Posted on 09/13/2023 8:34:38 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has told CBS that former President Donald Trump 77, is too old to serve another four years in the Oval Office. DeSantis said the presidency is not a job for someone in their 80s, and even argued that America’s Founding Fathers were deficient in not adding an upper age restriction to run for the White House.
“We need an energetic president, and I think that if the Founders could kind of look at this again, I do think they probably would have put an age limit on some of these offices,” DeSantis told the corporate media outlet on Tuesday.
DeSantis’s comments are especially bizarre when considering he claims his political hero is President Ronald Reagan, who served until nearly 78, at a time when life expectancy was over half a decade lower than today.
DeSantis’s attacks on failure of the Founding Fathers to preemptively disqualify Trump reveal his increasing desperation, with his chief strategist Jeff Roe admitting two weeks ago that the team only had 60 days left to turn their failing campaign around.
Former President Trump, who is currently leading in the polls, has responded to criticisms of his age, challenging several individuals including Rupert Murdoch to mental acuity tests.
DeSantis: Founding Fathers would "probably" put age limits on elected officials if they could
Trump did a rally every day 5 - 7 days a week for what? . . . three/four months . . . while baby joey sucked his binky in the basement ?
My Governor! I wish he would just be MY governor! He should have waited until ‘28 to run! Of course, just my opinion.
One word: Desperation
There are millions that believe that age is a factor.
Most agree with you. A bad decision on many levels that kept getting worse.
He didn’t say anything about Trump directly.
Opinion piece being shilled by a Trump-or-Die disciple on FR.
You really are quite pathetic.
Except now you know what an ASS he is.
What a tool! He’s an idiot! If he had just waited four years, he might have had a chance. No more.
Whatever, Ron has made a major miscalculation. It’s basically like someone saying in 1912 that Walter Johnson can’t pitch any longer.
“DeSantis said the presidency is not a job for someone in their 80s...”
Even if that were true, it’s also true that the presidency is not a job for someone so young they think nobody would notice them taking Jeb Bush Bucks.
He is reaching like a liberal.
“He didn’t say anything about Trump directly.”
Is there another Trump running for President? How more direct can you get:
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has told CBS that former President Donald Trump 77, is too old to serve another four years in the Oval Office.”
And the Founders left us free to consider it. DeSantis is s fool to play this woulda-coulda-shoulda stuff. We’ve got real problems.
I used to think of Rob as the heir-apparent to Trump.
He has demonstrated his true person and I will not be voting for him for president in the future. Or any other office.
He’d make a good FEMA director.
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