Ever since GOP strategist Karl Rove made Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s age and health part of the national dialogue, plenty have noted that such questions are legitimate for a would-be president. Fair enough.
But as MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd observed on Wednesday morning, that type of scrutiny could make it tough for the GOP to keep its patron saint on a pedestal.
“If you’re going to go down this road and try to claim that she’s going to have some issues or health issues … then you may have to be throwing your own guy, Ronald Reagan, under the bus a little bit,” Todd said on “Morning Joe.”
Clinton would start her first term in the White House at the age of 69, the same age as Reagan when he took office.
Conservatives like Rove have defended the questions surrounding Clinton’s age with reminders that John McCain dealt with the same thing in 2008.
“This happens every presidential race,” Rove said Tuesday on Fox News.
Chuck, Chuck this assumes that Republicans recognize hypocrisy
Well, wellwell, Ron had Gawd on his side and Nancy’s astrologer to advise him, and stuff.
Besides, MURKA!
For a guy who knows a lot of “stuff” about every district race in every state he almost never has anything to say.
So… Republicans just turn this into asking HRC for a “pledge” that she’ll only serve one term. According to official GOP history, St. Reagan accomplished all his good stuff in his first term and then sort of drifted off in his second.
I think age is fair game for both sides and, frankly, Reagan was President eons ago in political terms. Somewhere, I have a picture of him racing dinosaurs with FDR… :-/
It’s not a problem for them. It’s kneejerk stuff. They don’t think any further ahead than that.