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RandySF

(57,661 posts)
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 10:34 PM Aug 2016

McCain's primary opponent: He might die in office

PHOENIX — John McCain's underdog opponent in next week's primary election is going there: Should he win, Kelli Ward told POLITICO flatly on Wednesday, the soon-to-be 80-year-old senator may not live to finish out his six-year term.

“I’m a doctor. The life expectancy of the American male is not 86. It’s less,” Ward said in an interview here.

Age tends to be a delicate issue in campaigns, alluded to by rivals but rarely attacked head on. But Ward is ditching such niceties, drawing a contrast in the final days of her longshot campaign that could hardly be more blatant: She the relatively youthful 47-year-old challenger against, in her telling, the cranky old incumbent who's mentally and physically unfit for the demanding job of a U.S. senator.

Ward, a former state senator, insisted it's not a last-ditch attack to reverse her fortunes; polls show her trailing badly. Arizonans, she said, “have the right to know he’s an 80-year old man who’s been in Washington for more than 40 years” — a slight exaggeration of his 34 years in D.C.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/kelli-ward-john-mccain-age-227433#ixzz4IOyl8UWX

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McCain's primary opponent: He might die in office (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2016 OP
BAH! Panamanian Strongman Crash McCain will live forever! SwankyXomb Aug 2016 #1

SwankyXomb

(2,030 posts)
1. BAH! Panamanian Strongman Crash McCain will live forever!
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 01:19 AM
Aug 2016

Missiles couldn't kill him!
The Viet Cong couldn't do it!
He even survived his own wretched piloting!
When all other life is dust, Panamanian Strongman Crash McCain will still live on!

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