The Republican Party, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is 71 years old and looks older, is on the attack against Hillary Clinton, trying to destroy her likely candidacy for President, and likely election as our 45th President, by asserting she will be too old to be President in 2017 and beyond!
This assertion is absolutely laughable, and is purely another example of Republican sexism, as this argument would NOT be used against men!
The Republican Party seems to have forgotten that it had the three oldest nominees for President in American history, and one of them was elected in 1980, and served until nearly age 78, but not at his mental peak in his second term, Ronald Reagan!
Ronald Reagan never had the intellectual brilliance of Hillary Clinton, who would be eight months younger at inauguration for the first term in the Presidency!
And Bob Dole in 1996 was 73, and John McCain in 2008 was 72, when they were Presidential nominees!
The GOP has no strong arguments, and they are afraid of Hillary Clinton, so they come up with this despicable excuse of an argument, about her age of 69 upon election!
The tactic will NOT work, as if Hillary wants the nomination, she will win it, and take the oath of office as President on January 20, 2017!
Since Ronald Reagan’s first-term election, in 1980, there has been only one Republican under the age of 60 since nominated: George W. Bush, 54 in 2000 and 58 in 2004.
* 1980: Ronald Reagan, 69
* 1984: Ronald Reagan, 73
* 1988: George Bush, 64
* 1992: George Bush, 68
* 1996: Bob Dole, 73
* 2000: George W. Bush, 54
* 2004: George W. Bush, 58
* 2008: John McCain, 72
* 2012: Mitt Romney, 65
Those were the ages of those GOP nominees on Election Day in their respective years.
The “concern” about Hillary Clinton’s age, come 2016, is not sincere.
D, we are in tune on this! Thanks!