Chuck Todd: Questioning Hillary's Age May Complicate GOP's Reagan Worship

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – MAY 14, 2014, 1:00 PM EDT

Ever since GOP strategist Karl Rove made for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's age and health part of the national dialogue, plenty have noted that such questions are legitimate for a would-be president. Fair enough.

But as MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd observed on Wednesday morning, that type of scrutiny could make it tough for the GOP to keep its patron saint on a pedestal.

“If you’re going to go down this road and try to claim that she’s going to have some issues or health issues … then you may have to be throwing your own guy, Ronald Reagan, under the bus a little bit,” Todd said on "Morning Joe."

Clinton would start her first term in the White House at the age of 69, the same age as Reagan when he took office.

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[lostincalifornia]

1. todd is off base again. Dr. rove is trying to paint that she has "health" or "mental" issues, not

age.

rove's teacher was an asshole name lee atwater

If there is karma, rove deserves everything he get

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. OTOH, Scar implied that Reagan's age negated any concerns about Hillary's age.

Because, you know, Ronnie was perfectly lucid until years after his term ended and he was not slipping into dementia starting soon after being wounded so stop saying that.

[DemocraticWing]

3. It's not like Reagan needed all his mental faculties anyway.

His job was just to look into the screen and say the lines his corporate masters wrote for him. Not much different than his job as the host of that GE show in the 60s.