Why he brought this up....is a big unknown. But former President Jimmy Carter made public news by suggesting that you need a age limit rule established for Presidents. He kinda suggested '80' ought to be the limit.
It's one of those thought-provoking things.
If '80' is good enough for Presidential limits....why not the same for Senators and House members? Oh....well....that might be interesting to watch. Presently, five US Senators are over the age of eighty.
But why limit this to eighty? Why not seventy?
Are there differing factors for folks, where age and mental-thinking are shot by age sixty? I've worked with some folks who were already showing age problems at sixty, and couldn't handle complicated matters or stressful moments.
I'll admit that health concerns for political folks over the age of sixty ought to be a big factor in electing them. I saw John McCain being in that way, and he should have been retired a full decade before his death. The former Mississippi Senator, Thad Cochran, was in very fragile shape for the final five years in the Senate, with his chief of staff working hard to hide that issue.
Maybe this will provoke some thought and trigger something in DC....but I doubt it.
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