Posted on 12/27/2016 9:35:14 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Reid: Dem 2020 class looks like an 'old folks' home'
By Mallory Shelbourne - 12/27/16 10:01 AM EST
The prospective class of Democrats who could run for president in 2020 is shaping up as an "old-folks’ home," according to retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
Reid made the remark earlier this month when asked by an aide whether he might support a White House run by Vice President Biden, according to New York Magazine.
In response to the question, Reid mentioned the age of several prominent Democrats who are talked about as likely candidates in 2020.
“It depends on who’s running,” Reid told his staff. “It appears we’re going to have an old-folks’ home. We’ve got [Elizabeth] Warren; she’ll be 71. Biden will be 78. Bernie [Sanders] will be 79.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
All sacrifices to the Trump phenomena. The Democrat party has not been nurturing and grooming its future leaders, so they have only the retreads to haul out over and over.
Like a second-hand store trying to get rid of the last of their stock. Nobody much wanted it the first time, and it is of less value every day.
Will we be tired of winning by 2020? Unless the Dems gain a lot by then, the celebrity they run will be on his own.
Mark O’Malley may be back and he’s youngish and plenty liberal.
“This does not bode well for their party. If they somehow do get power back, though, it doesn’t bode well for the country.”
That’s why President Trump needs to be completely successful. He has four years to make a big dent in returning this country to real prosperity. Jobs will be the key to his re-election. And in this first four years he also needs to make serious changes through his appointments to our Federal courts. And they all need to be relatively young people. Putting the reversion of our Federal courts to liberalism out at least 20 years is imperative.
Old hippies don’t age well
Forget about Reid.
The question is, can patriots support Trump to drain the swamp by 2020?
In fact, with Trump at the wheel, why not have that swamp drained by 2018?
Well, a nasty, spiteful broken clock is right twice a day.
Obama surrounded himself with 3rd-rate yes-men for 8 years, Hillary and followers spent about 12 years trying to get her into power, and there aren’t many in Congress with much seniority built up who aren’t either geriatric or from lunatic states/districts.
Truth be told, the last set of potential nominees on the Dem side already looked like something from the casting call at a geriatric situation comedy. Lest we grow overconfident, though, reflect that they and their media allies managed to package 0bama as a patriotic American twice. Apparently you can polish a turd if you can get everyone to pretend.
He’s also from New Jersey which is not an asset in most places.
It will be fully converged by POC and Muslims in the next decade.
All whites who aren't suicidal will have no choice but to vote as a bloc and come to the R party.
The game has changed.
In two years Karl Marx will be 200 years old. It makes sense that his ideas would also lose their shine and go to dust.
Beware the successor of progessivism.
I saw a list and it included some dude named “Booker T.” or something. But he is really young.
I think Mark Cuban is gearing up to have a run at Trump. Cuban has been injecting himself into more and more political events, from stumping for Hillary to testifying before congress on things like internet Net Neutrality and the ATT merger.
He absolutely hates Trump, yet he idolizes him and is modeling his life in Trumps image.
He's an egotistical freak and as arrogant, if not more so, than Obama. He's an insider billionaire and liberals love him.
There’s the pot calling the kettle black. Dry up Harry .
“Like the Soviet Politburo in the 1980s, a collection of corrupt and decrepit old hacks with one token fresh young face to front for it.”
Indeed. Between ‘82-85 Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko bit the dust. Gorbechev at age 60 was considered a youngster when he as selected as top dog.
“DiCrappio”
I don’t think he wants the exposure of the Malaysian charity scam being front page every day.
Instead of podiums at the RAT debates, they’re going to have to set up walkers for the candidates to lean on.
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