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Better choice from R? But I don't think homosexuals and feminists like him. They couldn't vote for him.

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I hope it won't be Bush v Clinton.

this will be harsh :P

I won't watch it in that case.

who do you believe will win in that case though?

I don't know Bush n°3 enough but I can't see Grandma winning.

Do you have any substantive criticism of Hillary?

Too old, and she's in the government. She will be accused of everything that didn't work under Obama.

Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became POTUS. Hillary is currently 67. Why is it okay for Ronald to be old, but not Hillary?

Obama was in the Senate when he announced his candidacy. George Bush was the Governor of Texas. Bill was the Governor of Texas. Almost all of America's recent Presidents have served political office. Given how polarized Congress is, would someone with NO political experience be capable to maneuver the legislative branch's antics?

FYI, Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State was during the first half of Obama's Presidency. Hillary has already been blamed for a vast majority of foreign policy mishaps. People that will blame a Democratic successor (Fox and friends) to Obama will blame that person, regardless of if it's Hillary or not.

So once again, do you have actual criticism of Hillary? Because your erroneously broad statement doesn't have substance.

Obama was in the Senate when he announced his candidacy. George Bush was the Governor of Texas. Bill was the Governor of Texas. Almost all of America's recent Presidents have served political office.

Chill out.
Reagan was elected 35 years ago, things have changed. Hillary will look like a brontosaur after Obama.

I said "in the government." It's too much on the fore and she wasn't great at that job. The Republicans will blame her for the catastrophic situation in the Middle East.

Too old, and she's in the government. She will be accused of everything that didn't work under Obama.

Reagan was older. People would never use the 'too old' argument against a man. Let's not bring the archaic hillbilly sexism to this thread, please.

Did't the age factor work against mcain? I vaguely remember it being brought up a lot. In fact did't it come up against regan too? He had that withering put down about age being a issue and not wanting to use his opponents youthful inexperience against him. I'd say age is an issue. Just one the candidate has to deal with early on, it can certainly be done though.


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The Republicans need a moderate if they are too win, but they don't really seem to have any. Clinton may win by default.

I'm not sure I'd call it sexism. Perhaps men don't get it as heavily, I did find the comment from a 61 year old man about age amusing, but I'm not too convinced.. But I really remember Mccain being beaten heavily over his age, it was a real stick. You had Obama who was young and energetic, whilst Mccain was being asked about dying in office( Funnily enough he is running to retain his senator position at 80). If Clinton deals with it early on it won't matter. Many of the Republicans are just trying to attack her any way they can, I think she scares them. Otherwise why would Bengazi still be coming up despite no evidence of wrong doing?

If anything age should be less an issue now than it was in the past, people are living longer and the sort of candidate who is going to run for president will be wealthy and naturally expected to live longer anyway.

I think the Republicans do have moderates, I think they get thrown so far to the Right by candidates like Cruz and Bachmann that no one believes they are moderate. The Republican primaries seem to be more damaging to any candidate than anything the democrats do.