John McCain

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(08-27-2018, 01:29 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: The problem there is that different people have different responses to these things. I have known people with brain tumors that only had headaches and no other signs/symptoms. Drawing those hard lines is difficult and could very easily be seen as undemocratic, subverting the will of the voters.

I'd rather kick everyone with brain cancer into retirement than allow someone with potentially mind-effecting brain cancer be in charge of important decisions that could potentially have enormous impacts on our country. (Also, how many of those people that you knew who only had headaches were 81 years old?)

I know if I voted for someone and they turned out to have brain cancer, I would not vote for them again if some special re-election was held. There's just some things that are too important to allow that risk.

We wouldn't allow an Astronaut with brain cancer, so why would we allow someone to make decisions for our nuclear power with brain cancer?


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Follow-up connected point, along with term limits, we also need an age cap. We all recognize that we need people's brains to develop enough to votes (18), be a Representative (25), be a Senator (30), be the President (35). So we know that a sharp brain is important to be a leader for this country, yet we have 6 (was 7) Senators and 10 Representatives age 80 or older.

I don't know if the cutoff should be 80, or 75, or what, but there needs to be one.