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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 01:45 PM Oct 2018

Aging can be beautiful but these are some GOP Dinosaurs with a malfunction!

Chuck Grassley.......85

Orrin Hatch.............84

Richard Shelby........84

Jim Inhofe..............83

Pat Roberts.............82

Lamar Alexander......82

Mitch McConnell.......76

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Aging can be beautiful but these are some GOP Dinosaurs with a malfunction! (Original Post) mfcorey1 Oct 2018 OP
Cancer is immortal nt Xipe Totec Oct 2018 #1
All the white people I know violetpastille Oct 2018 #2
As are they! nt TwistOneUp Oct 2018 #4
While I don't disagree angrychair Oct 2018 #3
That is true but they are not as evil and hateful as that crew. In a few months I will be mfcorey1 Oct 2018 #7
Congratulations. Most of the the Democrats I know who are in their 70s are delisen Oct 2018 #9
I think it possible for a senator or rep of any age to be a leader delisen Oct 2018 #8
Damn! McConnell is only 76? I thought he was a lot older than that. smirkymonkey Oct 2018 #5
I'm readying my dancing shoes. malchickiwick Oct 2018 #6
Their ages have nothing to do with it EffieBlack Oct 2018 #10

angrychair

(8,733 posts)
3. While I don't disagree
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 01:54 PM
Oct 2018

Be careful about the age thing, we have a lot of Democrats in the House and Senate that are just as long in the tooth.

In fact, as an average, Democrats are older than republicans in both the House and Senate.

I have no problem with experience and seniority but we have significant problem developing in our Party in a significant deficit of new, younger, talent in the pipeline.

That will start to become a much more pressing issue in the next 6-10 years. As good as it is to have their experience and talent, we have to think of tomorrow, not just today.

mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
7. That is true but they are not as evil and hateful as that crew. In a few months I will be
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 02:26 PM
Oct 2018

a septuagenarian and a proud one at that. I would never seek to minimize the undeserved the way that they do, and neither would my fellow DUers.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
9. Congratulations. Most of the the Democrats I know who are in their 70s are
Tue Oct 9, 2018, 07:21 PM
Oct 2018

exciting and fascinating people, some are quirky and proud of it. Others quiet and more conventional-but all come up with ideas and concepts that amaze me.
They tend to be egalitarian and accepting of others.

The Republicans I know who are of the same age mostly seem either subdued and less free or also they are the type that have long lists of complaints about other people-Sean Hannity seems to have taken up residence in their brains. I notice that lately however, they have stopped telling me climate change is a liberal plot against the country.




delisen

(6,044 posts)
8. I think it possible for a senator or rep of any age to be a leader
Tue Oct 9, 2018, 07:08 PM
Oct 2018

without being in a leadership position.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. Damn! McConnell is only 76? I thought he was a lot older than that.
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 02:01 PM
Oct 2018

Looks like we're going to have to vote him out.

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