re: #188 HappyWarrior

I’m sure people are going to be so excited by an octogenarian with no shot. Honestly, it sucks that Bernie ended up as Hillary’s biggest challenger. It should have been O’Malley or Chaffee.

I don’t think either of them were the right person for the times. I’m not sure if there was one out there either. But given Sanders’ showing, Clinton was as beatable in 2016 as she was in 2008. And I do think someone without Clinton’s baggage would have had a much better chance against Trump.

re: #191 HappyWarrior

Older than Reagan was when he left office. SMDH. And of course, he’ll get some traction because he’ll be able to say he voted against a lot of Trump’s bad shit but that doesn’t make him presidential material.

There will be plenty of much younger Senators who will be able to say the same thing. And who will, to not put too fine a point on it, look a lot more like the Democratic Party writ large than Sanders will.