66 year-old Jerry Brown to run for President

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The problem is he's 76.

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http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-jerry-brown-president-ted-cruz-20150322-story.html

[Free Bird]

Shame he didn't run in 2004

[Oakvale]

76 year old Jerry Brown endorsed. Adenauer was in his seventies.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He wont run, due to the fact Ca is still hasnt recovered from downturn. But, he will endorse Hillary Clinton.

[IceSpear]

76 year old Jerry Brown endorsed. Adenauer was in his seventies.

Haven't you endorsed like 5 different candidates by now? You're more fickle than 2012 Republican primary voters.

[Simfan34]

Adenauer was in his seventies.

Well that was under rather... unique circumstances, wasn't it?

Manmohan Singh was in his (early) seventies, though, and isn't the new Tunisian president 88 or something ridiculous like that? And even de Valera was elected at absurdly old ages, wasn't he?

[ShamDam]

I was fooled. And the twinge of excitement I felt for a fleeting moment (that something interesting happened in this election) was pretty sad.

[Simfan34]

But who knows? Maybe a bunch of people will pooh-pooh the idea he's too old, he'll "change his mind", and run. He has been talking a lot of presidential politics recently.

[Simfan34]

It even happened on Meet the Press just after he made the comment:

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[IceSpear]

But who knows? Maybe a bunch of people will pooh-pooh the idea he's too old, he'll "change his mind", and run. He has been talking a lot of presidential politics recently.

Brown is on record saying that even token opposition to Hillary is pointless and that she should be unopposed, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-primaries-jerry-brown-116066.html

Hope truly does spring eternal for people who dislike Hillary it seems. It's almost like discovering some tiny niche website where everyone is completely convinced that Jim Inhofe or Chuck Schumer will lose re-election no matter how much mountains of evidence there is against it. And of course, the outcast who suggests that will never happen is derided as a "delusional Inhofe/Schumer hack." But the cold, hard slap of reality will be coming very soon.

[Simfan34]

Yes, he did mention that. He could very well just be wistfully thinking of what could have been.

But of course Hillary opponents are always going to keep up hope, just as jmfcst ended up casting his lot with an unspecified late entry in 2012. Inevitability is boring, if not depressing. If they didn't, what would be the point of an election? With such logic we'd be better off not bothering with any of it, now would we?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Damn that thread title caught me off guard

[© tweed]

he could run on a one-term vow.  he could build a nice narrative around that.  "not concerned for my own re-election, I can place petty politics aside and focus on leading this great nation..."

[Zioneer]

he could run on a one-term vow.  he could build a nice narrative around that.  "not concerned for my own re-election, I can place petty politics aside and focus on leading this great nation..."

I've always thought Biden could also pull something like that off.

[Mr. Illini]

Kind of an insulting question for the reporter to ask. A 2016 run would be unlikely but it isn't an insane possibility.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Another Clinton-Brown race would be epic. Throw in Congresswoman Nikki Tsongas and Rob Kerrey in for good measure.

[RR1997]

I'd vote for Brown over every Republican candidate. Brown is by far one of my favorite Democrats. I would've also voted for Brown in every gubernatorial race he has been in (with the exception of the 2014 California Gubernatorial race, since Kashkari agrees with me on just about every issue).

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

It's ok, just drink and bathe in some blood and the age will go away.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Shame he didn't run in 2004

People wouldn't have taken him seriously. I don't think he was attorney general at that point and his three failed presidential runs were fresher.


He also runs two or three miles a day. He'll probably outlive whoever is actually inaugurated in 2017.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Shame he didn't run in 1988

Fixed, that would have been the best year for him.

[Vega]

Another Clinton-Brown race would be epic. Throw in Congresswoman Nikki Tsongas and Rob Kerrey in for good measure.

This is already becoming a 1992 redux so sounds great.