2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHey, so why can't Hillary serve for eight years and then Bernie runs/wins in 2024?
It's a cycle right!
Didn't we just go through this eight years ago? Easy Peasy!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)And if you push it through the primary, the GE will finish it off.
We stand a much better chance with the good clean candidate.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)aidbo
(2,328 posts)peace13
(11,076 posts)Makeup and face work will confuse a person.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)It's among the stuff Hillary would "get done."
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)often good jokes have a basis in reality.
doc03
(35,148 posts)maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Hell, he looks like he might not even make it through a first term.
Clinton is 69, like Drumpf. Both will be older than Reagan was at election, although women tend to last longer then men. The only remaining candidate who's the right age to be Preznit is fucking Raphael Cruz.
I've made my Ageist comment for today, so now i'll shut up.
redwitch
(14,933 posts)And I am 59. He takes good care of himself.
doc03
(35,148 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)to find my car. Today I filled out a tag for a drawing and couldn't remember my home phone number, put my cell number instead.
I looked for my car keys for several minutes yesterday and found them in the car ignition. I sure hope they are better off than me or all the other people I know that age
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)We have no clue about the daily functioning, and experience of any of our candidates. We know they will have aides to help look out for them. I bet it would be easier to hide ordinary decline with plenty of insulation. Not sure if it will be healthy for us, though.
The eternal optimists remind me of Kramer (from Seinfeld) quote when he heard that a 90 something man had died "boy that makes you think!"
PAMod
(904 posts)Only Trump & Sen Sanders would be older than Reagan at inauguration.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)that makes a huge difference.
PAMod
(904 posts)Sec Clinton is more than a year younger than Trump.
redwitch
(14,933 posts)maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)see my comment above.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)I suppose we could use one of Nancy Reagan's mediums to run him as our candidate even if he is deceased.
moriah
(8,311 posts)Thank you.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)Bernie will be 83 or so, but who's counting? And when he's done with that he'll be 91!
Guess that millennial generation hasn't produced anyone who can lead by then.
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)will only be a 1 termer.
If Trump gets it he will be gone in 4.
And if Clinton gets it
the Republicans will be reminded why they didn't like the Clintons
and she will be out in 4.
This of course is all speculation because I don't actually know any of this.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)I think they are still aware of it.
are you speculating that she'll be impeached?
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)My reasoning is that if Hillary is the next President it will mean that the Republicans would be out of office for 12 years.
They will back a Ficus plant at that point.
moriah
(8,311 posts)... it's likely that this is the last primary election for either, unless it's back to the Senate for Bernie. I firmly hope that in 8 years we have developed more Progressive candidates that could take the place of either easily.
Regardless, we do need to look at younger.Progressives for either as running mates.
I would have loved to see a Bernie/Warren ticket, but I don't think a woman/woman ticket is the way to go or that Warren would accept. Nor do I think a united ticket is possible.
Are there any Governors or Senators that you think would be left of Hillary that would help represent the more Progressive side, in the event that it's her?
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)qdouble
(891 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)TheKentuckian
(24,949 posts)Of course by 2040 many of the Clinton fetishist will have moved on from the circles of this world so the gay Turd Wayer may have to wait.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Mike__M
(1,052 posts)for sixteen years unless there was a Roosevelt in it.
senz
(11,945 posts)I love my country too much for that.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)Because, as a millennial, I don't want someone as President who can talk about the Cold War, Vietnam, and their flower child days back in the 1960's as if it were yesterday. First wave millennials like myself will finally be in a position where we will be able to run for President. In 2020 the first wave of millennials (those born in 1982) will be able to officially run for President. By 2024 they will be 42 years old.
Are we really going to keep millennials like myself out of office until we are well into our 50's or 60's? I don't think so. I'm honestly quite tired of all of the Baby Boomers and Silent Generation folks running the show and screwing our world up for us to have to come in and clean up after them. It's time for them to all retire to Florida, before it sinks beneath the ocean, because they didn't believe in Climate Change.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)We, myself in particular, have built up these cool things called the Intertubes and Smartphones and everything else you are using on a daily basis. We'll get somebody in on the next round who remembers what it was like being young and the country not being at war.
Too bad O'Malley didn't ever get any traction
panader0
(25,816 posts)Of course Bernie would be too old at that point. As a Bernie voter, I want one term from him,
to set a tone. He is not in this for ego gratification like HRC. "It's a cycle right!" What you posted is
an ugly joke.
StevieM
(10,499 posts)MFM008
(19,776 posts)as a ghost?
hes 75.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)He already is, imo.
And Trump and Hillary aren't spring chickens.
Politics is the only profession where folks are well past the average retirement age, but can still run to rule the free world.
The rest of us average folks lose our job at younger ages because we are deemed too old.
But SCOTUS is lifetime appointment and Congress folk stay until they die.
Just unreal.