Mark Kelly now heavy favorite to be Harris’ running mate as he blasts JD Vance on Ukraine
Mark Kelly now heavy favorite to be Harris’ running mate as he blasts JD Vance on Ukraine
Harris campaign hasn’t formally announced pick for presumptive nominee’s running mate
You're viewing a single thread.
Guy is 60. I'm becoming a fan of Beshear.
*Sigh. I'm saying pick the person who can run and win in 8 years.
Kamala is 59.
This guy:
Is a decorated vet
Is an astronaut
Is in a state that is a must win and makes it easier to win.
He checks a ton of boxes.
He also grows a bad ass mustache.
He directly opposes Medicare for all. Opposes the green new deal. Supported expanding oil drilling.
I'm just sayin' if you're gonna list positives it's only fair to list accurate negatives too.
I will argue time and time again, opposing Medicare for all is NOT a moderate position, it's a right leaning position.
It wasn't expanded as most people understand it. It was supporting a round of permit auctions in the already drilling Gulf of Mexico.
Sixty isn't old. He's old enough to have experience.
It's 5 years under the typical retirement age, I would absolutely consider that "old".
Maybe that should be retirement age. Young people of today will be lucky to retire at all.
When you can't even be elected president until you're 35, I don't think 60 is a terrible age.
65 is retiring early.
Sixty is old. Let's stop normalizing boomer politicians.
That’s ageist bullshit. Seriously. 60.
If he were shooting to be president from 60-68, sure, great. But teeing up a run from the VP slot means he's looking at 68-76. That's starting the most important job in the world past retirement age.
If he were some genius lawmaker with big new ideas, maybe you excuse that because they're uniquely valuable, but nothing seems like he's a big ideas man. You don't need to push limits just to preserve the status quo.
It’s not ageist. 60 is old for an agile brain imo.
Cognitive decline can begin as early as age 45. The youngest you can be to be elected president is 35. Should we only have a 10-year window in which people should run?
https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2012/01/05/cognitive-decline-can-begin-early-age-45-warn-experts
65 is oldest you can run. Second term only if ran again. So oldest would be 69-73. I’d prefer that tbh.
I would agree with that. Commercial pilots are forced to retire at 65, why not politicians and judges?
Can’t wait to see what you guys do with your politicians who treat entire populations the same. Some more.
Sixty year olds are usually sharp and deeply knowledgeable. I think we should demand better for literally the most powerful person in the world though and in this case I'm less pissed off at sixty year olds in general and more specifically pissed off that we're in a death grip of neoliberalism and politicians that aren't planning for the long term.
America has no attention span - it is generally making decisions for today that are driven by people who won't see the full consequences of their decisions... we need more people who actually give a shit about what the world will look like in twenty or forty years. And to be perfectly fair, some of our eldest politicians really fucking do care and I'd include Biden in those ranks... but we seriously need to change course.
I'm thinking get the person who can run and win in 8 years.
I’m thinking get the person who can run and win in 8 years.
I think at this point it's more important to pick the candidate that increases the chances of victory. Trump won't be in any shape to run (or likely even alive) in 2028 and hopefully MAGA will have died along with him.
Maga will not die with Trump. Instead it will splinter, and become a lot more chaotic. Even moreso if that happens at a time of strength for the movement.
I expect the shattering will wound the movement. With Trump, they have a consensus leader and model. Everyone else will fight each other to fill the vacuum.
Yup. MAGA is just the Tea Party's child that's come of age.
Whatever offspring MAGA presents to America will be even worse.