku eyes
Interesting. No mention of St. Hillary!™ the Divine...
Quite a few Republicans have stayed around far too long, too. Cases in point: Strom Thurmond and John McCain.
Biden has no chance. He’s an old white guy. Old people don’t match the Dem voter ID. White people don’t match the Dem ID and men don’t match the Dem ID.
All of this is great news for President Trump and America. The Democrats are heading for a political civil war. The Democrats' nomination process should be fun to watch.
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