John McCain

[Vas Deferens]

(08-27-2018, 11:22 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: McCain was running a great campaign, one that wasn't beholden to any of your traditional GOP power centers such as the religious right.  W was foundering and Karl Rove ran an add in one of the Carolina's (South iirc) accusing McCain of having an illegitimate black child.  The child in question is his adopted Indian daughter.  The damage was done, he lost that primary to W handily and W grabbed the momentum and never looked back.  

That's why I have such disdain for Rove and W.  The amount of borderline fond recollection of W by many celebrities nauseates me.  The man did more damage to our country than any other president by leaps and bounds.  I suppose his "Aww shucks" demeanor is more palatable to some.

Spot on SSF.  9/11, iraq, etc aside, had he been given the opportunity to push through broader campaign finance reform from the oval office.  I suspect politics would be far less derisive and our republic far more democratic.

(08-27-2018, 02:46 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 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.

Agree.  Mental capacity aside, it seems inefficient to have decisions being made by individuals who will not live with their consequences.