Voters don’t tend to consider a politician’s age, otherwise how to explain the appeal of Bertie Sanders and Michael D Higgins to the young?
is 44. While Eamon Ryan and Micheál Martin are 60 and 63 respectively, both are spring chickens in comparison to prominent US politicians. Very few are troubled by Michael D Higgins’s age of 82. There are far more complaints about the degree of elasticity he allows himself when it comes to the constraints of the presidency than there are about his mental competency.
I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperiencelast Irish Times/IPSOS poll Everyone remembers Ronald Reagan’s famous quip in response to concerns about being 73 going into the 1984 presidential election. “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Even his opponent, Walter Mondale, laughed. It was a great line. However, Reagan eventually succumbed to Alzheimer’s, andshows that he may have had subtle impairments during his time in the White House.
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