I'm not voting for her but she's right on this. Further, since the passage of the 17th Amendment, just what is the purpose of The Senate? World's Greatest Deliberative Body?! What a pathetic joke.
Posted on 09/01/2023 1:34:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley has tried to make age an issue in the campaign, calling for competency tests for candidates over 75 years old. Haley said in April that “we need to have mental competency tests… starting at 75 just to make sure that these people deciding our national security, deciding our economy policy, deciding what happens to our kids in schools [sic]. It matters.”
That call for a “competency test” for candidates over 75 would also apply to Donald Trump. In truth, a competency test wouldn’t “diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or any other specific condition. However, the tests can be a helpful screening tool for mild cognitive impairment,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
But Haley thinks that lawmakers like Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden need to recognize their limitations and resign. McConnell suffered some kind of freezing episode for the second time in public on Wednesday leading to specific calls for his resignation.
“No one should feel good about seeing that any more than we should feel good about seeing Dianne Feinstein, any more than we should feel good about a lot of what’s happening or seeing Joe Biden’s decline,” Haley told “The Story” guest host Gillian Turner. “What I will say is, right now, the Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country. I mean, Mitch McConnell has done some great things and he deserves credit. But you have to know when to leave.”
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I'm not voting for her but she's right on this. Further, since the passage of the 17th Amendment, just what is the purpose of The Senate? World's Greatest Deliberative Body?! What a pathetic joke.
They must have a lot to hide to stay around so long.
Repeal the 17th Amendment!
State legislatures couldn’t do worse!
Nikki is correct. But this is the doing of the voters.
I am against age limits, since this is not in the Constitution, but people need to wake up. And Senators like John Thune and Joni Ernst ought to be ashamed of themselves for letting this kind of crap go on.
There were Senators willing to lead the majority but the “club” kept McConnell in...and he isn’t fit.
correction: lead the minority...
The Canadian Senate has a mandatory retirement age of 75.
It hasn’t solved the problem, they are still all parasitic douches.
Mitch and Trump refuse to take advantage of Niki’s youth and inexperience.
https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1844704_1844706_1844612,00.html
The youngster Reagan was 73 at the time.
Once again, that rotten Biden (and Dianne Feinstein) are ruining everything for the millions of older people who are NOT in cognitive decline.
And the detractors can get off my lawn while they’re at it.
And if Nikki ever gets voted into those Hallowed Halls, I’d bet the farm that she stays until they carry her out feet first, too!
It’s nice to see that generation of old codgers cashing it in. We’ll have a lot to celebrate for the future of America in the near future. That said, those coming up behind are even worse! Ugh!
I don’t get it. What is this power-madness all about? Money? You’re STILL gonna DIE, ya know! You can’t take it with you, LOL!
Russian leadership said almost the same thing a few months ago.
Oh, it's the money sure, but I also think they hang on for the power, perks, and status. Go back to being a private citizen?! They don't want to live in that world anymore.
Not to mention John Fetterman, the mental defective.
And yet we have little choice about them living in our world to a ridiculously ripe old age! Ugh!
Nancy Pelosi sure has been SILENT these days. Wonder what’s up with her? ;)
I have been wondering the same thing. I am sure that she is busy behind the curtain.
This woman wants younger versions of her uniparty self and McConnell. She’s disgusting
Senators and Congressmen don’t make decisions. Their donors do.
I think it’s a terrible idea.
1. It caters to the idea being abused by Democrats that older people shouldn’t lead (or even be able to vote, as some suggested in the UK after Brexit) since “they won’t be around as long as younger people.”
2. It would be applied selectively, of course. Meaning for O’Connell but not for Biden and Feinstein.
3. It could be expanded endlessly to all other kinds of “fitness,” actual or, more likely, just perceived. Psychologists and who knows who else would be given the official task of (dis)qualifying people, but of course it would all be political in the end.
4. Good governance doesn’t need some ironclad rule for everything, especially when it operates in the reality that democracy (yes, I know it’s a republic) is worst possible form of government except for all others. There’s no “purifying” it into a Utopia on earth. There aren’t any magic solutions that don’t have any consequences. As Thomas Sowell has said, “There are no solutions; only tradeoffs.” Conservatives need to remember that, too.
She copying Ramaswampy. Say all the right things to convince the gullible.
SNARKY REMARKS from a person who isn’t even ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT.
IMO-—She is committing fraud when she takes a single dollar for her ‘campaign;.
A recent thread on natural born citizenship had over 300 replies.
There is no Free Republic consensus on the definition of natural born citizenship. Every Freeper has their own opinion.
So to state that she isn’t eligible to run for president is not a factual statement.
Nancy Pelosi's daughter is primary caregiver for DiFi. Go figure.
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