For those of you saying Ron will be too old next time!

[rational thinker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel

[Truth Warrior]

When very infrequently done right, POTUS tends to be a killer of a job. You can clearly see it in their faces by comparing their before and after POTUS pics.

Personally, I have higher and much better hopes and wishes than that for Ron. ;) :)

[Kludge]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel

Lmao.... Gravel... Love 'im in an Alex Jones kind of way.


Gravel Woos Obama Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI6PA4v6dZg)

"HOW IN THE HELL DID THESE PEOPLE GET HERE?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YK_QR0w0ks)

Obama + Billery = NO CHANGE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZzh83C0iM)

Gravel does "Soulja Boy"... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZwF96IOyA)

[orafi]

Ron Paul is probably healthier than all of us combined. Well, all of our healthy parts combined.


(any penis jokes?)

[Peace&Freedom]

When very infrequently done right, POTUS tends to be a killer of a job. You can clearly see it in their faces by comparing their before and after POTUS pics.

Personally, I have higher and much better hopes and wishes than that for Ron. ;) :)

Indeed, I once was watching C-Span and noticed that Bush from '92 was making a speech at the same time as clips of the '88 Bush were being shown. The difference was profound, almost like seeing a son and a father. I hope Paul can handle aging well and at least has the staying power of the 80-somethings in the Senate.

[Conza88]

Reagan was 76 when he was still in office... >.>

Rp looks like he's 60... :)

[Nathan Hale]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel

Umm, Mike Gravel is not the evidence you want to give that a Paul presidential run at 77 would be credible.

[djinwa]

Why does he need to be young? Presidents aren't supposed to do much. Just needs to keep saying no, signing vetos and such.

As long as he isn't senile and lose all his principles, he'll do fine.

[Suzu]

With age comes wisdom. The older the person, the more life experience has contributed to their wisdom. Would than all government leaders had the wisdom of Ron Paul - for most of them, age has brought nothing more than rigidity.

[Truth Warrior]

Unfortunately with advancing age, often and eventually comes senility and dementia also. :( Take Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond for two PRIME pathetic fairly recent and current examples. ;) :rolleyes:

[Nathan Hale]

With age comes wisdom. The older the person, the more life experience has contributed to their wisdom. Would than all government leaders had the wisdom of Ron Paul - for most of them, age has brought nothing more than rigidity.

Unfortunately regardless of the logical arguments for and against age as a political issue, the fact of the matter remains that age is a political issues, we've seen it in play this past cycle.

[JohnJay]

. . . the fact of the matter remains that age is a political issues, we've seen it in play this past cycle.

I'm not sure how you think age played a factor in this past cycle -
McCain's history of malignant melanoma ( on top of everything else about him ) was his problem.

Age is not the real issue, only the candidates health -
Muck Hickabee even with the gastric bypass has done more harm to his body and has more health limitations than a chronologically older Ron Paul.
( I think of the pic of RP caught picking up his own luggage at the Reagan Airport outside DC to return to Congress after a campaign stop ).

Carol might be the limitating factor healthwise if anything.

[Nathan Hale]

I'm not sure how you think age played a factor in this past cycle -
McCain's history of malignant melanoma ( on top of everything else about him ) was his problem.

Ron Paul was asked about his age quite often in interviews - as was McCain.


Age is not the real issue, only the candidates health -

Actually, it's the specifics of the age. Whenever the age issue was brought up in reference to McCain or Paul, the line always offered was "...[either candidate] would be older than any other President entering office". The attribution was specifically related to their age, rather than any health issue.


Muck Hickabee even with the gastric bypass has done more harm to his body and has more health limitations than a chronologically older Ron Paul.
( I think of the pic of RP caught picking up his own luggage at the Reagan Airport outside DC to return to Congress after a campaign stop ).

And yet nobody heard anything about Mike Huckabee's health. It's the individual's age that matters. I wish it wasn't so, but that's how the public sees it and thus it is the paradigm in which we must strategize.


Carol might be the limitating factor healthwise if anything.

Actually, if you consider the John Edwards example, a spouse in ill-health is a boon to a campaign (unless of course you're exposed for cheating on said spouse with some groupie).

[DXDoug]

right. he will be just fine for 2012

[jacmicwag]

A senile RP is a hundred times better than any neocon candidate. Still, I don't expect Ron to go that route until at least 110.

[gaazn]

If RP runs, he would have to run as a one-term transition President, with the VP choice being his young padawan.

[Natalie]

Ron Paul is not too old to run. If Ron Paul doesn't run, I'm going to be very angry. He can't just tease us like this, and then let everyone down. He is running. Fo sho.

[danny987]

Ron Paul is not too old to run. If Ron Paul doesn't run, I'm going to be very angry. He can't just tease us like this, and then let everyone down. He is running. Fo sho.

no kidding! I am so excited for the possiblility for another run. Not to mention i have a small army of newly converted friends at my disposal this time. Mark my words! If Ron Paul runs again he well win Columbia County! (Oregon)