Oh, gray can you see!
From Trump to Biden to Bern, 70-ish pols rule
Old is the new black. Joe Biden has just announced that he’ll probably run for President in 2020. Talk about hindsight — or bad sight — being 20/20. Old Joe (really old) will be 78 when he enters the White House — if, of course, he can beat that whippersnapper incumbent Donald Trump who’ll be a mere kid at 74.
Bernie Sanders, who achieved rock star status with young’uns during his presidential campaign, did so at 75. The age of the majority of his supporters? Between 17 and 29. Too bad some of them weren’t old enough to vote for the oldest man on the planet, er, ballot, because he was a great candidate.
Hillary is 69 and Trump is 70 — and both have massive numbers of followers who range from half their ages all the way up to and well past them.
So much for the experts who think it’s millennials who set the standard and make the trends for everything that is and ever will be. Screw that!
In fact, while we’re at it, screw all those idiot advertising geniuses who think that people over 35 are too busy minding their bladders to waste time or money on anything but Depends. These blockheads must be getting their information from clueless pollsters and TV experts who were wrong about everything. They were gas bagging while senior citizens snuck in and took back the world.
It’s well past time they got their heads out of their glasses and looked up at the real world.
The millennial experts were especially wrong about 70-yearold Trump, who they said didn’t have what it takes to compete against younger candidates. Right. He destroyed all 9,000 younger candidates who ran against him — without getting out of breath. If you’ve ever been on a presidential campaign, you know it’s months of 20-hour nonstop days and nights in every kind of weather, endless grueling speeches and appearances, no rest, and sleep just a memory of something you once did. It’s enough to destroy a 25-yearold, let alone people in their 70s like Trump, Sanders and almostthere Hillary. Except for a brief bout with pneumonia — which probably would have killed a younger person — Hillary was always refreshed and on top of her game.
Remember how Trump reduced 45-year-old Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who looked like they’d gone 12 rounds with the Klitschko brothers when he was done with them. Bernie, too, withstood it all and never looked like he’d taken a punch, and neither did Hillary. Until she lost, that is.
One thing’s for sure: If 70-year-old Trump keeps doing the stuff Presidents are not supposed to do — like calling world leaders without diplomatic approval — and making it work like the experts say it absolutely positively can’t, he’ll definitely be the 74-year-old on the ballot in 2020. And his opponent might be 78-year-old Joe Biden.